Bücher der Reihe Explorations of Educational Purpose

In a globalized neo-colonial world an insidious and often debilitating crisis of knowledge not only continues to undermine the quality of research produced by scholars but to also perpetuate a neo-colonial and oppressive socio-cultural, political economic, and educational system.

These exploratory spaces include courses under construction, cross-college and interdisciplinary collaborations, general education reform initiatives, and fresh perspectives on student support services, faculty development, freshman learning communities, writing across the curriculum, on-line degree initiatives, and teaching and learning centers.

Society continues to change rapidly, but schools are slow to keep up. This book explores numerous issues related to transforming and modernizing our educational systems; it offers practical insights on how to prepare students with 21st century skills.

Presenting case studies that form a wide-ranging critique of contemporary and historical education provision under socialist governance, this well rounded volume also offers positive suggestions for tackling thorny communal issues through socialist pedagogy.

Conducting research on OST learning requires us to broaden and deepen our conceptions of learning as well as to better identify the unique and common qualities of different learning settings.

These essays by teacher-educators explore what it means - practically and intellectually - to teach for social justice in conservative times. The book offers a vision of teacher education based on the principles of social justice, democracy and critical inquiry.