Reviews the restricting consequences of older and different forms of paternalism, in education, taking a historical perspective and offering a cohesive sustained argument.

Presents an introduction to the theory and practice of the Community of Philosophical Enquiry (P4C). This book explains how P4C can facilitate young people's exploration of the key ethical questions of our time, such as intercultural understanding and education for sustainable development.

Introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. This title explores the three main categories of these skills: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and, life and career skills.

Terrorism, ethnocentrism, religious tension, competition over limited resources, war - these are just a few of the problems and challenges that have emerged in global economy. In light of this, education faces some formidable challenges. This collection of essays explores these and related challenges, and suggests some ways of dealing with them.

Comprehensive enough to be used as a main text, but brief enough to be used alongside another, this title is suitable for the students and the teachers of the history of education in the United States.

Comprehensive enough to be used as a main text, but brief enough to be used alongside another, this title is suitable for the students and the teachers of the history of education in the United States.

Michael Foucault is undisputedly a major thinker in education. This title offers the coherent account of Foucault's educational thought. It is divided into: intellectual bibliography; critical exposition of Foucault's work; the reception and influence of Foucault's work; and, the relevance of the work.

The sesquicentennial of the birth of John Dewey is 2009. This book contains papers that appear as an issue of the Society's journal, Education and Culture , volume 25(2).

Drawing primarily from critical traditions in social and educational research, this book frames contemporary issues and several conceptual, theoretical-analytical and onto-epistemmic approaches towards the development and practice of PAR (Participatory Action Research) in multiple educational spaces and initiatives for socio-cultural change.

Collaborating with the genius of C.S. Lewis, and particularly his brilliant work The Abolition of Man, the authors offer a multi-facetted, interdisciplinary investigation of perennial questions that impact human development and freedom.

Building on the popular 1st edition, this book examines the sociology of education in Britain today. Informed by recent debates and research, it outlines new social policy and explains relevant theory. With updated chapters and contemporary examples, it is packed with skills-based activities to develop students' understanding of the topic.

Intends to find a paradigm that can be used to achieve greater social fairness, by finding local solutions still in line with national policies and strategies. This book presents an argument for equity and inclusion in education based on a model of social justice which is grounded in relationships and learning rather than policies and structures.

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Philosophy of education has an honored place in the history of Western philosophical thought. Its questions are as vital now, both philosophically and practically, as they have ever been. In recent decades, however, philosophical thinking about education has largely fallen off the philosophical radar screen. Philosophy of education has lost intimate contact with the parent discipline to a ...

For two years, the author shared the life of what he calls the 'Weston School', an elite New England boarding school. Describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the rich variety of classes and activities, and the rules that define the school, this book reveals a small world of deeply ambitious, intensely pressured students.

Do Martin Heidegger's statements on the nature of thinking compel a re-examination of Dewey's view? Does Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophy of experience advance beyond Dewey's experimental model? This book examines John Dewey's philosophy of education, and asks how well it stands up in view of developments in Continental European philosophy.

Includes case studies that engage students in debates about what really happens in classrooms. This book encourages students to test the strengths and weaknesses of each theory so that, ultimately, they will learn to formulate their own philosophies of teaching and learning.

Offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of education, drawing on the authors' experience of teaching and course development at undergraduate and postgraduate level. This book includes sections on: the nature and purposes of education; research in education; ideologies and the curriculum; comparative education; and, history of schooling.

This book brings together the most important figures in the evolution of Critical Pedagogy to provide comprehensive analyses of issues related to the struggle against the forces of neoliberalism and the imperial-induced privatization, not just in education, but in all of social life through the radical democratizing forces of critical pedagogy.

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