Schooling Ideology And The Curriculum Rle Edu L

Author : Len Barton,Roland Meighan,Stephen A Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136471186

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Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum (RLE Edu L) by Len Barton,Roland Meighan,Stephen A Walker Pdf

Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to explore the ways in which notions of the relations between theory and practice, between belief and action, can be used to develop three kinds of sensitivity in the sociology of education. A sensitivity towards how school systems are created, maintained and made to function; towards developing a more refined, critical and constructive awareness of the reliability and validity of descriptions, analyses and explanations offered in this field of study; and a sensitivity towards the ways in which changes take place within the education system and how the insights and realisations generated in the discipline might be used to control such occurrences.

Author : Len Barton,Roland Meighan,Stephen Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Curriculum planning
ISBN : 020381617X

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Author : Len Barton,Roland Meighan,Stephen Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Curriculum planning
ISBN : OCLC:797824201

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Schooling, Ideology, and the Curriculum by Len Barton,Roland Meighan,Stephen Walker Pdf

Author : MICHAEL Flude,JOHN AHIER
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136470424

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Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L) by MICHAEL Flude,JOHN AHIER Pdf

The sociology of education has been at the forefront of new developments in sociological theory. This book examines and criticizes a number of these new developments and discusses some empirical work on issues of current concern. One of the few books that integrates radical and critical sociology into the field of education, it deals with the resultant difficulties. The topics covered include cultural deprivation, ideologies in education, classrooms, the teaching profession and the history of women’s education.

Author : Peter Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136465024

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Sociology and the School (RLE Edu L) by Peter Woods Pdf

This is an introduction to interactionist work in education during the 1970s and 80s. The interactionist viewpoint concentrates on how people construct meanings in the ebb and flow of everyday life – what they think and do, how they react to one another – and has in recent years established itself as one of the leading approaches in education. It has generated illuminating research studies which, by being firmly based in the real world of teaching and dealing with the fine-grained details of school life, have helped to break down the barriers between teacher and researcher. This volume presents the results of this valuable work, within a coherent theoretical framework, by focusing on the major interactionist concepts of situation, perspectives, cultures, strategies, negotiation and careers. By bringing them together in this way, the author demonstrates their collective potential for the deeper understanding of school life and the possibilities for sociological theory. His book therefore offers both a summary of and a reflection on achievement in the area of interactionism as it relates to schools.

Author : Phillip Brown,Hugh Lauder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136470066

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Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education) by Phillip Brown,Hugh Lauder Pdf

What unites the contributors to this book is an opposition to Thatcherite policies on education and an agreement upon the need for the development of democracy in education. This volume highlights the importance of an area of neglected theoretical and practical concern: the development of a critique of the philosophy and policies of the new Right, and of credible alternative policies.

Author : Len Barton,Stephen A Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136471117

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Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L) by Len Barton,Stephen A Walker Pdf

Originally written at a time of crisis in the education system of Britain – occasioned by cuts, contradictions and change - many of the issues discussed in this book are still relevant today. Debate in the book focuses upon an examination of the nature of the crisis, an exploration of the impact of the crisis upon school processes and upon the relationship between life in school and in the wider community, an investigation of the responses being made by pupils, teachers and educationalists to the day-to-day manifestations of the crisis and a consideration of how the current crisis is giving a particular poignancy to issues to do with the theories and methods employed in our study and interpretation of contemporary educational processes.

Author : Ann Berlak,Harold Berlak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136471049

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Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L) by Ann Berlak,Harold Berlak Pdf

This study illuminates how the everyday activity of teachers raises profound economic, cultural, ethical, political and research issues, and provides a new and fruitful way of examining the practice of teaching. The first part of the book offers a detailed description of sensitively recorded school situations, arising from work carried out in a number of British primary schools. From the analysis of their research the authors constructed a theoretical perspective for looking at schooling in the form of sixteen ‘dilemmas’; the second half of the book is concerned with this perspective, and shows how the dilemmas constitute a language for looking at everyday schooling and relating it to more general political, social and cultural issues. The book thus spans the gap in educational thinking between work with a firm empirical base and specifically theoretical studies.

Author : Len Barton,Stephen A Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136450679

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Schools, Teachers and Teaching (RLE Edu N) by Len Barton,Stephen A Walker Pdf

This volume considers how various sociological approaches to the exploration of the conditions of teachers’ might be co-ordinated so as to produce a more penetrating and reliable understanding of the main dimensions of teachers’ work. Three dimensions are selected for special attention: historical, institutional and interactional contexts in which teachers operate. In different way the papers in this collection explore the contribution such an investigation of these contexts can make to our understanding of wider educational concerns.

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1984-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 087722370X

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Ideology, Culture & the Process of Schooling by Henry A. Giroux Pdf

This book lays bare the ideological and political character of the positivist rationality that has been the primary theoretical underpinning of educational research in the United States. These assumptions have expressed themselves in the form and content of curriculum, classroom social relations, classroom cultural artifacts, and the experiences and beliefs of teachers and students. Have existing radical critiques provided the theoretical building blocks for a new theory of pedagogy? The author attempts to move beyond the abstract, negative characteristics of many radical critiques, which are often based on false dualisms that fail to link structure and intentionally, content and process, ideology and hegemony, etc. He also is critical of the over-determined models of socialization and the abstract celebration of subjectivity that underlies much of the false utopianism of many radical perspectives. Professor Giroux begins to lay the theoretical groundwork for developing a radical pedagogy that connects critical theory with the need for social action in the interest of individual freedom and social reconstruction. Author note: Henry A. Giroux is Assistant Professor of Education at Boston University. He is the co-editor of Curriculum and Instruction: Alternatives in Education and The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education.

