Utbildningens moraliska & sociala uppgift

Varför startade förskoleliknande verksamhet för mer än hundra år sedan? Vilken roll har pedagogik och lek haft i förskolan under olika perioder? Hur har förskolans relation till skolan beskrivits? Vilken roll har utländska influenser spelat? Hur b...

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Utbildningshistoria - en introduktion ger en lättillgänglig presentation av och fördjupande resonemang kring det svenska utbildningssystemets historia. I boken ges närmare beskrivningar av olika utbildningsreformer som inkluderar förskolan, grunds...

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Pedagogikens idéhistoria skildrar de dominerande uppfostrings¿¿idéerna och bildningsidealen från antikens Grekland till vår egen samtid. Även om svaren har varierat genom historien är det i hög grad samma frågor - om synen på barn, utbildning, kun...

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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...

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Boken om pedagogerna är en antologi för dig som vill förstå varför den svenska skolan ser ut som den gör. I denna nya bearbetade upplaga har det tillkommit kapitel om digitalisering, segregation och frågan om inkludering. Läs mer Trots att vi leve...

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Pedagogikens pionjärer är berättelsen om tjugoen modiga och kontroversiella lärare och deras idéer. Alla har starkt påverkat den svenska skolan och förskolan, liksom vår syn på barn och kunskap. Deras gärningar spänner över fyra sekler, från Johan...

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Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation ...

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The core argument of Jean Anyon's classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban...

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Social pedagogical work is a field of practice that is indebted to and illuminated by aspects of knowledge from sociology and psychology, but many practitioners feel that social pedagogical theories are too abstract and distant from the challenges...

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In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been s...

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Focusing on the meaning of teaching, Transnational Curriculum Standards and Classroom Practices contributes to a deepened understanding of what it means to be a teacher in an institutional context ranked high on the policymakers' agenda. While the...

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The New York Times bestseller Financial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year 'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial Times Have good intentions, over-parenting and ...

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Han var en röst, intellektuellt och politiskt, under en stor del av 1900-talet. Stellan Arvidson (1902-1997) var redan under studietiden politiskt aktiv i Lund och en av grundarna till Clarté. Han blev inflytelserik rektor för lärarutbildningen i ...

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I december 2016 var det 350 år sedan Lunds universitet grundades. I den populärvetenskapliga boken "Lunds universitet under 350 år - Historia och historier" berättas om resan från liten provinsakademi med 14 professorer och 80 studenter ...

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In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future...

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The phrase 'the edge of race' can be used both as a description and as a response to two key concerns. The first of these is that while race is increasingly on the periphery of education policy - with a growing disregard shown for racist inequitie...

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Social Mobility for the 21st Century addresses experiences of social mobility, and the detailed processes through which entrenched, intergenerationally transmitted privilege is reproduced. Contributions include (but are not limited to) family rela...

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Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places investigates the conditions and possibilities for political subjectivities to emerge in international educational contexts, where neoliberal norms are repeated, performed and tr...

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The famous Brazilian educator Paulo Freire has influenced educators, teachers and students in a broad tapestry of contexts and countries, as he challenged conventional thinking on how teachers ought to teach and learners ought to learn. By making ...

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The study of education and social mobility has been a key area of sociological research since the 1950s. The importance of this research derives from the systematic analysis of functionalist theories of industrialism. Functionalist theories assume...

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The phrase "teaching for social justice" is often used, but not always explained. What does it look like to teach for social justice? What are the implications for anti-oppressive teaching across different areas of the curriculum? Drawin...

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One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that sc...

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In the last half century higher education has moved from the fringe to the centre of society and accumulated a long list of social functions. In the English-speaking world, Europe and much of East Asia more than two thirds of all school students e...

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In Teaching History for the Common Good, Barton and Levstik present a clear overview of competing ideas among educators, historians, politicians, and the public about the nature and purpose of teaching history, and they evaluate these debates in l...

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This edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. Contributors offer an original and global discussion of the role of career guidance in the struggle for social justice and evaluate the f...

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The westernized university is a site where the production of knowledge is embedded in Eurocentric epistemologies that are posited as objective, disembodied and universal and in which non-Eurocentric knowledges, such as black and indigenous ones, a...

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Only 150 years ago, the majority of the world's population was largely illiterate. Today, not only do most people over fifteen have basic reading and writing skills, but 20 percent of the population attends some form of higher education. What are ...

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Social pedagogical work is a field of practice that is indebted to and illuminated by aspects of knowledge from sociology and psychology, but many practitioners feel that social pedagogical theories are too abstract and distant from the challenges...

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De flesta av oss har minnen kopplade till vår gamla skolgård raster med avsides ro eller vild lek, gymnastik lektioner med idrott och tävlingar eller undervisning, kanske i naturkunskap eller bild. Idag har skolgården blivit en naturlig del av sko...

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