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1. The Right to Higher Education

   Beyond widening participation

   By Penny Burke

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners, raising questions about current strategies,...

   Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Struggle for the History of Education

   By Gary McCulloch

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   The history of education is a contested field of study, and has represented a site of struggle for the past century of its development. It is highly relevant to an understanding of broader issues in history, education and society, and yet has often been regarded as being merely peripheral rather...

   Published February 17th 2011 by Routledge
3. Radical Education and the Common School

   A democratic alternative

   By Michael Fielding, Peter Moss

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic society affect our responses to these...

   Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge
4. The Irregular School

   Exclusion, Schooling and Inclusive Education

   By Roger Slee

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   Should disabled students be in regular classrooms all of the time or some of the time? Is the regular school or the special school or both the solution for educating students with a wide range of differences? Inclusive education has been incorporated in government education policy around the world...

   Published November 24th 2010 by Routledge
5. School Trouble

   Identity, Power and Politics in Education

   By Deborah Youdell

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   What is the trouble with schools and why should we want to make ‘school trouble’? Schooling is implicated in the making of educational and social exclusions and inequalities as well as the making of particular sorts of students and teachers. For this reason schools are important sites of counter-...

   Published October 14th 2010 by Routledge
6. Schools and Schooling in the Digital Age

   A Critical Analysis

   By Neil Selwyn

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   This book presents a wide-ranging and critical exploration of a topic that lies at the heart of contemporary education. The use of digital technology is now a key feature of schools and schooling around the world. Yet despite its prominence, technology use continues to be an area of education that...

   Published September 30th 2010 by Routledge
7. Being a University

   By Ronald Barnett

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   There is no single idea of the university. Ever since its medieval origin, the concept of the university has continued to change. The metaphysical university gave way successively to the scientific university, and then to the corporate and the entrepreneurial university. But what, then, might lie...

   Published September 30th 2010 by Routledge
8. Education – An 'Impossible Profession'?

   Psychoanalytic Explorations of Learning and Classrooms

   By Tamara Bibby

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   In classrooms and lectures we learn not only about academic topics but also about ourselves, our peers and how people and ideas interact. Education – An Impossible Profession extends the ways in which we might think about these processes by offering a refreshing reconsideration of key...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
9. Language, Learning, Context

   Talking the Talk

   By Wolff-Michael Roth

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment? How does language enable educators and how can they consciously make the most of its potential? Using the right language and setting the correct tone in the school classroom has repercussions for...

   Published May 16th 2010 by Routledge
10. Re-Designing Learning Contexts

    Technology-Rich, Learner-Centred Ecologies

    By Rosemary Luckin

    Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

    What do we mean by the word ‘context’ in education and how does our context influence the way that we learn? What role can technology play in enhancing learning and what is the future of technology within learning? Re-Designing Learning Contexts seeks to re-dress the lack of attention that has...

    Published April 5th 2010 by Routledge