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  • Beyond Virtue

    The Politics of Educating Emotions

    by Liz Jackson ...
    Series series Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
    Educating students for emotional wellbeing is a vital task in schools. However, educating emotions is not straightforward. Emotional processes can be challenging to identify and control. How emotions are valued varies across societies, while individuals within societies face different emotional expectations. For example, girls face pressure to be happy and caring, while boys are often encouraged ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Emotions

    Philosophy of Education in Practice

    by Liz Jackson ...
    Series series Philosophy of Education in Practice
    Schools and other forms of education have significant impacts on people's views about emotions and emotional experiences. This book helps students and educators to better understand emotions and their significance in social life and in education. It shows how we often take it for granted that certain emotions, such as happiness, are 'positive', while others are 'negative' and how personal ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Can the Church Be Decolonized? Holy Cross Education in Bangladesh

    by Md Shaikh Farid, Liz Jackson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the decolonization of Holy Cross education in Bangladesh. It reveals how the church’s educational mission adapted to decolonization processes over time, including Bangladesh’s handover from British India to Pakistan in 1947, and its independence and national development from 1971 to the present day. This book describes the ongoing decolonization of Catholic education in ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • What is Philosophy of Education—Its Past, Present, and Future?

    An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader

    Edited by Liz Jackson ...
    Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice
    Is philosophy of education 100 years old, 300 years old, or even older? What is philosophy of education, and what is its relationship to the fields of education and philosophy? This collection of articles from the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory examines debates about the nature of philosophy of education, its history, and its development and the way forward over the past 50 years.As a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Race and Racism in Education

    An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume XIII

    Edited by Liz Jackson, Michael A. Peters ...
    Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice
    Racism has been endemic in the history of western societies, while the nature of race as a social category of difference is controversial and rigorously contested from scholarly and everyday perspectives today. This edited collection traces the history of considerations of the meaning and importance of race and racism in society and education through a deep dive into the contents of the archives ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • From Radical Marxism to Knowledge Socialism

    An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader, Volume XI

    Edited by Michael A. Peters, Liz Jackson ...
    Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice
    This volume examines the place of Marxist theory in the history of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory, primarily through the selection and exploration of typical and significant articles exploring Marxist-related themes in the journal over time. The title, From Radical Marxism to Knowledge Socialism, reflects this historical approach. In the 1960s and 1970s, Marxism was considered to be ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Methodology and Philosophy of Collective Writing

    An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume X

    by Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley, Marek Tesar, Liz Jackson, Petar Jandric, Sonja Arndt, Sean Sturm ...
    Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice
    This multi-authored collection covers the methodology and philosophy of collective writing. It is based on a series of articles written by the authors in Educational Philosophy and Theory, Open Review of Educational Research and Knowledge Cultures to explore the concept of collective writing. This tenth volume in the Editor's Choice series provides insights into the philosophy of academic writing ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Corporal Punishment in Preschool and at Home in Tanzania

    A Children’s Rights Challenge

    by Reuben Sungwa, Liz Jackson, Joyce Kahembe ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines educators and parents’ practices of corporal punishment of preschool-aged children in school and at home in Tanzania, considering why it is that many children in Tanzania are still subject to corporal punishment. It explores the attitudes of parents, teachers, and educational leaders about corporal punishment, in the context of existing government policies, laws, and regulations ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The University as an Ethical Academy?

    Edited by Marek Tesar, Michael A. Peters, Liz Jackson ...
    Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory
    This book examines the importance, possibilities, and complexities of the university as an ethical academy. Universities may be seen as an evolving network of ethical systems that govern teaching, research, service, and administration. However, the university system is changing: adding new rules, new ways of working, and new ideas to its repertoire of operations. The theories that we have ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong

    by Liz Jackson ...
    Series series Citizenship, Character and Values Education
    This text examines the intersection of youth civic engagement, identity, and protest in Hong Kong, through the lens of education. It explores how education and identity have been protested in Hong Kong, historically and today, and the mark that such contestations have left on education. Many people, particularly outside Hong Kong, were astonished by youth participation in the Umbrella Movement of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Marxism, Neoliberalism, and Intelligent Capitalism

    An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader, Volume XII

    Edited by Liz Jackson, Michael A. Peters ...
    Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice
    This book explores Marxism and related political-economic theory, and its implications for education around the world, as seen in the history of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory. As such, it illustrates the evolution of political-economic changes across societies, as they have been brought to bear within the academic field and in the journal, through the exploration of typical and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Educational Assessment in Tanzania

    A Sociocultural Perspective

    by Joyce Kahembe, Liz Jackson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines teachers’ conceptions and practices of assessment in Tanzania. Adopting a sociocultural perspective, it reveals how Tanzanian teachers understand the role of assessment in relation to their classroom practices, community and other factors. The book determines that although teachers in Tanzania generally consider assessment to be useful for evaluating and monitoring learning, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD