ABSTRACT

The Routledge Education Studies Textbook is an academically wide-ranging and appropriately challenging resource for students beyond the introductory stages of a degree programme in Education Studies. Written in a clear and engaging style, the chapters are divided into three sections that examine fundamental ideas and issues, explore educational contexts, and offer study and research guidance respectively.

To support the development of critical thinking, debates between contributors are interspersed within sections and address the following questions:

  • Do private schools legitimise privilege?
  • Should the liberal state support religious schooling?
  • Are developments in post-14 education reducing the divide between the academic and the vocational?
  • Do schools contribute to social and community cohesion?
  • Do traditional and progressive teaching methods exist or are there only effective and ineffective methods?
  • Educational Research: a foundation for teacher professionalism?

Each chapter opens with an overview of the rationale behind it and closes with a summary of the main points. At the end of every chapter key questions are posed, encouraging the student to critically reflect on the content, and suggestions for further reading are made.

The Routledge Education Studies Textbook is essential reading for students of Education Studies, especially during second and third years of the undergraduate degree. It will be of interest to trainee teachers, including those working towards M Level.

A companion volume, The Routledge Education Studies Reader by the same editors, contains key classic and contemporary academic articles and has been designed to be used alongside this Textbook.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part Section 1|114 pages

Foundations of Education

chapter Chapter 1|10 pages

The Goals of Education

chapter Chapter 2|11 pages

Education and Culture

chapter Chapter 3|11 pages

Education and the State 1850 to the Present

part Debate 1|40 pages

Do Private Schools Legitimise Privilege?

chapter Chapter 4|11 pages

Gender and Education

chapter Chapter 5|10 pages

Education and Social Class

part Debate 2|40 pages

Should the Liberal State Support Religious Schooling?

chapter Chapter 7|14 pages

Views of Intelligence

chapter Chapter 8|14 pages

How do People Learn?

part Section 2|114 pages

Contexts

chapter Chapter 9|10 pages

Understanding Underachievement in School

chapter Chapter 10|12 pages

The Politics of Educational Change

part Debate 3|42 pages

Are Developments in Post-14 Education Reducing the Divide Between the Academic and the Vocational?

chapter Chapter 11|12 pages

The Historical and Social Context of Curriculum

chapter Chapter 12|10 pages

How Should we Teach?

chapter Chapter 13|11 pages

Assessment

part Debate 4|40 pages

Do Schools Contribute to Social and Community Cohesion?

chapter Chapter 14|12 pages

Professional Learning

chapter Chapter 15|9 pages

Radical Education

The past?

chapter Chapter 16|11 pages

E-Learning

The future?

part Debate 5|8 pages

Do Traditional and Progressive Teaching Methods Exist or are There Only Effective and Ineffective Methods?

part Section 3|35 pages

Doing Education Studies

chapter Chapter 18|13 pages

Doing Educational Research

part Debate 6|9 pages

Educational Research