Description
This new edition of A Student’s Guide to Education Studies is an essential resource for any undergraduate making their first explorations into the fascinating world of education. It explores a wide range of alternative visions of education encouraging students to challenge the perceived notions about learning and knowledge.
Offering new perspectives and powerful ideas for discussion on a variety of long-standing topics such as class, race and gender, the book is organised around five enduring themes: Policy and Politics, Global and Environmental Education, Knowledge and Learning, Childhood and Youth, Professionalism and Employment. With a distinctive international and global focus, this new edition has been extensively updated to reflect the latest research and thinking in the field and features new chapters on:
- The sociology of education and the philosophy of education
- Inclusion
- Childhood and youth
- Professionalism and work-based learning
- Populism in politics
Including summary points, questions for discussion and annotated suggestions for further reading, this book provides the theoretical background needed to carry out a critical analysis of education policy and practice and is an essential resource for all students of Education Studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The study of education
Section 1 – Policy and Politics
1 Education Policy and Marketisation – Stephen Ward
2 Education and Social Justice – Catherine Simon
3 Race, Ethnicity and Education in England – Charlotte Chadderton
4 Gender and Work – Christine Eden
5 Education and Social Mobility – Richard Riddell
6 Educational Achievement: An intersectional approach – Christine Eden
7 The Inclusion Agenda in Mainstream Primary Schools? – Zeta Brown and Jo Winwood
Section 2 – Global and Environmental Education
8 International and Comparative Education – Brendan Bartram
9 Globalisation and Populism: Why intercultural education failed – David Coulby
10 Religion and Worldviews in Education – Denise Cush
11 Education and Climate Change – David Hicks
12 Education for Sustainability – David Hicks
Section 3 – Knowledge and Learning
13 The Sociology of Knowledge – Rita Chawla-Duggan
14 Social Psychology and Learning – Cathal O’Siochru
15 Philosophy and Education – Tom Feldges
16 Creative Pedagogy for Empowerment through Expressive Arts – June Bianchi
17 Information Technology and Learning – Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou
Section 4 – Childhood and Youth
18 Early Years Education – Ioanna Palaiologou and Zenna Kingdon
19 The ‘Resilient’ Child: Defining and supporting children’s resilience – Zeta Brown and Jo Winwood
20 Health and Education – Bethan Mitchell
Section 5 – Professionalism and Employment
21 Work-based Learning – Catherine Simon
22 Professionalism – Jim Hordern, Kendra McMahon
Notes on contributors
Index
