Education Policy & Politics

While much is known about the critical importance of educative experiences outside of school, little is known about the social systems, community programs, and everyday practices that can facilitate learning outside of the classroom. Thinking Comprehensively About Education sheds much-needed light o..

This unique collection examines the social justice implications of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting the K-12 education system in the United States...

Written prior to the introduction of the national curriculum, this volume argued for precisely that: a broad framework of a compulsory education at national level for all schools. The author considers the question of the content of his proposed compulsory curriculum in terms of principles derived fr..

Written prior to the introduction of the national curriculum, this volume argued for precisely that: a broad framework of a compulsory education at national level for all schools. The author considers the question of the content of his proposed compulsory curriculum in terms of principles derived fr..

A fundamental challenge for policy makers and practitioners is to continue to improve the performance of their schools in a way that breaks the links between disadvantage, educational failure and restricted life chances. Drawing on statistical data and qualitative evidence collected over four years ..

A fundamental challenge for policy makers and practitioners is to continue to improve the performance of their schools in a way that breaks the links between disadvantage, educational failure and restricted life chances. Drawing on statistical data and qualitative evidence collected over four years ..

Provides illustrations from around the world of how the arts have transformed learning for disengaged students. Strategies for policy and practice are provided that leave no doubt about the ‘why’ and the ‘how’...

Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic research-based policy directions and tools for change for U.S. Latino Education and other multicultural contexts...

Based on archive-based empirical and historical research, this book takes a close look at past developments in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s educational policies and practices, with a particular focus on history teaching, in order to offer a new research traj..

Based on archive-based empirical and historical research, this book takes a close look at past developments in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s educational policies and practices, with a particular focus on history teaching, in order to offer a new research traj..

A theoretically and empirically rich treatise on school push-out, Urban Youth and School Push-Out illustrates urban public schooling as a dialectic of humiliating ironies and dangerous dignities...

By considering Shakespeare’s dramatisation of the principles that inform neoliberal education policy, this book aims to contribute to debate on the moral failure of the market mechanism in our schools and higher education system today, and to offer Shakespeare’s humanism as a corrective to neolibera..