Philosophy of Education: Modern and Contemporary Ideas at Play offers a space of questioning and imagination where students are asked to suspend what they think they have come to know and think critically, imaginatively, and playfully about the status quo. Future teachers are given an opportunity to analyze assumptions, speculate as to alternatives, and cultivate a comprehensive sense of the relationships between all aspects of schooling. Educational philosophy provides the skills needed to play with ideas.

Understanding Glocal Contexts: What Every Novice Teacher Needs to Know is an edited volume that is a part of a book series mostly designed to help undergraduate students determine if joining the teaching profession is for them. This book focuses on the historical and sociocultural foundations of education and its importance for novice teachers. It also provides the global and local (glocal) foundations for understanding the current context of public education, utilizing historical, sociological, cultural, and economic and political sciences contexts and perspectives.