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Philosophy & Social Aspects

  • Imagining Futuresby Helen Stokes

    Melbourne University Publishing 2012; Not Available

    Young people consider their future at a stage of life when the structure and relative certainty of school and further education are about to be left behind. This book provides an insight into how young people see themselves, the options they think are available to them and the strategies they use to make their imagined futures possible. Ultimately,... more...

  • Aa is for Aestheticby Peter Abbs

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 120.00

    This volume reaffirms the indispensable place of the arts in any coherent curriculum. The author hopes that the specific arguments formulated in the book will advance the conservationist post-Modernist aesthetic. more...

  • Against the Flowby Peter Abbs

    Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 59.95

    At once provocative and inspiring , Against the Flow is a work of polemic from an internationally respected writer and thinker on arts education. Peter Abbs argues that contemporary education ignores the aesthetic and ethical as a result of being in thrall to such forces as the market economy and managerial and functional dictates. He identifies the... more...

  • The Symbolic Orderby Peter Abbs

    Taylor and Francis 1989; US$ 61.95

    Alongside "Living Powers" and "A is for Aesthetic" this book is intended to establish a conceptual frame for the Arts in Education series. The first and primary aim of this symposium is to put teachers of all the arts in touch with some of the most recent and the best writing on the nature of art. more...

  • Learning to Failby Fran Abrams

    Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 35.95

    During a decade of relative prosperity from the mid-1990s onward, governments across the developed world failed to crack one major issue ? youth unemployment. Even when economic growth was strong, one young person in 10 in the United Kingdom was neither working nor learning. As the boom ended, the number of young people dropping out after leaving... more...

  • Elusive Justiceby Thea Renda Abu El-Haj

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95

    Elusive Justice addresses how educators think about and act upon, differences in schools - be they based on race, gender, class, or disability - and how discourse and practice about such differences are intimately bound up with educational justice. Rather than skip over contentious or uncomfortable dialogues about difference, Thea Abu El-Haj tackles... more...

  • Academic Freedomby Stephen H. Aby; James Kuhn

    ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 155.00

    The freedom of academics to pursue knowledge and truth in their research, writing, and teaching is a fundamental principle of contemporary higher education in the United States. But this freedom has been hard won and regularly abridged, reinterpreted, and violated. Academic freedom has been central to many issues and controversies in higher education... more...

  • World Yearbook of Education 1984by Sandra Acker; Jacquetta Megarry; Stanley Nisbet; Eric Hoyle

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 51.95

    Published in the year 2005, World Yearboook of Education 1984 is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works. more...

  • Global Migration and Educationby Leah Adams; Anna Kirova

    Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95

    Global Migration and Education makes a notable contribution to understanding the issues faced by immigrant children, their parents, and educators as they interact in school settings, and to identifying the common challenges to, and successes in, educational institutions worldwide as they cope with these issues. Global in scope, there are chapters... more...

  • Teaching for Diversity and Social Justiceby Maurianne Adams; Lee Anne Bell; Pat Griffin

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 52.95

    For nearly a decade, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations and curricular frameworks for social justice teaching practice. This thoroughly revised second edition continues to provide teachers and facilitators with an accessible pedagogical approach to issues of oppression in classrooms.... more...