This book makes an intervention in a long-standing discussion by arguing that education
should be world-centred rather than child-centred or curriculum-centred. This is not just …

Abstract In previous publications, Gert Biesta has suggested that education should be
oriented toward three domains of purpose that he calls qualification, socialization, and …

It has become a cliché in much contemporary philosophy of education to start an argument
by criticizing the dominant discourse that structures educational practice and informs …

Globalizing Educational Accountabilities analyzes the influence that international and
national testing and accountability regimes have on educational policy reform efforts in …

In many places around the world the modern school is under a relentless pressure to
perform and the standards for such performance are increasingly being set by the global …

This article presents the outcomes of a review of the last decade's scientific literature on
primary school teachers' collaboration with parents on upbringing. Since educational goals …

In this article, I seek to reclaim a place for teaching in face of the contemporary critique of so-
called traditional teaching. While I agree with this critique to the extent to which it is levelled …

In many countries, the curricular relationship with digital technologies is moving very rapidly
(Stephens 2018). These technologies are not only seen as learning and teaching tools for …

Across our careers, we have found the process of doing research to be as interesting as the
findings. In this preface we aim to pull back the curtain to show beginning researchers some …

Explicitly linking curriculum inquiry to English education via recurring themes of
representation, democracy and knowledge, this book is a call for both researchers and …