Utbildningens moraliska & sociala uppgift

Skolan, demokratin och de unga medborgarna (ed.2-2024) En vanlig fo?resta?llning är att skolan har en viktig funktion att fylla i en demokrati. Skolan ska fostra ansvarska?nnande ma?nniskor och samha?llsmedlemmar - och mer specifikt utrusta elever...

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En av det moderna tänkandets mest inflytelserika filosofer »Har någon lust att för ett ögonblick skåda in i och ner i den hemlighetsfulla verkstad, där idealen här på jorden fabriceras? Har någon mod att göra det?« ¿ Sommaren 1887 - ett och ett ha...

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In The Burden of Conscience, Giroux confronts the insidious rise of fascism infiltrating today's politics and education, alongside the suffocating silence that paralyzes our will to resist and speak truth to power. He decries the moral apathy in t...

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Hur skapar vi en skola som ger alla elever lika möjligheter att lyckas, oavsett var de bor eller vilka förutsättningar de har? Vilken betydelse har skolledarskapet för att skapa en inkluderan

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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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Skola och medborgarfostran behandlar den svenska enhetsskolans historia från 1900-talets början fram till 1960-talet och etablerandet av grundskolan. När utvecklingen mot enhetsskola under olika perioder hakade i dominerande idéströmningar - som h...

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The liberal arts are under attack. Degree courses like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. In the US President Obama recently urged students to keep in mind that technical training could be more valua...

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A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today's foremost public intellectuals In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of edu...

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Shortlisted: BERA Educational Research Book of the Year 2025 Climate change, biodiversity collapse, pandemics, wars, resource shortages, inflation, socio-economic inequality? after decades of progress and prosperity, the world has hit the limits t...

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With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child. In Caring - now updated with a new prefa...

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The No. 1 Bestseller Biography of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023 The Last Word Listeners' Choice Award, Irish Book Awards 2023 'One of the best [books] I have read about the complexities of poverty . . . one of the most remarkable people you wil...

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The 21st century looks quite different in reality to the predictions made by science fiction writers. Instead of a world dominated by flying cars and androids, we have found ourselves living in the wake of a global pandemic, experiencing an increa...

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This book brings the key ideas and concepts of social realism to bear on current debates in the fields of knowledge and curriculum. The key concern of this collection is to highlight matters related to knowledge and the influence these dimensions ...

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Human brains are diverse: each one of us has a unique set of connections between billions of nerve cells. Neurodiversity is about us all. It is not an exclusive club or one condition, difficulty, difference, or disorder. Understanding more about t...

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'Buy this book' DOUGLAS MURRAY 'An urgent call for reformation' DAVID GOODHART THE EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NATIONAL POPULISM AND VALUES, VOICE AND VIRTUE. Depressed tutors and disillusioned students. Funding ...

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Historical and Moral Consciousness highlights how ethics can be understood in the context of History education. It analyses the qualitative differences in how young people respond to historical and moral dilemmas of relevance to democratic values ...

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Tact and the Pedagogical Relation focuses on two topics of increasing interest both in teacher education and research. It shows how questions of sensitive and attuned action as well as educators' relations with children and the young are special-u...

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Pedagogy of the Heart represents some of the last writings by Paulo Freire. In this work, perhaps more so than any other, Freire presents a coherent set of principles for education and politics. For those who have read Freire's other works the boo...

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The collection aims to inspire readers with new approaches to implementing and monitoring the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to make rights 'real' in children's lives. Children's human rights are internationally recognised i...

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Social klass i skolan visar hur social klass påverkar klassrumssituationen, undervisningen och i förlängningen även elevernas resultat. Skolans förmåga att kompensera för elevers bakgrund har försämrats och föräldrarnas utbildningsnivå får en allt...

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Although Religious Education (RE) is a legal requirement in UK schools, it is an oft-neglected and misunderstood subject. It is important to seriously re-think this key subject at this time of low religious literacy and rising extremism, to protec...

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Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and mak...

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Education policy in England is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly incoherent and it is therefore becoming harder to keep up with, and make sense of, all the changes. This bestselling book looks at the role of the UK as a social laborato...

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First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States...

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Social Theory and Education Research is an advanced and accessible text that illustrates the diverse ways in which social theories can be applied to educational research methodologies. It provides in-depth overviews of the various theories by well...

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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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Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are Universities For? offers a spirited and compelling argu...

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Unpacking Critical Race Theory (CRT) and exploring why it has become a focus in politics across the US and the UK, White Lies uses CRT to expose the systemic racism that shapes education. It charts the coordinated campaigns - involving think tanks...

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New to Penguin Classics, one of the most influential works of Black social criticism ever written The Mis-education of the Negro is today considered one of the most influential works by 'the father of Black history', Carter G. Woodson, setting the...

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