Dennis Hayes (ed.)

The RoutledgeFalmer Guide to Key Debates in Education

Herausgeber: Hayes, Dennis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Debating is out of fashion. No one raises the question of what has gone wrong when the entire political project of a society is seemingly reduced to 'education, education, education'. The aim of this lively and challenging book is to provide the stimulus for further thinking about key educational issues by exposing and explaining the assumptions behind this obsession. Over forty contributors, all experts in their fields, have written short, accessible, informed and lively articles for students, teachers and others involved in education. They address broad questions that are central to any understanding of what is really going on in the education system. Topics covered include: the new relationship of the state to education; the changed nature of schools; whether teachers are afraid to teach; the problems with circle time, anti-bullying strategies, citizenship education, and multiple intelligences; the retreat from truth and the demise of theory in teacher training, and much more. Everyone learning to teach in primary and secondary schools and further education colleges will find this book relevant to their programmes. In particular the book would be useful for students on Education Studies courses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9780415332446
• ISBN-10: 0415332443
• Artikelnr.: 22427921

Autorenporträt

Dennis Hayes

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Debating education: A beginner's guide Part 1. The state of
education 1. The formalisation of relationships in education 2. The
interventionist state and the state of UK education 3. Educating the people
4. The philosophy gap Part 2. Policing the classroom 5. Re-enacting early
childhood? 6. Afraid to teach? 7. Literacy singular or plural? For today or
tomorrow? 8. 'Literacy' and the 'literary' 9. Schooling Year 6: inclusion
or SATuration? 10. Circle time 11. Anti-bullying strategies in the UK 12.
Menu change in education? Part 3. The search for lost values, communities
and citizens 13. Just being there for us 14. Asserting children's rights
15. Education, children and social class 16. The subject of spirituality
17. Who is a good citizen? 18. Citizenship education: reflecting a
political malaise Part 4. Changing times? Changing education 19. Greening
education 20. Education as entertainment 21. ICT: don't believe the hype
22. Virtual learning or real learning? 23. The shattered mirror: a critique
of multiple intelligences theory 24. An impoverished education for all Part
5. Lifelong learning: lifelong dependence 25. The rise of low self-esteem
and the lowering of educational expectations 26. The trouble with lifelong
learning 27. FE cannot save the economy 28. Taking control: fashioning the
new citizen 29. Labour's fuel: lifelong learning policy as labour power
production 30. 'Getting your lines right': scripted communication in
professional contexts Part 6. The diminished academy 31. A profession in
crisis? 32. Corporate involvement in Initial Teacher Training 33. The
McDonaldization of lecturer training 34. The therapeutic turn in education
35. Academicus Superciliosus: the beasts revisited 36. Challenging students
Part 7. The study of education 37. Practice makes imperfect 38. Why does
truth matter? 39. Can everyone be a researcher? 40. Scholarship reinstated
Postscript: What are the key debates in education?