Moral & social purpose of education books

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Making Space for Cultural Equality in Educational Leadership: School Ethos and Postcolonial Pedagogy

Making Space for Cultural Equality in Educational Leadership:...

Author: Mathew Barnard (Keele University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032390260
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book foregrounds postcolonial theory as a lens through which to explore the concept of ‘global heritage’ and...  Read More >>

Populism and Educational Leadership, Administration and Policy: International Perspectives

Populism and Educational Leadership, Administration...

Author: Peter Milley (University of Ottawa, Canada) ,  Eugenie A. Samier (University of Strathclyde, UK)
ISBN: 9780367568238
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book explores theoretical and practical implications of a global resurgence of populism on educational leadership....  Read More >>

Bildung, Knowledge, and Global Challenges in Education: Didaktik and Curriculum in the Anthropocene Era

Bildung, Knowledge, and Global Challenges in Education:...

Author: Ellen Krogh (University of Southern Denmark) ,  Ane Qvortrup (University of Southern Denmark)
ISBN: 9781032245836
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume offers a critical and reflective discussion of contemporary challenges for education relating to the...  Read More >>

The Principle of the Welfare of the Child: A History

The Principle of the Welfare of the Child: A History...

Author: Kerry O'Halloran (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032214511
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book traces the evolution of the welfare interests of the child principle over the centuries in England & Wales...  Read More >>

Decolonising African University Knowledges, Volume 1: Voices on Diversity and Plurality

Decolonising African University Knowledges, Volume 1:...

Author: Amasa P. Ndofirepi (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) ,  Felix Maringe (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781032132280
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This timely work investigates the possibility of unyoking and decolonising African university knowledges from colonial...  Read More >>

Educating Character Through the Arts

Educating Character Through the Arts

Author: Laura D'Olimpio (The University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Panos Paris (Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367709945
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume investigates the role of the arts in character education. Bringing together insights from esteemed philosophers...  Read More >>

Soft Skills and Hard Values: Meeting Education's 21st Century Challenges

Soft Skills and Hard Values: Meeting Education's 21st...

Author: Kerry J. Kennedy (The Education University of Hong Kong) ,  Margarita Pavlova
ISBN: 9781032113357
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This edited volume explores the various iterations of ‘soft’ skills with a particular focus on their implications...  Read More >>

Class Consciousness Construction of Rural Migrant Children in China: Seeking the Alternative Way Out in Meritocratic Schooling

Class Consciousness Construction of Rural Migrant Children...

Author: Jiaxin Chen
ISBN: 9781032290621
Format: Paperback
$81.99

The monograph examines the constructive process of class consciousness among rural migrant children in China and...  Read More >>

Migration and Educational Policymaking in China: A Critical Engagement with Policy Sociology and Bourdieu

Migration and Educational Policymaking in China: A Critical...

Author: Hui Yu
ISBN: 9781032289953
Format: Paperback
$81.99

By concentrating on the topic of school enrolment policy for rural-to-urban migrant children in China, this book...  Read More >>

Barriers to Recovery from ‘Psychosis’: A Peer Investigation of Psychiatric Subjectivation

Barriers to Recovery from ‘Psychosis’: A Peer Investigation...

Author: Prateeksha Sharma (Bright Side Family Counseling Center, India.)
ISBN: 9781032164908
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book inaugurates the field of Mad Studies in the Indian subcontinent investigating the barriers to recovery...  Read More >>

COVID-19 and Education in Africa: Challenges, Possibilities, and Opportunities

COVID-19 and Education in Africa: Challenges, Possibilities,...

Author: Lydia Namatende-Sakwa (Kyambogo University, Uganda) ,  Sarah Lewinger (Boston University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032217000
Format: Paperback
$81.99

With comprehensive examples from researchers across East Africa, West Africa, and Southern Africa, the book examines...  Read More >>

Progressive Neoliberalism in Education: Critical Perspectives on Manifestations and Resistance

Progressive Neoliberalism in Education: Critical Perspectives...

Author: Ajay Sharma (University of Georgia, USA) ,  Mardi Schmeichel (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
ISBN: 9781032123073
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume makes the novel contribution of applying Nancy Fraser’s concept of progressive neoliberalism to education...  Read More >>

Queer Activism in South African Education: Disrupting Cis(hetero)normativity in Schools

Queer Activism in South African Education: Disrupting...

Author: Dennis A. Francis (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781032034423
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book...  Read More >>

Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate Education: Teaching, Learning, Policy, and Praxis

Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate...

Author: Snežana Obradović-Ratković (Brock University, Canada) ,  Mirjana Bajovic (Brock University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781032213927
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This text recognizes new pressures impacting graduate students and their supervisors, teachers, and mentors globally....  Read More >>

De-Centering Global Sociology: The Peripheral Turn in Social Theory and Research

De-Centering Global Sociology: The Peripheral Turn in...

Author: Arthur Bueno ,  Mariana Teixeira
ISBN: 9781032340630
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume explores the challenges posed to sociological theory and social science research by a growing need to...  Read More >>

Queerness as Doing in Higher Education: Narrating the Insider/Outsider Paradox as LGBTQ+ Scholars and Practitioners

Queerness as Doing in Higher Education: Narrating the...

Author: Jesus Cisneros ,  T.J. Jourian
ISBN: 9781032185934
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Guided by the scholarly personal narratives of LGBTQ+ higher education scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners,...  Read More >>

Queerness as Being in Higher Education: Narrating the Insider/Outsider Paradox as LGBTQ+ Scholars and Practitioners

Queerness as Being in Higher Education: Narrating the...

Author: Antonio Duran (Arizona State University) ,  Ryan A. Miller
ISBN: 9781032185880
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Drawing on autotheoretical methods, this insightful volume explores how LGBTQ+ scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners...  Read More >>

Enhancing Values of Dignity, Democracy, and Diversity in Higher Education: Comparative Insights for Challenging Times

Enhancing Values of Dignity, Democracy, and Diversity...

Author: Tamar Ketko (Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel) ,  Hana Bor (Towson University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032160160
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Contesting a gradual disregard for the values of dignity, democracy, and diversity in higher education, this volume...  Read More >>

Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts: Reflection, Pedagogy, and Activism for Change

Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts: Reflection,...

Author: Karen Monkman (DePaul University, USA) ,  Ann Frkovich (Concordia University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032192246
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity...  Read More >>

Understanding Suffering in Schools: Shining a Light on the Dark Places of Education

Understanding Suffering in Schools: Shining a Light...

Author: Joseph Polizzi ,  William C. Frick
ISBN: 9781032323961
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Drawing inspiration from Dr. Willi Schohaus’ classic text The Dark Places of Education, this book contributes to...  Read More >>

Middle Level Teacher Preparation across International Contexts: Understanding Local and Global Factors Influencing Teacher Education

Middle Level Teacher Preparation across International...

Author: Cheryl R. Ellerbrock (University of South Florida, USA) ,  Katherine M. Main (Griffith University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032101453
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume offers a cross-national analysis of teacher education programs designed to prepare teachers for work...  Read More >>

Trust and Schooling

Trust and Schooling

Author: Bruce Haynes
ISBN: 9781032839165
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Unlike many current approaches, this book looks at trust relations in order to understand schooling and other social...  Read More >>

Identity Construction as a Spatiotemporal Phenomenon within Doctoral Students' Intellectual and Academic Identities: Contradictions, Contestations and Convergences

Identity Construction as a Spatiotemporal Phenomenon...

Author: Rudo F. Hwami (Rhodes University, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781032454498
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Investigating the interplay between space, time and identity construction, this book brings to focus how spatiality...  Read More >>

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