Schools and pre-schools

This book focuses on educational praxis-connecting work inside schools with work outside school-to produce a revitalized critical theory of education that shows its slide away from Marxism and toward culturalism.

This book explores the ways in which dynamics of Islamophobia and neoliberalism shape the schooling experiences of minority Muslim students in Sydney primary, public and independent schools.

This book explores how citizen teachers can expand our capacities to generate more equitable and just spaces with families by working as community organizers.

This book blends multiple research studies, historical and current events, reflective teaching examples, and guidance for LGBTQ+ inclusion and queer pedagogy in elementary schools.

This textbook is a practical and theoretical teacher guide on how to develop critical thinking and source criticism in contemporary elementary and secondary education, which requires students to develop their critical thinking from different perspectives as well as to develop their ability to critically evaluate sources they use for school-related work.

Advanced Theories of Educational Leadership presents recent models of leadership and analyzes their components and implications in the educational context.

This edited volume-the first book devoted to the topic of contract cheating-brings together the perspectives of leading scholars presenting novel research.

This book addresses issues related to school inclusion from the perspective of systemic inclusion.

This edited book presents a range of chapters written by new and established authors, drawing on a range of different perspectives and traditions to critically analyse education, work and social change in the former coalfields.

This work discusses how the complex relationship between welfare policies of equity and market efficiencies/deficiencies of education policies is handled in local practices.

This book is a comprehensive study into and about consultants doing consultancy, and having influence in ways that generate concerns about an emerging 'consultocracy', with privileged access to governments and public services.

This Handbook examines the essential nature of the law within an educational context and asks why there is not greater preparation for this aspect of a teacher's role.

This book identifies and emphasizes the need for a holistic approach to school improvement when it comes to both the development of the whole child and the relationships among student, family, and community development.

This book investigates how education in the Global North is adapting during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This edited volume analyzes a little-known but important juncture in the history of racial integration and public education during the Obama administration through the advent of the Trump administration, which also marks a significant transition of US racial politics and race relations from its foundations in civil rights movements of the 1950s/60s.

This book addresses what is, perhaps, the single most important issue for vocational education; its relatively low standing in an era of high aspiration.

This book investigates the racism experienced by Black teacher trainee Post-graduate students whilst on teaching placements in South London primary schools.

This book argues that the mainstream view and practice of critical thinking in education mirrors a reductive and reified conception of competences that ultimately leads to forms of epistemic injustice in assessment.

This book provides an interdisciplinary structure to critique existing approaches that have failed to eradicate systemic inequalities across helping professions.

This book explores critical pedagogy and issues relating to entrepreneurialism, commodification, and marketization in education, and their deleterious effects on student agency and subjectivity.

This book examines young trans and gender diverse Australians' views of school-based sex education.

This book examines educational policy at primary, secondary and university level in Ireland from the foundation of the State to the present day.

This handbook examines what education would look like if it prepared gifted students to transform the world-to make it a better place for all, not just for those who receive extra resources from schools in return for being labeled as "e;gifted.

This book questions the consensus that contemporary formal schooling is of clear cut and undoubted benefit to pupils.

This book discusses a range of interventions that can be implemented in schools to prevent radicalization and violent extremism.

This volume investigates crucial ways in which nature has been apprehended, understood and valued in different cultures and over time.

This book makes an original contribution to credential sociology by analysing how high school certificates become and remain valuable in a context of mass high school participation (i.