Moral & Social Purpose of Education

First Published in 2004. This is Volume 36 in the Educational Studies series: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association which focus...

Many scholars have turned to the groundbreaking critical research methodology, Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), as a way to address ...

This volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education (HE) institutions and subjects in a number ...

An introduction to the rapidly growing category of New Adult (NA) literature, this text provides a roadmap to understanding and introducing NA book...

In Right to be Hostile, scholar and activist Erica Meiners offers concrete examples and new insights into the "school to prison' pipeline phenomeno...

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces ...

The SAGE Sourcebook of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement focuses on historical, philosophical, social foundations, practices and models of serv...

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

Schooling and the Politics of Disaster is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of...

This book explores the influence of neoliberal globalisation on African higher education, considering the impact of the politics of neoliberal ideo...

Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whe...

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that separate school facilities were inherently unequal and thus unconstitutional and illegal. Today, 50 y...

Advancing a powerful critique of neoliberalized education in many of the rich countries of the world (USA, Canada, Finland, Greece, Israel, Japan, ...

The latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series explores the relationship between education and the globally prevalent principle of nat...

For at least a decade, university foreign language programs have been in decline throughout the English-speaking world. As programs close or are me...

This book draws upon contemporary Irish and international research which explores the critical interplay between education studies and sexualities....

Originally published in 1983. This book concentrates on the psychological factors within immigrants and on the importance of these for relations wi...

Schooling and the Politics of Disaster is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of...

Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World, with social repercussions that have affected the salaries ...

First published in 1989, Towards a Theory of Schooling explores and debates the relationship between school and society. It examines the form and f...

Britain’s public (that is, its major independent) schools have a conspicuous role in the country’s social system, and as a result are the subject o...

First published in 1992, this book shows that despite appearances and beliefs to the contrary, teachers go in for career planning just as systemati...

This book presents a wide-ranging and critical exploration of a topic that lies at the heart of contemporary education. The use of digital technolo...

Originally published in 1981. Immigrant children often have significant ethnic, linguistic and cultural differences from children of the host count...