Education (39)

• Anthropology
• Education
• Politics and Sociology

Make/Unmake: Play at the Centre of Culture Change

• Anna Beresin

Anna Beresin’s 'Make/Unmake' is an engaging and deeply original exploration of children’s play as a powerful cultural force. Drawing on ethnographic research and vivid travel writing, the author journeys to the Midlands region of England to observe three remarkable play-based programs: the Maker{Futures} Mobile Makerspace, the Pitsmoor Adventure Playground, and the GLUE Collective. She captures the voices of playworkers, teachers, and artists and documents the ingenuity of children turning objects into tools of imagination and change.

• Education
• History
• Psychology and Psychoanalysis

Historicizing IQ Testing: Intelligence Assessments and their Role in Norwegian Society from the 1900s to the Present

• Håkon Aamot Caspersen
• Jon Røyne Kyllingstad

Intelligence testing has shaped modern society in profound ways, influencing education, psychology, law, and governance. This volume offers the first comprehensive study of the history of IQ testing in a Nordic country, shedding new light on its development, adaptation, and societal impact in Norway.

• Education

Education 2.0: Chronicles of Technological and Cultural Change in Egypt

• Linda Herrera

Education 2.0 offers a compelling portrait of Egypt’s bold attempt to overhaul its public education system amid sweeping political and technological transformation. Drawing on extensive oral history interviews, this book traces the launch and rollout of the ‘New Education System’ initiated by the Ministry of Education in 2018, designed to modernize curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in the digital age and change the ‘culture of learning’. The volume moves fluidly from macro-level state planning to the lived experiences of teachers and students, exploring the promises and pitfalls of top-down reform.

• Education
• Psychology and Psychoanalysis

Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education

• Sandra Abegglen
• Tom Burns
• Richard F. Heller
• Rajan Madhok
• Fabian Neuhaus
• John Sandars
• Sandra Sinfield
• Upasana Gitanjali Singh

Bringing together a diverse range of educators and practitioners, this collection showcases real-world innovations that challenge the status quo and offer glimpses of a more humane and inspiring educational future. From rethinking systems and curriculum design to fostering imaginative collaboration and exploring the role of technology, the book highlights practical, hopeful interventions that are already making a difference.

• Education
• Politics and Sociology
• Theatre
• Women and Gender Studies

Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work

• Marie Buscatto
• Sari Karttunen
• Mathilde Provansal

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of the pervasive issue of gender-based violence (GBV) within the realms of art and cultural production. This collection of essays delves into both the overt and subtle forms of GBV. It spans sexual harassment, assault, and the everyday sexism ingrained in creative workplaces and art schools, in both professional and private dimensions. The book covers a wide array of artistic sectors—opera, visual arts, music, and theatre—across diverse global contexts, from Europe to Asia and North America.

• Anthropology
• Education
• Politics and Sociology
• Psychology and Psychoanalysis

A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning: Theoretical, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Considerations for an Interdisciplinary Field

• Sheina Lew-Levy
• Stephen Asatsa

This volume addresses the critical gaps in developmental research on childhood learning by advocating for a more inclusive and cross-cultural approach. Recent studies highlight a concerning over-reliance on data from post-industrialized western countries, raising questions about the broader applicability of findings. This book seeks to provide a comprehensive solution, bridging the gap between theory and practice.

• Education
• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Science
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

Learning Statistics with jamovi: A Tutorial for Beginners in Statistical Analysis

• Danielle Navarro
• David Foxcroft

Based on Danielle Navarro’s widely acclaimed and prize-winning book Learning Statistics with R, this elegantly designed textbook offers undergraduate students a thorough and accessible introduction to jamovi, as well as how to get to grips with statistics and data manipulation.

• Education
• Politics and Sociology

Being in Shadow and Light: Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education

• Dina Zoe Belluigi

Academia and its citizens, during periods of political violence and social conflict, are often overlooked. When attention is given, the focus tends to be on student activism, access to higher education, or curriculum development. The experiences of academics affected by conflict remain under-researched, despite the crucial role they play as educators and in generating, documenting, preserving and challenging knowledges. This is particularly concerning given that academics have−and continue to be−at risk as targets of sanction, persecution and oppression.

