Education

Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and the Threat to Academic Freedom

Policies of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) have increasingly led to the exclusion of individuals who do not share a radical 'woke' ideology on identity politics and to the suppression of the academic freedom to discuss such dogmas. Here we put together some particularly illustrative cases of such repression in a single book.

Character and Virtues

10 Years of the Jubilee Centre
Aidan P. Thompson

This book captures the key areas of focus of the Jubilee Centre's work over the past ten years. It would be of interest to those who have followed any part of the Jubilee Centre’s journey since 2012, as well as researchers into character and virtues and character educators in schools and universities.

Social Radicalism and Liberal Education

Lindsay Paterson

The book examines why social radicals supported liberal education, why they have moved away from it, and what the implications are for the future of an intellectually stimulating and culturally literate education.

Educating Character Through Stories

David Carr

This book argues that the narratives and stories of great literary works are of neglected significance and value for contemporary understanding of human moral association and character.

Global Philosophy

What Philosophy Ought to Be
Nicholas Maxwell

This book is about education, learning, rational inquiry, philosophy, science studies, problem solving, academic inquiry, global problems, wisdom and, above all, the urgent need for an academic revolution.

How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World

The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution
Nicholas Maxwell

In this lucid and provocative book, Nicholas Maxwell argues convincingly that we need urgently to bring about a revolution in universities round the world so that their basic aim becomes wisdom, and not just knowledge.

Understanding Teaching and Learning

Classic Texts on Education by Augustine, Aquinas, Newman and Mill
T. Brian Mooney

Generous selections from these four seminal texts on the theory and practice of education have never before appeared together in a single volume.

The Creation of Reality

A Constructivist Epistemology of Journalism and Journalism Education
Bernhard Poerksen

In this book, Bernhard Poerksen draws up a new rationale for constructivist thinking and charts out directions for the imaginative examination of personal certainties and the certainties of others, of ideologies great and small.

Of Good Character

Exploration of Virtues and Values in 3-25 year-olds
James Arthur

There has been across the world a resurgence of interest in 'values education' (values education is known internationally by a number of names) at school education, research and policy levels. The purpose of this book is to make a contribution to this emerging field.

Lotteries for Education

Conall Boyle

Lotteries are widely used to decide places (seats) at schools, colleges and universities. Conall Boyle explores many examples to find out why. The emotional turmoil that the use of ballots can cause to students and parents alike is graphically described.

Citizens of Character

New Directions in Character and Values Education
James Arthur

The contributors discuss why character education is considered valuable, what character education is taken to mean, and identify and test hypotheses about various influences (schools, families, communities, employers) on the development of character through reporting on our research in UK schools, universities and businesses.

Leadership in Christian Higher Education

Michael Wright

This book provides a range of experienced voices, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, that reflect on the character and mission of leadership in Christian higher education in the 21st Century.

The School of Freedom

A liberal education reader from Plato to the present day
Anthony O'Hear

Liberal education is a term that has fallen from use in Britain, its traditional meaning now freely confused with its opposite. This book is intended to correct that misapprehension, through the presentation of original source material from the high points in the liberal education tradition with particular focus on the British experience.

Unlearning

Or how NOT to be governed?
Nader N. Chokr

The aim of this book is to show why we should hold 'unlearning' to be a crucial ‘capability’ in and for education at this point in our history.

Liberalism, Education and Schooling

Essays by T.M. McLaughlin
David Carr

A tribute collection of essays edited by author's colleagues and friends.

Universities

The Recovery of an Idea
Gordon Graham

Using some themes of Cardinal Newman's classic The Idea of a University as a springboard, this extended essay aims to address the problems of modern universities.

Great Reading Disaster

Reclaiming Our Educational Birthright
Mona McNee

By the late 1980s half the nation's children were receiving 11 years of progressivist schooling that failed to give them even the elementary basis of education that was completed by the age of 7 in earlier days. This book explains the causes and provides the solution to this problem.

Education and the Voice of Michael Oakeshott

Kevin Williams

The work of Michael Oakeshott has retained a striking currency in philosophical discourse about education. In the light of this continuing interest and of Oakeshott's extensive writing on so many aspects of education, it is timely that a book be published on his thinking on the subject.

John Grote, Cambridge University and the Development of Victorian Thought

John R. Gibbins

This book answers three questions: How did John Grote develop and contribute to modern Cambridge and British philosophy? What is the significance of these contributions to modern philosophy in general and British Idealism and language philosophy in particular? How were his ideas and his idealism incorporated into the modern philosophical tradition?

Can Oxford be Improved?

A View from the Dreaming Spires and the Satanic Mills
Anthony Kenny

In December 2006, dons at Oxford University caused turmoil by rejecting a set of governance reforms that were championed by their own vice-chancellor. This book is a response to these events, addressed in large part to Oxford's funders - government and benefactors - and is useful reading for those with an interest in the future of this university.

Institution of Intellectual Values

Realism and Idealism in Higher Education
Gordon Graham

This is a revised and expanded version of the much praised short book Universities: The Recovery of An Idea.

Knowledge Monopolies

The Academisation of Society
Alan Shipman

Historians and sociologists chart the consequences of the expansion of knowledge; philosophers of science examine the causes. This book bridges the gap. The focus is on 'academisation'.

Values, Education and the Human World

John Haldane

The essays in this book consist of revised versions of Victor Cook Memorial Lectures.

Managing Britannia

Culture and Management in Modern Britain
Robert Protherough

This book shows how modern management practices have all but destroyed politics, education, culture and religion — modern management is the cause of our national malaise.

Education! Education! Education!

Managerial Ethics and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Stephen Prickett

The essays in this book criticise the new positivism in education policy, whereby education is systematically reduced to those things that can be measured by so-called 'objective' tests.

New Idea of a University

Duke Maskell

The New Idea of a University is an entertaining and highly readable defence of the philosophy of liberal arts education and an attack on the sham that has been substituted for it. It is sure to scandalize all the friends of the present establishment and be cheered elsewhere.

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