Moral & social purpose of education books

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Education for Sustainable Development in the Postcolonial World: Towards a Transformative Agenda for Africa

Education for Sustainable Development in the Postcolonial...

Author: Leon Tikly (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9780415792967
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Education for sustainable development (ESD) is at the heart of global development agendas and aims to ensure inclusive,...  Read More >>

Strengthening Families, Communities, and Schools to Support Children's Development: Neighborhoods of Promise

Strengthening Families, Communities, and Schools to...

Author: Edmund W. Gordon (Yale University, USA) ,  Betina Jean-Louis
ISBN: 9780367889395
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Drawing on a range of contexts influenced by the Promise Neighborhoods Program—a federal place-based initiative...  Read More >>

Education and Pedagogy in Cultural Change

Education and Pedagogy in Cultural Change

Author: Wolfgang Brezinka ,  James Stuart Brice
ISBN: 9780367890773
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Focusing on pedagogy and policy, Brezinka puts forth a provocative perspective on the relationship between pluralism,...  Read More >>

Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool

Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool

Author: Deirdre O'Neill
ISBN: 9780367887308
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Emerging from Inside Film, a project that helps prisoners and people on probation make their own films, this book...  Read More >>

Educational Policy Goes to School: Case Studies on the Limitations and Possibilities of Educational Innovation

Educational Policy Goes to School: Case Studies on the...

Author: Gilberto Conchas (University of California at Irvine, USA) ,  Michael Gottfried
ISBN: 9780367878450
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Educational policies explicitly implemented in order to reduce educational gaps and promote access and success for...  Read More >>

Girlhood, Schools, and Media: Popular Discourses of the Achieving Girl

Girlhood, Schools, and Media: Popular Discourses of...

Author: Michele Paule (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367871772
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book explores the circulation and reception of popular discourses of achieving girlhood, and the ways in which...  Read More >>

UNESCO’s Utopia of Lifelong Learning: An Intellectual History

UNESCO’s Utopia of Lifelong Learning: An Intellectual...

Author: Maren Elfert (King’s College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780367886011
Format: Paperback
$83.99

With a focus on lifelong learning, this book examines the shifts that UNESCO’s educational concepts have undergone...  Read More >>

Supporting and Educating Young Muslim Women: Stories from Australia and the UK

Supporting and Educating Young Muslim Women: Stories...

Author: Amanda Keddie (Deakin University)
ISBN: 9780367875664
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book draws on the stories of female educators and Muslim girls to explore issues of identity, justice, and...  Read More >>

International Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice

International Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought...

Author: Richard R. Valencia
ISBN: 9780367409609
Format: Paperback
$94.99

International Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice explores the incontrovertible reality of the persistent...  Read More >>

International Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and Practice

International Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought...

Author: Richard R. Valencia
ISBN: 9780367428112
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Challenging Perceptions of Africa in Schools: Critical Approaches to Global Justice Education

Challenging Perceptions of Africa in Schools: Critical...

Author: Barbara O’Toole ,  Ebun Joseph
ISBN: 9781138607576
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book challenges educational discourse in relation to teaching about Africa at all levels of the education system...  Read More >>

Ilan Gur-Ze’ev and Education: Pedagogies of Transformation and Peace

Ilan Gur-Ze’ev and Education: Pedagogies of Transformation...

Author: Alexandre Guilherme (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
ISBN: 9781138962866
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Ilan Gur-Ze'ev and Education: Pedagogies of Transformation and Peace critically analyses and introduces the main...  Read More >>

Classrooms and Staffrooms: The Sociology of Teachers and Teaching

Classrooms and Staffrooms: The Sociology of Teachers...

Author: Andy Hargreaves (Boston College, USA.) ,  Peter Woods
ISBN: 9780367422820
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Originally published in 1984, the articles presented here explore such matters as how teachers maintain order, how...  Read More >>

Girls, Single-Sex Schools, and Postfeminist Fantasies

Girls, Single-Sex Schools, and Postfeminist Fantasies...

Author: Stephanie McCall (East Stroudsburg University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138290419
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Bringing together feminist theory, girlhood studies, and curriculum theory, this book contributes an in-depth critical...  Read More >>

Queer, Trans, and Intersectional Theory in Educational Practice: Student, Teacher, and Community Experiences

Queer, Trans, and Intersectional Theory in Educational...

Author: Cris Mayo ,  Mollie V. Blackburn
ISBN: 9780367418366
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Offering an examination of educational approaches to promote justice, this volume demonstrates the necessity for...  Read More >>

Forms of Education: Rethinking Educational Experience Against and Outside the Humanist Legacy

Forms of Education: Rethinking Educational Experience...

Author: Emile Bojesen (University of Winchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781138481251
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Forms of Education analyses the basic tenets of the humanist legacy in terms of its educational ethos, examining...  Read More >>

Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools: Educational Equity and Gender

Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools: Educational...

Author: Susan McCullough (Hunter College, City University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781138313712
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Focusing on issues relating to gender, gender relations, and discrimination, this book provides nuanced insight...  Read More >>

Using Mindfulness to Improve Learning: 40 Meditation Exercises for School and Home

Using Mindfulness to Improve Learning: 40 Meditation...

Author: Billie Krstovic
ISBN: 9781138360532
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Schools, Corporations, and the War on Childhood Obesity: How Corporate Philanthropy Shapes Public Health and Education

Schools, Corporations, and the War on Childhood Obesity:...

Author: Darren Powell
ISBN: 9780815355120
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Schools, Corporations, and the War on Childhood Obesity: How Corporate Philanthropy Shapes Public Health and Education

Schools, Corporations, and the War on Childhood Obesity:...

Author: Darren Powell
ISBN: 9780815355144
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Critical Thinking: Developing the Intellectual Tools for Social Justice

Critical Thinking: Developing the Intellectual Tools...

Author: Joseph Zornado (Rhode Island College, United States of America) ,  Jill Harrison (Rhode Island College, United States of America)
ISBN: 9780429439544
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Critical Thinking presents, defines and explains the intellectual skills and habits of mind that comprise critical...  Read More >>

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