Foundations and Futures of Education

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1. Bullying

   Experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender

   Edited by Ian Rivers, Neil Duncan

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   Bullying: Experiences and Discourses of Sexuality and Gender provides a valuable insight into the experiences of young people and how bullying can impact upon them in the school environment. The book offers an introduction to the key issues associated with bullying on the grounds of sex and sexual...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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 September 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Postfeminist Education?

   Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling

   By Jessica Ringrose

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts, but that feminism has gone ‘too far’ with women and girls now overtaking men and boys - positioned as the new victims of gender...

   Published July 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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 16th 2011 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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