Theory of Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Education Outcomes and Poverty

   A Reassessment

   Edited by Christopher Colclough

   Series: Education, Poverty and International Development

   What do we know about the outcomes of education in developing countries? Where are the gaps in our knowledge, and why are they important to fill? What are the policy challenges that underlie these knowledge gaps, and how can education best contribute to eliminating the problem of widespread poverty...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Resourcing Early Learners

   New Networks, New Actors

   By Sue Nichols, Jennifer Rowsell, Helen Nixon, Sophia Rainbird

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The landscape of early childhood education and care is changing. Governments world-wide are assuming increasing authority in relation to child-rearing in the years before school entry, beyond the traditional role in assisting parents to do the best they can by their children. As part of a social...

   Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War

   Are Schools Part of the Solution or the Problem?

   Edited by Paul R. Carr, Brad J. Porfilio

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education

   An International Perspective

   Edited by Chris Forlin

   Are teachers ready for inclusion? What is appropriate teacher education? Traditional approaches to inclusive education focused on learners with disabilities. Modern approaches, however, conceptualise inclusion in terms of providing educational equity and equality of access for all students within...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Knowledge, Pedagogy and Society

   International Perspectives on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Education

   Edited by Daniel Frandji, Philippe Vitale

   Over the course of the late-twentieth century Basil Bernstein pioneered an original approach to educational phenomena, taking seriously questions regarding the transmission, distribution and transformation of knowledge as no other before had done. Arguing tirelessly for change, more than any other...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
9. Learning in School-University Partnership

   Sociocultural Perspectives

   By Amy B.M. Tsui, Gwyn Edwards, Fran Lopez-Real, Tammy Kwan, Doris Law, Philip Stimpson, Rosina Tang, Albert Wong

   This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes – school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning – have both...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. Global Education Inc.

    New policy networks and the neoliberal imaginary

    By Stephen J. Ball

    Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in its ‘welfare’ form? Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision of ‘best practice’ based on the methods...

    Published February 28th 2012 by Routledge