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Space, Time and Encounter in the University Classroom
Elizabeth Hauke, Imperial College, UK
This book explores space, time and encounter in an interdisciplinary higher education classroom during a typical academic year considering how they might present as protagonists of authenticity In this ethnography, the author is both the researcher and the teacher, delivering highly interactive and student centred modules for undergraduate students at a leading science and engineering university in the UK The book demonstrates a remarkable alignment between the design and aspirations of the teaching, the experiences within the classroom, and the conduct of the research Revealing the inner thoughts and inspirations of the researcher, the book includes insights from philosophy, anthropology, education, neuroscience, music, architecture, photography and popular culture
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 240 pages • 40 bw illus
HB 9781350477179 • £90 00 / $120 00
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Series: Alternative & Education Bloomsbury Academic
Can Higher Education be Decolonised?
A Situated Case Study of an Elite University in the Global North Steve Eichhorn, Leon Tikly, University of Bristol, UK & Madhu Krishnan, University of Bristol, UK
This open access book brings together a diverse team of writers representing academic staff, students and professional services staff engaged in decolonising activities at the University of Bristol The chapters have been co-created and this process has generated a series of critical conversations that have highlighted tensions and contradictions involved in attempting to decolonise within our university Through this process, the team have critiqued the concepts of “our university” and “our curriculum” and they argue that understanding these tensions and contradictions is crucial if we are to understand decolonisation as an active process
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Bristol, UK.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350415126 • £90 00 / $120 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Researching Children and Childhoods
A Reflexive Dissertation Companion
Sarah Richards, University of Suffolk, UK & Sarah Coombs, University of Suffolk, UK
Junior researchers in the field of childhood studies are often faced with many challenges that accompany research with young participants Methodological concepts, such as research relationships, positionality, self-disclosure and reflexivity can sometimes become subordinate to more practical and procedural concerns Researching Children and Childhoods frames these themes not as problems but as opportunities to deepen and strengthen research discussions and analysis Each chapter includes a variety of researcher experiences, vignette examples, and specific activities, aimed at applying the key themes represented in this volume into research dissertations
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 176 pages
PB 9781350043206 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350043213 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350043220 • £22 49 / $31 04
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Bloomsbury Academic
Researching with Young People
An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods
Frances Howard, Nottingham Trent University, UK, Benjamin Hanckel, Western Sydney University, Australia, Karenza Moore, University of Newcastle, UK, Sophie Atherton, University of Manchester, UK & Janina Suppers, University of Waikato, New Zealand
This book introduces existing research methods such as interviews, focus groups, ethnography and creative methods, as well as covering newer methods including place-based methods, digital methods, co-production and co-authorship Each thematic chapter is followed by a shorter invited case study, which puts the specific method into practice The resulting pedagogical material gives useful practical application of that method to the field as a guide that can be followed by both students and instructors
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages
PB 9781350438064 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350438057 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350438088 • £22 49 / $31 04
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Bloomsbury Academic
Transformative Motherscholarship and Art
Public Pedagogies of Childhood
Edited by Georgina Badoni, New Mexico State University, USA, Shana Cinquemani, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, Elizabeth Garber, University of Arizona, USA & Marissa McClure Sweeny, Carlow University, USA
This book considers the identity of the motherscholar, a mother who draws from their practice of mothering to inform their art and scholarship and from their scholarship to inform how they mother By considering the identity of the motherscholar the contributors from the Canada, Finland, India, and the USA work to reconceptualize feminist approaches to childhood research and uncover formerly invisibilized public pedagogies of childhood Through theoretical research, visual art, stories and oral histories, the contributors explore how their fused identities affect and multiply structural and interpersonal transformation in homes, in communities, and in pedagogical spaces
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350435728 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350435742 • £81 00 / $110 69
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Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research • Bloomsbury Academic
The Induction of Early Childhood Educators
Retention, Needs, and Aspirations
Laura K. Doan, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
The Induction of Early Childhood Educators presents new strategies for reducing the number of educators who are leaving the field within the first five years of work Based on new research carried out in British Columbia, Canada, with beginning early childhood educators, Laura K Doan proposes a set of new best-practices in mentoring and inducting novice early childhood educators The book offers a clear insight into the needs, identity, challenges, joys, frustrations, isolation, triumphs and support that all new educators face�
UK August 2025 US August 2025 174 pages 10 bw illus
PB 9781350187450 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350187221
ePub 9781350187245 • £81 00 / $110 69
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Bloomsbury Academic
Antiracism in Early Childhood Education
Theory and Practice
Edited by Victoria Bamsey, Plymouth Institute of Education, UK, Lynn J. McNair, The University of Edinburgh, UK & Nakissa Campbell, University of East London, UK
This book explores racism and antiracist practice in early childhood education (ECE), exploring how different theoretical lenses can enable students and practitioners to consider the complexity of race and racism in early childhood and education and the impact it has on young children’s lives Written by academics and practitioners based in the USA and the UK, the chapters cover a range of Issues and theories including, race and play, decolonial approaches in ECE, Marxism, critical pedagogy, child-centered pedagogy, pro-Black pedagogies, Black feminist perspectives, critical race theory and immigration
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages
PB 9781350441040 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350441033 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350441057 • £22 49 / $31 04
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Bloomsbury Academic
Language Testing and Assessment
From Theory to Practice
Aek Phakiti, University of Sydney, Australia
This book covers crucial knowledge and skill sets for developing language tests and setting assessments
Aimed at students and practitioners of applied linguistics and TESOL, it covers the theoretical and methodological framework for language test use, assessment techniques in different language skills and basic strategies for analysis of test quality It forms an accessible gateway into the often intimidating world of language assessment and a unique opportunity for the readers to ground their knowledge of principles in language assessment research
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages • 50 bw
PB 9781474290128
ePub 9781474290104 • £22 49 / $31 04
ePdf 9781474290098 • £22 49 / $22 49
Bloomsbury Academic
Teachers as Mediators in Language Immersion Education
Navigating Ideologies, Cultures, and Identities
Kelle L. Marshall, Pepperdine University, Canada & Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Crandall University, Canada
This book explores the role of teachers as intercultural mediators within language immersion education programs The authors discuss research conducted on one-way French immersion in New Brunswick, Canada, an officially bilingual province and country. Their discussion is anchored on the Douglas Fir Group framework of second language acquisition, examining the implications of ideologies for language education, curriculum and intercultural instruction The book offers a revised model of the framework
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages • 10 b/w illus
HB 9781350186514 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350186538 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350186521 • £81 00 / $81 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Teachers as Curriculum Designers for Transcultural Communicative Competence
Jennifer Eddy, Queens College, City University of New York, USA
What do language instructors consider when faced with new curriculum guidelines? How can teacher leaders encourage learner autonomy and creativity through relevant, purposeful and novel pupil deliverables? How does this experience change how teachers view their profession? This book guides educators on design of MFL, heritage and community language curriculum and assessment tasks, providing a blueprint for any revision initiative, even within a prescribed national context
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9781350446724 £28 99 / $39 95 HB 9781350446731 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350446755 £26 09 / $36 44
ePdf 9781350446748 • £26 09 / $26 09
Series: Bloomsbury Guidebooks for Language Teachers • Bloomsbury Academic
Local Volunteering, Adult Learning and Social Change in the Philippines
Everyday Learning, Everyday Literacies
Chris Millora, University of London, UK
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this book explores the learning and literacy dimensions of local volunteering for social change in the Philippines In its unique application of a literacy lens to the study of volunteering, the book unravels how marginalised groups, often seen as ‘thankful receivers’, (re)use texts, words and labels to (re)define their roles in shaping social change and for whose benefit. It offers powerful case studies on how global development agendas such as value-for-money, upskilling and professionalisation – through bureaucratic literacies –impact the experiences of volunteers at the grassroots level
UK July 2025 US July 2025 208 pages 10 bw illus
HB 9781350345614 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350345638 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350345621 • £81 00 / $81 00
Series: Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change • Bloomsbury Academic
Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education
Bedrettin Yazan, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Language Teacher Agency
Navigating Complex and Diverse Educational Contexts
Edited by Leonardo Veliz, University of New England, Australia, Yvette Slaughter, University of Melbourne, Australia, Gary Bonar & Minh Hue Nguyen, Monash University, Australia
This open access book argues that language teacher agency is not simply down to individual choice, but is also shaped by the complex sociopolitical, and educational contexts in which language teachers work The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of New England, Australia; University of Melbourne, Australia; and Monash University, Australia.
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages • 19 bw illus
HB 9781350454798 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350454835 • £00 00 / $00 00
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Series: Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education • Bloomsbury Academic
Criticality, Agency, and Language Teacher Identities
Research and Praxis from Global Teacher Education
Edited by Hyunjin Jinna Kim, Stony Brook University, USA & Huseyin Uysal, Knox College, USA
This book interrogates language teacher identity construction, negotiation, and meaning-making in today's ever-changing global contexts By exploring language teacher identity through a critical lens and drawing on insights from language teachers and language teacher educators, it provides a deep understanding of how identity construction unfolds and transforms teaching practices
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781350513846 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350513860 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350513853 • £81 00 / $81 00
Series: Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education • Bloomsbury
Academic
Designing Learning with Multimodality in English Medium of Education (EME) Classrooms Across Asia
Edited
by Fei Victor Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & Jack Pun, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
This book provides evidence-based and pedagogically-focused analyses of a variety of multimodal resources to scaffold learning in contexts of English-Medium Education (EME) in Asia� The contributing authors are active researchers in the field of EME and multimodality across the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand They explore both the latest theoretical conceptions on the design of EME, by harnessing the affordances of multimodality, as well as practical applications of multimodal pedagogies for the teaching and learning specific subjects, particularly STEM subjects. They provide examples of EME lessons with annotated notes to showcase good practice
UK July 2025 US July 2025 288 pages 10 bw illus
HB 9781350358270 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350358300 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350358287 • £81 00 / $81 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Linguistic Approaches in English for Academic Purposes
Expanding the Discourse
Edited by Milada Walková, University of Leeds, UK
This edited volume brings together researchers and practitioners who work in various linguistic frameworks and EAP contexts, with contributions from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, UAE, the UK, Ukraine and the USA It extends existing linguistic research by applying theories and approaches and by investigating genres that have received little attention, such as Complex Dynamic Systems Theory, Grice’s Cooperative Principle and the article comments and university seminar genres, amongst others The volume provides linguistic description of student and expert genres, and clear pedagogical implications
UK July 2025 US July 2025 240 pages 10 bw illus
PB 9781350300347 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350300309
ePub 9781350300323 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350300316 • £81 00 / $81 00
Series: New Perspectives for English for Academic Purposes • Bloomsbury Academic
Social Justice in EAP and ELT Contexts
Global Higher Education Perspectives
Edited by Paul Breen, University College London, UK & Michèle le Roux, University of Bath, UK
This book articulates an understanding of what is meant by the term social justice from a global perspective, drawing upon examples of practice from across a range of EAP and ELT higher education contexts It presents a series of vignettes into a diverse set of classrooms, contexts and countries, offering examples of how and where an epistemology of social justice has been put into practice in teaching and learning situations Through looking at these examples, the authors produce a set of codes and themes that are common to practice across contexts and discuss how these can inform practice
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350351240 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350351202
ePub 9781350351226 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350351219 • £81 00 / $81 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Multilingualism in Mathematics Education in Africa
Edited by Anthony A. Essien, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
This book presents research on the teaching and learning of mathematics in multilingual settings from across multiple countries in Africa, including Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Malawi, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe The chapters explore language policies and their implementation in mathematics education; curriculum development and pedagogy issues; support and development of mathematical practices for teachers; language issues in teaching with mathematics register in indigenous languages; and directions for future research
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350369245 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350369207
ePub 9781350369221 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350369214 • £81 00 / $81 00
Series: Multilingualisms and Diversities in Education • Bloomsbury Academic
Multilingual and Translingual Practices in English-Medium Instruction
Perspectives from Global Higher Education Contexts
Edited by Dogan Yuksel, Kocaeli University, Turkey, Mehmet Altay, Kocaeli University, Turkey & Samantha Curle, University of Bath, UK
This volume explores context-related ways in which the multilingual EMI model and translingual practices are seen and enacted in higher education contexts across the globe Research on this topic is not only timely but also very much needed, particularly in contexts that are relatively new to EMI Empirical, research-based studies as well as theoretical reviews that centre around multilingual and translingual practices in partial and full (i e English-only) EMI settings are elaborated, with case studies from Colombia, Indonesia, Iraq, Norway, Qatar, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the UK and the USA
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350373280 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350373242
ePub 9781350373266 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350373259 • £81 00 / $81 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Critical Pedagogies of Discomfort in Practice and Professional Education
Edited
by Fiona Cullen, St Mary’s University
Twickenham,
UK, Mike Seal, St Mary’s University Twickenham, UK & Michael Whelan, University of the West of England, UK
This book explores the scope for discomforting pedagogies within practice and professional education contexts, in order to consider the ethical challenges associated with exploring complex and sensitive areas of practice and everyday life Bringing together scholars, practitioners and students who draw on themes of social justice in their pedagogical practice, the contributors unpack the debates around how to reflect on, challenge and explore critical and sensitive issues in social justice education in professional contexts Consideration is given to how decisions in relation to notions of safety and discomfort should be made, and who is empowered to make these decisions
UK July 2025 US July 2025 288 pages 10 bw illus
HB 9781350452442 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350452466 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350452459 • £81 00 / $81 00
Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indigenous Education and Research
Edited by Sandra Styres, University of Toronto, Canada & Ryan Neepin, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
This handbook provides an overview of the field of Indigenous education and its historical context It covers the myriad of issues that Indigenous learners and educators face, from systemic racism and inequities to inaccuracies in historical re-tellings, to low retention and graduation rates Written by Indigenous scholars and educators from around the world the book is divided in five sections covering: theoretical perspectives; research methods and ethics; debates on Indigenous sovereignty; two-spirit and Indigiqueer experiences; and pedagogical/practical approaches to teaching
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 272 pages
HB 9781350373860
• £130 00 / $175 00
ePub 9781350373884 • £117 00 / $159 29
ePdf 9781350373877 • £117 00 / $117 00
Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
bell hooks’ Radical Pedagogy
New Visions of Feminism, Justice, Love, and Resistance in the Classroom
Edited by Megan Feifer, Berea College, USA, Maia L. Butler, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA & Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of North Texas, USA
The first sustained collection of teachings and reflections that address the full scope of bell hooks’ teaching trilogy Organized into four parts covering: engaged pedagogies; pedagogies of hope and joy; pedagogies of the bodymindspirit; strategies of resistance and anticolonial frameworks, the book offers an accessible guide to hooks' work for students, teachers and researchers The chapters examine how hooks’ pedagogical framework resists antiblack, imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, abled, cisheteronormative patriarchal pedagogical praxes, while simultaneously calling for a deep and sustained commitment to the work of "educat[ing] people to heal this world into what it might become"
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages
PB 9781350441590 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350441583 • £65 00 / $90
Women Navigating Educational Leadership
Jana L. Carlisle, Educational Support Consulting, USA
This book draws on insights from 37 women leaders, collected from 2020 to 2022, around women’s experiences with gender and racial bias, resilience, social justice, and leadership strategies and challenges The 37 women respondents possess different educational backgrounds, reflect different ethnic, racial and age groups, and inhabit varied roles and organizations—from public school districts, charter school networks, graduate schools of education, and partner/support organizations Jana L Carlisle responds to the underrepresentation of women in education leadership positions and the complicated and veiled routes women must take to ascend to leadership, and proposes the most applicable models, standards, strategies, and supports vital to women educational leaders
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9781350410022 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350409989
ePub 9781350410008 £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350409996 £81 00 / $81 00
Series: Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives • Bloomsbury Academic
The Burden of Conscience
Educating Beyond the Veil of Silence
Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University, Canada
In The Burden Conscience, Giroux interrogates the continuing creeping of fascism into today’s politics and education and the plague of silence that prevents us from resistance, and speaking truth to power He argues that the silence we are seeing in the face the morally reprehensible killing of children in Israel and the large-scale killing in Gaza is part of a bigger problem that haunts the modern period: the merging of colonialism and neoliberal capitalism
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 264 pages
PB 9781350506893 • £14 99 / $19 95 • HB 9781350506909 • £45 00 / $61 00
ePub 9781350506916 • £13 49 / $18 89
ePdf 9781350506923 • £13 49 / $13 49 Bloomsbury Academic
The Failure of CompetenceBased Education and the Demand for Bildung
Luca Moretti, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy & Alessia Marabini, Istituto Paolini, Italy
This book contrasts two prominent models of education, Competence-Based Education (CBE) which is the dominant model in most school systems of the world, and Bildung-Oriented Education (BOE), once the basis of school systems of Northern Europe Moretti and Marabini argue that, in spite of its celebrated ‘scientificity’, CBE is incoherent and unreliable, and contributes to structural forms of oppression and injustice They defend BOE from objections made by critical theorists, poststructuralists and postcolonial thinkers, and argue that it is a coherent and flexible model of education.
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350517981 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350518001 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350517998 • £81 00 / $81 00
Series: Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education Bloomsbury Academic
Philosophical Questions in Art Education
Why the Arts Can and Should be Taught in Schools
Dorit Barchana-Lorand, Kibbutzim College, Israel
This book examines the rationale of incorporating the arts in the school curriculum from a philosophical, rather than pedagogical, perspective Lorand draws on the work of a broad range of philosophers including Dewey, Eisner, Greene, Hume, Plato, Kant, Langer, Read and Schiller The book aims to show how attempts to justify art as a tool for societal and individual improvement fail in advocating art education Ultimately she claims that the arts should be taught because children have the right to receive art education That right stems from the unique nature of art
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350464605 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350464636 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350464612 • £81 00 / $81 00
Series: Bloomsbury Philosophy of Education • Bloomsbury Academic
Freire and Feminism
Edited by Eunice Macedo, University of Porto, Portugal
This book introduces Freire’s engagement with feminism in theory and practice It features chapters from academics and practitioners based in Brazil, Canada, Portugal, and Spain, with a focus on the themes of social transformation, autonomy, social justice, equality, freedom, practice and reflection. The contributors engage feminist theorists including bell hooks, Simone de Beauvoir, and Betty Friedan to draw out the value and uniqueness of Freire’s contribution to feminist thought The topics covered in the book include Freirian feminism as it relates to film, sex education, violence against women, women’s emancipation and liberation, and women’s bodies and sport
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 160 pages
PB 9781350473041 • £14 99 / $19 95 • HB 9781350473034 • £45 00 / $61 00
ePub 9781350473058 £13 49 / $18 89
ePdf 9781350473065 £13 49 / $13 49
Series: Freire in Focus • Bloomsbury Academic
Smart Drugs, Attention Doping, and Screen Addicts
The Drug Attention Industrial Complex in Education
Kenneth J. Saltman, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
With this book, Keneth J Saltman argues that drugs are at the center of the most significant transformations of schooling. Children are increasingly being drugged to compete on standardized tests, to increase their attention levels in school, and are being diagnosed with ADHD at exponentially increasing rates The book covers the prevalence of screen addiction, the misuse of hormone therapies for transgenders youth, anxiety and trauma medication, the connection between race and drugs, and in the final chapter offers critical, democratic, and practical solutions for educators and policy makers to tackle these issues
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 160 pages
PB 9781350439993 £24 99 / $34 95 HB 9781350440005 £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350440012 £22 49 / $31 04
ePdf 9781350440029 £22 49 / $22 49
Bloomsbury Academic
Radical Politics and Education
Derek R. Ford, DePauw University, USA & Tyson E. Lewis, University of North Texas, USA
A Lacanian Foundation For Critical Pedagogy
In Freire More Than Freire
Alex J. Armonda, Southern Illinois University, USA
This open access book sets out from Paulo Freire’s claim that the problem-posing model of education works as a “kind of psychoanalysis,” and deploys a Lacanian perspective to rearticulate the theoretical and practical principles of critical pedagogy Drawing primarily on the work of Jaques Lacan as well as Frantz Fanon, Alenka Zupancic, and Slavoj Žižek, this book offers a critical introduction to psychoanalysis in the social, political, and philosophical foundations of education
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
UK August 2025 US August 2025 208 pages 10 bw illus
HB 9781350459892 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350459915 • £00 00 / $00 00
ePdf 9781350459908 • £00 00 / $00 00
Series: Radical Politics and Education • Bloomsbury Academic
New Materialisms and Embodied Encounters in Education
Curiosity’s Vital Potential
Cala Coats, Arizona State University, USA
With this open access book, Cala Coats develops a theory of “vital curiosity” as a transdisciplinary educational force that activates ecological flows of connection. In the book, curiosity becomes a critical learning disposition and creative process, tracing embodied encounters through aesthetic disruptions and attractions, activating questions and durational commitments toward affirmative complexity. Drawing on new materialist and posthuman theories, the book puts forward an image of educational life, as it extends from curiosity, as a radical pedagogical practice
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 194 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350278783 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350278745
ePub 9781350278769 • £00 00 / $00 00
ePdf 9781350278752 • £00 00 / $00 00
Series: Radical Politics and Education • Bloomsbury Academic
Education in an Altered World Pandemic, Crises and Young People
