Foundations and Futures of Education Series
Series Editors:
Peter Aggleton, University of New South Wales, Australia
Sally Power, University of Cardiff, UK
Michael Reiss, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Foundations and Futures of Education focuses on key emerging issues in education as well as continuing debates within the field. The series is inter-disciplinary, and includes historical, philosophical, sociological, psychological and comparative perspectives on three major themes: the purposes and nature of education; increasing interdisciplinarity within the subject; and the theory-practice divide.
For more information: www.routledge.com/books/series/FFE
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The Right to Higher Education
Beyond widening participation
Series: Foundations and Futures of Education
The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners, raising questions about current strategies,...
Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
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Re-Designing Learning Contexts
Technology-Rich, Learner-Centred Ecologies
Series: Foundations and Futures of Education
What do we mean by the word ‘context’ in education and how does our context influence the way that we learn? What role can technology play in enhancing learning and what is the future of technology within learning? Re-Designing Learning Contexts seeks to re-dress the lack of attention that has...
Published April 5th 2010 by Routledge
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Being a University
Series: Foundations and Futures of Education
There is no single idea of the university. Ever since its medieval origin, the concept of the university has continued to change. The metaphysical university gave way successively to the scientific university, and then to the corporate and the entrepreneurial university. But what, then, might lie...
Published September 30th 2010 by Routledge