Philosophy & Theory of Education

Engaging and incisive, Chomsky on Democracy and Education is the first collection of writings, talks, and interviews, some previously unpublished, ...

This book grew out of the joys and challenges the author experienced as a Spanish/English bilingual teacher of culturally and linguistically divers...

Debating is out of fashion. No one raises the question of what has gone wrong when the entire political project of a society is seemingly reduced t...

During the past decades, literacy has gradually become a major concern all over the world. Though there is a great diversity in both the distributi...

At once provocative and inspiring, Against the Flow is a work of polemic from an internationally respected writer and thinker on arts education. Pe...

Learning is among the most basic of human activities. The study of learning, and research into learning is becoming a central part of educational s...

The establishment of citizenship education as a compulsory subject has recently been accompanied by the government's policy of 'promoting education...

With the ever-growing proliferation of electronic and other popular media, the complexity of relationship between what students see and hear, what ...

Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the l...

Theoretical studies in curriculum have begun to move into cultural studies--one vibrant and increasingly visible sector of which is queer theory. Q...

First Published in 1996. Gender, Literacy, Curriculum is a major contribution to research and theory in literacy and curriculum studies. Alison Lee...

Problem-based learning is a way of constructing and teaching courses using problems as the stimulus and focus for student activity. This edition lo...

These papers discuss flexible learning, the term used to describe more learner-centred approaches to teaching and learning, and its potential appli...

This text is designed to help preservice and in-service teachers identify pathways to productive teaching and learning for students from culturally...

Engaging and incisive, Chomsky on Democracy and Education is the first collection of writings, talks, and interviews, some previously unpublished, ...

Self-study in teacher education is a growing field and a natural progression from the concept of reflective practice for pre-service teachers. This...

Education in Popular Culture explores what makes schools, colleges, teachers and students an enduring focus for a wide range of contemporary media....

Martin Heidegger is, perhaps, the most controversial philosopher of the twentieth-century. Little has been written on him or about his work and its...

Evaluating Creative Practice discusses: *the function of evaluation in general *the role of formal assessment and its relation with informal evalua...

This unique and visionary text is a compilation of fascinating studies conducted in a variety of cross-cultural settings where children learn langu...

This wide ranging book offers a fresh survey of the pastoral needs of primary age pupils, and pupils in early adolescence for both trainee and prac...

This book explores educational research in terms of the relationship between epistemology, methodology and practice. Divided into two sections, the...

Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the twentieth century's most significant contributors to the debate on education. Among those ...