255 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
255 Pages
by
Routledge
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In recent years education has become increasingly perceived as an area of risk. A number of highly publicized incidents have heightened awareness of the potential dangers to be found in teaching institutions. Although there is now a substantial conceptual literature on risk and the meaning of the risk society, such ideas have not to date been rigorously applied to the educational sector. The... Read more
Contents: Theoretical Considerations of Risk: Risk, education and culture: interpreting danger as a dynamic, culturally situated process, Andrew Hope; Knowledge, risk and existentialism, Paul Oliver; Risk and education: a distortion of reality, Linda Eastwood and Chris Ormondroyd; Risk, education and postmodernity, Paul Oliver. Case Studies in Risk and Education: 'Moral Panic', internet use and risk perspectives in educational organizations, Andrew Hope; Schooling, actuarialism and social exclusion: using the education system to serve the broader political purposes of law and order, Simone Bull; Young people‘s attitudes to drug education, Matthew Pearson; Risks and uncertainties in vocational education in Africa, Nkongho Arrey Arrey-Ndip; Risk management in school based design and technology, Jeff Knox; Higher education in further education - a risky business or too good to miss, Freda Bridge; Work-based learning and its associated risk, Gwendolen Bradshaw; Educating for risk: how social work degree students prepare to practise as social workers, Ros Day; Knowledge capture, knowledge rendering and knowledge use in a metropolitan fire service, Trevor Austin; Negotiating risks in career development, Charles P. Chen; Diversity, risk, excellence and the public good in education, Kay Adamson; Educating about donor insemination: managing risky identities in donor insemination, Catherine Donovan and Nigel Watson; Index.
Biography
Dr Andrew Hope, Department of Sociology, University of Sunderland, UK and Dr Paul Oliver, School of Education and Professional Development, The University of Huddersfield, UK.