• Education
• Mathematics

Breaking Images: Iconoclastic Analyses of Mathematics and its Education

• Brian Greer
• David Kollosche
• Ole Skovsmose

These twenty essays explore questions of mathematics as a topic of philosophy, but also the nature and purpose of mathematics education and the role of mathematics in moulding citizens. It challenges the biases and prejudices inherent within uninformed histories of mathematics, including problems of white supremacy, the denial of cultural difference and the global homogenization of teaching methods. In particular, the book contrasts the effectiveness of mathematics and science in modelling physical phenomena and solving technical problems with its ineffectiveness in modelling social phenomena and solving human problems, and urges us to consider how mathematics might better meet the urgent crises of our age.

• Education
• Health
• Politics and Sociology
• Psychology and Psychoanalysis

The Struggle You Can’t See: Experiences of Neurodivergent and Invisibly Disabled Students in Higher Education

• Ash Lierman

This book offers a comprehensive review of current research on the higher education experiences of neurodivergent undergraduate students and those with invisible disabilities. Grounded in principles of social justice and equity, this work draws from design thinking, the neurodiversity model, and Universal Design for Learning, to explore the context of higher education in relation to neurodivergent and disabled students.

• Education
• Music

Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research

• Helen Julia Minors
• Stefan Östersjö
• Gilvano Dalagna
• Jorge Salgado Correia

This book contributes presenting examples of artistic research projects that are embedded within Higher Music Performance courses at universities and conservatoires across Europe.

• Education
• Politics and Sociology

Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures

• Laura Czerniewicz
• Catherine Cronin

After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for Higher Education? Thoughtfully edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, this rich and diverse collection by academics and professionals from across 17 countries and many disciplines offers a variety of answers to this question. It addresses the need to set new values for universities, trapped today in narratives dominated by financial incentives and performance indicators, and examines those “wicked” problems which need multiple solutions, resolutions, experiments, and imaginaries.

• Education
• Law: Intellectual Property
• Philosophy

The Predatory Paradox: Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing

• Amy Koerber
• Jesse C. Starkey
• Karin Ardon-Dryer
• R. Glenn Cummins
• Lyombe Eko
• Kerk F. Kee

In today’s ‘publish or perish’ academic setting, the institutional prizing of quantity over quality has given rise to and perpetuated the dilemma of predatory publishing. Upon a close examination, however, the definition of ‘predatory’ itself becomes slippery, evading neat boxes or lists which might seek to easily define and guard against it. This volume serves to foreground a nuanced representation of this multifaceted issue. In such a rapidly evolving landscape, this book becomes a field guide to its historical, political, and economic aspects, presenting thoughtful interviews, legal analysis and original research. Case studies from both European-American and non-European-American stakeholders emphasize the worldwide nature of the challenge faced by researchers of all levels.

• Education

Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education: Tales from the Field

• Dianne Conrad

This collection of reflective essays is a treasure trove of advice, reflection and hard-won experience from experts in the field of open and distance education. Each chapter offers tried-and-tested advice for nascent academic writers, delivered with personal, rich, and wonderful stories of the authors’ careers, their process, their research and their writing, and the struggles and triumphs they have encountered in the course of their careers.

• Education
• Politics and Sociology

A Relational Realist Vision for Education Policy and Practice

• Basem Adi

This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an alternative approach based on a relational realist-informed critical pedagogy.

• Anthropology
• Education
• Politics and Sociology

Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation

• Anna Beresin
• Julia Bishop

During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020–2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which communities around the world harnessed play within the limiting frame of Covid-19.

• Education
• Politics and Sociology

Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe

• Olga Burlyuk
• Ladan Rahbari

This volume consists of narratives of migrant academics from the Global South within academia in the Global North. The autobiographic and autoethnographic contributions to this collection aim to decolonise the discourse around academic mobility by highlighting experiences of precarity, resilience, care and solidarity in the academic margins.

• Biography
• Education
• Women and Gender Studies

Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children

• Philip Graham

This revised and expanded edition of Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children by Philip Graham, provides a comprehensive biography of a highly influential educationist and psychoanalyst. The book covers Isaacs’ childhood through to the end of her life, making it of great interest to historians of British education and of psychoanalysis as well as to practicing early years teachers and psychoanalysts.

• Education

Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence

• Montserrat Gomendio
• José Ignacio Wert

Responding to an ‘educational emergency’ generated largely by the difficulties of implementing education reforms, this book compares education policies around the world in order to understand what works where. To address the key question of why education reforms are so difficult, the authors take into account a broad range of relevant factors, such as governance, ideology, and stakeholder conflicts of interest, and their interactions with one another.

