Theorizing Education
About the Book Series
Theorizing Education brings together innovative work from a wide range of contexts and traditions which explicitly focuses on the roles of theory in educational research and educational practice. The series includes contextual and socio-historical analyses of existing traditions of theory and theorizing, exemplary use of theory, and empirical work where theory has been used in innovative ways. The distinctive focus for the series is the engagement with educational questions, articulating what explicitly educational function the work of particular forms of theorizing supports.
Retuning Education: Bildung and Exemplarity Beyond the Logic of Progress
1st Edition
By Morten Timmermann Korsgaard
August 29, 2025
This book responds to the need for new ways of defining the aims and forms of education, in an age that has seen the ideals of progress and growth lead the planet and its inhabitants to the brink of extinction. Arguing that contemporary ideas of performance and accountability counter "the heart" of...
Encountering Education through Existential Challenges and Community: Re-connection and Renewal for an Ecologically based Future
1st Edition
By Giles Barrow
December 19, 2024
Directly inspired by Indian British activist Satish Kumar’s 2013 seminal work ‘Soil, Soul and Society’, this book rethinks education in line with thoughts around the current climate crisis, the purpose of education in a post-pandemic world, and the mental health of children, teachers and youth ...
Indirect Education: Exploring Indirectness in Teaching and Research
1st Edition
By Herner Saeverot
September 25, 2023
Indirect Education discusses direct and indirect pedagogies and the complexities of these concepts within the field of education practice and research. It addresses the question of when it is most beneficial to be indirect with regard to teaching and educational research. The book offers an ...
A Dilemmatic Approach to Education
1st Edition
By Ariel Sarid
May 31, 2023
A Dilemmatic Approach to Education offers a unique approach to educational theorizing that enriches the way we think about education. Problematizing conventional education theory, it presents an unorthodox thesis that education is defined by an internal conflict between competing core values, which...
Moral Emotions and Human Interdependence in Character Education: Beyond the One-Dimensional Self
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Bates
May 24, 2021
Moral Emotions and Human Interdependence in Character Education challenges contemporary mainstream approaches to character education predicated on individualism, ‘essential virtues’ and generic ‘character skills’. This book synthesizes perspectives from phenomenology, psychology, cultural ...
Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA: Challenging OECD’s Educational Order
1st Edition
By Vasco d'Agnese
January 17, 2019
Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA provides a critical analysis of the OECD’s educational agenda and its main tool, namely, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). Based on an analysis of the OECD’s public documents, including publications, webpages, and videos, d’Agnese argues ...
Religious Education and the Public Sphere
1st Edition
By Patricia Hannam
January 07, 2019
Religious Education and the Public Sphere reveals, through an analysis of theory and practice, that religious education is resting on historic and persistent assumptions about both religion and education. Drawing on work from Arendt and Weil, new ideas emerge regarding religious education's ...
On the Politics of Educational Theory: Rhetoric, theoretical ambiguity, and the construction of society
1st Edition
By Tomasz Szkudlarek
May 09, 2018
On the Politics of Educational Theory considers the political significance of educational theory as a specific genre of public discourse. Rather than understanding educational theories solely as addressing issues of childrearing and instruction, this book aims to view educational theories in a ...
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education: Rethinking the temporal complexity of self and society
1st Edition
By Michel Alhadeff-Jones
May 04, 2018
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education argues that by rethinking the way we relate to time, we can fundamentally rethink the way we conceive education. Beyond the contemporary rhetoric of acceleration, speed, urgency or slowness, this book provides an epistemological, historical and ...
Curriculum Theorizing and Teacher Education: Complicating conjunctions
1st Edition
By Anne M Phelan
December 21, 2017
If teacher education, as a field of study, is to contribute to the revitalization, re-moralization and re-politicization of Education, this book argues that it needs to be alert to questions of teachers’ intellectual and political freedom and to concerns about the legitimacy of what we do in ...
Filmed School: Desire, transgression and the filmic fantasy of pedagogy
1st Edition
By James Stillwaggon, David Jelinek
October 13, 2017
Filmed School examines the place that teaching holds in the public imaginary through its portrayal in cinema. From early films such as Mädchen in Uniform and La Maternelle to contemporary images of teaching in Notes on a Scandal and The History Boys, teachers’ roles in film have been consistently ...
Forgotten Connections: On culture and upbringing
1st Edition
Edited
By Norm Friesen, Klaus Mollenhauer
January 20, 2016
Klaus Mollenhauer’s Forgotten Connections: On Culture and Upbringing is internationally regarded as one of the most important German contributions to educational and curriculum theory in the 20th century. Appearing here in English for the first time, the book draws on Mollenhauer’s concern for ...