Philosophy & Theory of Education

Stressing the importance of using evaluation as a means to improve teacher and administrator performance, this book provides a practical guide to c...

In Performative Approaches in Arts Education, researchers, artists and practitioners from philosophy and the arts elaborate on what performative ap...

Refugees, Interculturalism and Education focuses on the sensitive issue of forced migration and education from an intercultural perspective. The vo...

The term outdoor learning covers many forms of practice outside the classroom, including Forest School and outdoor play. Outdoor learning has been ...

Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe tells the story of a unique organization that has contributed in profound ways to the professional dev...

Published in 1988, this bibliography focuses on four main areas; descriptions of the computer and its effects on human thinking and learning, compu...

Values and Professional Knowledge in Teacher Education provides distinctive insights into potential strengths to develop trainee teachers values wi...

Teachers Goals, Beliefs, Emotions, and Identity Development discusses the nonlinear, multifaceted processes of teacher development by foregrounding...

Moving beyond the traditional focus on curriculum and pedagogy, this volume explores hidden dimensions of sexuality education in schools and how se...

This new edition of A Students Guide to Education Studies is an essential resource for any undergraduate making their first explorations into the f...

Grounded in the theory of sociologist Karl Weick, this edited volume explores key concepts of educational leadership and organizational learning. C...

In spite of our apparently connected global environment, people are becoming less connected. Digital communication leads to fewer face-to-face enga...

This book offers nuanced analyses of the narratives, spaces, and forms of citizenship education prior to and during the aftermath of the January 20...

Global corporations and the senior executives who oversee them have been subject to great criticism in recent times: not only do such corporations ...

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan provides a critical analysis of educational initiatives, progressive ideas and d...

Kantian Genesis of the Problem of Scientific Education terms the dominant educational paradigm of our time as scientific education and subjects it ...

Rethinking Gendered Regulations and Resistances in Education highlights key debates on the theme of regulation and resistance, focusing on some of ...

This volume presents findings from recent research focusing on young people and the way they relate to religion in their education and upbringing. ...

Is teaching for me? Who will I teach? How can I make a difference?Teach is a vibrant and engaging Introduction to Education textbook, organized aro...

Over a career spanning forty years, Basil Bernstein produced theoretical models about the workings of educational systems, and how these systems pr...

The Handbook of International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education provides a groundbreaking compilation of research from an interdisciplinary...

This volume works towards overcoming the lack of systematic impact evaluation in higher education, particularly analyses which are not restricted t...

This volume focuses on popular film, television, and online representations of contested corporealities and contributes to visual culture studies, ...

This book is an important contribution to the understanding of the complex education policies of the twenty-first century. It unites world renowned...

One of the most persistent features of the research environment in the UK over the last decades has been the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE); no...

This book aims to investigate the level of political tolerance at conservative Protestant colleges and universities. Through innovative and methodo...

Originally published in 1977 and compiled over a period of 25 years of teaching and research in the fields of education and anthropology, this anno...

This book explores the curriculum theorizing of Black women, as well as their historical and contemporary contributions to the always-evolving comp...

Making decisions is one of the main activities of the teachers work. Considered or apparently unconsidered, these decisions significantly affect th...

This volume investigates the ubiquitous education of everyday life as people contest the normal, settle on a new convention, and deal with the diff...

In this book, DeLeon presents a critique of neoliberalism and present times through a metaphor of social collapse and considers what remains once t...

In the American university system for most of this century, the academic reward system has been blamed for both the neglect of teaching and a glut ...

As social contexts and demands change in the 21st century, pedagogies and policies must adapt to keep up. Increasing emphasis on global preparednes...

Drawing on wide ranging research this book, originally published in 1997, explores how the policy changes of previous years were affecting primary ...

There is no shortage of innovative educational programs the challenge is learning how to scale and sustain those with strong evidence of effective...

Originally published in 1967, this book was intended to be of value to students of Education in two ways. Firstly, all such students were expected ...

Distance education, for long the Cinderella of the educational spectrum, had emerged in the 1970s and early 1980s as a valued component of many nat...

This book explores the increasing emergence within educational institutions, such as schools and universities, of large, flexible spaces whose desi...

Discourses of Denial explores the myriad ways that the labor of those employed by universities is situated as somehow distinct from ordinary labor....

Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorica...

Special Education and Globalization illustrates the way in which inclusive education has become the dominant discourse across Europe and the wider ...

Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become imp...

Britain has a rich heritage of school buildings dating from the later Middle Ages to the present day. While some of these schools have attracted th...

Like few other decisions in life, educational choices must be made by virtually every-one growing up in industrial societies. The consequences of t...

Further Language Learning in Linguistic and Cultural Diverse Contexts deals with the interdisciplinary area of multilingual and intercultural educa...

First published in 1994, this book describes how cooperative group work can enhance relationships in the classroom, reduce prejudice and alleviate ...

Debates around quality versus quantity in education can generate controversy about how quality is measured. Many question the drive to delineate an...

Challenging misconceptions related to Black academic achievement, this volume provides original perspectives on the policies, initiatives, and fact...