ABSTRACT
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
part Section 1|78 pages
Policy and politics
chapter Chapter 7|10 pages
The inclusion agendaIs it practically possible in mainstream primary schools?
part Section 2|56 pages
Global and environmental education
part Section 3|62 pages
Knowledge and learning
chapter Chapter 16|12 pages
Creative pedagogy for empowermentHolistic learning through expressive arts
chapter Chapter 17|13 pages
Information Technology and learningThe shifting identities of learners and educators
part Section 4|30 pages
Childhood and youth
chapter Chapter 19|10 pages
The ‘resilient’ childDefining and supporting children’s resilience in educational practice
part Section 5|25 pages
Professionalism and employment