Moral & Social Purpose of Education

A methodology for using philosophy to guide teaching preparation and practice. In Teaching from an Ethical Center, Cara E. Furman proposes a proces...

Positive and character education are increasingly recognised as providing valuable ways for schools to improve the individual and social developmen...

'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...

As democracy faces increasing struggles around the globe, there has never been a more important time to talk about civic education and the core dem...

At a time when education is considered crucial to a countrys economic success, recent UK governments have insisted their reforms are the only way t...

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He argued for, and practiced, rigorous and reflexive scholarship, ...

Through analysis of case studies of young children (ages 3 to 8 years), situated in different geographic, cultural, linguistic, political, and soci...

Latinas in the Workplace highlights the stories of eight exceptional women. It is the third book in the Journeys to Leadership series that features...

Latinas in the Workplace highlights the stories of eight exceptional women. It is the third book in the Journeys to Leadership series that features...

Why is it that, while women in the United States have generally made great strides in establishing parity with their male counterparts in education...

Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and practice, this analytic overview illuminates the larger economic and political changes occ...

To prepare today's students to meet growing global environmental challenges, colleges and universities must make environmental literacy a core lear...

The real world is full of challenges and the sheer weight of problems facing us can stifle the genius of our collective human creativity at exactly...

Diversities in Education is a challenging text that will help educators, teacher educators and trainee teachers to be more effective in teaching a ...

This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK. By uniquely combining critica...

Play is critical to childrens well-being and development. All students should have access to and adequate time for positive play experiences every ...

Historically, children were often understood in relation to their development towards adulthood, but the 'new paradigm' of childhood studies has si...

Around the world, countries are searching for ways of making their schools more effective for all children and young people. This book offers a new...

The recent trend of trying to measure higher education's return on investment misses a fundamental point, argue Charity Johansson and Peter Felten....