Author : Gerald Grace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136453687

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Teachers, Ideology and Control (RLE Edu N) by Gerald Grace Pdf

Teachers of the urban working class, especially in inner city areas, have always been regarded as strategic agents in processes of social and cultural formation. In the Victorian era, seen as ‘The Teachers of the People’, ‘Pioneers of Civilization’ and ‘Preachers of Culture’, their role in gentling and controlling the urban masses was crucial. They have always been at the centre of confrontation and struggle – in a classroom sense, in a cultural sense and in a socio-political sense. In contemporary inner city schools such confrontation and struggle remain a reality. Teachers, Ideology and Control is one of the first attempts to examine this important social and occupational group by locating contemporary sociological research in an historical framework. As such it will be of interest not only to students of sociology and education (especially urban education) but also to social historians. Its relevance to those who either administer or teach in urban schools will be clear. The author shows the ways in which contemporary inner city schools are caught up in an ideological struggle in education. He explore the nature of constraint and control in urban education with reference to existing constructs of the ‘good teacher’; the demands of the teacher’s work situation and the reality of autonomy. He suggests that, viewed historically, the relative autonomy of teachers has increased as a result largely of socio-political and institutional crises. At the same time however there have been important changes in the modality of social control, changes from more explicit to more implicit features. What it is to be a ‘good teacher’, the effects of day-to-day ‘immersion’ in school life and the ideology of professionalism- -these are all seen to be important constituents of a network of implicit control in contemporary education.

Author : Gary Easthope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136463143

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Community, Hierarchy and Open Education (RLE Edu L) by Gary Easthope Pdf

The book describes the English school, especially the secondary school, as a hierarchical community in which the head-teacher (principal) is an autocratic ruler. After explaining how that particular organisation of the school developed historically from the market situation faced by the English public (i.e. private) schools in the developing industrial society of the nineteenth century it provides empirical evidence demonstrating that the hierarchies of knowledge, teachers and students that developed then were still in place when the book was published in 1975. They are still present today. It also looks at the challenges to the school as a hierarchical community presented by the ideologies of deschooling, progressive education and open education. Finally, it provides an explanation of why these ideologies were never put into practice in English schools despite some pioneering exemplars. Although first published over thirty-five years ago the issues examined in it raise questions that are still central to education today: Does size of school affect the commitment of teachers to the school, their colleagues and their students? How can the teaching staff be organised in a school? Do all need to work to the same ends? What is the role of leadership from the head-teacher (principal) in this? Is it possible to have a curriculum that is open without losing rigour? What should be the relationship between using local community knowledge and the educational wish to extend students’ horizons? The result is a short, nuanced, and densely argued text that demands thought and reflection from any contemporary educator.

Author : Thomas S Popkewitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136465796

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Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L) by Thomas S Popkewitz Pdf

This book explores the complex social assumptions and values that underlie research programmes about schools. The analysis of educational research draws upon American and European scholarships in the sociology of knowledge, social philosophy and the history and sociology of science. The discussion considers first the communal, crafts and social characteristics of educational research. Three research models empirical-analytic, symbolic or linguistic and critical sciences are given attention. The discussion of the three research models is to illuminate how the constellation of commitments, assumptions and practices inter-relate to perform a paradigm giving different and conflicting definitions to the meaning of educational theory and to the use of the particular techniques of enquiry. The social role of educational research and the researcher is also considered.

Author : Madan Sarup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136460401

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Marxism/Structuralism/Education (RLE Edu L) by Madan Sarup Pdf

This interdisciplinary textbook provides an introduction to the many theoretical developments and controversies which took place in the sociology and politics of education during the 1970s and 80s. The book Discusses the arguments concerning humanist and structuralist Marixsm. Provides a clear and concise introduction to structuralism and post-structuralism (work of Derrida, Lacan and Foucault) and theorises in the ways they contribute to Marxism or are subversive of it. Relates these theoretical perspectives to education and the practice of teachers.

Author : Hugh Lauder,Cathy Wylie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136469992

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Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education) by Hugh Lauder,Cathy Wylie Pdf

The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentieth century. For other Western societies who have felt the impact of New Right policies the New Zealand case is interesting because it provides some indication of how policies of decentralization in education might be used to develop egalitarian and democratic educational policies. In recent years there have been major changes to educational systems in the Western world. Often these changes have been justified by reference to successful educational practices in other countries. However, it is not always possible simply to abstract educational practices from one context and apply them in another successfully. Moreover claims that policies in one country are more successful than those in another have to be treated cautiously: there are always problems in making valid comparisons between the educational performances of different countries. It is important, therefore, that critical and comparative studies are made of educational systems which take full account of the contexts in which they are embedded.