Theory of Education Books

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1. Education: The Basics

   By Kay Wood

   Education: The Basics is a wide ranging introduction to education as an academic subject, taking into account both theory and practice. Covering the study of education as whole, including the schooling system, the nature of knowledge and methods of teaching, this book takes into account the...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-58955-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Using Epistemological Frameworks in the Production of Meaning

   By Alecia Youngblood Jackson, Lisa Mazzei

   Thinking With Theory In Qualitative Research shows how by using various epistemological frameworks in practices of inquiry, researchers can open up the production of meaning in qualitative data analysis. In this book the authors use a common data set and then use various epistemological...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-78099-5 | Hardback (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. A Philosophy of Learning: Understanding the Essence of Being and Learning

   By Peter Jarvis

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57132-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Routledge Companion to Education

   Edited by James Arthur, Andrew Peterson

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

6. Teacher Learning that Matters: International Perspectives

   Edited by Mary Kooy, Klaas van Veen

   This book compiles and synthesizes international research and theory of effective teacher learning, exploring the social and contextual (e.g., workplace) conditions in which teachers build and their capacities as learners and teachers, with the aim of transforming top-down professional development...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88880-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Disavowed Knowledge: Psychoanalysis, Education and Teaching

   By Peter Maas Taubman

   This is the first and only book to detail the history of the century-long relationship between education and psychoanalysis. Relying on primary and secondary sources, it provides not only a historical context but also a psychoanalytically informed analysis. In considering what it means to think...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-89051-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Bourdieu and the Fields of Education Policy: Understanding globalization, mediatization, implementation

   By Bob Lingard, Shaun Rawolle

   This book breaks new ground methodologically and in terms of its application of Bourdieu specifically within education policy studies in the context of globalization and provides a new approach to education policy studies, derived from Bourdieu, and suitable for today’s context of multilevel...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57583-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Troubling Gender in Education

   Edited by Jo-Anne Dillabough, Julie McLeod, Martin Mills

   This book explores new questions and lines of analysis within the field of ‘gender and education’, conveying some of the style and diversity of contemporary research directions. It celebrates as well as assesses the achievements of feminist work in education, acknowledging this legacy while also ‘...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-60221-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Beyond Binaries in Education Research

    Edited by Patrick Alan Danaher, Warren Midgley, Mark A. Tyler, Alison Mander

    This book seeks to explore the ethical, methodological, and social justice questions that arise in education research that is founded on conceptualizations of binary opposites. In education research these dualisms may include ability-disability, academic-vocational, adult-child,...

    February 2011 | 978-0-415-88512-6 | Hardback (Routledge)