Philosophy of Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Educational Leadership and Hannah Arendt

   By Helen M. Gunter

   Series: Critical Studies in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration

   The relationship between education and democratic development has been a growing theme in debates focussed upon public education, but there has been little work that has directly related educational leadership to wider issues of freedom, politics and practice. Engaging with ELMA through the work of...

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Knowledge in Education

   By Elizabeth Rata

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book explores the decline of the teaching of epistemic, conceptual knowledge in schools, its replacement with everyday social knowledge, and its relation to changes in the division of labor within the global economy. It argues that the emphasis on social knowledge in postmodern and social...

   Published June 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Global Reception of John Dewey's Thought

   Multiple Refractions Through Time and Space

   Edited by Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Jürgen Schriewer

   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 June 4th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Longings and Limits of Global Citizenship Education

   The Moral Pedagogy of Schooling in a Cosmopolitan Age

   By Jeffrey S. Dill

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   As the world seemingly gets smaller and smaller, schools around the globe are focusing their attention on expanding the consciousness and competencies of their students to prepare them for the conditions of globalization. Global citizenship education is rapidly growing in popularity because it...

   Published June 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Education, Professionalization and Social Representations

   On the Transformation of Social Knowledge

   Edited by Mohamed Chaib, Berth Danermark, Staffan Selander

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and professional formation. The chapters of this edited collection reflect different theoretical and empirical approaches to that form of common-sense...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Young Children Becoming Curriculum

   Deleuze, Te Whariki and curricular understandings

   By Marg Sellers

   Series: Contesting Early Childhood

   This book contests a tradition and convention in educational thinking that dichotomises children and curriculum, by developing the notion of re(con)ceiving children in curriculum. By presenting an innovative research project, in which she worked with children to share their understandings of the...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. On Study: Giorgio Agamben and educational potentiality

   By Tyson E. Lewis

   Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Education

   In an educational landscape dominated by discourses and practices of learning, standardized testing, and the pressure to succeed, what space and time remain for studying? In this book, Tyson E. Lewis argues that studying is a distinctive educational experience with its own temporal, spatial,...

   Published May 29th 2013 by Routledge
8. Education, Experience and Existence

   Engaging Dewey, Peirce and Heidegger

   By John Quay

   Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Education

   Education, Experience and Existence proposes a new way of understanding education that delves beneath the conflict, confusion and compromise that characterize its long history. At the heart of this new understanding is what John Dewey strove to expound: a coherent theory of experience. Dewey’s...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. Ideas of Education

   Philosophy and politics from Plato to Dewey

   Edited by Christopher Brooke, Elizabeth Frazer

   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
10. The Spanish Tragedy (RLE Responding to Fascism)

    By Jef Last

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism

    The Spanish Civil War was one of the pivotal events of the 1930’s, the moment when fascism and socialism came into open conflict. First published in 1939, The Spanish Tragedy recounts the experiences of Jef Last. Activist, poet and novelist, Last might have been the archetypal Republican volunteer...

    Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge