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Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

About the Book Series

The philosophy of education is enjoying a resurgence of interest internationally, in line with the growing attention worldwide to education's seminal importance in shaping societies, economies and people's lives. This series brings together some of the leading experts from around the world, and provides an outlet for the very latest cutting-edge research.

Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:

Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America

Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia

95 Series Titles


Practicing Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning

Practicing Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning

1st Edition

Edited By Donata Schoeller, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, Greg Walkerden
December 26, 2025

This book delves into the embodied ground of thinking, illuminating the transition from theorising about the embodied mind to actively practising embodied thinking in research, teaching, and learning. The authors speak from immersing themselves in novel methods that engage the felt, experiential ...

A New Education for a New Economy: From Human Capital to Human Flourishing

A New Education for a New Economy: From Human Capital to Human Flourishing

1st Edition

By Tal Gilead
October 27, 2025

Providing an in-depth, novel analysis of education’s role in today’s economy by scrutinizing its theoretical underpinnings, this volume critiques the suitability of the current, dominant economic framework for education and for shaping educational policymaking worldwide. Critically examining the ...

Intelligence, Sapience and Learning Concepts, Framings and Practices

Intelligence, Sapience and Learning: Concepts, Framings and Practices

1st Edition

By David Scott, Sandra Leaton Gray
October 26, 2025

Examining the idea of intelligence in its diverse sociological and philosophical formations, Intelligence, Sapience and Learning explores the multiple and often complex meanings associated with the concept of intelligence, and its relationships with learning, curriculum and sapience. Scott and ...

Defending the Value of Education as a Public Good Philosophical Dialogues on Education and the State

Defending the Value of Education as a Public Good: Philosophical Dialogues on Education and the State

1st Edition

Edited By Katarzyna Wrońska, Julian Stern
June 27, 2025

Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context while also critiquing the state’s role in supporting and strengthening this educational focus. ...

Lyotard Just Education

Lyotard: Just Education

1st Edition

Edited By Pradeep Dhillon, Paul Standish
January 30, 2025

Following Lyotard's death in 1998, this book provides an exploration of the recurrent theme of education in his work. It brings to a wider audience the significance of a body of thought about education that is subtle, profound and still largely unexplored. This book also makes an important ...

Discursive Thinking Through of Education Learning from Those Who Transform the Universe

Discursive Thinking Through of Education: Learning from Those Who Transform the Universe

1st Edition

By Oleg Bazaluk
December 19, 2024

This book is a contribution to the philosophical discourse on education. Education is considered a tool of philosophy. Education (paideia) and politics (politeia) are equal in importance for building a sustainable society free from feud and unhappiness. Discursive thinking through of education is ...

Philosophy of Education in Dialogue between East and West Japanese Insights and Perspectives

Philosophy of Education in Dialogue between East and West: Japanese Insights and Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Masamichi Ueno
November 29, 2024

This edited book opens a dialogue on theories and philosophies of education between the East and the West in the era of globalisation. A great deal of research has been devoted to discussion of the ideas of Western theorists such as Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Fröbel, Herbert, Dewey, ...

Higher Education in Liquid Modernity

Higher Education in Liquid Modernity

1st Edition

By Marvin Oxenham
October 14, 2024

Based in sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, this volume describes and critiques key aspects and practices of liquid education--education as market-driven consumption, short life span of useful knowledge, overabundance of information--through a systematic comparison ...

Justice, Education, and the World of Today Philosophical Investigations

Justice, Education, and the World of Today: Philosophical Investigations

1st Edition

Edited By Inga Bostad, Marianna Papastephanou, Torill Strand
October 04, 2024

This edited book challenges the limits of current educational philosophical discourse and argues for a restored normativisation of education through a powerful notion of justice. Moving beyond conventional paradigms of how justice and education relate, the book rethinks the promotion of justice in,...

Educating Character Through the Arts

Educating Character Through the Arts

1st Edition

Edited By Laura D'Olimpio, Panos Paris, Aidan P. Thompson
May 27, 2024

This volume investigates the role of the arts in character education. Bringing together insights from esteemed philosophers and educationalists, it looks to the arts for insight into human character and explores the arts’ relationship to human flourishing and the development of the virtues. ...

Education in an Age of Lies and Fake News Regaining a Love of Truth

Education in an Age of Lies and Fake News: Regaining a Love of Truth

1st Edition

Edited By Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš
January 29, 2024

The ‘post-truth’ world in which we live has been beset by fake news, lies and a cavalier disregard for truth. If truth is neglected then an alternative is an appeal to the emotions in order to validate a particular position, which can quickly turn to the use of power to impose a particular view. ...

Rethinking the Politics of Education

Rethinking the Politics of Education

1st Edition

By Nick Peim
January 29, 2024

Rethinking the Politics of Education provides an entirely original rethinking of the modern and contemporary mythology of education. Problematizing the ideas concerning education as fulfilment and redemption, the book critically reviews the association of education with projects of social justice, ...

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