Philosophy & theory of education books

Education under globalization becomes a contested terrain: while it can reproduce class hierarchies and epistemic...  Read More >>

Bridgewater Lectures reveal an influential vision of education, stressing the social role of schooling, individual...  Read More >>

This book challenges the economistic neoliberal rationale for vocational education by drawing critically on emancipatory...  Read More >>

Investigating taste as a crucial, embodied phenomenon, the work highlights how sensory experience informs identity,...  Read More >>

Though rarely listed among Nietzsche's core ideas, education was central to his thought. From his lectures on educational...  Read More >>

This book critiques traditional sex education models and introduces an approach rooted in ancient practices of self-cultivation...  Read More >>

This landmark volume engages the lived realities of linguistic discrimination by naming and countering colonialingualism,...  Read More >>

Occasioned by charges that liberal arts institutions indoctrinate their students, this book investigates the conceptual...  Read More >>

Outlines a transformational pedagogical philosophy that seeks to foster strong and meaningful bonds to the natural...  Read More >>

This book explores how language shapes learning across subjects to support inclusive teaching. It helps teachers...  Read More >>

This book brings together theoretical and empirical enquiries into curricula, pedagogy and assessment, informed...  Read More >>

This book (1983) explores the fundamental nature of knowledge, its transmission, and the development of expertise....  Read More >>

Bringing together diverse perspectives from authors situated in both the South and the Global North, this ground-breaking...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, Child Observation Skills offers an engaging exploration of the history, philosophy, and...  Read More >>

This edited collection takes a structured and systematic approach to exploring the policymaking and policy impacts...  Read More >>

Why do some children grow up into happy lives, and others never make it? Brendan James Murray's childhood was...  Read More >>

This unique collection promotes 'drama-in-English’, a hybrid pedagogy combining reader response theory with literacy...  Read More >>

A pocket guide to powerful inquiry. Curious Coaching Questions offers transformative questions that inspire reflection,...  Read More >>

How have people and communities of knowledge lived through periods of upheaval? A new history of Europe’s universities...  Read More >>

This book explores how language shapes learning across subjects to support inclusive teaching. It helps teachers...  Read More >>

This book compiles advice from top supervisors across disciplines to help PhD students thrive in their doctoral...  Read More >>

Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher...  Read More >>

Restorative justice in schools is reimagined through a practical mix of prevention, empathy, and accountability....  Read More >>

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This book provides a hands-on dance teaching method for teachers in pre-school and elementary school, inclusive...  Read More >>