Theory of Education

This book clearly and comprehensively explores the capability of critical realism to throw new light on educational theory. It investigates the convergence and divergence between two forms of critical realism, which have not previously been cross-examined. This task allows the book to outline the ke..

This textbook draws on most of the major theoretical positions but eschews the traditional, historical approach and the use of names and schools of thought as organizing devices, and instead focuses on the ideas themselves. In doing so, it exposes a number of common confusions and misunderstandings ..

This fully updated and revised new edition, rewritten to include the new Early Years Foundation Stage, now meets the needs of students on Foundation degrees, Early Childhood Degrees and the new Early Years Professional qualification...

This book examines the significance of care in education by shedding light on the invisible work of care in the day-to-day lives of teachers. Sandra Wilde weaves a philosophical commentary that explores the meaning of care in education, acknowledging its value and illustrating how it can be sustaine..

This book examines the significance of care in education by shedding light on the invisible work of care in the day-to-day lives of teachers. Sandra Wilde weaves a philosophical commentary that explores the meaning of care in education, acknowledging its value and illustrating how it can be sustaine..

Challenging Learning offers advice and techniques for helping children of all ages develop into confident, thoughtful and independent learners. Based around the acronym ASK, this practical guide explores attitudes, skills and knowledge to learning – what is required and how to develop these skills m..

Class in Education argues for a materialist understanding of class in analyzing the structure of owning and power in social relations, and as a key element in the restructuring of society in a more egalitarian way...

Class in Education argues for a materialist understanding of class in analyzing the structure of owning and power in social relations, and as a key element in the restructuring of society in a more egalitarian way...

Did the Thatcher years and their aftermath constitute a revolution or a restoration in education. Do they represent a departure from, or a reinforcement of tradition? Contemporary Debates in Education is a thought-provoking volume which reviews the reforms of the eighties and early nineties, then fo..

_x005F_x000D_ Anne Phelan demonstrates how curriculum theorizing can serve such an educational project by engaging concerns about subjectivity (human agency and action), society, and historical moment, thereby widening the field of insight in teacher education and informing debates about new traject..

This is the first and only book to detail the history of the century-long relationship between education and psychoanalysis. It provides not only a historical context but also a psychoanalytically informed analysis...

Is there a ‘crisis’ in the disciplines of education? In this book, leading scholars explore how the changing epistemological and political debates of the last 20 years have resulted in the progressive demise of the disciplines in relation to the study of education. Finally the book asks whether the ..