Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
About the Book Series
The philosophy of education is enjoying a resurgence of interest internationally, in line with the growing attention worldwide to education's seminal importance in shaping societies, economies and people's lives. This series brings together some of the leading experts from around the world, and provides an outlet for the very latest cutting-edge research.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected]– Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
A New Education for a New Economy: From Human Capital to Human Flourishing
1st Edition
By Tal Gilead
June 03, 2024
Providing an in-depth, novel analysis of education’s role in today’s economy by scrutinizing its theoretical underpinnings, this volume critiques the suitability of the current, dominant economic framework for education and for shaping educational policymaking worldwide. Critically examining the ...
Educating Character Through the Arts
1st Edition
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By Laura D'Olimpio, Panos Paris, Aidan P. Thompson
May 27, 2024
This volume investigates the role of the arts in character education. Bringing together insights from esteemed philosophers and educationalists, it looks to the arts for insight into human character and explores the arts’ relationship to human flourishing and the development of the virtues. ...
Education in an Age of Lies and Fake News: Regaining a Love of Truth
1st Edition
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By Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš
January 29, 2024
The ‘post-truth’ world in which we live has been beset by fake news, lies and a cavalier disregard for truth. If truth is neglected then an alternative is an appeal to the emotions in order to validate a particular position, which can quickly turn to the use of power to impose a particular view. ...
Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty: Place-Responsive Learning
1st Edition
By Gilbert Burgh, Simone Thornton
January 29, 2024
The strength of democracy lies in its ability to self-correct, to solve problems and adapt to new challenges. However, increased volatility, resulting from multiple crises on multiple fronts – humanitarian, financial, and environmental – is testing this ability. By offering a new framework for ...
The Body, Embodiment, and Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach
1st Edition
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By Steven A. Stolz
January 29, 2024
Notions of the body and embodiment have become prominent across a number of established discipline areas, like philosophy, sociology, and psychology. While there has been a paradigmatic shift towards this topic, there is a notable gap in the literature as it relates to education and educational ...
A Praxis of Nothingness in Education: On Heidegger and Wittgenstein
1st Edition
By Håvard Åsvoll
November 15, 2023
This book puts forward a "theory of Nothing" and shows how a praxis of "Nothing" can offer new possibilities for educational research and practice. Taking inspiration from Heidegger’s and Wittgenstein’s philosophy and with regards to phenomenology and language, the book indicates how nothing can be...
Medieval Muslim Philosophers and Intercultural Communication: Towards a Dialogical Paradigm in Education
1st Edition
By Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
December 30, 2022
This book examines the works of Medieval Muslim philosophers interested in intercultural encounters and how receptive Islam is to foreign thought, to serve as a dialogical model, grounded in intercultural communications, for Islamic and Arabic education. The philosophers studied in this project ...
Reading Plato's Dialogues to Enhance Learning and Inquiry: Exploring Socrates' Use of Protreptic for Student Engagement
1st Edition
By Mason Marshall
August 01, 2022
This scholarly volume proposes protreptic as a radically new way of reading Plato’s dialogues leading to enhanced student engagement in learning and inquiry. Through analysis of Platonic dialogues including Crito, Euthyphro, Meno, and Republic, the text highlights Socrates’ ways of fostering and ...
Exploring Materiality in Childhood: Body, Relations and Space
1st Edition
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By Maarit Alasuutari, Marleena Mustola, Niina Rutanen
May 30, 2022
Exploring Materiality in Childhood: Body, Relations and Space explores the multiple ways that childhood and materiality are intertwined and assembled. Bringing together a diverse range of authors, this topical book makes a scholarly contribution to our understanding of the entanglements of ...
Self and Wisdom in Arts-Based Contemplative Inquiry in Education: Narrative, Aesthetic and the Dialogical Presence of Thomas Merton
1st Edition
By Giovanni Rossini
May 30, 2022
By foregrounding a first-person perspective, this text enacts and explores self-reflection as a mode of inquiry in educational research and highlights the centrality of the individual researcher in the construction of knowledge. Engaging in particular with the work of Thomas Merton through a ...
Virtues as Integral to Science Education: Understanding the Intellectual, Moral, and Civic Value of Science and Scientific Inquiry
1st Edition
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By Wayne Melville, Donald Kerr
May 06, 2022
By investigating the re-emergence of intellectual, moral, and civic virtues in the practice and teaching of science, this text challenges the increasing professionalization of science; questions the view of scientific knowledge as objective; and highlights the relationship between democracy and ...
A Platonic Theory of Moral Education: Cultivating Virtue in Contemporary Democratic Classrooms
1st Edition
By Mark Jonas, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
April 29, 2022
Discussing Plato’s views on knowledge, recollection, dialogue, and epiphany, this ambitious volume offers a systematic analysis of the ways that Platonic approaches to education can help students navigate today’s increasingly complex moral environment. Though interest in Platonic education may ...