Philosophy and theory of education

This book inspires educational practitioners with special regard to the way how practice in the frontline service is able to inform leadership and policy decision.

This book examines some of the key elements of Buddhist education theory, in particular about educating for wisdom, the ultimate goal of Buddhist education.

This book makes the case for the continued and expanded use of social, critical and political theories in the field of educational leadership.

This book examines sustainability learning with children, art and water in the new material, posthuman turn.

This book is an historical narrative of academic appointments, significant personal and collaborative research endeavours, and important editorial and institutional engagements.

This book argues for renewed understandings of academic activism, understandings that conceive of the ideas, arguments and scholarship of the academe as embedded within the practices of what the academy does.

Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman.

This book is a philosophical and historical study that explores how meditative practices for cultivating mindfulness can be regarded as a unique form of education against violence-one that emphasizes stopping and contemplation as a necessary precursor to action.

Presenting a wide range of new research from World Education Research Association (WERA)-affiliated scholars pertaining to democracy and education, this volume including topics such as school readiness in Mongolia, high-stakes teacher evaluation policy in Japan, and family and community involvement in global educational advocacy.

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the development of intercultural communication strategies through Virtual English as a lingua franca, reflecting on the ways in which we make pragmatic meaning in today's technology-informed globalized world.

This book brings together the work of African scholars and educators directly involved in initiatives to improve the teaching and learning of English in higher education across Africa.

The chapters in this book offer a range of impressive new studies on the history of education in Ireland, based on detailed research and drawing on important sources.

The chapters in this book represent a cross-section of research conducted in inquiry-based science education at primary levels of schooling in international contexts that include school settings in Australia, India, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, Northern Ireland, and the United States.

This book brings together the work of African scholars and educators directly involved in initiatives to improve the teaching and learning of English in higher education across Africa.

Positing the washroom as an onto-epistemological site which exemplifies the way in which school spaces govern how gender is experienced, normalized, and understood by youth, this text illustrates how current school policies and practices around bathrooms fail to dismantle cisnormativity and recognize trans lives.

The chapters in this book offer a range of impressive new studies on the history of education in Ireland, based on detailed research and drawing on important sources.

The chapters in this book represent a cross-section of research conducted in inquiry-based science education at primary levels of schooling in international contexts that include school settings in Australia, India, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, Northern Ireland, and the United States.

This volume presents the history of Western education through the biographies of some 70 individuals, past and present, who exemplify the education of their times or have made important contributions to the development of educational theory or practice.

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the development of intercultural communication strategies through Virtual English as a lingua franca, reflecting on the ways in which we make pragmatic meaning in today's technology-informed globalized world.

Presenting a wide range of new research from World Education Research Association (WERA)-affiliated scholars pertaining to democracy and education, this volume including topics such as school readiness in Mongolia, high-stakes teacher evaluation policy in Japan, and family and community involvement in global educational advocacy.

In bildungspolitischen Diskussionen melden sich aktuell immer mehr Vertreter*innen politisch ambitionierter Pädagogiken zu Wort, die die pädagogische Nutzung ganz unterschiedlicher Kulturprodukte kritisieren, indem sie diese als Ausdruck von Rassismus, Sexismus, Kolonialismus oder Klassismus deuten.

Pauline Albrecht untersucht in ihrer Studie den Übergang junger Geflüchteter in den Arbeitsmarkt und verknüpft hiermit die Berufsbildungs- mit der Migrationsforschung.

¿Quiénes son los universitarios?

¿Quiénes son los universitarios?

This text offers pre-service and in-service teachers pragmatic strategies for teaching middle-grades literacy in culturally proactive and sustaining ways.

Das Märchen vom eigensinnigen Kind ist kurz und schrecklich, und illustriert mit seltener Brutalität, was mit Kindern geschieht, die ›nicht tun, was ihre Mütter haben wollen‹.

Against the backdrop of uncritical promotions of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education globally, this edited volume maps out the political, ideological, and policy-related issues of EMI programs in multilingual and multicultural universities in Asia.

Against the backdrop of uncritical promotions of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education globally, this edited volume maps out the political, ideological, and policy-related issues of EMI programs in multilingual and multicultural universities in Asia.

The perceived value of philosophy to medical education is increasing.

This book presents a searing critique of the global take on education, questioning why the idea that education should be international has come to dominate the field and positing that the discourse of internationalisation has altered the way we conceptualise education.

En un mundo diferente del nuestro y en un tiempo desconocido, Évenor dejará su vida como artista para dedicarse al arte de la pregunta: la Filosofía.

This book examines the role of the university governing council and the changing nature of university governance using a case study from a South African university.

This book presents a searing critique of the global take on education, questioning why the idea that education should be international has come to dominate the field and positing that the discourse of internationalisation has altered the way we conceptualise education.

This volume explores the role of structure and agency in shaping post-school pathways for migrant-origin young people, providing new insights from countries with different migration histories and transition systems.

This volume explores the role of structure and agency in shaping post-school pathways for migrant-origin young people, providing new insights from countries with different migration histories and transition systems.

This book examines the role of the university governing council and the changing nature of university governance using a case study from a South African university.

Based on theories of economics, sociology, and education, the book aims to explore the role of government and the market in China's higher education investment.

Based on theories of economics, sociology, and education, the book aims to explore the role of government and the market in China's higher education investment.

Dancing Mind, Minding Dance encompasses a collection of pivotal texts published by scholar and researcher Doug Risner, whose work over the past three decades has emphasized the significance of social relevance and personal resonance in dance education.

This text offers pre-service and in-service teachers pragmatic strategies for teaching middle-grades literacy in culturally proactive and sustaining ways.

This book shows how the pedagogical philosophy of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) founder, Ignatius of Loyola, can be used and applied in public school settings in the USA and around the world without dismantling the separation of church and state.

This book shows how the pedagogical philosophy of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) founder, Ignatius of Loyola, can be used and applied in public school settings in the USA and around the world without dismantling the separation of church and state.

Das Buch fokussiert auf aktuelle und historische Ansätze des agilen, selbstgesteuerten, nachhaltigen und selbstverantwortlichen Lernens.

Health and Wellbeing in Childhood provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to these topics in reference to early childhood.

This book updates Social Learning Theory, offering a practical and rigorous way to develop the capacity to bring about change.

Este libro está dirigido a todos los docentes que, de un modo u otro, contribuyen a hacer de sus alumnos personas reflexivas y autónomas.

Formative measurement models are largely unknown in psychology and education, whereas they are part of the standard repertoire in economics.

Decisiones y riesgos, el título lo indica claramente, trata de una búsqueda filosófica aunque no a través de los tópicos habituales en la modalidad de estas reflexiones, sino desde una serie de adyacencias que la tradición filosófica no suele considerar, tales como el papel que desempeña la lisa y llana mentira en el desenvolvimiento de la historia, y, a la vez el meticuloso esfuerzo por ocultar su accionar en pueblos e individuos llevado a cabo por múltiples admoniciones y poderes, la discontinuidad tendida entre la percepción visual y su expresión oral y las consecuencias cognitivas que acarrea, el por qué del vituperio al yo en un mundo cada vez más corroído por un falso individualismo y la exaltación de ciertos tipos de alegría sin tomarse en cuenta, la generalidad de las veces, los abismos de tristeza que conlleva en quienes la sufren negativamente.