1st Edition
The Routledge Education Studies Textbook
Introduction
James Arthur and Ian Davies
Section 1 Foundations of Education
Chapter 1 The Goals of Education
David Carr
Chapter 2 Education and Culture
Michael A. Peters and Ergin Bulut
Chapter 3 Education and the State 1850 to the Present
Paul Wakeling
Debate 1 Do private schools legitimise privilege?
Bernard Trafford and Rupert Tillyard
Chapter 4 Gender and Education
Vanita Sundarum
Chapter 5 Education and Social Class
Jon Davison
Chapter 6 Citizenship Education and Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
Bela Arora
Debate 2 Should the liberal state support religious schooling?
James Conroy and Tony Gallagher
Chapter 7 Views of Intelligence
János Gordon-Gyori and Márta Fülöp
Chapter 8 How do People Learn?
Des Hewitt
Section 2 Contexts: Making Education Work
Chapter 9 Understanding Underachievement in School
Emma Smith
Chapter 10 The Politics of Educational Change
Alan Reid
Debate 3 Are developments in post-14 education reducing the divide between the academic and the vocational?
Richard Pring and John Fox
Chapter 11 The Historical and Social Context of Curriculum
Bob Moon
Chapter 12 How Should We Teach?
Chris Kyriacou
Chapter 13 Assessment
Lee Jerome
Debate 4 Do schools contribute to social and community cohesion?
John Preston and Namita Chakrabarty
Chapter 14 Professional Learning
Liam Gearon
Chapter 15 Radical Education: the past?
Ralph Leighton
Chapter 16 E-learning: the future?
Caroline Daly and Norbert Pachler
Debate 5 Do traditional and progressive teaching methods exist or are there only effective and ineffective methods?
Chris Kyriacou and Anne Cockburn
Section 3 Doing Education Studies
Chapter 17 Accessing and Understanding Research in Education
Stephen Gorard
Chapter 18 Doing Educational Research
Alan Sears
Debate 6 Educational Research: a foundation for teacher professionalism?
Andrew Pollard and Mark Newman
Biography
James Arthur is Professor of Education and Civic Engagement at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Ian Davies is Professor in Educational Studies at the University of York, UK.
