Moral & Social Purpose of Education

Using a capability approach as an analytical framework, this timely volume examines how access to higher education, enabled through private univers...

Critical Pedagogy and the Trouble with Consciousness Raising incisively critiques the consciousness-raising project that has been so central to con...

Power, Culture, and Family-School Relations: Towards Culturally Sustaining Practices explores the extent to which common practices in school-based ...

This edited volume offers fresh insights into the experiences of international faculty in East Asia, highlighting how they adapt to, influence, and...

This book studies the intersection of language and social privilege in education in India. Drawing on rich ethnographic detail and primary data, it...

For more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieus sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its or...

This book traces developments in design education in India and shows the continuing impact of the Bauhaus School of design education, which formed ...

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieus thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition. Where Bourdieus own...

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieus thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition. Where Bourdieus own...

This concise, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predece...

This concise, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predece...

This book constitutes a sociological, anthropological, and curricular inquiry into the factors surrounding high academic achievement rates of stude...

Xi Wu examines how national and transnational forces and discursive logic mediate international secondary school students educational routes and li...

Bringing a needed perspective on African Epistemologies on the critical topics of higher education in relation to knowledge systems, this book high...

This volume explores the application of human rights to higher education through a critical lens. Combining theoretical and applied perspectives, i...

This book counters the common understanding of study abroad in Latin America as a White and middle-class colonizer practice and re-imagines it to f...

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...

This book offers a unique analysis of the tension between the individual and society in educational contexts, and the role that citizenship and dem...

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the foundational research orientations of contemporary Chinese Marxism. The chapters in t...

On the occasion of the centennial of Paulo Freires birth in September 2021 and of fifty years since the initial publication of his seminal work, Pe...

Universities are inherently and definitionally universal in their quest for the creation and dissemination of knowledge. They are set to defy borde...

This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic and racial inequities affect the educational assessment of students, either separately or in combinati...

This book offers new insights and methodological tools to improve our understandings of how prestigious schools in Poland navigate the major politi...

Equity and social justice have become central to the work of schools. Teachers and leaders are at the forefront of building socially just schools. ...

The so-called Bologna process is one of the most disputed and influential long-term policy changes the European Union has ever succeeded to start. ...

This book engages with the concept queer battle fatigue, which is the everyday exhaustion that LGBTQIA+ people and communities often experience fro...

This volume examines the ways in literacy has been used as a weapon and a means for settler colonialism, challenging colonized definitions of liter...

Directly inspired by Indian British activist Satish Kumars 2013 seminal work Soil, Soul and Society, this book rethinks education in line with thou...

Based on the spatial perspective, this book takes the urban area of Xi'an, China, as the main research region and studies the balance of resource a...

This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights...

Studies have shown the disparities between urban and rural students accessing elite universities in China, a phenomenon which Xu explores in this g...