Schools and pre-schools

This book explores the significance of silence within and beyond pedagogical contexts.

2020 Finalist for Book of the Year Award, North American Society of Social and Political Philosophy (NASSP)This book examines the philosophical, motivational, and practical challenges of education theory, policy, and practice in the twenty-first century.

This book examines the importance, and potential, of citizenship education, using extensive qualitative data from England and Sweden.

This volume brings together many of South Africa's leading scholars of education and covers the full range of South African schooling: from financing and policy reform to in-depth discussions of literacy, numeracy, teacher development and curriculum change.

This international edited volume is a rare look at cultural, economic and political forces that contribute to school violence.

Student engagement is fundamental to learning, yet it also constitutes a major and long-standing challenge to educators around the world.

This book investigates notions of 'quality' in early childhood settings both in Australia and globally.

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 book highlights and interrogates the continued interest and scrutiny of mathematics and science education.

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 spotlights design and media education in Asia, with contributors providing their reflections on curriculum development, pedagogy, and practice from Australia, China, Japan, India, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Turkey.

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

This book explores the ability of the Norwegian school system to support the achievement of formal competencies among children with physical disabilities, as well as its role in the informal dimensions of social participation and networking.

This book examines the consequences of educational segregation from the perspective of social cohesion.

This book is a comprehensive text for those interested in formal education in sub-Saharan Africa.

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

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

This book examines the experiences and perspectives of students and teachers at an alternative music school, which caters for young learners who have been marginalised and disenfranchised from mainstream schooling.

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

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

This book provides scholars, educators, and legislators with a personal, classroom-level tour of daily life at a community college.

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

This book provides a comprehensive overview of various models and practices of implementing project management in schools, and conceptualizes the processes of adaptation and development of project management curricula within the unique context of the contemporary school environment.

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.

The book focuses on the ways in which gendered and sexualised systems of power are produced in educational settings that are framed by broader social and cultural processes, both of which shape and are shaped by children and young people as they interact with each other.

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 what mindfulness could mean for teachers and educational researchers.

This book identifies the cultural and moral foundations of country-specific educational governance and school leadership and presents the principles of justice and the diversity of common goods that guide leadership practices in schools.

This book deals with the importance of interculturality in teacher education and training.

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 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.

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 explores how Australian secondary schools prepare their students for global citizenship.

Effective teaching starts with quality instruction that most students respond well to.

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 book explores how antiracism theories can be translated into practice within formal education, as well as in other educational programs outside schools, as very often racism occurs outside the school environment.

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

This book offers new ways of engagement for leaders seeking to connect theory to practice in decolonizing education.

This book highlights and examines the role of the textbook in legitimising established political and social orders.

This book explores school leadership through a cross-cultural comparative lens, drawing on data from 16 countries located on five continents.

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 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.

This book presents a critical analysis of the anti-democratic and pro-authoritarian ideologies that exist in rural communities in the United States.

In an era when many young people feel marginalized and excluded, this is the first comprehensive, critical account to shed new light on the trouble of 'belonging' and how young people in schools understand, enact and experience 'belonging' (and non-belonging).

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 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 provides an unconventional account of post-1989 education reform in Romania.

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

This book provides an in-depth analysis of Native American educational issues in the Northeast and highlights teacher training and instruction that address the experience and needs of the many Native students that attend reservation border town schools.