Education, Policy and Social Justice

Learning and Skills
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8693-6
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Continuum Studies in Lifelong Learning

Argues that post-compulsory education policy provides opportunities for a progressive and radical transformation of the theory and practice of working relationships.

Revealing analysis of the way in which the 'hidden curriculum' of post-compulsory education is at odds with its message about the world of work and working relationships.
- Makes controversial argument that modern education policy allows and even gives opportunities for dissent.
- Well-respected and productive author acknowledged as an expert in post-compulsory education.

Professor James Avis develops a highly cogent, sustained argument in this fascinating monograph. The highly stratified and managerialist messages currently provided to students by the "hidden curriculum" of post-compulsory education are at odds with its explicit messages about the world of work. The book argues, however, that current post-compulsory education policy, properly exploited, provides opportunities for a progressive (even transgressive) and radical transformation of the theory and practice of working relationships.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Lecturers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Avis, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung, lebenslanges Lernen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Education, Policy and Social Justice
2. Fordism, post-Fordism and Beyond
3. Work-based Learning and Social Justice: 'Learning to Labour' and the New Vocationalism
4. Learner Dispositions: Continuity and Change
5. Teachers and the Transformation of Practice
6. Knowledge, Curriculum and Power
7. Social Justice, Post-compulsory Education and Practice
8. Conclusion: Education, Policy and Social Justice

Über Autor(innen)

James Avis is Professor of Post-compulsory Education & Training at the University of Huddersfield. He has edited books with Cassell and Unwin Hyman and contributed to books with OUP, Paul Chapman, and Trentham. He has had dozens of articles published in academic and professional journals, such as in the Sociological Review, Journal of Further & Higher Education.