This collection of essays focuses on the work of James D. Marshall, who has been active in the philosophy of education for three decades.

• Deals with Marshall's long-standing criticism of the public education system in New Zealand
  
• Discusses his work considering the relevance of Wittgenstein and Foucault for philosophy of education.
  
• Features tributes to Marshall in the form of interviews and testimonials.
  
• Contains remarks from Marshall himself in response to the commentaries of his colleagues.

A collection of scholarly essays, Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education provides an accessible theoretical introduction to the topic of complexity theory while considering its broader implications for educational change.

• Explains the contributions of complexity theory to philosophy of education, curriculum, and educational research
• Brings together new research by an international team of contributors
• Debates issues ranging from the culture of curriculum, to the implications of work of key philosophers such as Foucault and John Dewey for...

This book investigates how philosophical texts display a variety of literary forms and explores philosophical writing and the relation of philosophy to literature and reading.

• Discusses the many different philosophical genres that have developed, among them letters, the treatise, the confession, the meditation, the allegory, the essay, the soliloquy, the symposium, the consolation, the commentary, the disputation, and the dialogue
• Shows how these forms of philosophy have conditioned and become the basis of academic writing (and assessment) within both the university and...