Moral & Social Purpose of Education

'I began to grow up the day my mother warned me to stop laughing''Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about...

How We Take Action brings together practical examples of social justice in language education from a wide range of contexts. Many language teachers...

How We Take Action brings together practical examples of social justice in language education from a wide range of contexts. Many language teachers...

After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher e...

Young People and the Struggle for Participation rethinks dominant concepts and meanings of participation by exploring what young people do in publi...

Shortlisted for the Bread & Roses AwardAn Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of The YearEssential reading The GuardianSharp and witty with moments o...

This book continues the themes addressed by its two predecessors in this mini-series by examining the role of the principle of the welfare interest...

'The Forgotten Third' is a provocative collection of essays which poses the fundamental question: 'Do a third of school students have to fail so th...

Doing Research in Education: A Beginners Guide is written for the novice education researcher. It offers practical advice and guidance for each ste...

How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literatureWe are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading ...

Thought-provoking, witty and completely unafraid, I Heard What You Said is a timely exploration of how we can dismantle racism in the classroom and...

The liberal arts are under attack. Degree courses like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. In the US...

In order to make progress towards a better world we need to learn how to do it. And for that we need institutions of learning rationally designed a...

Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (18361932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and ...

The liberal arts are under attack. Degree courses like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. In the US...

The essential guide to the theory and application of the Social Change Model Leadership for a Better World provides an approachable introduction to...

Worldwide, in Africa and in South Africa, the importance of the doctorate has increased disproportionately in relation to its share of the overall ...

With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based o...

This brilliant book, focused on the education of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children, offers a radical critique of traditional approache...

The education system is in crisis. In a recent survey, the United States was ranked sixteenth in literacy among a group of twenty-three developed n...

A Sunday Times Book of the Year'Passionate and courageous, insightful and humane, funny and moving, this is a wonderful book' David Nicholls, autho...

Challenging the assumption that access to technology is pervasive and globally balanced, this book explores the real and potential limitations plac...

Creativity is getting new attention in todays Americaalong the way revealing fault lines in U.S. culture. Surveys show people overwhelmingly seeing...