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.
Psychopathology at School: Theorizing mental disorders in education
1st Edition
By Valerie Harwood, Julie Allan
January 20, 2016
Psychopathology at School provides a timely response to concerns about the rising numbers of children whose behaviour is recognised and understood as a medicalised condition, rather than simply as poor behaviour caused by other factors. It is the first scholarly analysis of psychopathology which ...
Making a Difference in Theory: The theory question in education and the education question in theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Gert Biesta, Julie Allan, Richard Edwards
February 27, 2015
Making a Difference in Theory brings together original work from an international group of authors on the roles of theory in educational research and practice. The book discusses the different roles theory plays, can play and should play, both from a historical perspective and in light of ...