Filosofía y teoría de la educación

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Lived Experience of African American Women Mentors

Wyletta Gamble-Lomax

This book explores the lived experiences of six African American female mentors working with African American female youth. Through philosophical and pedagogical lenses, Gamble-Lomax brings new understanding to African American female experiences and how they connect to today’s educational climate. ...

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50,54 €
Animal Rights Education

Kai Horsthemke

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, posthumanist education, ecopedagogy, critical animal pedagogy, critical animal stu...

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144,10 €
American Education and the Demography of the US Student Population, 1880 - 2014

Richard R. Verdugo / Richard RVerdugo

This monograph examines changes in the American public school population from 1900 to 2010. It shows how different historical periods have affected the composition of the student body and have posed important challenges to those involved in shaping educational policy. The author first develops an analytical framework that merges education and applied demography concepts. The ed...

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131,23 €
From Labouring to Learning

Michael R.M. Ward

Highly Commended in the Society of Educational Studies Book PrizeThis book explores how economic changes and the growing importance of educational qualifications in a shrinking labour market, particularly effects marginalized young men. It follows a group of young working-class men in a de-industrial community and challenges commonly held representations that often appear in th...

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45,72 €
Black Scholarly Activism between the Academy and Grassroots

Ornette D. Clennon

This book explores the ’invisible’ impact whiteness has on the lived ’black’ experience in the UK. Using education as a philosophical and ethical framework, the author interrogates the vision of Black Radicalism proposed by Kehinde Andrews, exploring its potential applicability to grassroots activism. Clennon uses an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to draw together his ...

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65,19 €
Posthuman Research Practices in Education

How do we include and develop understandings of those beyond-the-human aspects of the world in social research? Through fifteen contributions from leading international thinkers, this book provides original approaches to posthumanist research practices in education. It responds to questions which consider the effect and reach of posthuman research. ...

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39,24 €
Education and Society

Rachel Brooks

This new textbook offers a wide-ranging discussion of the key debates within the sociology of education. Covering everything from policymaking and the curriculum, to class, ethnicity and gender, and the ways that they and other social divisions intersect to produce inequalities, this timely publication provides a much-needed contribution to the study of education’s vital role i...

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54,83 €
Transforming Perspectives in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Laura Formenti / Linden West

Winner of the AAACE Cyril O. Houle AwardThis book constructs a deepening, interdisciplinary understanding of adult learning and imaginatively reframes its transformative aspects. The authors explore the tension at the heart of current understanding of ’transformative’ adult learning: that while it can be framed as both easy and imperative, personal transformation is in fact roo...

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168,88 €
Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines

This volume presents insights from five years of intensive Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity education at Queensborough Community College (QCC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, to offer four approaches-Arts-Based, Textual, Outcomes-Based, and Social Justice-to designing innovative, integrative, and differentiated pedagogies for today’s college students. The ...

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205,77 €
Re-Engaging Young People with Education

Simon Edwards

This book examines how young people can be re-engaged with schooling and their own learning beyond the school gates. Despite attempts by successive UK governments to promote engagement with education, there has been a substantial increase in formal and informal exclusions from secondary schools, particularly of underperforming students who come from low income families. The boo...

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119,77 €
Transforming Perspectives in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Laura Formenti / Linden West

Winner of the AAACE Cyril O. Houle AwardThis book constructs a deepening, interdisciplinary understanding of adult learning and imaginatively reframes its transformative aspects. The authors explore the tension at the heart of current understanding of ’transformative’ adult learning: that while it can be framed as both easy and imperative, personal transformation is in fact roo...

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47,82 €
American Education and the Demography of the US Student Population, 1880 - 2014

Richard R. Verdugo

This monograph examines changes in the American public school population from 1900 to 2010. It shows how different historical periods have affected the composition of the student body and have posed important challenges to those involved in shaping educational policy. The author first develops an analytical framework that merges education and applied demography concepts. The ed...

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46,51 €
Roma Identity and Ritual in the Classroom

Jana Obrovská

This book addresses the dynamics of interethnic relationships in ethnically mixed classrooms in the Czech Republic. The classroom is a space in which the boundaries and meanings of facets of identity such as ethnicity, class and gender are negotiated on a daily basis: using rich ethnographic data, the author grounds the analysis in a novel theoretical framework which uses the t...

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120,31 €
Time Management

David McKeown / Greg Allen

Time Management is perhaps something every person should learn about in greatest detail. This is because time is the only commodity in your life that you cannot regain once it is lost. Time is what makes your life and if and when you realize that with every minute that passes you are closer to your death, you will never ever want to see a moment lost. Many people complain that...

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14,61 €
The Man Who Was Different

Mark Currie

A deceptively simple fable featuring a man unlike any other who proudly presents himself to the world in search of love and acceptance.The book is thought-provoking and motivational, incorporating simple black and white illustrations to highlight an essential truth about human nature. In this case, it is the truth that we are fascinated by things that are different. But also su...

