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World Library of Educationalists

About the Book Series

The World Library of Educationalists celebrates the important contributions to education made by leading experts in their individual fields of study. Each scholar has compiled a career-long collection of what they consider to be their finest pieces: extracts from books, journals, articles, major theoretical and practical contributions, and salient research findings.

For the first time ever the work of each contributor is presented in a single volume so readers can follow the themes and progress of their work and identify the contributions made to, and the development of, the fields themselves.

The distinguished careers of the selected experts span at least two decades and include Richard Aldrich, Stephen J. Ball, Elliot W. Eisner, John Elliott, Howard Gardner, John Gilbert, Ivor F. Goodson, David Hargreaves, David Labaree and E.C. Wragg.

Each book in the series features a specially written introduction by the contributor giving an overview of their career, contextualizing their selection within the development of the field, and showing how their own thinking developed over time.

55 Series Titles


Gender and Environmental Education: Feminist and Other(ed) Perspectives The Selected Works of Annette Gough

Gender and Environmental Education: Feminist and Other(ed) Perspectives: The Selected Works of Annette Gough

1st Edition

By Annette Gough
October 27, 2025

This timely book provides a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of gendered perspectives in environmental education research. Through bringing together selected writings of Annette Gough, it documents the evolving discussions of gender in environmental education ...

A Developing Discourse in Music Education The selected works of Keith Swanwick

A Developing Discourse in Music Education: The selected works of Keith Swanwick

1st Edition

By Keith Swanwick
October 14, 2024

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single ...

Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds, and Lived Emplacement The Selected Writings of David Seamon

Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds, and Lived Emplacement: The Selected Writings of David Seamon

1st Edition

By David Seamon
October 07, 2024

Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of seventeen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in environmental, architectural, and place phenomenology. These entries discuss such topics as ...

Thinking Philosophically about Education The Selected Works of Richard Pring

Thinking Philosophically about Education: The Selected Works of Richard Pring

1st Edition

By Richard Pring
October 02, 2023

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in...

Ideological, Cultural, and Linguistic Roots of Educational Reforms to Address the Ecological Crisis The Selected Works of C.A. (Chet) Bowers

Ideological, Cultural, and Linguistic Roots of Educational Reforms to Address the Ecological Crisis: The Selected Works of C.A. (Chet) Bowers

1st Edition

By C. A. Bowers
May 31, 2023

In this volume C.A. (Chet) Bowers, whose pioneering work on education and environmental and sustainability issues is widely recognized and respected around the world, brings together a carefully curated selection of his seminal work on the ideological, cultural, and linguistic roots of the ...

Encountering Education in the Global The selected works of Fazal Rizvi

Encountering Education in the Global: The selected works of Fazal Rizvi

1st Edition

By Fazal Rizvi
January 16, 2023

In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single ...

The Sociology of Assessment: Comparative and Policy Perspectives The Selected Works of Patricia Broadfoot

The Sociology of Assessment: Comparative and Policy Perspectives: The Selected Works of Patricia Broadfoot

1st Edition

By Patricia Broadfoot
December 19, 2022

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in...

Researching Literate Lives The Selected Works of Jerome C. Harste

Researching Literate Lives: The Selected Works of Jerome C. Harste

1st Edition

By Jerome C. Harste
April 29, 2022

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in...

Education, Philosophy and Politics The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters

Education, Philosophy and Politics: The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters

1st Edition

By Michael A. Peters
September 30, 2021

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions - so the world can read them in...

Communicative Competence, Classroom Interaction, and Educational Equity The Selected Works of Courtney B. Cazden

Communicative Competence, Classroom Interaction, and Educational Equity: The Selected Works of Courtney B. Cazden

1st Edition

By Courtney B. Cazden
March 31, 2021

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/or practical contributions—so the world can read them in...

Critical Literacy, Schooling, and Social Justice The Selected Works of Allan Luke

Critical Literacy, Schooling, and Social Justice: The Selected Works of Allan Luke

1st Edition

By Allan Luke
March 31, 2021

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/or practical contributions – so the world can read ...

Writing Performance, Identity, and Everyday Life The Selected Works of Ronald J. Pelias

Writing Performance, Identity, and Everyday Life: The Selected Works of Ronald J. Pelias

1st Edition

By Ronald J. Pelias
August 14, 2020

Writing Performance, Identity, and Everyday Life invites the reader into Ronald J. Pelias’ world of artistic and everyday performance. Calling upon a broad range of qualitative methods, these selected writings from Pelias submerge themselves in the evocative and embodied, in the material and ...

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