Education Policy & Politics

Around the world, curriculum – hard sciences, social sciences and the humanities – has been dominated and legitimated by prevailing Anglophone discourses and practices. This volume presents a critical analysis of what the author coins curriculum epistemicides, a form of Western imperialism used to s..

When first published this book was one of the first collections of empirical research in the area of the knowledge transmitted in schools and the responses of students to it. It includes studies of the histories of particular school subjects and of how the knowledge they embody is presented in the c..

This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine some of the factors involved at national, institutional and classroom levels in the making of school ..

This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine some of the factors involved at national, institutional and classroom levels in the making of school ..

This is a book with a difference: it produces a completely new perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity itself. _x000D_  ..

This is a book with a difference: it produces a completely new perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity itself. _x005F_x000D_  ..

Argues that current policy moves to extend the diversity of provision - such as charter schools, free schools, academies - may actually further fragment education systems by creating situations whereby the improvement of one school leads to a decline in the performance of others. Offers proposals fo..

Dimensions of Marketization in Higher Education brings together a diverse selection of authors to consider the impact on universities and academics of policies aimed at regulating cost, entry and practices in higher education. The book critically appraises those policies with reference to the intern..

How can discerning critical hope enable us to develop innovative forms of teaching and learning and social practices, that begin to address issues of marginalization, privilege, and access across different contexts? This book posits the notion of critical hope not only as conceptual and theoretical,..

How can discerning critical hope enable us to develop innovative forms of teaching and learning and social practices, that begin to address issues of marginalization, privilege, and access across different contexts? This book posits the notion of critical hope not only as conceptual and theoretical,..

This important new book provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to the oppressive theory of deficit thinking in education...

This important new book provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to the oppressive theory of deficit thinking in education...