ABSTRACT
Making Sense of Education provides a contemporary introduction to the key issues in educational philosophy and theory. Exploring major past and present conceptions of education, teaching and learning, this book makes philosophy of education relevant to the professional practice of teachers and student teachers, as well of interest to those studying education as an academic subject.
The book is divided into three parts:
- education, teaching and professional practice: issues concerning education, the role of the teacher, the relationship of educational theory to practice and the wider moral dimensions of pedagogy
- learning, knowledge and curriculum: issues concerning behaviourist and cognitive theories of learning, knowledge and meaning, curriculum aims and content and evaluation and assessment
- schooling, society and culture: issues of the wider social and political context of education concerning liberalism and communitarianism, justice and equality, differentiation, authority and discipline.
This timely and up-to-date introduction assists all those studying and/or working in education to appreciate the main philosophical sources of and influences on present day thinking about education, teaching and learning
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|82 pages
Education, teaching and professional practice
chapter Chapter 1|16 pages
Education, persons and schooling
chapter Chapter 2|16 pages
The complex character of teaching
chapter Chapter 3|16 pages
The complex role of the teacher
chapter Chapter 4|16 pages
Educational theory and practice
chapter Chapter 5|16 pages
Wider moral implications of education
part |82 pages
Learning, knowledge and curriculum
chapter Chapter 6|15 pages
Learning: behaviour, perception and cognition
chapter Chapter 7|16 pages
Learning: meaning, language and culture
chapter Chapter 8|16 pages
Knowledge, explanation and understanding
chapter Chapter 9|16 pages
Curriculum: purpose, form and content
chapter Chapter 10|17 pages
Curriculum: process, product and appraisal
part |81 pages
Schooling, society and culture