Philosophy & Theory of Education

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...

The close-knit, personal nature of small rural communities results in school and community operating as a single integrated social structure. Usefu...

Although Chinese societies have generally become striking as the classic over-achievers in international measures of academic performance, there ha...

This book presents a carefully constructed framework for teaching and learning informed by philosophical and empirical foundations of phenomenology...

At a time of increasingly diverse and dynamic debates on the intersections of contemporary LGBTQ rights, trans* visibility, same-sex families, and ...

The American scholar and activist Nancy Fraser has written about a wide range of issues in social and political theory, and is well-known for her p...

The conviction that the traditional educational institutions do not cohere with the values and challenges of our age has become commonplace, yet ef...

The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in the lives of very young children is gaining increasing attention around the globe an...

Creativity and Learning in Later Life examines how processes such as creativity and inspiration are experienced by writers who engage with the visu...

The traditional university model has been transformed globally, fueled by disruptive technologies, new learning platforms, increasing fiscal auster...

The violent imagination begins in experiences of violation against the self and grows through the stories, myths, folktales and anecdotes of everyd...

First published in 1989, this book primarily sets out to provide detailed accounts of the policy towards and the provision of vocational education ...

This volume aims to expand knowledge about the history of comparative education. It explores new scholarship on key actors and ways of knowing in t...

This collection of original research explores ways that educators can create participatory spaces that foster civic engagement, critical thinking, ...

Ten years of educational reform have not brought dramatic improvements. In Ideology and Educational Reform, David Paris traces the underlying ideol...

First published in 1908, this important work on the history of education traces the development of teaching in English Grammar Schools from the inv...

Place, Pedagogy and Play connects landscape architecture with education, psychology, public health and planning. Over the course of thirteen chapte...

This book presents eight distinctive historical chapters that explore the complex relationship between politics, professionals and practitioners in...

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

Emerging from a radical pedagogical tradition, Education and the Production of Space deepens and extends Henri Lefebvres insights on revolutionary ...

Originally published in 1969, this book aims to show that Charles Fourier has much to say that is of interest to modern edcationlists. Fourier hard...

Originally published in 1994, this book enables primary school teachers to take steps to make Personal, Social and Moral Education (PSME) central t...

This Asian Higher Education Outlook (AHEO) series is produced in collaboration with the Asian Universities Alliance (AUA), a network of 15 leading ...

Originally published in 1907, this title was one of several influential textbooks on nursing written by Isabel Hampton Robb, a nursing theorist. Th...

Work experience schemes were becoming an ever more central part of the curriculum in secondary schools in the early 1980s; indeed, work had become ...

To integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning was the overarching goal o...

Originally published in 1927, this was a book written specially for teachers and parents, based upon the writers practical experience and research....

Originally published in 1970, Michael Parkinson examines the Labour Partys attitude towards secondary education in general and comprehensive school...

This book proposes a broad-based multiliteracies theory and praxis for college writing curriculum. Khadka expands on the work of the New London Gro...

Regionalization and Harmonization in TVET contains the papers presented at the 4th UPI International Conference on Technical and Vocational Educati...

In this edited collection, authors from various academic, cultural, racial, linguistic, and personal backgrounds use critical discourse analysis as...

Considering the role of compulsory mass education and schooling in a democratic society, this book introduces an alternative vision for K-12 educat...

This book presents a history of the ideas and activities of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in the field of citizenship education...

Providing a comprehensive history of the City University of New York, this book chronicles the evolution of the countrys largest urban university f...

Challenging perspectives that often characterize Latinos as at-risk, this book takes an asset approach, highlighting the favorable linguistic, cogn...

By neglecting the human factor in the process of research analysis, much has been lost and researchers are now looking for new ways to broaden the ...