Rouhollah Aghasaleh – författare

This book surveys and extends Foucault’s influence on educational research, covering the ways Foucauldian concepts and methodological approaches have been used in the field, and points to future directions for scholarship. Written by academics from around the world, the chapters show how Foucault’s work can help educators and researchers navigate the intricate intersections of power and knowledge in education. It offers a nuanced exploration of disciplinary mechanisms, surveillance, and the dynamics of power within educational institutions in the context of teaching, learning, and institutional structures. The chapters cover a range of topics including comparative education, ethics, social movements, critical pedagogy, queer theory, critical race theory, biopolitics and discipline. Written for educators, students, and researchers, this handbook serves as an invaluable resource for fostering a deeper understanding of the global dimensions of Foucault's impact on education.

It is an old, yet relevant, argument that education needs to focus more on real-world issues in students’ lives and communities. Nevertheless, conventional school curricula in many countries create superficial boundaries to separate natural and social worlds. A call for science learning approaches that acknowledge societal standpoints accumulate that human activities are driving environmental and evolutionary change which has lead scholars to investigate how different societies respond to environmental change.Children and Mother Nature is a multilingual volume that represents indigenous knowledges from various ethnic, linguistic, geographical, and national groups of educators and students through storytelling. Authors have identified indigenous stories, fables, and folk tales with a theme of human-nature interaction and facilitated storytelling sessions with groups of students in K–8 grade (5–14 years old) in Turkey, Greece, US, Jamaica, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Chinese and Korean language speaking communities in the US. Students have discussed and rewritten/retold the stories collaboratively and illustrated their own stories. All student-told stories are presented in the original language along with an English translation. This volume provides authentic materials for teachers to use in their classrooms and could also be of interest to educational, literary, and environmental researchers to conduct comparative and international studies.