Philosophy & Theory of Education

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

Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, ed...

Increasingly, new academics are entering higher education without conventional research training and without a clear idea of what research actually...

Every day we are confronted with problems and challenges which we address by drawing on our experience and by using this experience to find ways of...

The research teachers carry out into their own professional practice and environment is increasingly recognised as highly relevant and valuable. As...

Have you ever thought research is boring? "Research" writes Umberto Eco "should be fun". It seems unlikely that Umberto Eco has read many of the st...

Violence in schools is a pervasive, highly emotive and, above all, global problem. Bullying and its negative social consequences are of perennial c...

Young people learn most readily when their imaginations are engaged and teachers teach most successfully when they are able to see their subject ma...

What are the concepts and theories behind current debates about education?This comprehensive introduction to philosophy of education discusses issu...

This volume has chapters from leading researchers and scholars on the state-of-the-art for different theoretical perspectives in motivation researc...

Assessment of educational achievement, whether by traditional examinations or by teachers in schools, attracts considerable public interest, partic...

Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities takes an insightful and in-depth look at the hidden worlds of young children's sexualities. Based upon extensive...

Increasingly, new academics are entering higher education without conventional research training and without a clear idea of what research actually...

Len Barton’s intellectual and practical contribution to the sociology of disability and education is highly significant and widely known. The leadi...

Religion has achieved ever greater prominence in debates about citizenship at every level of cultural, economic, social and political life. Citizen...

In spite of the perceived differences between Eastern and Western culture and society, the education systems of Britain and China can be seen to sh...

After World War II, returning veterans with GI Bill benefits ushered in an era of unprecedented growth that fundamentally altered the meaning, purp...

Although late to industrialize, East Asia has witnessed rapid development whilst maintaining some of the highest educational enrollment rates and i...

First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an internatio...

Lessons Without Limit is not just another book about school reform but a highly readable guide to transforming the entire experience of learning ac...

This book is a major new investigation into the issues of 'race', ethnicity and education, following the educational reforms during the late 1980s....

Every day we are confronted with problems and challenges which we address by drawing on our experience and by using this experience to find ways of...

Originally published in 1986.In literate societies around the world, children begin instruction in reading somewhere between the ages of five and s...

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