Efnisyfirlit

• About the editor and contributors
• Introduction
• Part 1 Background and context
  • 1 What is education and what is its purpose? Why study education?
    • Everyone knows what education is – don’t they?
    • What is the purpose of education?
    • Thinking about socialisation and subjectification
    • The roots of education studies as a discipline
    • The many definitions of education
    • The disciplines related to education
    • Multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary?
    • Education is dynamic
  • 2 How does the study of other subjects expand our understanding of education?
    • How does philosophy contribute to the study of education?
    • How does history contribute to the study of education?
    • How does sociology contribute to the study of education?
    • How does psychology contribute to the study of education?
  • 3 What are the main factors affecting school organisation and the curriculum in England today?
    • Thinking about education policy and schools
    • Academies and academisation
    • Changes to the curriculum
    • Performance tables and school inspection
  • 4 How does identity shape young people’s experiences of schooling and education?
    • Social class and education
    • Gender and education
    • Race, ‘race’ and ethnicity and education
    • Understanding the intersections between aspects of identity
    • Identity and types of schooling
  • 5 What counts as social justice in education?
    • What is social justice?
    • What is social justice in education?
    • What is social justice-oriented education?
    • Why does it matter?
• Part 2 Education, learning and teaching
  • 6 What makes good teaching and learning?
    • Thinking about teaching
    • Thinking about learning
    • The interplay of teaching and learning
    • What does ‘excellent’ teaching mean?
  • 7 What’s so great about Finland? An introduction to comparative and international education
    • What are comparative and international education?
    • Learning to be international or international learning?
    • How do we compare apples and oranges?
    • An example: comparing teacher education
    • Statistics or stories?
    • What’s so great about Finland?
    • What can we learn from Finland?
    • Any more lessons?
  • 8 What are theories of learning, and how can we use them?
    • What are theories of learning?
    • Behaviourism
    • Cognitivism
    • Social development theory
    • Constructivism
    • Humanism
    • Experiential approaches
    • Twenty-first-century skills approaches
    • Neuroscientific theories of learning
    • Learning theories in the classroom
  • 9 What are schools for?
    • The emergence of mass schooling
    • The purposes of mass education
    • Schooling is political
    • Children’s experiences of school
    • Democracy in schools
  • 10 What is learning outside the classroom?
    • Learning outside the classroom
    • What is learning outside the classroom?
    • Places to learn outside of the classroom
    • Planning, facilitating and assessing learning outside the classroom
  • 11 Why do some children in the UK do better at school than others?
    • The education gap in the UK
    • How can we start to explain why some pupils outperform others?
    • Differentiation according to ethnicity
    • Ethnicity and gender
    • Ethnicity and social class
    • White working-class boys
  • 12 How can we provide children with special educational needs with a quality learning experience?
    • What do we mean by special educational needs?
    • The categories of need
    • Integration versus inclusion
    • What are teachers’ responsibilities?
    • Research
    • The graduated approach
    • Working in partnership with pupils and parents
    • Theory
    • Strategies to support children with special educational needs
  • 13 Teacher identity, teaching and pedagogical approaches
    • Teachers
    • Teaching
    • Reflecting on practice
    • Skills focus for the twenty-first century: necessary or emperor’s new clothes?
  • 14 What is vocational learning?
    • What is vocational and technical education?
    • Is vocational learning seeing a comeback?
    • What are the different types of vocational qualifications?
    • Who provides vocational and technical learning programmes?
    • Who teaches vocational and technical learning programmes?
    • Do vocational education programmes need to be taught differently?
    • Are there any key things to think about when teaching adults on vocational learning programmes?
• Part 3 Contemporary themes and issues in education: opinion pieces and commentaries
  • 15 Social justice in education
  • 16 Leadership and management in education
  • 17 Early years education and play
  • 18 Mental health and well-being
  • 19 Technology in the classroom
  • 20 Global citizenship education (GCE)
• Afterword
• Index

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