1st Edition
The Routledge Education Studies Textbook
The Routledge Education Studies Textbook is an academically wide-ranging and appropriately challenging resource for students beyond the introductory stages of a degree programme in Education Studies. Written in a clear and engaging style, the chapters are divided into three sections that examine fundamental ideas and issues, explore educational contexts, and offer study and research guidance respectively.
To support the development of critical thinking, debates between contributors are interspersed within sections and address the following questions:
- Do private schools legitimise privilege?
- Should the liberal state support religious schooling?
- Are developments in post-14 education reducing the divide between the academic and the vocational?
- Do schools contribute to social and community cohesion?
- Do traditional and progressive teaching methods exist or are there only effective and ineffective methods?
- Educational Research: a foundation for teacher professionalism?
Each chapter opens with an overview of the rationale behind it and closes with a summary of the main points. At the end of every chapter key questions are posed, encouraging the student to critically reflect on the content, and suggestions for further reading are made.
The Routledge Education Studies Textbook is essential reading for students of Education Studies, especially during second and third years of the undergraduate degree. It will be of interest to trainee teachers, including those working towards M Level.
A companion volume, The Routledge Education Studies Reader by the same editors, contains key classic and contemporary academic articles and has been designed to be used alongside this 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.
