Educational Philosophy and Theory
Plasticity and Education: The Philosophy of Catherine Malabou and Educational Thinking
1st Edition
Edited
By Kjetil Horn Hogstad
February 12, 2025
This book explores the engagement between the philosophical concept of ‘plasticity’ and the radically changing space of educational thinking. Plasticity is a central concept in the philosophy of Catherine Malabou. It represents a new metaphor for the space between the creation, resistance, and ...
Bernard Stiegler and the Philosophy of Education II: Experiments in Negentropic Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Joff P. N. Bradley
December 19, 2024
This is the second volume of research into the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler and its interconnections with the philosophy of education. Building on the first edited collection, Stiegler’s philosophy is introduced to scholars in the field of the philosophy of education in the hope that researchers ...
Contemporary Chinese Marxism: Foundational Research Orientations
1st Edition
Edited
By Chengbing Wang
December 19, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the foundational research orientations of contemporary Chinese Marxism. The chapters in this book not only attach importance to the exploration of classic Marxist texts but also explore the challenges posed on classic Marxist texts by ...
Education for Sustainable Development in the ‘Capitalocene’
1st Edition
Edited
By Helena Pedersen, Sally Windsor, Beniamin Knutsson, Dawn Sanders, Arjen Wals, Olof Franck
December 19, 2024
The book seeks to explore ways in which education research, policy and practice ought to be re-thought and re-enacted under present bio-political predicaments. It brings together scholars working in the intersections of education for sustainable development, philosophy of education and curriculum ...
Paulo Freire Centennial
1st Edition
Edited
By Greg William Misiaszek, Lauren Ila Misiaszek
December 19, 2024
On the occasion of the centennial of Paulo Freire’s birth in September 2021 and of fifty years since the initial publication of his seminal work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, this book focuses on how scholars continue to reinvent his work across geographic and thematic contexts. Reinvention is ...
Empire and Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander J. Means, Amy N. Sojot, Yuko Ida, Manca Sustarsic
October 09, 2024
Empire is in a state of emergency. A global pandemic and an ongoing secular crisis of capitalism, ecological instability, racism and ethnic conflict, geopolitical tensions, and specters of war all haunt the global order. Education preforms a key role in producing the subjective capacities that ...
Talents and Distributive Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Mitja Sardoč
May 27, 2024
For much of its history, the notion of talent has been associated with the idea of ‘careers open to talent’. Its emancipatory promise of upward social mobility has ultimately radically transformed the distribution of advantaged social positions and has had a lasting influence on the very idea of ...
The University as an Ethical Academy?
1st Edition
Edited
By Marek Tesar, Michael A. Peters, Liz Jackson
May 27, 2024
This book examines the importance, possibilities, and complexities of the university as an ethical academy. Universities may be seen as an evolving network of ethical systems that govern teaching, research, service, and administration. However, the university system is changing: adding new rules, ...
Education in Flux: Studies on Time, Forms and Reform
1st Edition
Edited
By Mathias Decuypere, Pieter Vanden Broeck
January 29, 2024
This book aims to gain a better grasp of how education, both inside and outside school, is shaped by our understanding of time. Over the last decennia, both education and policymaking have undergone radical changes, transcending them far beyond the historical limits of the modern nation-state where...
Bernard Stiegler and the Philosophy of Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Joff P.N. Bradley, David Kennedy
September 25, 2023
This book is the first of its kind to critically examine the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler from the perspective of the philosophy of education. The editors of this book firmly believe that in the coming years Stiegler’s philosophy will assume increasing importance and influence in both digital ...
Bildung and Paideia: Philosophical Models of Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie-Élise Zovko, John M. Dillon
September 25, 2023
Bildung and Paideia examines traditional humanistic ideals in light of philosophical reflection on the need for education of the whole human being. The study of what it is to be human is traditionally the task of the humanities. In recent years, however, the humanities have been increasingly ...
John Dewey's Democracy and Education in an Era of Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Mordechai Gordon, Andrea R. English
May 07, 2020
2016 marked the hundred-year anniversary of John Dewey’s seminal work Democracy and Education. This centennial presented philosophers and educators with an opportunity to reexamine and evaluate its impact on various aspects of education in democratic societies. This volume brings together some of ...