Education Policy & Politics

Questioning the Language of Improvement and Reform in Education challenges the language used in education...

What is the purpose of education? What is the image of the modern school? This book seeks the answers to these critical questions. Arguing that the true measure of education does not lie in either high productivity or performativity, the authors present the ideas of 'Radical Education' and 'The Comm..

Acclaimed education theorist Joanne Larson poses basic questions about the nature and purpose of schooling and articulates theoretical, curricular, pedagogical, and assessment principles that frame a real plan to start over in American education from preschool through higher education...

Acclaimed education theorist Joanne Larson poses basic questions about the nature and purpose of schooling and articulates theoretical, curricular, pedagogical, and assessment principles that frame a real plan to start over in American education from preschool through higher education...

This contributed volume uncovers the biases that prevent post-secondary institutions from serving low-income students and offers guidance for adopting policies and practices to help these students thrive...

This contributed volume uncovers the biases that prevent post-secondary institutions from serving low-income students and offers guidance for adopting policies and practices to help these students thrive...

Drawing on careful ethnographic research collected over the entire four years of the San Diego reforms, this book identifies how teachers, principles, and other district educators were shaped by the large-scale reforms and the ways in which the reforms unfolded...

Even with increased attention to refugee women’s issues in the late 20th century, post-colonial discourses have nurtured limiting representations of refugee women, predominantly as subjects of charity and as victims. Adding to a growing body of work in the field, the author challenges this preconcep..

_x005F_x000D_ Religion and its relationship to schooling is an issue that has become more and more topical in recent years. In many countries, developments such as the diversification of state school sectors, concerns about social cohesion between ethnic and religious groups, and debates about natio..

_x005F_x000D_ Religion and its relationship to schooling is an issue that has become more and more topical in recent years. In many countries, developments such as the diversification of state school sectors, concerns about social cohesion between ethnic and religious groups, and debates about natio..

Researching Sex and Lies in the Classroom draws on in-depth qualitative research exploring the experiences, perceptions and consequences for those who have been falsely accused of sexual misconduct with pupils...

Drawing on recent international developments in criminal justice, Restorative Approaches to Conflict in Schools highlights the long-term ineffectiveness of punitive models of discipline in education contexts and examines an alternative approach, underpinned by the principles of restorative justice...