Vulnerable to Educational Exclusion
Edited by Michelle Proyer, University of Vienna, Austria, Wayne Veck, University of Winchester, UK, Fabio Dovigo, Aarhus University, Denmark & Elvira Seitinger, University of Vienna, Austria
This book brings together world-leading researchers and scholars in the fields of inclusive education, disability studies, refugee education and special education to examine critical and original perspectives of the meaning and consequences of educational and social exclusion Drawing together, the contributors consider how children already vulnerable to exclusion might be supported and educated in and through times of global pandemic and crisis They also identify broad prospects for education and inclusion in, through and beyond times of global pandemic and crisis
UK August 2025 US August 2025 304 pages 10 bw illus
PB 9781350282735 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350282698
ePub 9781350282711 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350282704 • £81 00 / $81 00
Bloomsbury Academic
The Art, Literature and Music of Solitude
Julian Stern, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK
The book presents a thematic analysis of various aspects of solitude, silence and loneliness, from the ancient world to the present day, explored thematically with consideration to the links between aloneness to other social and political issues The themes include exile (expulsion from a community), ecstasy (getting ‘out of oneself’) and enstasy (being comfortable within oneself), to the Romantic idea of the artist as solitary A variety of types and experiences of aloneness are seen through the lenses of artistic, literary and musical forms of expression, as aloneness is not only explored and articulated through these art forms, but is created through these art forms
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 218 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350348059 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350348011
ePub 9781350348035 £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350348028 • £81 00 / $81 00
Series: Bloomsbury Solitude Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
A Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti
Emotion, Power, and White Saviors
Diane M. Hoffman
This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti
It is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of 13 years with vulnerable children in Haiti Diane M Hoffman raises important questions about how interventions by wellmeaning foreigners misrepresent Haitian culture as deficient, often in ways that reinforce their own power to control, define and narrate Haitian lives She argues for a new approach to Haitian childhood that centers childhood learning and self-education alongside the ethics of personhood and indigenous spirituality that can resist the hegemony of neo-colonial and neo-liberal forces
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Rurality, Diversity and Schooling Multiculturalism in Regional Australia
Neroli Colvin, late of University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Using interview, observational and documentary data, the book examines how multiculturalism is understood, valued and lived in two public high schools in a town which has become home to several hundred refugees from Africa, South-East Asia and the Middle East Drawing on critical theories of discourse, space and race, the book examines a host of anxieties in the town and its schools about recent demographic changes revealing how notions of rurality, steeped in colonial narratives about European settlement, productivity and racial superiority, continue to shape how “difference” is perceived and experienced in regional communities
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Coloniality and the Governance of Education in West Africa
Eva Bulgrin, University of Sussex, UK
This book explores the agenda-setting and mediation of the education decentralisation policy in Benin as a postcolonial, francophone context in West Africa As such, it throws into sharp relief how far education decentralisation, as a global governance reform, informs policy and practice The research draws on qualitative data with more than 80 research participants, including semi-structured interviews with high and middle-ranking officials from the Education, Decentralisation and Planning Ministries as well as head teachers, teachers, parents and members of teacher unions in Benin It contributes to wider debates on education policy, governance, and decentralisation across the Global South
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Examining Education around the World
Fred M. Shelley, University of Oklahoma, USA
This thematic encyclopedia provides an overview of education in 70 countries worldwide and links educational organization, philosophy, and practice with important global social, economic, and environmental issues facing the contemporary world This volume is organized into 10 chapters that look at key issues in global education, including literacy, gender, religion, science and technology (STEM), arts and humanities, school violence, multicultural education and diversity, environment and sustainability, education and difference/special needs, and views on education and a country's future
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