Moral & social purpose of education books

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The Rhetoric of Resistance to Prison Education: How the ""War on Crime"" Became the ""War on Criminals""

The Rhetoric of Resistance to Prison Education: How...

Author: Adam Key (University of Arkansas at Monticello, USA)
ISBN: 9781032039596
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book explores the discourse and rhetoric that resists and opposes postsecondary prison education.  Read More >>

Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Research: Realizing Transformative Potentials in Diverse Contexts

Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning,...

Author: Ashwani Kumar (Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367652289
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This collection of multi/inter-disciplinary essays explores the transformative potential of Ashwani Kumar’s work...  Read More >>

Gendering the First-in-Family Experience: Transitions, Liminality, Performativity

Gendering the First-in-Family Experience: Transitions,...

Author: Garth Stahl (University of Queensland, Australia) ,  Sarah McDonald
ISBN: 9780367677923
Format: Paperback
$81.99

First-in-family students, as an equity group, remain severely underrepresented in higher education internationally....  Read More >>

The Impacts of Green Space on Student Experience at an Urban Community College: An Exploration of Wellbeing, Belonging, and Scholarly Identity

The Impacts of Green Space on Student Experience at...

Author: Vanita Naidoo
ISBN: 9780367672805
Format: Paperback
$39.99

This book presents a rich case study examining physical and spatial factors of urban campus design that influence...  Read More >>

Re-searching Margins: Ethics, Social Justice, and Education

Re-searching Margins: Ethics, Social Justice, and Education...

Author: Fida Sanjakdar (Monash University, Australia) ,  Gabrielle Fletcher (Deakin University)
ISBN: 9781032202112
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book highlights the dilemmas faced by researchers in the field, demonstrating how they grapple with the ethics...  Read More >>

Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers: Struggles for University Transformation in South Africa

Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers: Struggles for University...

Author: Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo ,  Hanelie Adendorff
ISBN: 9780367618841
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Decolonizing Knowledge and Knowers contributes to the current struggles for decolonizing education in the global...  Read More >>

Reconstructing Democracy and Citizenship Education: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe

Reconstructing Democracy and Citizenship Education:...

Author: Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz (University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland) ,  Kerry J Kennedy (The Education University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780367691363
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book compares the current status of democracy in selected Eastern European countries, and how its changing...  Read More >>

Pedagogies of Taking Care: Art, Pedagogy and the Gift of Otherness

Pedagogies of Taking Care: Art, Pedagogy and the Gift...

Author: Dennis Atkinson (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350288362
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book traces the notion of care and civic values in education that are largely devalued today by neoliberal...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be

An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What...

Author: Netta Avineri ,  Patricia Baquedano-López (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
ISBN: 9780367725297
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This innovative, interdisciplinary course textbook is designed to provide the who, what, where, when, why, and how...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be

An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What...

Author: Netta Avineri ,  Patricia Baquedano-López (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
ISBN: 9780367725310
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This innovative, interdisciplinary course textbook is designed to provide the who, what, where, when, why, and how...  Read More >>

Globalisation, Values Education and Teaching Democracy

Globalisation, Values Education and Teaching Democracy...

Author: Joseph Zajda ,  Pamela Hallam
ISBN: 9783031158988
Format: Paperback
$422.37

This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to values education, cultural identity and teaching...  Read More >>

School Resources, the Achievement Gap, and the Law: Reconsidering School Finance, Policies, and Resources in US Education Policy

School Resources, the Achievement Gap, and the Law:...

Author: David J. Armor (George Mason University, USA) ,  John R. Munich (Partner, Stinson LLP, USA)
ISBN: 9781032498744
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book offers a novel and up-to-date exploration of the common belief that increasing conventional school resources...  Read More >>

New Materialisms and Embodied Encounters in Education: Curiosity’s Vital Potential

New Materialisms and Embodied Encounters in Education:...

Author: Cala Coats (Arizona State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350278745
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This open access book develops a theory of “vital curiosity” as a transdisciplinary force that activates ecological...  Read More >>

Gendering the Massification Generation: Higher Education Access and Choice in India

Gendering the Massification Generation: Higher Education...

Author: Emily F. Henderson ,  Nidhi S. Sabharwal
ISBN: 9781032363004
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book examines why young people in India experience different decision-making processes regarding higher education...  Read More >>

Grammar Inquiries, Grades 6–12: An Inquiry- and Asset-Based Approach to Grammar Instruction

Grammar Inquiries, Grades 6–12: An Inquiry- and Asset-Based...

Author: Sean Ruday (Longwood University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032542577
Format: Paperback
$56.99

In this book, grammar expert Sean Ruday shows you how to apply the principles of inquiry-based learning to improve...  Read More >>

New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth: Theorizing Race Beyond the Traditions of Our Disciplines

New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth: Theorizing...

Author: Eve Tuck (University of Toronto, Canada.) ,  K. Wayne Yang (UC San Diego, USA.)
ISBN: 9781032301853
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This edited volume shares contributors’ first-person narrations of some of the hard-fought learnings and challenges...  Read More >>

Value-Creating Education: Teachers’ Perceptions and Practice

Value-Creating Education: Teachers’ Perceptions and...

Author: Emiliano Bosio (Toyo University, Japan) ,  Maria Guajardo (Soka University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781032308555
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is a timely spotlight on contemporary issues of globalization that many educational institutions around...  Read More >>

New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth: Theorizing Race Beyond the Traditions of Our Disciplines

New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth: Theorizing...

Author: Eve Tuck (University of Toronto, Canada.) ,  K. Wayne Yang (UC San Diego, USA.)
ISBN: 9781032283982
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This edited volume shares contributors’ first-person narrations of some of the hard-fought learnings and challenges...  Read More >>

Grammar Inquiries, Grades 6–12: An Inquiry- and Asset-Based Approach to Grammar Instruction

Grammar Inquiries, Grades 6–12: An Inquiry- and Asset-Based...

Author: Sean Ruday (Longwood University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032543147
Format: Hardback
$263.00

In this book, grammar expert Sean Ruday shows you how to apply the principles of inquiry-based learning to improve...  Read More >>

Curriculum and the Problem of Violence: Biopolitics, Truth, History and Fascism

Curriculum and the Problem of Violence: Biopolitics,...

Author: James P. Burns (Florida International University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032303642
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is a genealogical inquiry into the present problem of violence in the US and internationally, which reflects...  Read More >>

Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1: Arts and Humanities-Based Rethinkings of Interconnection, Technologies, and Education

Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1: Arts and Humanities-Based...

Author: Bernadette Baker ,  Antti Saari
ISBN: 9781032593357
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1 examines contemporary collisions and reworkings of cultural-political issues in...  Read More >>

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