The Foundations and Futures of Education series contains over 30 volumes publishing on a range of interdisciplinary, yet Education-led topics including historical, philosophical, sociological, psychological and comparative perspectives. Covering key topics from across the discipline, this sector-leading series reflects the topics that are crucial to our understanding of how the field of Education has developed and is continuing to progress.
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By Vivienne Bozalek, Brenda Leibowitz, Ronelle Carolissen, Megan Boler
May 18, 2017
How can discerning critical hope enable us to develop innovative forms of teaching, learning and social practices that begin to address issues of marginalization, privilege and access across different contexts? At this millennial point in history, questions of cynicism, despair and hope arise at ...
By Peter Hemming
May 18, 2017
Religion and its relationship to schooling is an issue that has become more and more topical in recent years. In many countries, developments such as the diversification of state school sectors, concerns about social cohesion between ethnic and religious groups, and debates about national identity ...
By Matthew Clarke, Anne Phelan
January 24, 2017
Teacher Education and the Political is a striking book which addresses the nature and purpose of teacher education in a global context characterised by economic and political anxieties around declining productivity and social inclusion. These anxieties are manifested in recent policy developments ...
By Clare Brooks
April 12, 2016
Teacher Subject Identity in Professional Practice focuses on a key, but neglected, element of a teacher’s identity: that of their subject expertise. Studies of teachers’ professional practice have shown the importance of a teacher’s identity and the extent to which it can affect their resilience, ...
By Ronald Barnett
December 08, 2015
Understanding the University constitutes the final volume in a trilogy – the first two books having been Being a University (2010) and Imagining the University (2012) – and represents the trilogy’s ultimate aims and endeavours. The three volumes together offer a unique attempt at a fairly ...
By Iva Strnadová, Therese M. Cumming
September 16, 2015
This book brings a refreshing perspective to preparing students with disabilities and their families for all aspects of independent life. Many of the transitions experienced by younger children set the stage for future changes, yet do not receive the attention they deserve in the literature. This ...
By Chris Haywood, Mairtin Mac an Ghaill
July 25, 2013
Across media, academy and popular culture in western societies there is much talk of an implosion of the modern gender order. Education is often presented as a key site in which a crisis of masculinity is played out, and schools have become a focus for practical attempts to reconcile social and ...
By Penny Burke
April 18, 2012
The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners, raising questions about current strategies, ...
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By Ian Rivers, Neil Duncan
March 01, 2013
Bullying: Experiences and Discourses of Sexuality and Gender provides a valuable insight into the experiences of young people and how bullying can impact upon them in the school environment. The book offers an introduction to the key issues associated with bullying on the grounds of sex and sexual ...
By Wolff-Michael Roth
September 10, 2012
In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment? How does language enable educators and how can they consciously make the most of its potential? Using the right language and setting the correct tone in the school classroom has repercussions for...
By Jessica Ringrose
August 28, 2012
This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts, but that feminism has gone ‘too far’ with women and girls now overtaking men and boys - positioned as the new victims of gender ...
By Elaine Unterhalter
December 26, 2006
Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and...