Education Studies

Crisis and Hope in American Education..

This collection of papers surveys key aspects of the curriculum, investigates the present situation and discusses what improvements need to be made. It is contributed by teachers, educational advisers and researchers and ranges across a variety of different institutional teaching settings and a vari..

Challenges E D Hirsch's assumptions about culture and education. Calling for a broader and more democratic vision than Hirsch, the author critiques Hirsch's legacy up through the conservative educational agenda for education, which, he argues, denies, not only the United States' diversity, but its d..

Culture and Power in the Classroom..

This volume aims to familiarize readers with the varieties of world Englishes used across cultures and to create awareness of some of the linguistic and socially relevant contexts and functions that have given rise to them. It emphasizes that effective communication among users of different Englishe..

This book demonstrates how it is possible to value, respect and utilise cultural diversity and yet achieve a ‘good education’ for all. The authors contend that few issues in education can be examined in isolation from the world outside. This must surely apply to the question of cultural, social and ..

This book provides a new approach to curriculum development. It combines past with present schooling needs by drawing on Western historical traditions in the philosophy of education and contempary designs for specific student groups...

Curriculum, Accreditation and Coming of Age of Higher Education..

Million-seller Paulo Freire urges students, parents and teachers to discover new horizons of hope and possibility for a better world...

From newly minted teachers terrified of facing their first day in the classroom to seasoned academics whose work has largely been inspired by Freire, this collection, accompanied by photographs of the author with some of the letter writers, is both a memorial and a call to action to work for social ..

Decline and Revival in Higher Education..

In this volume, major literacy scholars from around the world pay tribute to Ken and Yetta Goodman – renowned and revered worldwide for their pioneering, influential work in the field of reading/literacy education – and offer glimpses of what the future of literacy research and practice might be...