1st Edition

Mapping the Field 75 Years of Educational Review, Volume I

Edited By Jane Martin, Marion Bowl, Gemma Banks Copyright 2024
326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

From its origins in the University of Birmingham’s then Institute of Education in 1948,  Educational Review  has emerged as a leading international journal for generic educational research. Seventy-five years on,  Mapping the Field  presents a detailed account of education theory and research, policy, and practice through the lens of some of the key articles published in the journal over this... Read more

Foreword: an intellectual history of educational research

Jane Martin, Marion Bowl and Gemma Banks

Part I: Theory and methods in educational scholarship

Marion Bowl and Jane Martin

1. Language in a social perspective

M. K. Halliday

2. Phenomenological perspectives and the sociology of the school

Roger Dale

3. The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

John Kennett

4. Challenges facing educational research: Educational Review Guest Lecture 2005

Andrew Pollard

5. Understanding learning cultures

Phil Hodkinson, Gert Biesta and David James

6. Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities

Emily Winchip, Howard Stevenson and Alison Milner 

Part II: Politics and policymaking

Marion Bowl and Jane Martin

7. Finding more time for the study of freedom

W. O. Lester Smith

8. Where stands educational policy towards the poor?

Philip Robinson

9. Doing things the ‘right’ way: legitimating educational inequalities in conservative times

Michael W. Apple

10. Global citizenship: abstraction or framework for action?

Lynn Davies

11. Does addressing prejudice and discrimination through Holocaust education produce better

citizens?

Paula Cowan and Henry Maitles

12. “Education as the practice of freedom?” – prison education and the pandemic

Kate O’Brien, Hannah King, Josie Phillips, Dalton, Kath and Phoenix

Part III: Leadership and management

Marion Bowl and Jane Martin

13. Becoming Career Ambitious: the career strategies of married women who became primary headteachers in the 1960s and 1970s

Julia Evetts 

14. Education policy, distributed leadership and socio‐cultural theory

David Hartley 

15. How does the new emphasis on managerialism in education redefine teacher professionalism? A case study in Guangdong Province of China

Jocelyn L. N. Wong

16. Beyond anonymity and the every-day: celebrity and the capture of educational leadership

Tanya Fitzgerald and Julia Savage 

17. “That would be my red line”: an analysis of headteachers’ resistance of neoliberal education reforms

Kay Fuller 

18. “Being” a Head of Department in an English University

Megan Crawford

Biography

Jane Martin is Professor of Social History of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is Director of the Domus Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Histories of Education and Childhood, and Executive Editor of Educational Review. Her most recent book is Gender and Education in England since 1770: A social and cultural history (2022) and is currently writing the biography of author, teacher, and socialist Caroline DeCamp Benn (1926-2000).

Marion Bowl is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is an academic, teacher and community worker, and Book Reviews Editor of Educational Review.

Gemma Banks holds numerous roles in academic publishing, including Editorial Administrator for the Journal of Moral Education, Social Media Manager for the Journal of Global Security Studies, and Journal Manager of Educational Review.