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1. Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability

   Hitting the Target but Missing the Point

   By Jane Green

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   This book focuses on education and its relation to professional accountability as viewed from two different, but not unrelated, perspectives. First, the book is about the work of professionals in schools and colleges (teachers, head teachers, leaders, principals, directors and educational managers,...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Higher Education in Liquid Modernity

   By Marvin Oxenham

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   Based in sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, this volume describes and critiques key aspects and practices of liquid education--education as market-driven consumption, short life span of useful knowledge, overabundance of information--through a systematic comparison...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Social Reconstruction Learning

   Dualism, Dewey and Philosophy in Schools

   By Jennifer Bleazby

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   This volume argues that educational problems have their basis in an ideology of binary opposites often referred to as dualism, which is deeply embedded in all aspects of Western society and philosophy, and that it is partly because mainstream schooling incorporates dualism that it is unable to...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Cultural Diversity, Liberal Pluralism and Schools

   Isaiah Berlin and Education

   By Neil Burtonwood

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   With debates on the relationship between cultural diversity and the role of schools raging on both sides of the Atlantic, the time is apt for a philosophical work that shines new light on the issues involved and that brings a fresh perspective to a political and emotive discussion. Here Burtonwood...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. Anarchism and Education

   A Philosophical Perspective

   By Judith Suissa

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   Although there have been a few historical accounts of the anarchist school movement, there has been no systematic work on the philosophical underpinnings of anarchist educational ideas - until now. Anarchism and Education offers a philosophical account of the neglected tradition of anarchist...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. Education, Science and Truth

   By Rasoul Nejadmehr

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   What is the main problem of contemporary education? Rasoul Nejadmehr argues that the cardinal problem with education is that it does not have an adequate notion of truth underpinning it. Thinkers mainly tend to veer towards two poles - absolutism and relativism. While a one-sided tendency...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Philosophy of Education in the Era of Globalization

   Edited by Yvonne Raley, Gerhard Preyer

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   Terrorism, ethnocentrism, religious tension, competition over limited resources, war - these are just a few of the problems and challenges that have emerged in today's global economy. Globalization both implies and requires economic interdependence; and this should bring with it a heightened sense...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education

   By Ishtiyaque Haji, Stefaan E. Cuypers

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   The primary purpose of this book is to explain the distinction, on the one hand, between indoctrination and education, and, on the other, between responsibility-subverting manipulation and mere causation. Both are elucidated by an appeal to common ground, an account of when our motivations and...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Habermas, Critical Theory and Education

   Edited by Mark Murphy, Ted Fleming

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   The sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. However, there has been no concerted and focused attempt to introduce his ideas to the field of education broadly. This book rectifies this omission...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. Derrida & Education

    Edited by Gert J.J. Biesta, Denise Egéa-Kuehne

    Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

    Bringing together the work of international experts in the field, and two interviews with Derrida himself, this book provides a key to the reflections that Derrida's work has prompted on all aspects of educational studies. The contributors address fundamental educational issues from a...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge