Book Series in Education
Foundations and Futures of Education
New & Published Titles:
Language, Learning, Context
Talking the Talk
In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment?
How does language enable educators and how can they…
read moreMay 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55191-5 (Routledge)
Re-designing Learning Contexts
Technology-rich, Learner-centred Ecologies
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…
read moreApril 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55442-8 (Routledge)
Education and the Family
Passing Success Across the Generations
Why it is that success, deprivation or disadvantage are so often passed down intergenerationally? What part does education play?
The educational achievement of parents is often…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39637-0 (Routledge)
Learners, Learning and Educational Activity
Learners, Learning and Educational Activity offers a new and creative approach to the psychology of learning. The central idea in the book is that learning…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41406-7 (Routledge)
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Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice
Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35922-1 (Routledge)
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Education, Philosophy and the Ethical Environment
How much can we reasonably expect from education? This book, written by a philosopher of education, casts new light on this question by seeing values…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35662-6 (Routledge)
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Schooling, Society and Curriculum
Schooling, Society and Curriculum offers a much needed reassessment and realignment of curriculum studies in the UK and international contexts. Comprising a collection of eleven…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36396-9 (Routledge)
Series Details:
The Foundations and Futures of Education series 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.
Peter Aggleton is Professor in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, and Head (Designate) of the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex, UK.
Sally Power is Professorial Fellow in the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Michael Reiss is Professor of Science Education and Assistant Director of Research, Consultancy and Knowledge Transfer at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
Forthcoming Titles:
Irregular Schooling: Special Education, Regular Education and Inclusive Education
By Roger Slee
To be published December 15th 2010
The Struggle for the History of Education
By Gary McCulloch
To be published December 15th 2010
Radical Education and the Common School: A Democratic Alternative
By Michael Fielding, Peter Moss
To be published November 25th 2010
School Trouble: Identity, Power and Politics in Education
By Deborah Youdell
To be published October 29th 2010
Schools and Schooling in the Digital Age: A Critical Analysis
By Neil Selwyn
To be published October 7th 2010
Being a University
By Ronald Barnett
To be published October 6th 2010
Education - An 'Impossible Profession'?: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Learning and Classrooms
By Tamara Bibby
To be published September 6th 2010