Philosophy & Theory of Education

Originally published in 1985. China is currently making a massive effort to educate its workforce in a formal and structured system. A good deal ha...

Based on new research data, with a 135-teacher study over 8 countries, this book challenges the assumption that all teachers automatically have the...

Teachers who read A Dozen Things will be engaged with the personal stories of teaching, while also gaining strategies for success in their classroo...

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

Society and Education explores the relation of society to education in Europe, as well as its comparative perspective towards overseas societies an...

Originally published in 1971. This book looks at the French educational services. which had been being reformed over the 1960s. The dynamic for cha...

Bridging a gap between higher education research and women’s and gender studies, this volume explores the conceptual underpinnings and methodologic...

This timely volume addresses current debates surrounding the transition from the teaching of religious education (RE) to the more holistic subject ...

Sexual Orientation and Teacher Identity: Professionalism and GLBT Politics in Teacher Preparation and Practice examines the nature of LGBTQ issues ...

The book studies the educational needs of two disadvantaged groups of children in China (left-behind children in rural areas and migrant children i...

First published in 1988. With the Education Reform Act 1988 firmly in place and impacting upon the education of children and young people with Spec...

The third volume in the Early Childhood Education in the 21st Century: International Teaching, Family and Policy Perspectives miniseries focuses on...

First published in 1982, this collection of essays provides an analysis of education’s contradictory role in social reproduction. It looks at the c...

What does it take to become a teacher today and how does one become a teacher? With Grit and a Big Heart: A Beginner’s Guide to Teaching covers the...

Iconic leaders are those who have become symbols of their institutions. This volume of historical studies portrays a collection of college and univ...

First published in 1989. The 1984 Act and the Warnock Report urged greater integration of pupils with special needs into ordinary schools. This boo...

It is widely agreed that teacher education must consist of two general components. There is a knowledge component which contains specialized subjec...

Originally published in 1995. This ethnographic account of teaching practise in both Japan and the USA offers an excellent cross-cultural perspecti...

First published in 1981, this collection of essays was taken from Peters’ larger work, Psychology and Ethical Development (1974) in order to provid...

Conversations about social education curricula largely neglect elements of spirituality and consciousness. This omission undermines the quality of...

First published in 1982. After the economic crises of the late seventies and early eighties, remedial education was affected particularly badly. Du...

By presenting case studies of internationalization in institutions of higher education around the world, this volume identifies unforeseen or unint...

By presenting case studies of internationalization in institutions of higher education around the world, this volume identifies unforeseen or unint...