John White draws on the work of Galton, Pearson, Burt, Goddard and Terman in his search for the truth about intelligence testing. He looks at the similarities between the views of the Galtonians and the Puritans who also believed in predestination - to salvation and damnation.
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The Future of Publicly Funded Faith Schools addresses and critically examines the arguments both for and against the continued mai..
Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice examines important questions about learning and expertise through the lens of contemporary work in philosophy, cognit..
This book argues that it is important to understand spirituality as a unifying concept that has the potential to be meaningful in its application to t..
This book is distinctive in looking at the crisis rather than the success of Chinese education. The editors and contributors, mostly oversea and mainl..
This volume presents an interdisciplinary examination and appreciation of Aldous Huxley’s three visionary novels – Brave New World (1932), Ape and Ess..
This book considers John Dewey’s philosophy of democratic education and his theory of public sphere from the perspective of the reconstruction and red..
Literature lends itself particularly well to an exploration of the strange, having often contained portraits of outsiders, people who are strange in t..
Albert Camus was one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century, gaining recognition for works such as The Stranger, Caligula andThe..
Drawing from Foucault, Derrida, Nietzsche and Rancière, this book explores questions of genealogy, ontology, the body and the institution, offering ke..
While traditionally identified as a practice-based endeavour, the many dimensions of teacher education raise important philosophical issues that empha..
Most philosophers of education believe that the main aim of education is to endow students with personal autonomy, producing citizens who are reflecti..
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Educational Philosophy for a Post-secular Age re-examines and reinterprets post-secular insights surrounding contemporary educatio..