Bücher der Reihe Educational Philosophy and Theory

New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory sketches possible alternatives for advancing scholarship in educational leadership. Engaging epistemology, ontology, and methodology, the volume evokes the message that there is more than one way to advance knowledge. The approaches adopted across this collection offer fruitful directions for the field and hopefully will stimulate substantive dialogue and debate in the interest of advancing knowledge. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

This collection looks at the various limitations and achievements of Western philosophy, with particular reference to the issue of education. The book shows that philosophy helps to support Western education and allows it to flourish in the first instance. It was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

For much of its history, the notion of talent has been associated with the idea of 'careers open to talent'. Its emancipatory promise of upward social mobility has ultimately radically transformed the distribution of advantaged social positions and has had a lasting influence on the very idea of social status itself. Besides its inextricable link with equality of educational opportunity, the notion of talent also came to be associated with some of the most pressing contemporary issues as diverse as the 'war for talent', brain drain, immigration policies, talent management, global meritocracy, the 'excellence gap', the 'ownership' of natural resources, ability taxation, etc.Nevertheless, while central to egalitarian conceptions of distributive justice, the notion of talent remains to a large extent absent from the voluminous literature on these issues. Unlike concepts traditionally associated with distributive justice, such as fairness, (in)equality, equality of opportunity as well as justice itself, the notion of talent has received only limited examination. This volume brings together a set of contributions discussing some of the most pressing problems and challenges arising out of a reductionist understanding of talents' anatomy, a distorted characterisation of their overall distributive value or talents' non-voluntaristic nature and many other issues revolving around talents, which existing conceptions of distributive justice in education leave either neglected or outrightly ignored.The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal, Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Empire and Education builds on the influential work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri to examine the role of education and pedagogy in the making and unmaking of Empire within our historical conjuncture. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.