The importance of sentiment in promoting reasonableness in children

On Becoming Reasonable” explores the contributions that 18th Century Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and David Hume make to our understanding of important factors in the development of children as they gradually acquire central features of reasonableness.

Towards third generation learning and teaching

This book gives up-to-date descriptions of the forces that drive change in learning and teaching, offering a perspective of learning in the near future.

Martin luther and the german reformation

A concise, critical study of Martin Luther and his impact on the modern world. The book is extensively based on the writings of Martin Luther and draws connections between Luther’s life and teachings and the contemporary world.  

University engagement and environmental sustainability

Details the challenges faced by higher education institutions in considering environmental sustainability

Smart pickings

The new edition of a thought- and discussion-provoking picture book for encouraging primary school children to investigate science and learn more about STEM careers.

Anthem critical thinking and writing skills

‘Anthem Critical Thinking and Writing Skills: An Introductory Guide’ is an excellent companion text for high school and college English writing classes that focus on critical thinking and persuasive writing. Concepts are presented in a clear, easy-to-understand format, and practice exercises are ...

A pedagogist’s memoir

The memoir now looms large as a pedagogical tool for multiple levels of schooling and of education. Addressed essentially to senior students in schools, students undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate teacher preparation courses in universities.

John ruskin and nineteenth-century education

John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and William Morris among others. A great educator, Ruskin is the force behind key debates in education today. The essays in ‘John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education‘ examine Ruskin’s influence on educating girls, libraries, cr...

Compositions, orchestrations, adaptations and arrangements

This anthology consists of original compositions and arrangements as well as adaptations, arrangements and orchestrations of pre-existing compositions of Ron Westray, to date.

Immigration and schooling in the republic of ireland

Immigration and schooling in Ireland addresses the impact of recent rapid social and economic change on the education system. It provides thought provoking analysis and fascinating insights into the complex and varied responses of principals, teachers, parents and children to working in newly-mul...

Public schools and private education

An analysis of the Clarendon Commission (1861-64) and the Public School Acts showing their profound importance to the future and development of education in England.

The theory and practice of creative coaching

The Theory and Practice of Creative Coaching is the result of ten years of research and experimentation into the place and role of creativity in learning about and undertaking the skills of coaching in the workplace. The contents outline a wide variety of approaches and ideas to enhance and devel...

Making socialists

Making Socialists combines a biographical study of a (nowadays) virtually unknown woman with an original exploration of several major themes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century political and educational history.

Missionaries and modernity

This book examines the changing landscape of evangelical British missionary education in the British Empire of the nineteenth century. It argues that over the course of the nineteenth century many aspects of mission schools were secularised, leading missionary societies to question the ambivalen...

Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university

Lifelong learning, the arts, and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university maps the work of adult educators, teachers, researchers and graduate students from North America, Europe and Africa who use the arts in their university classroom teaching, their research and in service.

Made in france

This book explores the forces that structure life in France from the cradle to the grave. These rules, norms and power relations are the result of work conducted by a wide range of politicians, administrators, business people and activists. Some have changed recently, but most have resisted the c...

Practical rationality, learning and convention

This volume consists of a selection of the writings of Christopher Winch on topics on and related to the philosophy of education from 1988 until the present.

Changes in the higher education sector

This book considers the essential attributes of excellence in teaching as well as the main current factors both internally and externally that are driving higher educational institutes to raise their quality of teaching. It looks at the latest teaching methodologies that promotes deep learning an...

The insider's secrets to getting your school leadership job

What separates The Insider’s Secrets to Getting Your School Leadership Job from other books on this topic is that the author is the ultimate insider. Dr. Laurence Aronstein knows how the hiring process works from the inside. He vividly and simply de-mystifies the inner dynamics of the job search ...

The humanities and the irish university

The first book-length study of the humanities and the Irish university

Schools and the politics of religion and diversity in the republic of ireland

Offers an in-depth analysis of the historical, political and ideological backdrop to the denominational education system in the Republic of Ireland

Higher education in a globalising world

The book provides an overview of Higher Education discourses in Europe and beyond, devoting attention to alternative subaltern discourses that can provide the germs for a higher education which could come into fruition in the future.

Knowledge, democracy and action

This book provides evidence from 20 case studies around the world on the power and potential of community and higher education based scholars and activists working together in the co-creation of transformative knowledge. The book draws in the experience and insights of 37 scholars and practitione...

The new treason of the intellectuals

Drawing on Julian Benda's famous Treason of the Intellectuals, this book exposes the damaging impact of market-driven ideology on the institution of the University, and calls for a reassertion of the values of knowledge-seeking, democracy and justice.

The labour party and citizenship education

Provides the definitive account of why and how Labour introduced citizenship education as a compulsory subject in the National Curriculum.

Knowledge production in higher education

Understanding how knowledge is produced in higher education about Europe and the MENA requires an open, interdisciplinary and interregional approach. This volume systematically challenges the dynamics and realities that go beyond dominant European-MENA-centric accounts, while avoiding the pitfall...

Management and gender in higher education

A definitive examination of higher education in Ireland

School journey as a third place

Journeys to school are important time and space transitions between homes and schools for children worldwide. This book provides insights into children’s experiences of this essential aspect of their lives and schooling experience. From an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective, leading ...

