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
Indigenous Philosophies of Education Around the World
1st Edition
Edited
By John Petrovic, Roxanne M. Mitchell
September 11, 2019
This volume explores conceptualizations of indigeneity and the ways that indigenous philosophies can and should inform educational policy and practice. Beginning with questions and philosophies of indigeneity itself, the volume then covers the indigenous philosophies and practices of a range of ...
Media and Moral Education: A Philosophy of Critical Engagement
1st Edition
By Laura D'Olimpio
September 11, 2019
Media and Moral Education demonstrates that the study of philosophy can be used to enhance critical thinking skills, which are sorely needed in today’s technological age. It addresses the current oversight of the educational environment not keeping pace with rapid advances in technology, despite ...
Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education: Nine Modern European Philosophers
1st Edition
By Alexandre Guilherme, W. John Morgan
September 05, 2019
Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education is an advanced introduction to nine key European social philosophers: Martin Buber, Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone Weil, Michael Oakeshott, and Jürgen Habermas. This detailed yet highly readable work ...
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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...