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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. The Global Reception of John Dewey's Thought

   Multiple Refractions Through Time and Space

   Edited by Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Jürgen Schriewer

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   This volume explores the reception of John Dewey’s ideas in various historical and geographical settings such as Japan, China, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Russia, and Germany, analyzing how and why Dewey’s thought was interpreted in various ways according to mediating local discursive and...

   Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
5. Levinas and Education

   At the Intersection of Faith and Reason

   Edited by Denise Egéa-Kuehne

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy, educational theory, and on Levinas. It provides an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics,...

   Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
6. Beauty and Education

   By Joe Winston

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   Beauty is something we value instinctively. We find it in art and in nature, in words, images and ideas, seeking it through our senses and through our intellect, in others and in ourselves. This book seeks to re-awaken educators to the power of beauty as an educational concept, to its relevance for...

   Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge
7. Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms

   Mathematics in the Flesh

   By Wolff-Michael Roth

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they...

   Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
8. 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 December 6th 2010 by Routledge
9. Education, Professionalization and Social Representations

   On the Transformation of Social Knowledge

   Edited by Mohamed Chaib, Berth Danermark, Staffan Selander

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and professional formation. The chapters of this edited collection reflect different theoretical and empirical approaches to that form of common-sense...

   Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
10. 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 September 7th 2009 by Routledge