• Education
• Mathematics

Landscapes of Investigation: Contributions to Critical Mathematics Education

• Miriam Godoy Penteado
• Ole Skovsmose

Creating landscapes of investigation is a primary concern of critical mathematics education. It enables us to organise educational processes so that students and teachers are able to get involved in explorations guided by dialogical interactions. It attempts to address explicit or implicit forms of social injustice by means of mathematics, and also to promote a critical conception of mathematics, challenging the assumption that the subject represents objectivity and neutrality. Landscapes of Investigation provides many illustrations of how this can be done in primary, secondary, and university education. It also illustrates how exploring landscapes of investigation can contribute to mathematics teacher education programmes.

• Education
• Music

The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence

• Susan Hallam
• Evangelos Himonides

Building on her earlier work, 'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and Young People', this volume by Susan Hallam and Evangelos Himonides is an important new resource in the field of music education, practice, and psychology.

• Education
• Politics and Sociology

Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries

• Daniel A. Wagner
• Nathan M. Castillo
• Suzanne Grant Lewis

Improving learning evidence and outcomes for those most in need in developing countries is at the heart of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal on Education (SDG4). This timely volume brings together contributions on current empirical research and analysis of emerging trends that focus on improving the quality of education through better policy and practice, particularly for those who need improved 'learning at the bottom of the pyramid' (LBOP).

• Education
• Music
• Other languages
• Politics and Sociology

Replanteando la acción social por la música: la búsqueda de la convivencia y la ciudadanía en la Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín

• Geoffrey Baker
• Claudia García

Este libro pionero examina el desarrollo de La Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín, una red de 27 escuelas fundada en 1996 en la segunda ciudad principal de Colombia como respuesta a su reputación como la ciudad más peligrosa en la Tierra. Inspirada en El Sistema, el programa venezolano fundacional de educación musical, La Red es, no obstante, notablemente diferente: su historia es una de múltiples reinvenciones y de una búsqueda continua para mejorar su oferta educativa y alcanzar mejor sus objetivos sociales. Sus reflexiones internas e intentos de transformación arrojan luz valiosa sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro de ASPM.

• Biography
• Education
• European Studies
• European Studies: English and Irish Studies
• Women and Gender Studies

Mary Warnock: Ethics, Education and Public Policy in Post-War Britain

• Philip Graham

This biography illuminates the life and thought of Baroness Mary Warnock, whose active years spanned the second half of the twentieth century, a period during which opportunities for middle-class women rapidly and vastly improved.

• Education
• Reference Books
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers: A Primer for the Non-English Speaker

• Gábor L. Lövei

Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers stands out from its field by targeting scientists whose first language is not English. While also touching on matters of style and grammar, the book’s main goal is to advise on first principles of communication.

• Education
• Media Studies and Journalism

Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities

• Virginia Kuhn
• Anke Finger

Shaping the Digital Dissertation aims to provide insights, precedents and best practices to graduate students, doctoral advisors, institutional agents, and dissertation committees. This edited collection will be a useful resource for the wider academic community and anyone interested in the future of doctoral studies.

• Education
• Music
• Politics and Sociology

Rethinking Social Action through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín’s Music Schools

• Geoffrey Baker

How can we better understand the past, present and future of Social Action through Music (SATM)? This ground-breaking book examines the development of the Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín (the Network of Music Schools of Medellín), a network of 27 schools founded in Colombia’s second city in 1996 as a response to its reputation as the most dangerous city on Earth.

• Business and Management
• Education

Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work

• Andrew C. Comrie

Grounded in hard data, original analyses, and the practical experience of a seasoned administrator, this book provides refreshingly clear answers and comprehensive insights for anyone on or off campus who is interested in the business of the university: how it earns its money, how it spends it, and how it all works.

• Education
• Linguistics

Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations, Volume 2.

• John D. Bonvillian
• Nicole Kissane Lee
• Tracy T. Dooley
• Filip T. Loncke

Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike.

• Education
• Linguistics

Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations, Volume 1.

• John D. Bonvillian
• Nicole Kissane Lee
• Tracy T. Dooley
• Filip T. Loncke

Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike.

• Education
• Politics and Sociology

Discourses We Live By: Narratives of Educational and Social Endeavour

• Hazel R. Wright
• Marianne Høyen

This book is a rich and multifaceted collection of twenty-eight chapters that use varied lenses to examine the discourses that shape people’s lives. The contributors are themselves from many backgrounds – different academic disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, diverse professional practices and a range of countries and cultures. They represent a broad spectrum of age, status and outlook, and variously apply their research methods – but share a common interest in people, their lives, thoughts and actions.

