Foundations and Futures of Education
About the Book Series
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.
Bottom of the Class: Children’s Stories of Low Attainment in Primary School
1st Edition
By Laura Quick
June 27, 2025
This book offers a much-needed look at the impact of our attainment-driven education system on those children considered ‘low attainers’. It reveals how difficult they find it to feel good about themselves, their capacity to learn and their futures, as well as shedding light on the role schools are...
Equity in Higher Education: Time for Social Justice Praxis
1st Edition
By Penny Jane Burke, Matt Lumb
September 06, 2024
In a global context of growing inequality and socio-environmental crises, Equity in Higher Education considers the issues and challenges for progressing an equity agenda. It advances a unique multidimensional framework based on theoretical and conceptual threads, including critical, feminist, ...
Rethinking Knowledgeable Practice in Education
1st Edition
By Jim Hordern
April 22, 2024
The concepts of knowledge and practice are frequently discussed in education – but what is meant by these ideas, and how do they relate to each other? Drawing on recent research, this book breaks new ground to provide novel approaches to conceptualising educational practice, educational judgement ...
Queering Higher Education: Troubling Norms in the Global Knowledge Economy
1st Edition
By Louise Morley, Daniel Leyton
December 30, 2022
This interdisciplinary and international book subjects key areas of inclusion in the global knowledge economy to critical scrutiny from queer perspectivism. Drawing on empirical data from diverse international contexts including Chile, Finland, Japan, Malaysia, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal...
Learning as Social Practice: Beyond Education as an Individual Enterprise
1st Edition
Edited
By Gunther Kress, Staffan Selander, Roger Säljö, Christoph Wulf
May 19, 2021
This book studies learning as a social enterprise, contextually situated, organized and assessed. It gives a broad theoretic grounding for an understanding of learning which goes beyond a common reductionist approach. The book discusses four related approaches to learning which share a social ...
Paradoxes of Democracy, Leadership and Education: Struggling for Social Justice in the Twenty-first Century
1st Edition
Edited
By John F. Schostak, Matthew Clarke, Linda Hammersley-Fletcher
May 29, 2020
Paradoxes of Democracy, Leadership and Education engages both critically and creatively with important social, political and educational issues, and argues that the organisational forms of contemporary schooling are caught up in politically significant contradictions. Highlighting the inescapable ...
Education for Sustainable Development in the Postcolonial World: Towards a Transformative Agenda for Africa
1st Edition
By Leon Tikly
December 09, 2019
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) lies at the heart of global, regional and national policy agendas, with the goal of achieving socially and environmentally just development through the provision of inclusive, equitable quality education for all. Realising this potential on the African ...
A Social History of Educational Studies and Research
1st Edition
By Gary McCulloch, Steven Cowan
February 28, 2019
A Social History of Educational Studies and Research examines the development of the study of education in the UK in its broader educational, social and political context since its early beginnings in the first part of the twentieth century. By providing a historical analysis of the contested ...
Materialities and Mobilities in Education
1st Edition
By Rachel Brooks, Johanna Waters
February 28, 2019
Materialities and Mobilities in Education develops new arguments about the ways in which educational processes can be analysed. Drawing on a recent interest in mobilities across the social sciences, and a conterminous resurgence in academic accounts of materialities, the book demonstrates how these...
Questioning Leadership: New directions for educational organisations
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriele Lakomski, Scott Eacott, Colin W. Evers
June 14, 2018
Questioning Leadership offers a diverse mix of cutting-edge research in the field of educational leadership, with contributions from expert and emerging leadership scholars. It contextualises school leadership within broader social and historical contexts and traces its influence on school ...
Paying for Education: Debating the Price of Progress
1st Edition
By Peter Davies
April 18, 2018
Which type of education should we pay for? How much education should we pay for? Can we buy knowledge about how to improve education? Uniquely presenting a general overview of economic principles applicable to all sectors of education, Paying for Education makes key economic ideas accessible to ...
The Datafication of Primary and Early Years Education: Playing with Numbers
1st Edition
By Alice Bradbury, Guy Roberts-Holmes
September 21, 2017
The Datafication of Primary and Early Years Education explores and critically analyses the growing dominance of data in schools and early childhood education settings. Recognising the shift in practice and priorities towards the production and analysis of attainment data that are compared ...