Philosophy of Education Books

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1. The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education

   By Diana E. Hess, Paula McAvoy

   Most people agree that schools should prepare young people for democratic life. Yet in the United States there has never been agreement on what types of skills, dispositions, and knowledge ought to be taught, nor even agreement on how they should be taught. Grounded in thick empirical description...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-88099-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Contesting Early Childhood…and Opening for Change

   By Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss

   Drawing on and concluding a landmark series, Contesting Early Childhood, this book offers a review of the emerging critique of the dominant discourse and, equally important, examines the possibilities for change that alternative discourses are opening up, both theoretically and in actual practice....

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-46861-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. What is Curriculum Theory?, 2nd Edition

   By William F Pinar

   This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) presents curriculum theory as the interdisciplinary study of educational experience. It asks readers to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, to construct their own understandings of what it means to teach,...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-80411-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. The Routledge Companion to Education

   Edited by James Arthur, Andrew Peterson

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58347-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Values Education Resource File: A practical kit for exploring the things that matter

   By Ray Baxter

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58421-0 | Pack (Routledge)

6. Exploring Well-being in Schools: A guide to making children's lives more fulfilling

   By John Peter White

   Despite a dramatic rise in average income in the last 40 years, people are no happier. Since the millennium personal well-being has recently shot up the political and educational agendas, with schools in the UK even including ‘Personal Well-being’ as a curriculum topic in its own right. This...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-60348-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Basil Bernstein: The Thinker and the Field

   By Rob Moore

   The book provides a detailed yet clear introduction to the sociology of Basil Bernstein that will be accessible to those not already familiar with it, but also of interest to those who are. It locates his thinking within the history of the field of British sociology in his life-time, explores the...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57703-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Engendering Curriculum History

   By Petra Hendry

   How can curriculum history be re-envisioned from a feminist, poststructuralist perspective? Engendering Curriculum History disrupts dominant notions of history as linear, as inevitable progress, and as embedded in the individual. This conversation requires a history that seeks re-memberance not...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-88567-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Education Reconfigured: Culture, Encounter, and Change

   By Jane Roland Martin

   As philosophers throughout the ages have asked what is justice? what is truth? what is art? and what is law? The internationally acclaimed philosopher of education Jane Roland Martin asks what is education? In answer, she puts forward a unified theory that casts education in a brand new light....

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-88963-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Moral Education in sub-Saharan Africa: Culture, Economics, Conflict and AIDS

    Edited by Sharlene Swartz, Monica Taylor

    The term ‘moral’ has had a chequered history in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due to the legacy of colonialism and Apartheid (in South Africa). In contrast to moral education as a vehicle of cultural imperialism and social control, this volume shows moral education to be concerned with both private...

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-61340-8 | Hardback (Routledge)