Philosophy & Theory of Education

Educational Change and the Political Process brings together key ideas on both the system of educational policy and the policy process in the Uni...

Presenting a range of data obtained from secondary schools in the UK and US, this path-breaking book explores the role played by language in constr...

The book sheds light on the transformation of childhood in Singapore, over our many milestones. It is a collection of lectures by distinguished aut...

Leading and Managing Early Childhood Settings: Inspiring People, Places and Practices examines what it means to be a leader, manager and administra...

Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation. This thoroughly revised edi...

There is strong evidence that collaborative learning is beneficial to educational development. By engaging in collaborative activity, learners util...

In a free society, it is common to hear the request that one ''keep an open mind.'' Just what exactly is it, however, to keep an open-mind? How doe...

Many people have become impatient with school reform and school improvement efforts that fail to include school climate. The importance of a positi...

In 1919 the original Steiner-Waldorf school opened its doors, becoming the first of over 1000 Waldorf schools and kindergartens which now exist aro...

This book was carried out with the intention of showing the peculiarities of the scientific paradigm of Embodied Cognition (EC) (Gallese, 2005), by...

The ongoing Progress in Education series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. Schools are ...