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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
This handbook brings together new work by some of the leading authorities on citizenship education, and is divided into five sections. The first section deals with key ideas about citizenship education including democracy, rights, globalization and equity. Section two contains a wide range of national...
by Kai Horsthemke
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
This book explores how the ethical treatment and status of other-than-human animals influence pedagogy, teaching, and learning in general, aiming to fill what has been a gap in the philosophy of education. It examines key trends in this regard, including environmental education, humane education,...
Researching Higher Education
International perspectives on theory, policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Research on higher education has yielded many insights that have improved our theoretical and practical understanding but there are still many themes that continue to appear on research agendas, provoking renewed focus on these complex questions and problems. Researching Higher Education explores...
by Kevin K. Kumashiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his latest book, leading educator and author Kevin Kumashiro takes aim at the current debate on educational reform, paying particular attention to the ways that scapegoating public school teachers, teacher unions, and teacher educators masks the real, systemic problems. He convincingly demonstrates...
Multicultural Education in South Korea
Language, ideology, and culture in Korean language arts education
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book examines the political, ideological, and socio-cultural politics underlying the 2009 National Multicultural Curriculum Reform and recent multicultural education policies in South Korea. Unlike the conservative groups in Western countries who argue that supporting cultural diversity and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Currently, peace education remains marginalized in our education system, however, a united front can be formed and powerful paradigms can empower educators to play a critical role in peace building through scholarship, practice and activism. Indeed, educators around the world are developing effective...
Internationalization of Higher Education
The Case of Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book reviews and analyses the issues and policies of internationalization and exportation of higher education and investigates the strategies and models of education hub development in the context of globalization, with Hong Kong in the Asia-Pacific region as a case study. It examines the close...
Understanding Education
History, Politics and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This short book provides an introduction to the study of education, outlining the dual purpose of education – to help people live well and to help develop a world worth living in. It argues that education initiates people into forms of understanding, modes of activity, and ways of relating to each...
by Kristján Kristjánsson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This book provides a reconstruction of Aristotelian character education, shedding new light on what moral character really is, and how it can be highlighted, measured, nurtured and taught in current schooling. Arguing that many recent approaches to character education understand character in exclusively...
Agent of Democracy
Higher Education and the HEX Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The professional mind-set prevailing in higher education today often ignores the “common goods” that only democratic self-rule can provide. Why? Some say the professional mind-set is profoundly antidemocratic, especially when it presumes that specialized knowledge and experience is a sufficient...
Order of Learning
Essays on the Contemporary University
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others. Edward Shils argues that higher education has a central...
The Privatization of Education
A Political Economy of Global Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Education privatization is a global phenomenon that has crystallized in countries with very different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine how privatization policies are being adopted and why so many countries are engaging in this type of education reform....
Education, Philosophy and Well-being
New perspectives on the work of John White
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
John White is one of the leading philosophers of education currently working in the Anglophone world. Since first joining the London Institute of Education in 1965, he has made significant contributions to the landscape of the discipline through his teaching, research and numerous publications. His...
Pedagogies of Globalization
The Rise of the Educational Security State
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In this ground-breaking book, Joel Spring examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states.
In the twenty-first century,...