Moral & Social Purpose of Education

The End of Public Schools analyzes the effect of foundations, corporations, and non-governmental organizations on the rise of neoliberal principles...

Girls are now out-performing boys at GCSE level, giving rise to a debate in the media on boys' underachievement. However, often such work has been ...

Emerging from a Marxist perspective, this book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education broadly in relation to the possi...

Recent writing on education and social change, and a growing number of new governmental initiatives across Western societies have proceeded in deni...

This book takes a close look at places of learning located outside of schools, yet deeply concerned with the experience of the learning self. It e...

Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged ...

Bringing together feminist theory, girlhood studies, and curriculum theory, this book contributes an in-depth critical analysis of curriculum in si...

In this study of the school system of an Indiana town, Ellen Brantlinger studies educational expectations within segments of the middle class that ...

Disrupting assumptions and commonsensical ideologies of "service," Service Learning as a Political Act in Education presents a clear and systematic...

The book draws from Foucault's notion of power-knowledge-resistance and feminist poststructuralism to offer a re-theorization of parent-child confl...

Dramatic, profound and far-reaching changes are being visited on schools worldwide that have their genesis a long way from the classroom but which ...

First published in 1983, Teaching Under Attack examines the nature and direction of the attack on the education service, and on the teaching profes...

The End of Public Schools analyzes the effect of foundations, corporations, and non-governmental organizations on the rise of neoliberal principles...

Girls are now out-performing boys at GCSE level, giving rise to a debate in the media on boys' underachievement. However, often such work has been ...

Dramatic, profound and far-reaching changes are being visited on schools worldwide that have their genesis a long way from the classroom but which ...

The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan examines the complex nature of Japan’s promotion of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In globalized...

The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over. Although this concept accurately...

Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged ...

First published in 1987, Common Knowledge offers a radical departure from the traditionally individualistic psychologies which have underpinned mod...

In this ground-breaking work, An Introduction to the Elijah Muhammad Series: The New Educational Paradigm, a new field of study is being introduced...

This edited volume presents an overview of research and policy issues pertaining to children from birth to 10 who are first- and second-generation ...

The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over. Although this concept accurately...

Youth resistance has become a pressing global phenomenon, to which many educators and researchers have looked for inspiration and/or with chagrin. ...

Over the course of the late-twentieth century Basil Bernstein pioneered an original approach to educational phenomena, taking seriously questions r...

The transition from primary to secondary school is extremely important in the lives of children and young people but it is also a time of significa...

Discourse, Dialogue and Technology Enhanced Learning is invaluable to all those wanting to explore how dialogic processes work and how we facilitat...

First published in 1991, In Praise of Cognitive Emotions comprises fourteen of Scheffler's most recent essays – all of which challenge contemporary...

This book describes the unfolding of a global phenomenon: the legal prohibition of physical punishment of children. Until thirty years ago, this ne...

The papers in this volume show the origin and development of Bernstein's theoretical studies into the relationships between social class, patterns ...

This unique and timely book follows the experiences of four Arabic teenagers, their families and their community, focusing on the role of literacy ...

This book offers a systematic look at the connections between learning and leading and the use of learning to inspire and organize for change. It e...

Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving o...

This book is vital for new teachers! Most of the tips in this book are not taught in education classes in college, but are learned through trial an...

Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving o...

This book examines the concepts of equality, class, culture, work and leisure and explores their interrelationship through the discussion of some c...

What pedagogic challenges and opportunities arise as gay, lesbian, and queer themes and perspectives become an increasingly visible part of English...

In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is ...

Dissatisfied with the effects of schooling on children from low-income families, Doreen Grant left her post as head of a secondary school in Liverp...

Decolonizing Educational Research examines the ways through which coloniality manifests in contexts of knowledge and meaning making, specifically w...

Sexuality is a difficult topic for all educators. Dance teachers and educators are not immune to these educational challenges, especially given the...

The papers in this second volume show some of the results of the empirical exploration of Bernstein's hypothesis. The volume represents a significa...

Originally published in 1971, this volume examines the relationship between the history and sociology of education.History does not stand in isolat...

In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is ...

In this volume a streamed school is studied in detail and parents’ responses are recorded. Eleven plus is (and has been) under criticism, but many ...

Decolonizing Educational Research examines the ways through which coloniality manifests in contexts of knowledge and meaning making, specifically w...

While student voice has been well-defined in research, how to sustain youth-adult leadership work is less understood. Students are rarely invited t...

Currently, linguistic minority students – students who speak a language other than English at home – represent 21% of the entire K-12 student popul...

Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This...