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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
While critical race theory is a framework employed by activists and scholars within and outside the confines of education, there are limited resources for leadership practitioners that provide insight into critical race theory and the possibilities of implementing a critical race praxis approach to...
Health Education
Critical perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Health Education: Critical perspectives provides a socio-cultural and critical approach to health education. The book draws together international experts in the fields of health and education who deconstruct contemporary discourses and practices, and re-imagine a health education that both connects...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The Enterprise of Education is Book IV of the research series, Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East. This book examines the implications of rapid political, sociocultural, and economic change for the enterprise of education within particular countries in the regions of Africa,...
Empire and Education in Africa
The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Empire and Education in Africa brings together a rich body of scholarship on the history of education in colonial Africa. It provides a unique contribution to the historiography of education in different African countries and a useful point of entry for scholars new to the field of African colonial...
by Daniel Cottom
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past...
by Neil Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This book addresses the questions why citizenship education is an important subject for students in further and adult education and why we need democratic colleges to support the study of citizenship education. It investigates the historical roots of further and adult education and identifies how...
Universities and Globalization
To Market, To Market
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Universities and Globalization: To Market, To Market examines the operations of power and knowledge in international education under conditions of globalization, with a focus on the three biggest exporters of higher education--the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. An interdisciplinary...
Private Education in Singapore
Contemporary Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Not much has been written about the private education sector in Singapore despite the fact that the sector houses about 300 private education institutions (PEIs) and enrolls about 150,000 students. Private Education in Singapore: Contemporary Issues and Challenges is an exciting book that aims to...
Higher Education Rulemaking
The Politics of Creating Regulatory Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Many higher education academics and administrators have only vague notions about how the federal government makes regulations governing colleges and universities in the United States, and yet these regulations control many important aspects of the operation of these institutions. What happens after...
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education
Rethinking the temporal complexity of self and society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education argues that by rethinking the way we relate to time, we can fundamentally rethink the way we conceive education. Beyond the contemporary rhetoric of acceleration, speed, urgency or slowness, this book provides an epistemological, historical and theoretical...
Creativity and Democracy in Education
Practices and politics of learning through the arts
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The struggle to establish more democratic education pedagogies has a long history in the politics of mainstream education. This book argues for the significance of the creative arts in the establishment of social justice in education, using examples drawn from a selection of contemporary case studies...
Muslims and Islam in U.S. Education
Reconsidering multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Winner of Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA)'s inaugural PESA Book Awards in 2015, and The University of Hong Kong Research Output Prize for Education 2014-15.
Muslims and Islam in U.S. Education explores the complex interface that exists between U.S. school curriculum, teaching...
Political Agendas for Education
From Make America Great Again to Stronger Together
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Following the epic, contentious 2016 presidential election, Joel Spring’s ongoing documentation and analysis of political agendas for education reflect the major political issues since 2012. Here he examines the 2016 education planks of the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green Parties,...
Girl education
Challenges, Strategies and Initiatives Vol - II
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This edited book series titled ‘Girl Education in India: Still Miles to Cover' is the collection of three volumes. Vol. I - Girl Education: Understanding the Status and Gender Issues presents the complete picture of girl education in country and helps the readers to understand the concept of girl...