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Study Of Educational Politics
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 61.95This text is intended to be of use as a guide for students, scholars and researchers of the politics of education and of educational policy studies. The comprehensive work surveys major trends between 1969 and 1994, with chapters synthesising political and policy developments at local, national and state levels in the US as well as in the international... more...
World Yearbook of Education 2005
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 51.95This volume deals with two major and apparently opposing forces within education and society: globalization and nationalism. Globalization is often considered in economic terms - of continued growth of international trade and a concentration of wealth in corporate hands - yet it also encompasses technological, political and cultural change. The World... more...
Anarchism and Education
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95Although there have been a few historical accounts of the anarchist school movement, there has been no systematic work on the philosophical underpinnings of anarchist educational ideas - until now. Anarchism and Education offers a philosophical account of the neglected tradition of anarchist thought on education. Although few anarchist thinkers... more...
Flexibility and Lifelong Learning
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95What can the politics of discourse tell us about the discourse of politics? How are flexibility and lifelong learning positioned within policy? Flexibility and lifelong learning have become key aspects of education policy in nation states and bodies such as the European Union and Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development in recent years.... more...
Public policy on democratizing access to education for marginalized groups
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 199.00This e-book explores the ways in which public policy can be used to move forward agendas that promote access to educational opportunities for marginalized populations from many vantage points. The underlying premise of the issue is that public policy must employ a framework that takes into account the experiences of marginalized groups in educational... more...
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 20.00The decline of respect for free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty in American universities. more...
Pedagogies of Globalization
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95In this ground-breaking book, Joel Spring examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states. In the twenty-first century, national school systems have similar grades and promotion... more...
Contesting Neoliberal Education
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 140.00Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of new public managerialism, attacked the rights and conditions of education workers, and resulted in a loss of democracy, critique and equality of access and outcome. This book, written by an... more...
Education, Democracy, and the Moral Life
Springer 2008; US$ 31.99The essays in this book explore the interconnections between democracy, education and the moral life. Rarely are all three engaged and integrated at once so that issues in political and moral theory apply directly to critical issues in education. The authors discuss such questions as the responsibility of education and its institutions to cultivate... more...
Handbook of Social Justice in Education
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 109.95The Handbook of Social Justice in Education, a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the field, addresses, from multiple perspectives, education theory, research, and practice in historical and ideological context, with an emphasis on social movements for justice. Each of the nine sections explores a primary theme of social justice and education:... more...









