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by Helena Pedersen
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Within the education system, acts of violence toward animals take place and are manifested on a routine basis in science classes, in lecture halls, in school canteens, and during study visits to zoos, farms, and slaughterhouses. Taken for granted as †?necessary†? for teaching and learning, this...
Civil Society, Education and Human Formation
Philosophy's Role in a Renewed Understanding of Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Education has been widely criticised as being too narrowly focused on skills, capacities and the transference of knowledge that can be used in the workplace. As a result of the dominance of economic rationalism and neo-liberalism, it has become commodified and marketed to potential customers. As a...
Reason and Education
Essays in Honor of Israel Scheffler
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Israel Scheffler is the pre-eminent philosopher of education in the English-speaking world today. This volume collects seventeen original, invited papers on Scheffler's philosophy of education by scholars from around the world. The papers address the wide range of topics that Scheffler's work in philosophy...
Education, Justice and the Human Good
Fairness and equality in the education system
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
The education system is faced with many demands of justice. What these demands imply and how they are justified is, however, disputed. In this book, international contributors present cutting edge research to discuss the relationship between educational justice and the value of education.
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by Carl A. Grant, Christine E. Sleeter
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity, a hands-on, reader-friendly multicultural education textbook, actively engages education students in critical reflection and self-examination as they prepare to teach in increasingly diverse classrooms. In this engaging text, Carl A. Grant...
The Politics of Compulsive Education
Racism and learner-citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The marketised and securitised shaping of formal education sites in terms of risk prevention strategies have transformed what it means to be a learner and a citizen. In this book, Karl Kitching explores racialised dimensions to suggest how individuals and collectives are increasingly made responsible...
Bilingual Education
From Compensatory To Quality Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Schooling, Second Edition maintains its original purpose of synthesizing the research on successful bilingual education in order to demonstrate that quality bilingual education is possible and desirable.
Findings from a wide range of studies...
by Mrinal Miri
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
What, if any, are the core values and ideas of education? Is moral education an independent variety of education or is it something that is intrinsic to most forms of education? Analysing education through the critical lens of philosophy, this volume explores the challenges that the education system...
Structuring Mass Higher Education
The Role of Elite Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Undoubtedly the most important development in higher education in recent years has been the seemingly inexorable expansion of national systems. In a comparatively short time period many countries have moved from an elite to a mass model. Furthermore, expansion has invariably changed the whole experience...
Education Reform
Confronting the Secular Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education. It challenges “secular education” as a failed educational model and proposes an alternate model with farreaching potential. It reveals how secular schools have insufficient resources to support the public’s educational...
Reclaiming Education for Democracy
Thinking Beyond No Child Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Reclaiming Education for Democracy subjects the prophets and doctrines of educational neoliberalism to scrutiny in order to provide a rationale and vision for public education beyond the limits of No Child Left Behind. The authors combine a history of recent education policy with an in- depth analysis...
Culturally Responsive Education
Reflections from the Global South and North
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Culturally Responsive Education: Reflections from the Global South and North examines culturally responsive education’s contribution to sustainable development and explores ways in which educational practitioners respond to cultures in and around educational contexts.
This book argues that...
Home Schooling and Home Education
Race, Class and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Home Schooling and Home Education provides an original account of home education and examines ways in which the discourses of home education are understood and contextualised in different countries, such as the UK and USA. By exploring home education in the global and local context of traditional...
The Origins of American Philosophy of Education
Its Development as a Distinct Discipline, 1808–1913
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
John Dewey once wrote: "Education is such an important interest of life that . . . we should expect to find a philosophy of education, just as there is a philosophy of art and of religion. We should expect, that is, such a treatment of the subject as would show that the nature of existence renders...