Product Description: This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in philosophy of education today. Focusing on the enduring trends in this field, this lively and informative Reader provides broad coverage of the field and includes crucial topics...read more

Product Description: This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in philosophy of education today. Focusing on the enduring trends in this field, this lively and informative Reader provides broad coverage of the field and includes crucial topics...read more

Product Description: The Moral Foundations of Educational Research considers what is distinctive about educational research in comparison with other research in the social sciences. As the contributors all agree that education is always an essentially moral enterprise, discussion about methodology starts, not with the widely endorsed claim that educational research should be 'useful' and 'relevant', but with the attempt to justify and elaborate that claim with reference to its moral foundations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A selective history of English education from the 19th to the 20th century linking political agenda with educational reform. Hartnett (U. of Liverpool) proposes that the New Right influenced educational policy to a degree that it reversed the democratic advances of previous intellectual and political struggles, arguing that the "struggle for democracy" means creating educational systems that empower citizens to participate in a pluralistic society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this text, Wilfred Carr provides a comprehensive justification for reconstructing educational theory and research as a form of critical inquiry. In doing this, he confronts a number of important philosophical questions: What is educational theory? What is an educational practice? How are theory and practice related? What is the role of values in educational research? Is a genuinely educational science possible? By appealing to developments in critical theory, the philosophy of science and the philosophy of the social sciences, Wilfred Carr provides answers to these questions which vindicate the idea of an educational science that is not "on" or "about" education but "for education" - a science genuinely committed to promoting educational values and ideals...read more

Product Description: offering a critique of the current educational rhetoric and by providing arguments for reviving the moral and social dimensions of teaching, this book aims to offer teachers and teacher educators the means to advance The Notion Of "Teaching Quality".

Product Description: offering a critique of the current educational rhetoric and by providing arguments for reviving the moral and social dimensions of teaching, this book aims to offer teachers and teacher educators the means to advance The Notion Of "Teaching Quality".

Product Description: First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.