Moral & social purpose of education books

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A Hermeneutics of Religious Education

A Hermeneutics of Religious Education

Author: Professor David Aldridge (Edge Hill University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350030008
Format: Paperback
$76.99

What does it mean to understand a religion? How should the concept of truth be addressed in the contemporary classroom?...  Read More >>

Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide

Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide

Author: Lynsey Hanley
ISBN: 9780141040615
Format: Paperback
$24.99

From the author of Estates- An Intimate History, a powerful, highly personal take on social mobility in Britain...  Read More >>

Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge

Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge...

Author: Sara Carpenter ,  Shahrzad Mojab
ISBN: 9780745336381
Format: Paperback
$47.95

A collection of essays exploring the Marxist and feminist theorisation in education and learning.  Read More >>

Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge

Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge...

Author: Sara Carpenter ,  Shahrzad Mojab
ISBN: 9780745336435
Format: Hardback
$158.95

A collection of essays exploring the Marxist and feminist theorisation in education and learning.  Read More >>

Restorying Environmental Education: Figurations, Fictions, and Feral Subjectivities

Restorying Environmental Education: Figurations, Fictions,...

Author: Chessa Adsit-Morris
ISBN: 9783319487953
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book examines a performative environmental educational inquiry through a place-based eco-art project collaboratively...  Read More >>

Critical Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response

Critical Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response...

Author: Mike Cole
ISBN: 9781349950782
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Critical Race Theory and Education is the first book-length response to CRT from a Marxist perspective and looks...  Read More >>

Visualizing Difference: Performative Audiencing in the Intersectional Classroom

Visualizing Difference: Performative Audiencing in the...

Author: Elżbieta H. Oleksy (University of Lódz, Poland)
ISBN: 9781138676718
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Proceeding from theory to practice, Visualizing Difference shows how intersectionality might be taught and offers...  Read More >>

Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools

Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools

Author: Joseph F. Johnson, Jr. (San Diego State University, USA) ,  Cynthia L. Uline (San Diego State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138922815
Format: Hardback
$189.00

Leadership in America’s Best Urban Schools describes and demystifies the qualities that successful leaders rely...  Read More >>

World Yearbook of Education 2015: Elites, Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage

World Yearbook of Education 2015: Elites, Privilege...

Author: Agnès van Zanten ,  Stephen J. Ball (Institute of Education, University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138711204
Format: Paperback
$116.00

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, which...  Read More >>

Understanding Skills: Thinking, Feeling, and Caring

Understanding Skills: Thinking, Feeling, and Caring...

Author: Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138933996
Format: Paperback
$105.00

It is widely agreed that education should involve the development of understanding, critical thinking, imagination,...  Read More >>

Inside and Out: Universities and Education for Sustainable Development

Inside and Out: Universities and Education for Sustainable...

Author: Robert Forrant ,  Linda Silka
ISBN: 9780415784344
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Based on research and projects in the field, the perspective of this book is that long-term, sustainable social...  Read More >>

Risk Management of Education Systems: The Case of STEM Education in Israel

Risk Management of Education Systems: The Case of STEM...

Author: Anat Even Zahav ,  Orit Hazzan
ISBN: 9783319519838
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This work illustrates how risk management can be applied to educational systems in general, and STEM (Science, Technology,...  Read More >>

Learning from Shenzhen: China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

Learning from Shenzhen: China's Post-Mao Experiment...

Author: Mary Ann O'Donnell ,  Winnie Wong
ISBN: 9780226401096
Format: Hardback
$178.95

""This volume developed out of two conferences: 'Shenzhen+China, Utopias+Dystopias', held at the Massachusetts Institute...  Read More >>

A Political Sociology of Educational Knowledge: Studies of Exclusions and Difference

A Political Sociology of Educational Knowledge: Studies...

Author: Thomas A. Popkewitz (Univ. of Wisconsin Madison, USA.) ,  Jennifer Diaz
ISBN: 9781138694170
Format: Hardback
$368.00

In a challenge to commonsense notions of power and the political, this book examines how schooling’s systems of...  Read More >>

Teaching Religious Literacy: A Guide to Religious and Spiritual Diversity in Higher Education

Teaching Religious Literacy: A Guide to Religious and...

Author: Ariel Ennis ,  Marcella Runell Hall
ISBN: 9781138635852
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Offering resources and initiatives on religious and spiritual diversity in higher education, this book describes...  Read More >>

Human Rights Education and the Politics of Knowledge

Human Rights Education and the Politics of Knowledge...

Author: Joanne Coysh
ISBN: 9781138779112
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Around the world there are a myriad of NGOs using human rights education (HRE) as a tool of community empowerment...  Read More >>

A Pedagogy of Humanist Moral Education: The Educational Thought of Janusz Korczak

A Pedagogy of Humanist Moral Education: The Educational...

Author: Marc Silverman
ISBN: 9781137560674
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This book sheds new light on the life and work of Janusz Korczak, the twentieth century humanist moral educator...  Read More >>

The Space and Practice of Reading: A Case Study of Reading and Social Class in Singapore

The Space and Practice of Reading: A Case Study of Reading...

Author: Chin Ee Loh (National Institute of Education, Singapore)
ISBN: 9781138918504
Format: Hardback
$336.00

This comparative study of reading practices in Singapore, brings a fresh theoretical approach to the study of reading...  Read More >>

Immigration, Motherhood and Parental Involvement: Narratives of Communal Agency in the Face of Power Asymmetry

Immigration, Motherhood and Parental Involvement: Narratives...

Author: Lilian Cibils
ISBN: 9781433130892
Format: Hardback
$367.88

Immigration, Motherhood and Parental Involvement is based on the vivid accounts of seven Latina immigrant women...  Read More >>

Educating Children with Facial Disfigurement: Creating Inclusive School Communities

Educating Children with Facial Disfigurement: Creating...

Author: Jane Frances
ISBN: 9781138179424
Format: Hardback
$273.00

As schools become more inclusive and as their population of pupils becomes more diverse, teachers increasingly need...  Read More >>

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