• Education
• Linguistics

Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto

• Katrin Kohl
• Rajinder Dudrah
• Andrew Gosler
• Suzanne Graham
• Martin Maiden
• Wen-chin Ouyang

Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto is a welcome contribution to the field of modern languages, highlighting the intricate relationship between multilingualism and creativity, and, crucially, reaching beyond an Anglo-centric view of the world. Intended to spark further research and discussion, this book appeals to young people interested in languages, language learning and cultural exchange. It will be a valuable resource for academics, educators, policy makers and parents of bilingual or multilingual children.

• Digital Humanities
• Education
• Information Technology and Computer Science

Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research

• Jennifer Edmond

This timely volume illuminates the different forces underlying the shifting practices in humanities research today, with especial focus on how humanists take ownership of, and are empowered by, technology in unexpected ways. Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers interested in the changing culture of research practices in the humanities, and in the future of the digital humanities on the whole.

• Education
• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Media Studies and Journalism

Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis

• Chris Rowell

How does social media affect working life in Higher Education? How are universities harnessing its power to aid student learning? This innovative collection brings together academics and those working in professional services to examine these questions and more. The diverse and expert contributors analyse the many ways social media can be used to enhance teaching and learning, research, professional practice, leadership, networking and career development. The impact of social media is evaluated critically, with an eye both to the benefits and the problems of using these new forms of digital communication.

• Education

Delivering on the Promise of Democracy: Visual Case Studies in Educational Equity and Transformation

• Sukhwant Jhaj

Delivering on the Promise of Democracy pulls back the curtain on seven high-performing universities to reveal which daily decisions, including listening to the community, embracing conflict, and implementing effective strategies through routine, guide administrators in achieving exceptional results. Through in-depth interviews that offer a close look at these seven universities, Jhaj traces a new trajectory for higher education: a call to question a university's effectiveness through its accessibility to the community it serves.

• Education

Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education

• Patrick Blessinger
• TJ Bliss

Global in perspective, this book argues strongly for the value of open education in both the developed and developing worlds. Through a mixture of theoretical and practical approaches, it demonstrates that open education promotes ideals of inclusion, diversity, and social justice to achieve the vision of education as a fundamental human right. A must-read for practitioners, policy-makers, scholars and students in the field of education.

• Digital Humanities
• Education

Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics

• Brett D. Hirsch

The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines, the book offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate level, proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of disciplines, and engages with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy. Broadening the ways in which both scholars and practitioners can think about this emerging discipline, this book makes an important contribution to its ongoing development, vitality and long-term sustainability.

• Education
• Politics and Sociology

From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity

• Ladan Rahbari
• Olga Burlyuk

FORTHCOMING

'From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity' is the much-anticipated second volume following 'Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe' published in 2023, and available at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0331. This new collection deepens and expands the conversation on the lived experiences of migrant academics navigating global academia. Maintaining the autoethnographic and narrative approach of the first volume, From the Margins brings together diverse voices that challenge the Eurocentric framing of academic mobility by extending the focus beyond Europe to contexts such as the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Africa, and the Middle East.Through deeply personal, creative, and reflexive narratives, the contributors delve deep into the notions of privilege, migration, and precarity, revealing how academic hierarchies and colonial legacies shape everyday experiences of belonging, vulnerability, and resilience. Bridging scholarship and storytelling, this volume offers an intellectually rich and emotionally resonant exploration of academia’s margins, inviting readers to rethink what knowledge, care, and solidarity mean within and beyond institutional borders.This volume appeals to scholars and students across migration, sociology, postcolonial, gender, race, and border studies, as well as to university leaders and diversity officers. Its interdisciplinary and creative format—including poetry and prose—makes it both accessible and engaging for academic and general audiences alike.

• Education
• Media Studies and Journalism
• Philosophy
• Politics and Sociology

Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: A Phenomenological View

• Sencer Yeralan
• Philip Aka
• Derek Baker
• Azra Branković
• Eka Gegeshidze
• Laura Ancona Lee
• Christos Michalakelis
• Mbulaheni Nthangeni
• Efthymia Staiou

FORTHCOMING

Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in the everyday practices of higher education, shaping assessment, governance, labor, and institutional legitimacy. Rather than presenting a technical guide or policy checklist, this volume instead offers a reflective, multi-voiced examination of what AI means for higher education’s purpose, identity, and future. Its phenomenological grounding shifts the focus from operational questions of implementation to deeper inquiries into how AI reshapes institutions, knowledge, and the academic self.