Wilde’s Wiles
This unique collection of essays by international experts celebrates Oscar Wilde’s genius. It explores his enduring influence on culture—from aesthetics to queer theory—and examines the influence of his family and friends on him.
Realising Critical HRD
Critical Human Resource Development has stalled, focusing on theory over action. This book moves the project from problem recognition to meaningful change, offering practical interventions to challenge power structures through Reflecting, Voicing, and Enacting.
This title provides leading contemporary thought and research on how to address inequalities in participation in Higher Education across the “student lifecycle”, highlighting a range of practices in widening access, including chapters on financial support and mature students.
While most books on the Olympics focus on economics or management, this collection remains faithful to Coubertin’s original vision of youth, sport and education. Leading academics and young researchers analyse Olympism as a philosophical and educational idea.
This essential resource offers an international perspective on the interplay between education and migration. Featuring contributions from academics, it delves into integration, entrepreneurship, and mediation, offering invaluable insights for researchers and policymakers alike.
This collection of qualitative studies explores current educational issues concerning teachers, students, and parents. Using scientific yet comprehensible methods, it investigates attitudes and behaviours on topics of international relevance, making research accessible to all.
Norm-struggles
Norm-Struggles challenges normativity and heteronormativity. Focusing on contradictions and disruptions, the authors explore how norms are produced, subverted, and changed across diverse international settings, from schools to popular culture.
Beyond the Book
This collection explores aspects of children’s literature ‘Beyond the Book’.
From woodcuts to e-books, children’s literature is reinterpreted through illustration, pop-ups, film, and stage adaptations, celebrating the creativity that engages young readers.
Catholic Schools in a Plural Society
This book collects articles and policy papers on state-maintained Catholic education in England and Wales. It explores the context of these schools, their academic performance, and provides data on pupils’ outcomes, teachers, and leadership.
Is intercultural exchange truly possible in societies riddled with tensions? This collection of studies addresses the challenges posed by diversity and inequality in the construction of inclusive societies.
Multilingual Trends in a Globalized World
Explore evolving language education trends as globalization shifts the focus to multilingualism. This book presents the latest controversies and case studies from South East Asia and other diverse contexts around the world.
This book offers an application of Bourdieu’s framework to the under-examined experiences of community-college students seeking a second chance in Hong Kong. It explores how middle and working-class students see themselves and face academic challenges throughout their journey.
Applied Social Sciences
This collection of essays on education covers topics from elementary school to higher education. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, including teachers, researchers, and students, who wish to improve both personally and professionally.
A riveting account of higher education advancements in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. While some nations enjoyed calm, others endured turbulent pasts of civil war and genocide. This book reviews the past, present, and future of their tertiary education.
Issues of Faith-Based Education in the United Kingdom
As state-supported Catholic schools face controversy, this book explains their origins, purpose, and contribution to society. It outlines the Church’s understanding of the primary role of parents in education and the limits of the state, making it a vital read for all involved.
Social Sciences Today
This collection of essays will appeal to teachers and researchers of social sciences. The essays deal with three main issues in Europe and Asia: educational theory, society in the context of globalisation, and identity, alterity and multiculturalism.
The Crisis of the Human Sciences
Centralization and over-professionalization disconnect the human sciences from the real world, creating a sterile atmosphere that prevents creativity. The authors offer a broad range of approaches to reconnect the humanities to our world.
Academic Apartheid
A silent majority speaks out. Academic Apartheid is a collection of poignant international essays uncovering the challenges of working on the borders of the ivory tower without job security, adequate wages, or health benefits.
This book interlinks gender, alterity, and education, with a focus on refugee education. It uniquely examines gender and alterity through both theoretical debate and empirical research, and explores the potential of Distance Education to combat inequality and discrimination.
Intercultural Horizons Volume II
This volume features a collection of papers on intercultural education. Authors provide faculty and student perspectives on developing intercultural competence in higher education, focusing on service-learning and the university’s engagement with the community.