If teacher education, as a field of study, is to contribute to the revitalization, re-moralization and re-politicization of Education, this book argues that it needs to be alert to questions of teachers' intellectual and political freedom and to concerns about the legitimacy of what we do in teacher education, in the name of Education.

Anne Phelan demonstrates how curriculum theorizing can serve such an educational project by engaging concerns about subjectivity (human agency and action), society, and historical moment, thereby widening the field of insight in teacher...

Filmed School examines the place that teaching holds in the public imaginary through its portrayal in cinema. From early films such as "M"a"dchen in Uniform" and "La Maternelle" to contemporary images of teaching in "Notes on a Scandal" and The "History Boys," teachers roles in film have been consistently contradictory, portraying teachers as both seducers and selfless heroes, social outcasts and moral models, contributing to a similarly divided popular understanding of teachers as both salvific and sinister.

In this book, Stillwaggon and Jelinek present these contradictory images of...

On the Politics of Educational Theory considers the political significance of educational theory as a specific genre of public discourse. Rather than understanding educational theories solely as addressing issues of childrearing and instruction, this book aims to view educational theories in a broader socio-political context. It explores the role of educational theories in the construction of collective and political identities, and analyses them as rhetorical strategies operating as political discourses.

Defining the methodological framework through the perspectives of...

Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education argues that by rethinking the way we relate to time, we can fundamentally rethink the way we conceive education. Beyond the contemporary rhetoric of acceleration, speed, urgency or slowness, this book provides an epistemological, historical and theoretical framework that will serve as a comprehensive resource for critical reflection on the relationship between the experience of time and emancipatory education.

Drawing upon time and rhythm studies, complexity theories and educational research, Alhadeff-Jones...

Inoperative Education draws upon the movement in educational philosophy towards a weak philosophy, which does not offer a set of solutions or guidelines for improving educational outcomes, but rather renders inoperative assumptions about the theory-practice coupling so popular in education today. This book presents a challenge to contemporary notions of education as learning, by arguing that such logic reduces education to merely instrumental ends, which can only be assessed in terms of predefined measurement tools.

The goal of this book is to outline various forms...