From the schools of ancient times to the present day, Gary Thomas looks at how and why education evolved as it has. By exploring some of the big questions, he e

"This Very Short Introduction explains how the evolution of education has been shaped over the centuries by politics, philosophy, and the social sciences. Consi

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What is a university? What is the University? How have universities evolved over the centuries? How might they change over the coming decades as the physical an

Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possi