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Intends to provide a fresh look at how we think about education and improvement. Drawing on philosophical work, including that of Derrida, Foucault and Heidegger, this title deconstructs the ethic of improvement before exploring key dimensions of education, its institutions and technologies.

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The ideas of Marx, Freire, and Gramsci are explored as guides to social progress.

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Robert Owen is a major thinker in education. This title presents an account of Owen's educational thought.

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Argues that an understanding of the Romantic roots of progressive education is a necessary condition for restoring to critical consciousness some important, but neglected, basic ideas about teaching and learning.

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Rudolf Steiner is a major thinker in education. This title offers an account of Steiner's educational thought. It is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Steiner's work; The reception and influence of Steiner's work; and, The relevance of the work.

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This book argues that schools must be prepared to engage the community actively, while undertaking self-appraisal and renewal. It outlines the decisions that need to be taken now, if the ideal of lifelong learning is not to be lost.

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Examines human rights education in India and offers key insights into larger international educational policy discussions. This title provides an in-depth study of the origins and effects of the Institute of Human Rights Education, a non-governmental program that operates in over 4,000 schools in India.

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Davidson's contributors are prisoners or former prisoners who finished their schooling in prison, some taking advanced degrees, or social scientists who taught in prisons but are not professional correctional educators.

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Davidson's contributors are prisoners or former prisoners who finished their schooling in prison, some taking advanced degrees, or social scientists who taught in prisons but are not professional correctional educators.

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The link between schools and religions is an area of lively debate. Looking at two challenges of the 21st century - social inclusion and globalization, this book analyses the role that religion can play in fostering communities in schools and its implications for social, cultural and other developments in both national and international contexts.

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An exploration of the concept of well-being that argues for its importance in education and provides teachers with strategies for its encouragement and nurturing. It also explores how teachers can "seduce" students' souls, guiding and provoking while still respecting individuals' rights to conceive and live a fulfilling life for themselves.

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An exploration of the concept of well-being that argues for its importance in education and provides teachers with strategies for its encouragement and nurturing. It also explores how teachers can "seduce" students' souls, guiding and provoking while still respecting individuals' rights to conceive and live a fulfilling life for themselves.

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Wide-ranging perspectives on education futures - from education in society to evolving schools and changes in classrooms.

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As long as there is good money to be made from ignoring or cultivating the ignorance of working people, education for their children in the best sense is going to be a difficult goal.

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As long as there is good money to be made from ignoring or cultivating the ignorance of working people, education for their children in the best sense is going to be a difficult goal.

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As part of the "Language and Ideology" series, this volume draws upon contemporary critical theories in order to examine issues proceeding from our occupation of pedagogical and political spaces.

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This key monograph is both timely and important in bringing together seminal papers in the emergence of an increasingly influential school of thought in the study of knowledge and education.