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  • A Platonic Theory of Moral Education

    Cultivating Virtue in Contemporary Democratic Classrooms

    by Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Mark Jonas ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    Discussing Plato’s views on knowledge, recollection, dialogue, and epiphany, this ambitious volume offers a systematic analysis of the ways that Platonic approaches to education can help students navigate today’s increasingly complex moral environment.Though interest in Platonic education may have waned due to a perceived view of Platonic scholarship as wholly impractical, this volume addresses ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Relevance of Higher Education

    Exploring a Contested Notion

    by Stephen Clements, Michael Schwartz, Jason R. Jividen, Michael Wayne Hail, Jon M. Fennell, Mark Jonas, James Scott Johnston, Bryan R. Warnick, Lee Trepanier, Wayne Willis, Bradley C.S. Watson, Wilfred M. McClay ...
    Most statements today about higher education begin with the assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant, however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental. Relevance may be a true standard of judgment, but it does not stand by itself. Assuming higher education should be relevant, the question ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Rendering Divine Names on Coins

    Images from Antiquity to Modern Times

    by David Bentley, Brad Yonaka ...
    After Jesus glanced at the temple coin, he said, "Render to Caesar." This book's title and theme are based upon Jesus' command to give allegiance to both the state and God. Coauthor David Bentley is the historian-theologian who reads and translates the coins' messages. Coauthor Brad Yonaka is the geologist-scientist who finds the copper, silver, and gold coins which are on display in nearly one ... Read more

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  • Our School

    Searching for Community in the Era of Choice

    by Sam Chaltain ...
    Almost every major American city is experimenting with school choice—a deeply controversial idea that is dramatically reshaping public education. Will the wider array of school options help parents and educators identify better strategies for helping all children learn? Or will the high stakes of the marketplace end up privatizing this most public of institutions? Education activist Sam Chaltain ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Curriculum in Abundance

    by David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    In this text Jardine, Clifford, and Friesen set forth their concept of curriculum as abundance and illustrate its pedagogical applications through specific examples of classroom practices, the work of specific children, and specific dilemmas, images, and curricular practices that arise in concrete classroom events. The detailed classroom examples and careful philosophical explorations illustrate ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Shaping the Futures of (Vocational) Education and Work

    Commitment of VET and VET Research

    Edited by Gabriele Molzberger, Manfred Wahle ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Vocational and Continuing Education
    Education and work are moving towards an open, but uncertain future. Research on vocational and continuing education constantly needs to reassure the conditions of educational systems, current concepts of VET and work, educational policies, and its own assumptions in ascertaining theory of VET. In this context, modernisation is a significant paradigm. It refers to new ideological, socio-economic, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Sociology of Educational Ideas

    by Julia Evetts ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    This study, first published in 1973, examines the principles that lie behind educational dilemmas, and helps to clarify the difficulties of explanation, justification and practical action in the educational system. The author explores various key concepts in the education process, such as Intelligence, Equal Opportunity, Knowledge and Selection. She shows that different and often contrasting ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Literacy in Times of Crisis

    Practices and Perspectives

    Edited by Laurie MacGillivray ...
    "Fresh, provocative, timely, and important, this volume extends the field of sociocultural literacies in new directions."--Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, University of California, Los AngelesOn the frontline of critical issues in education today, this book covers new ground for teachers and teacher educators for whom crisis is a daily part of their work. It explores the relationship between crisis ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Education Policy, Space and the City

    Markets and the (In)visibility of Race

    by Kalervo N. Gulson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city. Gulson uses an innovative and critical spatial approach to explore how the processes and practices of neoliberal education policy, specifically those relating to education markets and school choice, enable the pervasiveness of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Wheels in the Head

    Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Confucianism to Human Rights

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    In this popular text Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. The goal is to explore how governments use education to control and manage their populations, and to examine forms of education that claim to free people from ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Enhancing Teaching in Higher Education

    New Approaches to Improving Student Learning

    Edited by Peter Hartley, Amanda Woods, Martin Pill ...
    This book brings together a collection of ground-breaking research and tested techniques in the field of learning and teaching in higher education.It provides an accessible, authoritative account of the latest developments, outlining how to apply learning theory and best practice to everyday teaching and providing advice on overcoming problems of implementation.Evidence is drawn from funded ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Validation Plan

    Awakening and Incorporating the Essential Virtues for a Good Life Leading to Respect, Harmony, and Peace

    by James E. Pirkle PhD ...
    Whether we like to think about it or not, our nations culture is awash with negativity, incivility, insults, bickering, self-centeredness, violence, deaths, and hate groups. But there is a way to counteract these societal harms and resulting behaviors. In The Validation Plan, author James E. Pirkle, PhD, gives a thorough presentation and analysis of a plan he developed to help students find the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD