Moral & Social Purpose of Education

This book questions what ‘educating the whole child’ means in the context of our current neoliberal education system. In analysing the impact of ho...

The struggle to establish more democratic education pedagogies has a long history in the politics of mainstream education. This book argues for the...

How are the processes of increasing ethnic and racial diversity reflected in European schools? How do children and educators experience and perceiv...

Educational technology is now ubiquitous in schooling, both in P-12 and at universities. Despite the imposition of technology in most aspects of te...

The work of French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu has been influential across a set of cognate disciplines that can be...

This volume brings together a collection of essays by William A. Reid that present and elaborate the deliberative tradition of curriculum theory, a...

A book of "real world" cases, this text introduces "flashpoint" issues related to gender equity in the schools. It immerses readers in the human di...

This book, the first to explore religious education and post-modernity in depth, sets out to provide a much needed examination of the problems and ...

What in the digital era is knowledge? Who has knowledge and whose knowledge has value? Postmodernism has introduced a relativist flavour into educa...

This collection aims to explore different conceptions of epistemological inquiry and their influence on pedagogy and the curricular content of prim...

This book is an attempt to show that preservice teacher knowledge is substantive and should be part of the wider database of knowledge about teachi...

Bourdieu’s theory of social fields is one of his key contributions to social sciences and humanities. However, it has never been subjected to genui...

*How should education be organized in pluralistic and multicultural societies? *What are the roles in education of civil society, markets, governme...

Education is in a constant state of renewal internationally where it responds to a number of pressing social, political and cultural issues. Proces...

Although Montessori's name is almost universally known in education circles today, and there are countless nursery schools throughout the world usi...

The marketised and securitised shaping of formal education sites in terms of risk prevention strategies have transformed what it means to be a lear...

This important book on Land Education offers critical analysis of the paths forward for education on Indigenous land. This analysis discusses the n...

"This book is a magnificent contribution for advancing change! The Culturally Proficient Journey is one that we must all take if we truly care abou...

This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and...

Educational policies explicitly implemented in order to reduce educational gaps and promote access and success for disenfranchised youth can backfi...

While many initial education benchmarks are being met, new and continuing challenges exist for adolescent girls in the developing world. Discrimina...

Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key ...

Present-day America is perceived by many as immersed in a moral crisis, with national identity fractured and uncertainty and anxiety about the futu...

Across the globe educators are being required to respond to a changing political environment. New nations emerge out of the collapse of old empires...

This special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in peace education reform. Scho...

With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemo...

Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key ...

Thomas Jefferson had a profoundly advanced educational vision that went hand in hand with his political philosophy - each of which served the goal ...

The sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflic...

This collection of original essays on virtue ethics and moral education seeks to fill this gap in the recent literature of moral education, combini...

What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricu...

Today’s youth live in the interface of the local and the global. Research is documenting how a world youth culture is developing, how global migrat...

While stories of working-class and minority students overcoming obstacles to attend and graduate from college tend to emphasize the individualistic...

Based in sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, this volume describes and critiques key aspects and practices of liquid education...

Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award!When teacher education is located on a university campus, set ap...

This collection of original papers shows how women in Britain are still being discriminated against during schooling, despite the existence of legi...

Do girls do better in single-sex or co-educational schools?Up to now, discussion has centred on girls’ academic achievements in single or mixed-sex...

In this timely and innovative book scholars from Europe, the UK, North America and Australia, explore their own sense of identity, reflecting both ...

This collection of ground-breaking international essays address the educational, social, work and biographical experiences of young women who are r...

The Sociology of Higher Education: Reproduction, Transformation and Change in a Global Era provides an exciting and conceptually rich approach to t...

The increased movement of people globally has changed the face of national and international schooling. Higher levels of mobility have resulted fr...

This work is the first to examine the educational philosophy of Elijah Muhammad, the founder of the Nation of Islam and a pivotal leader in America...

The future of any society lies in its ability to train and socialize its young. The stability of its institutions, political systems, the productiv...

This work is the first to examine the educational philosophy of Elijah Muhammad, the founder of the Nation of Islam and a pivotal leader in America...

The higher education literature on workplace diversity has overlooked the development of multigenerational workforce strategies as a key component ...

This volume provides a broad examination of how technology and globalisation have influenced contemporary higher education institutions and how mov...

This volume provides a broad examination of how technology and globalisation have influenced contemporary higher education institutions and how mov...