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Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

Thomas Smith

Challenging the Notion of Crisis in Education

Reclaiming Agency and Intent
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-19655-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Reclaiming Agency and Intent

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

ISBN: 978-1-041-19655-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd


This book explores the narrative of education being in a state of perpetual crisis and the motivations behind the historical and contemporary tendency to exploit the same. Written as a call for greater media literacy, the book recognises how and when “solutions” to the oft-acknowledged educational crises fail to address root causes, which only ends up maintaining the status quo.

Chapters examine how the notion of education being in a perpetual state of crisis is often underpinned by lack of funding, cherry-picking of data, ideological imperatives, fashioning of public opinion as amorphous, or simple incompetence. Offering real-world solutions using international examples from Japan, India, Sweden, Russia, South Korea and more, explained through robust philosophical conceptions, the author advocates for scepticism and epistemic humility as a key component in education. The book ultimately calls for people to reclaim the agency they have collectively surrendered in face of these crises, and emphasises on forging a new path that prioritises forward-thinking movements.

This book will be of value to academics, postgraduates and scholars of education interested in a solution centric re-orientation of the ongoing narrative and notions of education.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: How the Crisis Narrative Does Not Look for a Solution

Chapter 2: If There Are So Many Crises in Education, Why Are We So Resistant to Change?

Chapter 3: The Trouble with Opinions (Doxa)

Chapter 4: What Drives Educational Crises?

Chapter 5: Doubt as a Foundation to Education

Chapter 6: The Crisis of Being “Right”

Chapter 7: The Trouble with Public Opinions (Endoxa)

Chapter 8: What Drives Global-Wide Low Standards in Education?  Afterword


Michael Thomas Smith is a researcher in English and Transdisciplinary Education who has taught in the United States, the Middle East, and the Caucasu.



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