Philosophy of Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Balancing Dilemmas in Assessment and Learning in Contemporary Education

   Edited by Anton Havnes, Liz McDowell

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context. New forms of assessment are being introduced in all sectors of education and training, and the culture of assessment is shifting. The authors in this volume discuss the practice of assessment,...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Reconciliation and Pedagogy

   Edited by Pal Ahluwalia, Stephen Atkinson, Peter Bishop, Pam Christie, Robert Hattam, Julie Matthews

   Series: Postcolonial Politics

   Reconciliation is one of the most significant contemporary challenges in the world today. In this innovative new volume, educational academics and practitioners across a range of cultural and political contexts examine the links between reconciliation and critical pedagogy, putting forward the...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Teacher Professional Development

   Policy, Research and Practice

   By Ian Hardy

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The Politics of Teacher Professional Development: Policy, Research and Practice provides innovative insights into teachers’ continuing development and learning in contemporary western contexts. Rather than providing a list of "how-tos" and "must dos," this volume is premised on the understanding...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Politics of Knowledge in Education

   By Elizabeth Rata

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book explores the decline of the teaching of epistemic, conceptual knowledge in schools, its replacement with everyday social knowledge, and its relation to changes in the division of labor within the global economy. It argues that the emphasis on social knowledge in postmodern and social...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Participation, Facilitation, and Mediation

   Children and Young People in Their Social Contexts

   Edited by Claudio Baraldi, Vittorio Iervese

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Traditionally, children have been considered from a primarily developmental perspective, in need of education in order to achieve autonomy, growth, and eventually adulthood. Childhood studies have recently underlined an alternate way to look at children, starting from the consideration that...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
7. Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

   Edited by Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner

   The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century....

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Education Matters

   60 years of the British Journal of Educational Studies

   Edited by James Arthur, Jon Davison, Richard Pring

   Series: Education Heritage

   Education Matters draws together a selection of the most influential papers published in the British Journal of Educational Studies by many of the leading scholars in the field over the past 60 years. This unique collection of seminal articles published since the first issue of the Journal provides...

   Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Education, Philosophy and Politics

    The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters

    By Michael A Peters

    Series: World Library of Educationalists

    In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions - so the world can read them in...

    Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge