Moral & Social Purpose of Education

This volume supports educators in integrating meaningful education for social justice and sustainability across a wide range of curricular subjects...

The subject matter of this book – what happens in schools, the effects of curriculum change, the reasons why some children are successful and other...

The Complex Web of Inequality in North American Schools analyzes and challenges the critical gaps and inequalities that persist in the American sch...

This brief, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predecess...

Offering an examination of educational approaches to promote justice, this volume demonstrates the necessity for keeping race, ethnicity, class, la...

The Evolving State of Policy Sociology explores the dynamic and debated field of policy sociology within educational research. Edited by policy soc...

This text offers a unique philosophical and historical inquiry into the educational vision of Luis Emilio Recabarren, and his pivotal role in secur...

Youth in Education explores the multiple, interrelated social contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how educational institutions cop...

This brief, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predecess...

This volume offers a critical examination of educational policy in Ontario, Canada, and critiques the success of such policies in ensuring diversit...

Universal school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions seek to improve the social-emotional competencies (e.g. self-awareness, se...

This book highlights the significance of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding children and childhoods in the Indian context. While it is ...

Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement provides a new definition of school improvement, away from a singular focus on compliance, toward a...

The educational writings of John Macmurray, one of the finest 20th century philosophers of his generation, have a special relevance for us today. I...

This volume by philosophers, sociologists, and historians on issues of race and racism examines central educational questions, contributing to ongo...

As contemporary education becomes increasingly tied to global economic power, national school systems attempting to influence one another inevitabl...

Working class groups have historically been excluded from participation in higher education. Past decades have seen an expansion of the system towa...

Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern...

While many educators acknowledge the challenges of a curriculum shaped by test preparation, implementing meaningful new teaching strategies can be ...

This text draws on data from a five-year longitudinal study focusing on gifted education programs in high poverty rural areas in the US. It provide...

Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through...

This timely volume documents the immediate, global impacts of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on teaching and learning in higher education. Foc...

Speaking to an increasingly fluid world involving the migration of peoples and cultures, the global resilience of religion, and the role of schooli...

This is an introduction to interactionist work in education during the 1970s and 80s. The interactionist viewpoint concentrates on how people const...

The book examines ancient religious traditions and modernity in a globalized Asia that is as much in need of a moral compass as it is economic deve...

This volume offers a remarkable collection of theoretically and practically grounded conversations with internationally recognized scholars, who sh...

Educating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing is a timely book that addresses the gap in the provision of basic education to migrant childre...

Concerned with pedagogy and the learning achievement of both girls and boys, this book examines international trends in subject performance through...

We live in a world where thousands make massive profits out of the labours of others, while those others exist as wage slaves, millions of whom die...

What is the relationship of gender to the micropolitics of school reform? This book explores this timely research question, revealing the everyday ...

Challenging current theories about gender and achievement, this book assesses the issues at stake and analyses the policy drives and changing perce...

Teachers of the youngest children at school were the first to bear the brunt of the policies to change the curriculum after the 1988 Education Act....

Drawing on the great wealth of knowledge and experience of education practitioners and theorists, these volumes explore the very important relation...