Education Studies: Issues & Critical Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-335-21972-8
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

This major text for Education Studies students provides a critical account of key issues in education today. The text features: - A critical analysis of key issues in Education Studies to encourage students’ thinking about education in the broadest terms
- Themed sections with introductions to link the issues discussed in each chapter
- Use of specific examples of educational diversity to illustrate how concerns such as ethnicity, gender and class operate in educational institutions
- An examination of educational issues as they relate to other phases of educational provision, such as home schooling and universitiesEducation Studies: Issues and Critical Perspectives is an essential text for Education Studies students. It is also of value to students on QTS courses and students and professionals in areas such as sociology, childhood studies, community studies and education policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kassem, Derek

Mufti, Emmanuel

Robinson, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword Section 1: Inside the school
Section introduction
Early years education: mixed messages and conflicts
Evidenced-based education: finding out what works and what hurts
The politics of the National Numeracy and Literacy Strategies
Shaping pedagogy from psychological ideas
When evidence is not enough: freedom to choose versus prescribed choice: the case of Summerhill Section 2: Policy, politics and education
Section introduction
New Labour’s education policy
England: educating for the twenty-first century
What do we really know from school improvement and effectiveness research?
Away with all teachers: the cultural politics of home learning
New students: same old structures Section 3: Education at the margins
Section introduction
Stephen and Anthony: the continuing implications of the Macpherson report for teacher education
Meeting the educational needs of forced migrants
Education of looked after children: who cares?
Women and state schools: Britain 1870 to present day
Lifelong learning, just a slogan? The reality for working-class women Section 4: Global education: global issues
Section introduction
New Labour, globalisation and social justice: the role of teacher education
Pakistan: whither educational reforms?
Changing geographies of power in education: the politics of rescaling and its contradictions
Education for sustainable development Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robinson, John
John Robinson (PhD, University of Michigan, 1981) is the Patricia 77 and Grant E. Sims 77 Eminent Scholar Chair in Business. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, John was the C. Aubrey Smith Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, and he taught at the University of Kansas, where he was the Arthur Young Faculty Scholar. In 20092010 John served as the Academic Fellow in the Division of Corporation Finance at the Securities and Exchange Commission. He has been the recipient of the Henry A. Bubb Award for outstanding teaching, the Texas Blazers Faculty Excellence Award, and the MPA Council Outstanding Professor Award. John also received the 2012 Outstanding Service Award from the American Taxation Association (ATA) and in 2017 was named the Ernst & Young and ATA Ray Sommerfeld Outstanding Educator. John served as the 20152016 president of the ATA. John conducts research in a broad variety of topics involving financial accounting, mergers and acquisitions, and the influence of taxes on financial structures and performance. His scholarly articles have appeared in The Accounting Review, The Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Finance, National Tax Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of the American Taxation Association, The Journal of the American Bar Association, and The Journal of Taxation. Johns research was honored with the 2003 and 2008 ATA Outstanding Manuscript Awards. In addition, John was the editor of The Journal of the American Taxation Association from 20022005. Professor Robinson received his JD (Cum Laude) from the University of Michigan in 1979, and he teaches courses on individual and corporate taxation and advanced accounting.