Philosophy & Theory of Education

This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). Rooted in anarchist perspectives that...

Desegregating Teachers: Contesting the Meaning of Equality of Educational Opportunity in the South post Brown explores the battle to desegregate pu...

This book offers a model of classroom discourse analysis that uses systemic functional linguistic theory and associated genre theory to develop a v...

Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and...

First published in 1980, Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom assesses the performance of primary schoolchildren in a range of study s...

Navigating the Common Good in Teacher Education Policy examines the changing relationships between the state and the common (or public) good. Using...

Since its introduction in 1998, Finding Freedom in the Classroom has impacted countless educators and preservice teachers by providing provocative ...

This comprehensive examination of general education by Daniel Bell scrutinizes the experiences of Columbia College, Harvard, and The College of the...

How should the Holocaust be taught in schools, and to what end? What role should religious education play in recounting and remembering this human ...

This book examines culture shock and reverse culture shock as valuable learning experiences for educators working in increasingly culturally divers...

One of the central roles of education is to prepare students for the future and yet its study is often a neglected issue. This work focuses on the ...

Pervasive Vulnerabilities explores the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of adolescent girls and boys and female teachers in order to expose the co...

How has globalisation affected educational thought and practice? This volume presents a fascinating exploration of the impact of globalisation on ...

Disrupting Schools: The Institutional Conditions of Disordered Behaviour represents an applied sociological address to the intractable patterns of ...

The contributors to Written in Her Own Voice illuminate how gender and gender roles affect women’s advancement, educational success, and life aspir...

This book takes as its focus the key interactionist concept of ‘strategy’, a concept fundamental to many current concerns in the sociology of the s...

Sociology and Education is a sound introduction to sociology of education. The book examines the respective logics behind the contemporary sociolog...