Philosophy & Theory of Education

The Doctorate as Experience in Europe and Beyond presents a detailed and fascintating account of completing a doctorate from the perspectives of re...

Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, features complete works or complete sections of t...

Responding to increasing concerns about the harmful effects of so-called ‘lad culture’ in British universities, and related ‘bro’ and ‘frat’ cultur...

Building on the success of the first volume of Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective, this book further develops the crucial research of pla...

Issues of access, social exclusion and widening participation dominate educational policy agendas and are a shared global challenge. Participation ...

This volume offers a deep interpretation of Edward Said’s literary thought towards the development of educational criticism. Insofar as Said’s acad...

This timely book explores how various feminist perspectives fruitfully explain women’s experience of educational leadership, drawing on a contempor...

The education system should be in the forefront of the battle to combat racial inequality. The contributors to this book, however, argue that, far ...

Focusing on community colleges as a unique structure within American higher education, this text investigates the specific ways in which these inst...

Science has never been more important, yet science education faces serious challenges. At present, science education research only sees half the pi...

Based on a qualitative meta-analysis of data from five studies conducted with secondary and college students, this book explores the multiple ways ...

Waldorf Education: An all-round, balanced approach to education that is equally concerned with intellectual-cognitive and artistic-creative learnin...

This book is an introduction to acquiring and mastering tools you can use to better understand the meaning of nonfiction, argumentative texts. Thes...

Learning to Teach in England and the United States studies the evolution of initial teacher education by considering some of the current approaches...

In a set of compelling letters to teachers, Tara Goldstein addresses a full range of issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (...

In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extra...

The third edition of this essential book presents a comprehensive and accessible overview of contemporary theory and research about young children’...

Promoting Academic Talk in Schools brings together a rich array of recent research to explore how academic talk helps transform student experience ...

This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years. It includes over twenty ...

A companion to Inquiry in Education, Volume I: The Conceptual Foundations for Research as a Curricular Imperative. Volume I presents the arguments ...

This book contributes to the theory and practice of Philosophy for Children (P4C), with a special emphasis on theoretical and practical issues conf...

The monograph examines the constructive process of class consciousness among rural migrant children in China and how their perceptions of social re...

This book develops a general theory of autonomous teaching by examining a mysterious educational idea: the teachable moment. By formulating an unde...

As an increasing number of universities across the world focus efforts on giving back to the communities they exist in, there is now a growing appe...

Play is critical to children’s well-being and development. All students should have access to and adequate time for positive play experiences every...

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1961. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any...

This benchmark 6-volume set documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the U....

The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy provides a deep understanding of the nuances of ethics in the creative environment and contribu...

This volume aims to reveal how Dewey’s notion of the religious—understood as faith in the human relational condition—offers a way to think differen...

The Changing Landscape of Colonial Education in Africa offers a detailed and nuanced perspective of colonial history, based on fifteen years of res...

Published in 1938, this book documents a psychological study carried out on behalf of the Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Comprising 25 schools, th...

Dewey and Education presents Dewey’s perspectives on moral psychology and development, human nature, and democratic community-building as they info...

Originally published in 1991 this book is a comparative study of systems of preparing adult educators in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Fra...

This book explores the meaning and value of music in children's lives, based upon their expressed thoughts and actual musicking behaviors in school...

Conducting International Research and Service Collaborations: Tips, Threats, and Triumphs provides academic researchers, as well as non-profit and ...

Drawing on a three-year post-critical ethnography, this volume counters deficit-based notions of disability to present a new social and dialogic th...

Why is there a need to rethink madrasah education? What is the positioning of Muslims in contemporary society, and how are they prepared? What is t...

The 3,053 entries in this work, first published in 1986, comprise the compliers' attempt at a comprehensive annotated bibliography of the most usef...

Originally published in 1978, Schools in an Urban Community is an ethnography of the Carbrook and Hill Top area of the Attercliffe district of Shef...

The study of morality is an empirical as well as conceptual task, one that involves data collection, statistical analysis, and the formulation and ...

The Ethics Bowl Way introduces the Ethics Bowl to the larger educational community, including those involved in elementary, secondary, and higher e...

Drawing on narratives of five beginning teachers, Millennial Teachers explores the tensions in teachers’ young careers and how changing social, eco...

This book interrogates rising fascism in America. It spotlights the major facets of fascism that increasingly characterize contemporary US politics...

First published in 1956, The Education of Young Children is focused on presenting the psychological needs of children within education, following s...

How might society benefit if children were recognized as independent thinkers, capable of seeing clearly and contributing in valuable ways to our w...

When deciding what to do, is it best to treat one’s own interests as more important than the interests of others, others’ interests as more importa...