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13,28 €
Critical Cosmopolitanism in Diverse Students’ Lives

Eleni M. Oikonomidoy

Grounded in a framework of critical cosmopolitanism, this book examines how students’ identities develop in new contexts and how their perceptions of themselves change. ...

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241,13 €
Sustainability, Human Well-Being, and the Future of Education

This open access book explores the key dimensions of a future education system designed to enable individuals, schools, and communities to achieve the twin twenty-first century challenges of sustainability and human well-being. For much of the twentieth century, Western education systems prepared students to enter the workforce, contribute to society and succeed in relatively p...

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34,38 €
Structural Injustices in Swedish Education

Dennis Beach

While Sweden is often viewed as a benchmark for equality within education, this book examines this assumption in greater depth. The author argues that Sweden’s education system - even prior to the global spread of neoliberalism in education, meta-policies and privatization - was never particularly equal. Instead, what became apparent was a system that offered advantages to the ...

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144,22 €
Pre-Service Teacher Education and Induction in Southwest China

Ju Huang

This book is a narrative inquiry that focuses on four participating Chinese teacher candidates’ cross-cultural learning in Canada and stories of induction in Southwest China. Through the lens of 'three-dimensional inquiry space' and 'reciprocal learning in teacher education,' the author explores the influence of cross-cultural experiences on the dissonance of pedagogies, teache...

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101,91 €
Negative Erfahrungen und Scheitern im schulischen Lernen

Severin Sales Rödel

Severin Sales Rödel widmet sich in theoretischer und empirischer Perspektive dem Scheitern, der Enttäuschung und der Überraschung im schulischen Lernen. Dabei vertritt er die These, dass sich die produktive und verändernde Kraft des Lernens nur durch solche ‚negativen’ Erfahrungen entfalten kann. In einer Phänomenologie der negativen Erfahrung zeigt der Autor an verschiedenen U...

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71,96 €
Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan

Susan D. Rose / Susan Rose

First published in 1988, this work was the product of extensive fieldwork in two evangelical communities. This in-depth ethnographic study focuses on the meaning systems, organizational structures and the daily lives of the people Susan D. Rose encountered. ...

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62,20 €
Cultural and Economic Reproduction in Education

Michael W. Apple

First published in 1982, this collection of essays provides an analysis of education’s contradictory role in social reproduction. It looks at the complex relations between the economic, political and cultural spheres of society, both historically and at the time of publication. ...

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64,48 €
Families and their Learning Environments

Kevin Marjoribanks

First published in 1979, this study includes detailed assessments of family environments in an analysis of performance of children at their schools. Much of the research is based on data from families in Australia, Canada and England. ...

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56,85 €
Teachers, Professionalism and Class

J T Ozga / M A Lawn

First published in 1981, this book examines the concept of professionalism in the context of the development of organized teachers. The argument is presented that the concept of professionalism is a complex one and its different meanings must be located within a historical context. ...

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57,34 €
The Sociology of Education

Donald Francis Swift / Donald Swift

First published in 1969, this book examines the educational process as a whole in relation to its society. The discussion is set within a specifically sociological frame of reference and looks at the school as an organisation as well as the social environment surrounding the school. It concludes by considering some of the basic issues concerning the functions of education for s...

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57,52 €
Sociology and Teaching

First published in 1988, this work considers the ways in which the sociology of education can inform educational practice. It examines the research which marries the two fields and considers the thinking behind it. It addresses key themes such as: sociological awareness or imagination, and how it might be stimulated and enriched by educational study; reflectivity for both teach...

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57,01 €
School Experience

First published in 1977, this volume brings together a range of viewpoints, informed by reports of empirical research, which bear on the experience of school. Each chapter demonstrates the application of the ’new sociology of education’ in its various guises to the world of teachers and pupils. In doing so, they exemplify the fields of investigation opened up by these theoretic...

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64,84 €
Human Conditions

Merry I. White / Merry White / Robert A Levine

First published in 1986, this book proposes and illustrates a new approach to the comparative analysis of educational policy, based on anthropological and historical inquiry. It reviews the transitions of Western countries, Japan, and the People’s Republic of China and in doing so investigates cultural ideas of human potential and how they inform social and economic goals of ed...

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56,94 €
Education State and Crisis

Madan Sarup

First published in 1982, this work is a critical survey of contemporary educational debates and themes which took on new urgency and importance at the time. In particular, it explores the problematic nature of ’progressive education’ and ’discipline’; the changes in the labour process and youth unemployment; the nature of the state and its relationship with schooling; the growt...

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38,49 €
Social Analysis of Education

Philip Wexler

First published in 1987, this book offers an ideological critique of the new sociology of education, with the aim to redeem understanding of the social and historical character of knowledge. It argues that with an historical and social grasp, university knowledge can be understood as a collective product and can become a useful resource for encountering and transforming the soc...

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57,03 €

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