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Self-Determined Learning Heutagogy in Action Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon Heutagogy or selfdetermined learning, redefines how we understand learning and provides some exciting opportunities for educators in any setting. SelfDetermined Learning explores how heutagogy was derived, and what this approach to learning involves, drawing on recent research and practical applications. The editors draw together contributions from educators and practitioners in different fields, illustrating how the approach can been used and the benefits its use has produced. The subjects discussed include: the nature of learning, curriculum, assessment, e-learning, and reflective learning. Stewart Hase is a consulting psychologist and was an academic for over 25 years. Chris Kenyon is an adviser and consultant. UK September 2013 • US October 2013 208 pages HB 9781441142771 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781441191489 • £23.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441108913 • £75.00 / $140.00
Philosophical Perspectives on Social Cohesion New Directions for Educational Policy Mary Healy Philosophical Perspectives on Social Cohesion challenges the basis of how we characterize civic bonds and how we best organize schools to encourage and develop them. Mary Healy argues that metaphors and social imaginaries often give a framework for considering our interrelatedness. She reexamines the metaphor of fraternity, used as a precursor to elements of the ‘Big Society’, arguing that such attempts to align fraternity with liberty are mistaken and that equality plays a vital role. At a time of increasing diversity of school provision, this pertinent book indicates the connection between how we organize school structures and the models of citizenship we value.
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The Pedagogy of Objects Politics, Aesthetics, and the Project of Learning Matthew Carlin and Nathan Clendenin The Pedagogy of Objects attempts to reorient our thinking about education toward a world made up of autonomous objects. This innovative book puts forth the argument that through discussing the way that objects teach we can reconfigure some of the most pressing political problems confronting education today including increasing forms of institutionality; the often debilitating relationships that exist between teachers and students; the obsessive compulsion to equate education with verification; the manufacture of self-management inherent to curriculum design; and the inability to think vocationalism in a non-instrumental manner; among other issues. Matthew Carlin is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Critical and Visual Studies program at Pratt Institute, USA. Nathan Clendenin is a PhD candidate and Instructor at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. UK May 2013 • US March 2013 176 pages HB 9781441191021 • £65.00 / $120.00
Education as a Human Right
Educating the Postmodern Child The Struggle for Learning in a World of Virtual Realities Fiachra Long Educating the Postmodern Child traces the philosophical challenges posed by children living in an information age. Fiachra Long explores the construction of childhood in today’s society arguing that the postmodern child is exposed to the public world before its time and he explores the significance of this public/ private shift. Issues considered include education, appearance, space, empowerment, globality, tactility, talent, and visibility. After setting the context, each chapter uses a phenomenological approach to describe experiences common across computer-literate children today. Chapters draw on sources in the history of ideas to critique the situation described, provide a rich combination of educational and philosophical theory and apply some speculative concepts to the situation of children. Fiachra Long is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University College Cork, Ireland. UK November 2012 • US January 2013 208 pages HB 9781441103871 • £70.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781441132666 • £70.00 / $130.00 Library eBook 9781441125422 • £22.99 / $24.99
Principles for a Universal Entitlement to Learning Tristan McCowan Education is widely recognized as a fundamental human right, yet the nature of the right remains unclear. Is it an entitlement to go to school, to acquire particular forms of knowledge or develop particular skills or attributes? And why exactly is education so important that we might defend all people’s right to it? This book provides a much-needed exploration of this key contemporary issue. As well as basic education, there are also discussions of higher and lifelong education, of human rights education, and of the intersection of rights-based approaches with others such Amartya Sen’s ‘capabilities’.
Mary Healy is a Senor Lecturer in Education at the University of Roehampton, UK.
Tristan McCowan is Senior Lecturer in Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
UK August 2013 • US October 2013 208 pages HB 9781441104465 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781441145567 • £24.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441132574 • £75.00 / $140.00
UK April 2013 • US May 2013 208 pages HB 9781441122773 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781441150592 • £75.00 / $140.00 Library eBook 9781441118882 • £24.99 / $34.99
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