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
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Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Durkheim and Modern Education
1st Edition
Edited
By W.S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford
February 25, 2014
This volume explores Durkheim's place in modern educational thought at three different levels: * Durkheim's ideas on education are analyzed and placed in the context of modern society * current educational issues are explored using a Durkheimian framework * Durkheim's thought is related to that of ...
Education, Professionalization and Social Representations: On the Transformation of Social Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohamed Chaib, Berth Danermark, Staffan Selander
October 14, 2013
This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and professional formation. The chapters of this edited collection reflect different theoretical and empirical approaches to that form of common-sense ...
Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability: Hitting the Target but Missing the Point
1st Edition
By Jane Green
August 14, 2013
This book focuses on education and its relation to professional accountability as viewed from two different, but not unrelated, perspectives. First, the book is about the work of professionals in schools and colleges (teachers, head teachers, leaders, principals, directors and educational managers,...
The Global Reception of John Dewey's Thought: Multiple Refractions Through Time and Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosa Bruno-Jofre, Jürgen Schriewer
June 05, 2013
This volume explores the reception of John Dewey’s ideas in various historical and geographical settings such as Japan, China, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Russia, and Germany, analyzing how and why Dewey’s thought was interpreted in various ways according to mediating local discursive and...
Cultural Diversity, Liberal Pluralism and Schools: Isaiah Berlin and Education
1st Edition
By Neil Burtonwood
October 19, 2012
With debates on the relationship between cultural diversity and the role of schools raging on both sides of the Atlantic, the time is apt for a philosophical work that shines new light on the issues involved and that brings a fresh perspective to a political and emotive discussion. Here Burtonwood...
Anarchism and Education: A Philosophical Perspective
1st Edition
By Judith Suissa
September 10, 2012
Although there have been a few historical accounts of the anarchist school movement, there has been no systematic work on the philosophical underpinnings of anarchist educational ideas - until now. Anarchism and Education offers a philosophical account of the neglected tradition of anarchist ...
Education, Science and Truth
1st Edition
By Rasoul Nejadmehr
July 27, 2012
What is the main problem of contemporary education? Rasoul Nejadmehr argues that the cardinal problem with education is that it does not have an adequate notion of truth underpinning it. Thinkers mainly tend to veer towards two poles - absolutism and relativism. While a one-sided tendency ...
Philosophy of Education in the Era of Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Yvonne Raley, Gerhard Preyer
July 27, 2012
Terrorism, ethnocentrism, religious tension, competition over limited resources, war - these are just a few of the problems and challenges that have emerged in today's global economy. Globalization both implies and requires economic interdependence; and this should bring with it a heightened sense ...
Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education
1st Edition
By Ishtiyaque Haji, Stefaan E. Cuypers
April 10, 2012
The primary purpose of this book is to explain the distinction, on the one hand, between indoctrination and education, and, on the other, between responsibility-subverting manipulation and mere causation. Both are elucidated by an appeal to common ground, an account of when our motivations and ...
Habermas, Critical Theory and Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Murphy, Ted Fleming
February 21, 2012
The sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. However, there has been no concerted and focused attempt to introduce his ideas to the field of education broadly. This book rectifies this omission ...
Derrida & Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Gert Biesta, Denise Egéa-Kuehne
December 15, 2011
Bringing together the work of international experts in the field, and two interviews with Derrida himself, this book provides a key to the reflections that Derrida's work has prompted on all aspects of educational studies. The contributors address fundamental educational issues from a ...
Levinas and Education: At the Intersection of Faith and Reason
1st Edition
Edited
By Denise Egea-Kuehne
July 29, 2011
This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy, educational theory, and on Levinas. It provides an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics,...