The Leading eBooks Store Online
for your Apple or Android device, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Postmodernism and Educationby Robin Usher; Richard Edwards
Routledge 1994; US$ 64.95This book shows the impact of postmodernism upon the theory and practice of education and how it challenges the existing concepts, structures and hierarchies. more...
Education, Autonomy and Democratic Citizenshipby David Bridges
Routledge 1997; US$ 158.00This collection by distinguished scholars drawn from every continent considers how educators have responded to a changing political environment. more...
Hope and Educationby Charles Dickens
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 46.95This book is a welcome addition to the thinking about education and education policy making at a time when the future of education is highly politicised and very negative. more...
Democratic Learningby John MacBeath; Lejf Moos
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 53.95The time has come to challenge many of the age-old assumptions about schools and school learning. In this book leading thinkers from around the world offer a different vision of what schools are for. more...
The Pursuit of Excellence Through Educationby Michel Ferrari
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 40.95This text presents and integrates different perspectives on how to promote excellence in education. It focuses upon the debate between those who emphasize developing individual learning, and those promoting cultural and institutional reform. more...
Restructuring Schoolsby Hedley Beare; Lowe Boyd William
Routledge 1993; US$ 64.95Education reform has become part of a political imperative in a number of developed countries, including the USA, Japan and the UK. This book questions why this reconstruction occurred at the same time in different places and asks, what common themes are emerging in the restructuring movement? more...
Schooling for the Knowledge Eraby David Warner
Australian Council for Educational Research 2006; US$ 34.95This book challenges people to re-think the role of schools in a global knowledge society. It reflects on the new standards required for young people to be successful in the Knowledge Era. For educators, parents, politicians and business people this book transcends current education practices that were largely established a century ago. It identifies the conclusive relationship between education and a new labour market of independent contractors who need to be innovative, confident and life more...
EMBODIMENT AND EDUCATIONby Marjorie O'Loughlin
Springer 2006; US$ 135.00Discursive accounts of the body have been prominent over the years. While acknowledging the usefulness of these, the author, drawing upon specific philosophers of the body and a range of other theorists, focuses attention on the experiencing body which she refers to as 'creatural existence'. more...
Making Mindsby Paul Kelley
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 35.95Inciting debate, this book gives a controversial critique of our education systems. It maintains an upbeat message that things can change for the better and clearly outlines what can be done to improve childrens learning. more...
Inventions of Teachingby Brent Davis
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2004; US$ 39.95This work is an examination of metaphors for and synonyms of teaching which offers an account of the varied and conflicting influences and conceptual commitments that have contributed to contemporary vocabularies - and that are in some ways maintained by those vocabularies, in spite of inconsistencies and incompatibilities among popular terms. more...









