New Studies in Critical Realism and Education (Routledge Critical Realism)
A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-Faith World: a philosophy for success through education
1st Edition
By Matthew Wilkinson
June 08, 2015
A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-Faith World provides a comprehensively theorised and practical approach to thinking systematically and deeply about Islam and Muslims in a multi-faith world. It makes the case for a contemporary educational philosophy to help young Muslims surmount the challenges of...
Critical Realist Activity Theory: An engagement with critical realism and cultural-historical activity theory
1st Edition
By Iskra Nunez
May 21, 2015
Critical Realist Activity Theory provides an exciting new contribution to the New Studies in Critical Realism and Education series by showing how the nature of learning is tantamount to the critical realist notion of the dialectic. The science of learning is too important to leave solely to the ...
A Critical Realist Perspective of Education
1st Edition
By Brad Shipway
November 07, 2013
This book clearly and comprehensively explores the capability of critical realism to throw new light on educational theory. It firstly investigates the convergence and divergence between two forms of critical realism, which have not previously been cross-examined. This task allows the book to ...
Imagining the University
1st Edition
By Ronald Barnett
January 30, 2013
Around the world, what it is to be a university is a matter of much debate. The range of ideas of the university in public circulation is, however, exceedingly narrow and is dominated by the idea of the entrepreneurial university. As a consequence, the debate is hopelessly impoverished. Lurking in ...
Strong and Smart – Towards a Pedagogy for Emancipation: Education for First Peoples
1st Edition
By Chris Sarra
September 05, 2012
Strong and Smart – Towards a Pedagogy for Emancipation tells the story of how Dr Chris Sarra overcame low expectations for his future to become an educator who has sought to change the tide of low expectations for other Indigenous students. The book draws upon Roy Bhaskar’s theory of Critical ...
Why Knowledge Matters in Curriculum: A Social Realist Argument
1st Edition
By Leesa Wheelahan
May 08, 2012
What should we teach in our schools and vocational education and higher education institutions? Is theoretical knowledge still important? This book argues that providing students with access to knowledge should be the raison d’être of education. Its premise is that access to knowledge is an issue ...
Education, Epistemology and Critical Realism
1st Edition
By David Scott
October 06, 2010
This book addresses fundamental questions in relation to education and its epistemology. The position taken by the author is critical realist; and thus throughout the relationship between education and critical realism is foregrounded. Themes and issues that surface at different times in ...