Education Policy & Politics

Private and Elite Education: Global debates brings together international contributions to examine how the increasing privatisation of education is consolidating yet changing the ways in which elite groups are schooled. It explores the motivations behind research on private and elite education, and ..

Elite Schools: Multiple Geographies of Privilege, as a whole, reads elite schools through a spatial lens...

This book investigates the dilemma of educating students for future work in the context of the Philippines, one of the top sources of migrant labor in the world...

This Encyclopedia is a reference work about young children in the USA, designed for use by policy makers, community planners, parents of young children, teacher and early childhood educators, programme and school administrators, among others. The field of early childhood education has been affected ..

This Encyclopedia is a reference work about young children in the USA, designed for use by policy makers, community planners, parents of young children, teacher and early childhood educators, programme and school administrators, among others. The field of early childhood education has been affected ..

English Language Arts offers both undergraduates and starting-graduate students in education an introduction to the connections that exist between language arts and a critical orientation to education...

This book addresses how colonial histories, nationalism and globalization shape equity and access to education in Southeast Asia - a region with vastly different state structures, political regimes, economies, ethnocultural and religious demography...

In the 1960s and 1970s there was a remarkable development of interest in political education not only in Britain but also in other countries, namely the USA, Germany and Australia. This volume provides scholars and teachers in this field with a picture of British work in the area of political educat..

In the 1960s and 1970s there was a remarkable development of interest in political education not only in Britain but also in other countries, namely the USA, Germany and Australia. This volume provides scholars and teachers in this field with a picture of British work in the area of political educat..

As a school ethnography, this book explores the controversial schooling practices and strategies embedded in charter school management organizations (CMOs), as well as how these practices influence teaching and learning, school leadership, teachers’ professional identities, and students’ understandi..

Excellence vs Equality: Can Society Achieve Both Goals? explores the issues faced by societies attempting to preserve democratic ideals and the common good in an era of incommensurate wealth and opportunity...

Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy...