This volume offers an overview of the pragmatic understanding of knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge, and its implications for the conduct of educational research. Pragmatism and Educational Research focuses primarily on the work of John Dewey, and examines the relationship between pragmatism and educational research both in relation to ...
Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. "Beyond Learning" asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the ...
Bringing together the work of international experts in the field, and two interviews with Derrida himself, this book provides a key to the major contemporary reflections Derrida's work has prompted on educational issues. At the same time the book gives a systematic introduction to the central ideas of 'deconstruction', and explores their ...
The 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 ...
Like many ideas that inform policy, practice and research, 'transition' has numerous everyday and conceptual meanings. Children make a transition to adulthood, pupils move from primary to secondary school, from school to work, training or further education. Such transitions can lead to profound change or be an impetus for new learning, or they can ...
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