Philosophy of Education
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Commitment, Character, and Citizenship
Religious Education in Liberal Democracy
Series: Routledge Research in Education
As liberal democracies include increasingly diverse and multifaceted populations, the longstanding debate about the role of the state in religious education and the place of religion in public life seems imperative now more than ever. The maintenance of religious schools and the planning of...
Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
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The Confessing Society
Foucault, Confession and Practices of Lifelong Learning
Today, people are constantly encouraged to verbalise and disclose their "true" inner self to others, whether on TV shows, in newspapers, in family life or together with friends. Such encouragement to disclose the self has proliferated through discourses on lifelong learning through which each...
Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
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Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War
Are Schools Part of the Solution or the Problem?
Series: Routledge Research in Education
What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international...
Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Education for Civic and Political Participation
A Critical Approach
Series: Routledge Research in Education
Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and...
Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Education, Philosophy and Politics
The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters
Series: World Library of Educationalists
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...
Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Habermas, Critical Theory and Education
Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
The sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. However, there has been no concerted and focused attempt to introduce his ideas to the field of education broadly. This book rectifies this omission...
Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Ideas of Education
Philosophy and politics from Plato to Dewey
There has always been a strong relationship between education and philosophy - especially political philosophy. Renewed concern about the importance and efficacy of political education has revived key questions about the connections between the power to govern, and the power to educate. Although...
Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
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The Life and Death of Secondary Education for All
Is there life after death for secondary education? This book focuses upon the quality of learning. ‘Reform’, so called, too often begins with qualifications, examinations, institutional provision, paths of progression. All those are very important, but their value lies in the support they give to...
Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education
Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
The primary purpose of this book is to explain the distinction, on the one hand, between indoctrination and education, and, on the other, between responsibility-subverting manipulation and mere causation. Both are elucidated by an appeal to common ground, an account of when our motivations and...
Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
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On Holy Ground: The Theory and Practice of Religious Education
Religion has had notable and renewed prominence in contemporary public and political life. Religious questions have also been freshly examined in philosophy and theology, the natural sciences, the social sciences, psychology, phenomenology, politics and the arts. These fields reflect complex,...
To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Derrida & Education
Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
Bringing together the work of international experts in the field, and two interviews with Derrida himself, this book provides a key to the reflections that Derrida's work has prompted on all aspects of educational studies. The contributors address fundamental educational issues from a...
Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
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The Global Reception of John Dewey's Thought
Multiple Refractions Through Time and Space
Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
This volume explores the reception of John Dewey’s ideas in various historical and geographical settings such as Japan, China, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Russia, and Germany, analyzing how and why Dewey’s thought was interpreted in various ways according to mediating local discursive and...
Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
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Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning
The Primacy of Dispositions
The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth. It offers...
Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Levinas and Education
At the Intersection of Faith and Reason
Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy, educational theory, and on Levinas. It provides an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics,...
Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
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Meeting the Child in Steiner Kindergartens
An Exploration of Beliefs, Values and Practices
What can early years practitioners learn from Steiner kindergartens? What is distinctive about Steiner kindergarten teachers’ ways of getting to know children? As demands for accountability in Early Years settings continue to grow, external pressure to assess children and to measure their progress...
Published April 18th 2011 by Routledge
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Picturebooks, Pedagogy and Philosophy
Series: Routledge Research in Education
Contemporary picturebooks open up spaces for philosophical dialogues between people of all ages. As works of art, picturebooks offer unique opportunities to explore ideas and to create meaning collaboratively. This book considers censorship of certain well-known picturebooks, challenging the...
Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Religion, Education, Dialogue and Conflict
Perspectives on Religious Education Research
Religion, Education, Dialogue and Conflict analyses the European Commission-funded REDCo project, which addressed the question of how religions might contribute to dialogue or conflict in Europe. Researchers in education from eight countries – the UK, Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the...
Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
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The Teacher and the World
A Study of Cosmopolitanism as Education
Series: Teacher Quality and School Development
Teachers the world over are seeking creative ways to respond to the problems and possibilities generated by globalization. Many of them work with children and youth from increasingly varied backgrounds, with diverse needs and capabilities. Others work with homogeneous populations and yet are aware...
Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge