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:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
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
Edited
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 ...
Confucian Philosophy for Contemporary Education
1st Edition
By Charlene Tan
April 29, 2022
Most people would not associate Confucian philosophy with contemporary education. After all, the former is an ancient Chinese tradition, and the latter is a modern phenomenon. But this book shows otherwise, by explaining how millennia-old Confucian ideas and practices can inform, inspire and ...
A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability: From Test-Based Assessment to Interpersonal Responsibility
1st Edition
By Derek Gottlieb
December 13, 2021
This insightful text offers a detailed account of the historical development of educational accountability in the US public education system. In doing so, it diagnoses the unforeseen consequences arising from a centralized, technocratic implementation of the concept, and calls for a radical ...
Robert Grosseteste and Theories of Education: The Ordered Human
1st Edition
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By Jack P. Cunningham, Steven Puttick
August 02, 2021
This book examines Robert Grosseteste’s often underrepresented ideas on education. It uniquely brings together academics from the fields of medieval history, modern science and contemporary education to shed new light on a fascinating medieval figure whose work has an enormous amount to offer ...
Philosophy for Children in Confucian Societies: In Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Chi-Ming Lam
June 30, 2021
This book contributes to the theory and practice of Philosophy for Children (P4C), with a special emphasis on theoretical and practical issues confronting researchers and practitioners working in contexts that are strongly influenced by Confucian values and norms. It includes writings by prominent ...
Semiotic Subjectivity in Education and Counseling: Learning with the Unconscious
1st Edition
By Inna R. Semetsky
June 30, 2021
Semiotic Subjectivity in Education and Counseling demonstrates the importance of addressing the concept of the unconscious in learning. Exploring the innovative concept of edusemiotics, it challenges the received notion of learning as solely academic and linguistic, instead offering an ...
The Importance of Philosophy in Teacher Education: Mapping the Decline and its Consequences
1st Edition
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By Andrew Colgan, Bruce Maxwell
April 01, 2021
The Importance of Philosophy in Teacher Education maps the gradual decline of philosophy as a central, integrated part of educational studies. Chapters consider how this decline has impacted teacher education and practice, offering new directions for the reintegration of philosophical thinking in ...