Moral & social purpose of education books

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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: 9781138678750
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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

Tackling Social Disadvantage through Teacher Education

Tackling Social Disadvantage through Teacher Education...

Author: Ian Thompson (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Ian Menter
ISBN: 9781912096619
Format: Paperback
$62.07

A valuable reference and pedagogical tool for teachers and teacher educators on key issues related to teaching pupils...  Read More >>

Social Education and Personal Development

Social Education and Personal Development

Author: Delwyn Tattum ,  Eva Tattum
ISBN: 9781138706620
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book, originally published in 1992, examines the quality and nature of relationships which contribute to a...  Read More >>

Materialities and Mobilities in Education

Materialities and Mobilities in Education

Author: Rachel Brooks (University of Surrey, UK) ,  Johanna Waters (University of Oxford, UK.)
ISBN: 9781138183094
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Materialities and Mobilities in Education develops new arguments about the ways in which educational processes can...  Read More >>

The Taming of Education: Evaluating Contemporary Approaches to Learning and Teaching

The Taming of Education: Evaluating Contemporary Approaches...

Author: Rob Creasy
ISBN: 9783319622460
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This book evaluates contemporary approaches to education, with a particular focus on the ways in which assessment...  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: 9781138062221
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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

The Secondary PSHE Co-ordinator's Handbook

The Secondary PSHE Co-ordinator's Handbook

Author: Colin Noble ,  Graham Hofmann
ISBN: 9781138452879
Format: Hardback
$399.00

This handbook provides the PSHCE co-ordinator in a school with everything they need to deliver good practice in...  Read More >>

Foucault and Education: Putting Theory to Work

Foucault and Education: Putting Theory to Work

Author: Stephen Ball (Institute of Education, University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138040618
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This collection of papers, uses Foucault to analyse, destablise and re-claim educational problems. They demonstrate...  Read More >>

Promoting Equity in Schools: Collaboration, Inquiry and Ethical Leadership

Promoting Equity in Schools: Collaboration, Inquiry...

Author: Jess Harris (University of Newcastle, Australia) ,  Suzanne Carrington (Queensland University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138095526
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book explores how evidence from different perspectives can act as a catalyst for change that promotes learning...  Read More >>

Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives

Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives...

Author: Sonia Nieto
ISBN: 9781138206151
Format: Paperback
$124.00

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Promoting Equity in Schools: Collaboration, Inquiry and Ethical Leadership

Promoting Equity in Schools: Collaboration, Inquiry...

Author: Jess Harris (University of Newcastle, Australia) ,  Suzanne Carrington (Queensland University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138095519
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores how evidence from different perspectives can act as a catalyst for change that promotes learning...  Read More >>

Boys, Masculinities and Reading: Gender Identity and Literacy as Social Practice

Boys, Masculinities and Reading: Gender Identity and...

Author: Laura Scholes (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) ,  Wayne Martino (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138220171
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Boys, Masculinities and Reading explores elementary students’ interpretations of their experiences of reading and...  Read More >>

Service Learning as a Political Act in Education: Bicultural Foundations for a Decolonizing Pedagogy

Service Learning as a Political Act in Education: Bicultural...

Author: Kortney Hernandez
ISBN: 9781138739147
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Disrupting assumptions and commonsensical ideologies of ""service,"" this book presents a clear and systematic analysis...  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: 9781138242524
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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

Education, Security and Intelligence Studies

Education, Security and Intelligence Studies

Author: Liam Gearon (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781138088276
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Education systems are of interest for the monitoring of extremism and counter-terrorism by security and intelligence...  Read More >>

Young People and Active Citizenship in Post-Soviet Times: A Challenge for Citizenship Education

Young People and Active Citizenship in Post-Soviet Times:...

Author: Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz (University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland) ,  Anna Zalewska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland)
ISBN: 9781138679771
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Situated within the context of ""post-soviet times"", this book explores young people’s citizenship activities and...  Read More >>

Contesting French West Africa: Battles Over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950

Contesting French West Africa: Battles Over Schools...

Author: Harry Gamble
ISBN: 9780803295490
Format: Hardback
$132.00

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A New Vision of Liberal Education: The good of the unexamined life

A New Vision of Liberal Education: The good of the unexamined...

Author: Alistair Miller (The Mall School, UK)
ISBN: 9781138555426
Format: Paperback
$103.00

Most philosophers of education believe that the main aim of education is to endow students with personal autonomy,...  Read More >>

Engaging Schooling: Developing Exemplary Education for Students in Poverty

Engaging Schooling: Developing Exemplary Education for...

Author: Wayne Sawyer (University of Western Sydney, Australia) ,  Geoff Munns (University of Western Sydney)
ISBN: 9781138673519
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In Engaging Schooling, the authors use case studies to engagingly demonstrate how schools can use pedagogical change...  Read More >>

John Bascom and the Origins of the Wisconsin Idea

John Bascom and the Origins of the Wisconsin Idea

Author: J. David Hoeveler
ISBN: 9780299307844
Format: Paperback
$40.70

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Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South

Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women...

Author: Sarah H. Case
ISBN: 9780252082795
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah...  Read More >>

Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South

Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women...

Author: Sarah H. Case
ISBN: 9780252041235
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah...  Read More >>

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