Phd thesis by publication in social science research

Focusing on education, library and broader social science research, this practical book is the ultimate guide for PhD students undertaking a thesis by publication (TBP) - a thesis that includes scholarly outputs produced during the period of doctoral study.Answering key questions and highlighting...

Sustainable development, education and learning

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal #4 focuses on "inclusive, quality education", galvanising efforts for substantial educational reform around the globe. Victoria Thoresen considers the goals and challenges iterated in the SDG.

Learning and sustainability in dangerous times

Stephen Sterling is a pioneer in sustainability education. This collection of his essential writings is freshly curated by the author and offers a new overview and chapter by chapter introductions that link together his thinking to inform the growing and urgent debate on the role and nature of ed...

Internationalisation of post-1992 uk universities

The internationalisation of post-1992 universities is seen as an unmitigated success. ‘Internationalisation of Post-1992 UK Universities’ looks closely at the drivers towards internationalisation and questions the cost to the organisation and the effect overseas.

No size fits all

“No Size Fits All” makes the current all-or-nothing debates over public school policy passé by offering a bold and novel “third way” that could revolutionize American education.

The ethics of internationalisation

The commercial turn in the internationalisation of higher education generates numerous paradoxes for the university. The Ethics of Internationalisation is a critique of the ethical dilemmas confronting transnational scholars and the political threat to the university posed by the neoliberal knowl...

Propositions for museum education

Examines the ways international art educators are engaging with twenty-first-century challenges in museum education. Organized into five sections, this collection reconceptualizes the role of museums via new technologies, socially just practices, accessibility, differences in lived experiences, a...

Modelling international collaborations in art education

Explores online and in-person collaboration as a means of international experience for university art students. Based on a decade of experience, pedagogical and methodological topics are illustrated with student projects, inspiring reflection on teaching and artmaking strategies in online spaces,...

Mindful movement

In Mindful Movement, exercise physiologist, somatic therapist and advocate Martha Eddy uses original interviews, case studies and practice-led research to define the origins of a new holistic field – somatic movement education and therapy – and its impact on fitness, ecology, politics and perform...

Art education in canadian museums

Surveys how art educators are engaging with a new range of approaches to museum education, responding to modern challenges in ways that are uniquely Canadian. Organized into three sections, this collection reconceptualizes museums to consider accessibility, differences in lived experiences, and h...

Walking in art education

This edited collection highlights ways that arts-educators have taken up important questions around environmental sustainability and land stewardship through walking practices across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. 42 b&w illus.

Teaching actors

Teaching Actors is the first book-length treatment of how actor trainers work and understand their work. Prior draws on history, literature and original research conducted across leading drama schools in England and Australia and devotes attention to the different ways in which teachers and stude...

A/r/tography

Working around the pervasive themes of relationality and renderings, ethics and embodiment, movement and materiality, and propositions and potentials, the volume simultaneously offers a site for the review of key historical works and at the same time, new scholarship that enters into conceptual c...

Removing the educational silos

An edited collection of essays and chapters relating to interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary methods of teaching. It will provide inspiration, a guide for project replication in practice essays, and interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary teaching topics. For teachers in all stages of educat...

Teaching actors

Teaching Actors is the first book-length treatment of how actor trainers work and understand their work. Prior draws on history, literature and original research conducted across leading drama schools in England and Australia and devotes attention to the different ways in which teachers and stude...

Inspiring writing in art and design

When art and design students are asked for statements to accompany their work, reflective journals, or critiques, reviews and essays, they often freeze up because they have to put their thoughts in writing. Although these students are comfortable expressing themselves visually, they lack confide...

Readings in primary art education

This book focuses on the challenges of and approaches to teaching art to primary-school students. It gathers the work of scholars in the field and provides a framework for developing methods of teaching. Capturing the issues and debates that are shaping both curricula and practice, it is a key st...

International dialogues about visual culture, education and art

Although art is taught worldwide, art education policies and practices vary widely and there are few opportunities for teachers to exchange information. This book brings together perspectives on teaching art to forge an understanding of the challenges facing art educators by examining global view...

Arts integration in education

Arts Integration in Education is an insightful, even inspiring investigation into the enormous possibilities for change that are offered by the application of arts integration in education. Presenting research from a range of settings, from preschool to university, and featuring contributions fro...

Understanding higher education

The development of Higher Education is taking place at a phenomenal pace, and this book is set to be a guide for ALL the different groups of people who need to understand the consequences of the changes in the years to come.

Representations of working in arts education

Arts education provides students with opportunities to build knowledge and skills in self-expression, imagination, creative and collaborative problem-solving. This book provides key insights from stakeholders across the teaching and learning spectrum and offers examples of pedagogical practice to...

Theatre for youth third space

Theatre for Youth Third Space is a practical yet philosophically grounded handbook for people working in theatre and performance with children and youth in community or educational settings. Presenting asset development approaches, deliberative dialogue techniques and frames for building strong c...

Ict for curriculum enhancement

The para-academic handbook

Para-academic is a name for those under- and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today's society. Specialists in all manner of things, from the humanities to the social and biological sciences, the para-academic works alongside the traditional university, sometimes by necess...

Seven decisions when teaching students

Artistic research in the future academy

The rapid growth of doctoral-level art education challenges traditional ways of thinking about academic knowledge and, yet, as Danny Butt argues in this book, the creative arts may also represent a positive blueprint for the future of the university. Synthesizing institutional history with aesthe...