Philosophy & Theory of Education

Originally published in 1988. Bringing the world close to universal literacy will be a major legacy of the twentieth century. But the rapid and wid...

This book seeks to focus attention on physical education teacher education (PETE) by building the knowledge base and broadening the geographical, t...

Published in 1983. Adolescence is a period of change for all and turmoil for some. Many adolescents have problems which are easily identified but f...

Originally published in 1985. Throughout the world the same key issues of concern recur in education in different countries. However, education spe...

This book examines how different social forces, including state ideology and policies, religious culture and ethnic identities, and economic market...

Partnership with Parents in Early Childhood Settings examines how practitioners can work effectively with parents and families, acknowledging the c...

'A must-read for anyone genuinely committed to racial equity and representation.' Dr Muna Abdi, CEO, MA Consultancy Ltd. Representation Matters is...

Originally published in 1985. The French education system is unique in many ways and provides a useful contrast for those in all English-speaking c...

This book examines the role that community-based educators in violence-affected cities play in advancing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s radical nonvi...

In response to public demand, federal legislation now requires testing of most students in the United States in reading and mathematics in grades t...

Bringing Walter Benjamin into dialogue with the urgent issues facing educational institutions today, this is the first comprehensive exploratio...

This book, first published in 1983, considers the whole problem of how social research can lead to improvement in practice in social policy and soc...

This important book offers a meta-theoretical account of educational theories and how they work. It offers a classification scheme of distinct type...

Originally published in 1990, Classroom Ethnography examines the interplay between empirical research and methodological reflection. It explores th...

Towards a Political Theory of the University argues that state and market forces threaten to diminish the legitimacy, authority and fundamental pur...

Educating Believers: Religion and School Choice offers theoretical essays and empirical studies from leading researchers on religion and schooling....

Intellectual Dependability is the first research monograph devoted to addressing the question of what it is to be an intellectually dependable pers...

Teaching Human Rights in Primary Schools delves into the important issue of Human Rights Education (HRE) implementation, exploring the nature and e...

Education, Liberal Democracy and Populism: Arguments from Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill provides a lucid and critical guide shedding light on the...

Focusing on a wide range of critical issues, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the linkage of different educational ideas, policies, a...

Offering an examination of educational approaches to promote justice, this volume demonstrates the necessity for keeping race, ethnicity, class, la...

Using visual ethnography, this book explores the many forms of pleasures that boys derive in and through the spaces and their bodies in physical ed...

If our goal is Education for Knowing, as the title says, then we need to be guided by a conception of what knowing is. For example, we can all agre...