Moral & social purpose of education books

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Wellbeing, Education and Contemporary Schooling

Wellbeing, Education and Contemporary Schooling

Author: Malcolm Thorburn (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781138668492
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book examines the role of wellbeing in schools and argues that it should be a core component of the culture,...  Read More >>

Wellbeing, Education and Contemporary Schooling

Wellbeing, Education and Contemporary Schooling

Author: Malcolm Thorburn (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781138668485
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines the role of wellbeing in schools and argues that it should be a core component of the culture,...  Read More >>

Funds of Knowledge in Higher Education: Honoring Students’ Cultural Experiences and Resources as Strengths

Funds of Knowledge in Higher Education: Honoring Students’...

Author: Judy Marquez Kiyama (University of Denver, USA) ,  Cecilia Rios-Aguilar
ISBN: 9781138213890
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Refining and building on the concept of funds of knowledge in a sophisticated and multidisciplinary way, this book...  Read More >>

Factories for Learning: Making Race, Class and Inequality in the Neoliberal Academy

Factories for Learning: Making Race, Class and Inequality...

Author: Christy Kulz
ISBN: 9781526116192
Format: Paperback
$70.00

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Education in Edge City: Cases for Reflection and Action

Education in Edge City: Cases for Reflection and Action...

Author: Reg Hinely ,  Karen Ford
ISBN: 9781138418295
Format: Hardback
$368.00

This is a study of education in Edge City. It includes: Edge City and its schools; affirmative action in action;...  Read More >>

Fundamental British Values

Fundamental British Values

Author: Vini Lander (University of Roehampton, UK)
ISBN: 9781138096240
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book investigates how schools have been defined by the state-mandated requirement on teachers to promote ‘fundamental...  Read More >>

Colonized Through Art: American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889–1915

Colonized Through Art: American Indian Schools and Art...

Author: Marinella Lentis
ISBN: 9780803255449
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Explores how the US federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the...  Read More >>

Higher Education and Social Inequalities: University Admissions, Experiences, and Outcomes

Higher Education and Social Inequalities: University...

Author: Richard Waller (University of the West of England, UK) ,  Nicola Ingram (University of Bath, UK)
ISBN: 9781138212886
Format: Hardback
$305.00

A university education has long been seen as the gateway to upward social mobility for individuals from lower socio-economic...  Read More >>

The Meaning of Infant Teachers' Work

The Meaning of Infant Teachers' Work

Author: Linda Evans ,  Angie Packwood
ISBN: 9781138418523
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Examines the effects of curriculum changes on teachers of the early years, giving the views and perceptions of thirty...  Read More >>

Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination in Education: From the Radical Right to Globalization: The Selected Works of Joel Spring

Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination...

Author: Joel Spring (Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781138108356
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Starting with the 1972 publication of his seminal work, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State, Joel Spring...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the National Association for Multicultural Education: Seventh Annual Name Conference

Proceedings of the National Association for Multicultural...

Author: Carl A. Grant
ISBN: 9781138435872
Format: Hardback
$368.00

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Organizational Literacy for Educators

Organizational Literacy for Educators

Author: Jason Earle ,  Sharon D. Kruse, Ph.D
ISBN: 9781138460133
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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Knowledge, Curriculum and Equity: Social Realist Perspectives

Knowledge, Curriculum and Equity: Social Realist Perspectives...

Author: Brian Barrett ,  Ursula Hoadley
ISBN: 9781138083530
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Knowledge, Curriculum and Equity: Social Realist Perspectives contains the work of the third in a series of symposia...  Read More >>

Decolonising Intercultural Education: Colonial differences, the geopolitics of knowledge, and inter-epistemic dialogue

Decolonising Intercultural Education: Colonial differences,...

Author: Robert Aman (University of Glasgow, UK)
ISBN: 9781138671898
Format: Hardback
$305.00

At the centre of Decolonising Intercultural Education is a simple yet fundamental question: is it possible to learn...  Read More >>

Society and Education: An Outline of Comparison

Society and Education: An Outline of Comparison

Author: Stavros Moutsios (Aarhus University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781138698154
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Society and Education explores the relation of society to education in Europe, as well as its comparative perspective...  Read More >>

Current Issues in School Leadership

Current Issues in School Leadership

Author: Larry W. Hughes
ISBN: 9781138460171
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Examines controversies about, and affecting, school practices. Focusing on two questions--what is important to today's...  Read More >>

The Education Debate

The Education Debate

Author: Stephen J. Ball (School of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, Institute of Education, University of London)
ISBN: 9781447339281
Format: Paperback
$29.95

This extensively updated fourth edition by the key author in the field will maintain its place as the most important...  Read More >>

Non-Western Educational Traditions: Local Approaches to Thought and Practice

Non-Western Educational Traditions: Local Approaches...

Author: Timothy Reagan (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. University of Maine, USA.)
ISBN: 9781138019072
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches...  Read More >>

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