Moral & Social Purpose of Education

Schutz demonstrates that progressive ideas of democracy emerged out of the practices of a new middle class, reacting, in part, against the more con...

Corporate social responsibility is becoming rapidly embedded into the strategic planning and operational processes of all organizations, while at t...

In this unique book, international trainer and consultant Lisa Cherry invites professionals from education, social work and healthcare to engage in...

Development education is a radical form of learning that addresses the structural causes of poverty and injustice in the global North and South. Th...

The debate about languages of instruction in Africa and Asia involves an analysis of both the historical thrust of national government and also dev...

Its time for the educational slugfest to stop. Traditional and progressive education are both caricatures, and bashing cartoon images of each other...

In a very comprehensible and entertaining way explores the main findings of the first academic research on world scouting, the largest young moveme...

Through a unique combination of critical, posthumanist, and educational theories, the authors engage in a surreal journey into the worlds of feral ...

While Sweden is often viewed as a benchmark for equality within education, this book examines this assumption in greater depth. The author argues t...

Higher and tertiary education are crucial to modern nations. Vietnam has great potential, but its universities and colleges are poor-performing, un...

Drawing from American history, fashion design, history of luxury, visual culture, museum studies, and womens history, among others, this book explo...

Improving Equity in Data Science offers a comprehensive look at the ways in which data science can be conceptualized and engaged more equitably wit...

Improving Equity in Data Science offers a comprehensive look at the ways in which data science can be conceptualized and engaged more equitably wit...

This book identifies and celebrates the learning adult educators can gain from the numerous sites of community activism, learning, and social chang...

For over thirty years, a political and social battle over bilingual education raged in the U.S. and in and around the Crow Indian Reservation of Mo...

In this volume, Pinar enacts his theory of curriculum, detailing the relations among knowledge, history, and alterity. The introduction is Pinars i...

Discover the inspirational coming-of-age memoir about modern poverty in Britain and the liberating power of education.'An astonishing tale, well st...

This book, at the intersection of early childhood and reconceptualizing practice, looks at how practitioners, theorists, and teachers are supportin...

Provocative and engagingly written, Beyond Schooling offers a challenging perspective on State schooling in England and the unrelenting increase in...

Why is it important to have a revolutionary critical pedagogy? What are the new inter/disciplinary engagements possible within the university? What...

What is the aim of education in the 21 century? Is it to search for truth, to improve the human condition, or to bolster a countrys economy and mee...

What is this idea of the university? Why does it need to be defended? Does the work of defense preclude the task of rearranging the idea itself?Dra...

Over recent years, education systems across the globe have experimented with the concept of the autonomous school. This takes a variety of forms an...

Europe is a multi-ethnic society experiencing a rise of anti-immigration, racist, xenophobic discourses, and right-wing political rhetoric and move...

As part of the national curriculum, cooking provides children with a variety of skills, from learning the science behind where food comes from to w...

Provides an original and challenging contribution to contemporary debates on the civic purpose of higher education, exploring its manifestations th...

This book presents a history of queer erasure in the US public school system, from the 1920s up until today. By focusing on specific events as well...

Through focusing on children's sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It e...

This book explores reforms to young adults' schooling that mobilise capital friendly learning-and-earning (l'earning) webs. It argues that deschool...

This book explores reforms to young adults' schooling that mobilise capital friendly learning-and-earning (l'earning) webs. It argues that deschool...