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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

65 Series Titles


Confucian Philosophy for Contemporary Education

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 ...

Creating the Practical Man of Modernity The Reception of John Dewey’s Pedagogy in Mexico

Creating the Practical Man of Modernity: The Reception of John Dewey’s Pedagogy in Mexico

1st Edition

By Victor J. Rodriguez
June 04, 2019

Focused on the appropriation of John Dewey’s ideas on progressive education in revolutionary Mexico, this book reconsiders the interpretation and application of Dewey’s ideas in the world. Rodriguez examines the use of Dewey in Mexico’s state-building projects as a vantage point to assess the ...

Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger Nearness, Metaphor and the Question of Education in Digital Times

Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger: Nearness, Metaphor and the Question of Education in Digital Times

1st Edition

By Anna Kouppanou
January 31, 2019

Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger attempts to deepen the dialogue between philosophy of education and philosophy of technology, while engaging with the thought of Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Through a critical reading of Heidegger’s central notion of nearness, this book...

Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms Mathematics in the Flesh

Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms: Mathematics in the Flesh

1st Edition

By Wolff-Michael Roth
August 23, 2018

This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they ...

Reinventing Intercultural Education A metaphysical manifest for rethinking cultural diversity

Reinventing Intercultural Education: A metaphysical manifest for rethinking cultural diversity

1st Edition

By Neal Dreamson
June 01, 2018

Most existing books in the fields of multicultural or intercultural education have been written based on anthropologists’ cultural dimensions, which presume culture is a fixed entity. Reinventing Intercultural Education is the first book to review multiple cultures and religions from a metaphysical...

Teachability and Learnability Can Thinking Be Taught?

Teachability and Learnability: Can Thinking Be Taught?

1st Edition

By Paul Fairfield
April 27, 2018

Deep disagreements exist regarding what thinking and critical thinking are and to what extent they are teachable. Thinking is learned in some measure by all, but not everything that is learnable is also teachable in an institutional setting. In questioning the relationship between teachability and ...

Neuroscience and Education A Philosophical Appraisal

Neuroscience and Education: A Philosophical Appraisal

1st Edition

Edited By Clarence Joldersma
November 17, 2017

This volume makes a philosophical contribution to the application of neuroscience in education. It frames neuroscience research in novel ways around educational conceptualizing and practices, while also taking a critical look at conceptual problems in neuroeducation and at the economic reasons ...

Popper’s Approach to Education A Cornerstone of Teaching and Learning

Popper’s Approach to Education: A Cornerstone of Teaching and Learning

1st Edition

By Stephanie Chitpin
November 17, 2017

Challenging the theory of induction in teacher education, this book proposes a knowledge-building framework based on the critical rationalism of philosopher of science, Karl Popper. The Objective Knowledge Growth Framework developed in this book is designed to be an effective critical analysis ...

Education, Justice and the Human Good Fairness and equality in the education system

Education, Justice and the Human Good: Fairness and equality in the education system

1st Edition

Edited By Kirsten Meyer
June 14, 2017

The education system is faced with many demands of justice. What these demands imply and how they are justified is, however, disputed. In this book, international contributors present cutting edge research to discuss the relationship between educational justice and the value of education.By ...

Social Reconstruction Learning Dualism, Dewey and Philosophy in Schools

Social Reconstruction Learning: Dualism, Dewey and Philosophy in Schools

1st Edition

By Jennifer Bleazby
May 31, 2017

This volume argues that educational problems have their basis in an ideology of binary opposites often referred to as dualism, which is deeply embedded in all aspects of Western society and philosophy, and that it is partly because mainstream schooling incorporates dualism that it is unable to...

Parallels and Responses to Curricular Innovation The Possibilities of Posthumanistic Education

Parallels and Responses to Curricular Innovation: The Possibilities of Posthumanistic Education

1st Edition

By Brad Petitfils
November 18, 2016

This volume explores two radical shifts in history and subsequent responses in curricular spaces: the move from oral to print culture during the transition between the 15th and 16th centuries and the rise of the Jesuits, and the move from print to digital culture during the transition between the ...

Posthumanism and Educational Research

Posthumanism and Educational Research

1st Edition

Edited By Nathan Snaza, John Weaver
November 18, 2016

Focusing on the interdependence between human, animal, and machine, posthumanism redefines the meaning of the human being previously assumed in knowledge production. This movement challenges some of the most foundational concepts in educational theory and has implications within educational ...

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