Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy

NOTE EDITORE

Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy focuses on what schools are for and what should be taught in them, how learning is possible across boundaries, and issues of diversity and equity. Policies and practices relating to schools are alsoconsidered. Within this volume, internationally renowned contributors address a number of fundamental questions designed to take the reader to the heart of current debates around curriculum, knowledge transfer, equity and social justice, and system reform, such as: What are schools and what are they for? What knowledge should schools teach? How are learners different from each other and how are groups of learners different from one another, in terms of social class, gender, ethnicity, and disability? What influence does educational policy have on improving schools? What influence does research have on our understanding of education and schooling? Toencourage reflection, many of the chapters also include questions for debate and a guide to further reading. Read alongside its companion volume, Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning, readers will be encouraged to consider and thinkabout on some of the key issues facing education and educationists today.

SOMMARIO

Introduction HARRY DANIELS, HUGH LAUDER AND JILL PORTER Section 1 Knowledge for teaching and learning Introduction to section 1 HUGH LAUDER 1.1 What are schools for? MICHAEL YOUNG 1.2 The school curriculum, theories of reproduction and necessary knowledge ROY NASH 1.3 The influence of constructivism on teaching and learning in classrooms ANNEMARIE PALINCSAR AND SARAH SCOTT 1.4 The double move in teaching – Developmental learning MARIANE HEDEGAARD Section 2 Learning across boundaries Introduction to section 2 HARRY DANIELS 2.1 Transfer of Knowledge between Education and Workplace Settings MICHAEL ERAUT 2.2 Learning in and for Multiagency Working PAUL WARMINGTON 2.3 Expansive learning in and for work HANNA TOIVIANEN AND YRJÖ ENGESTRÖM Section 3 Diversity and equity Introduction to section 3 JILL PORTER 3.1 Cultural ways of learning KRIS GUTIERREZ AND BARBARA ROGOFF 3.2 Equity and Social Justice Discourses in Education NAZ RASSOOL 3.3 Gender theory and research in education JO-ANNE DILLABOUGH 3.4 Symptoms, categories, and the process of invoking labels ROGER SÄLJÖ AND EVA HORNE 3.5 Inclusive pedagogy LANI FLORIAN AND RUTH KERSHNER 3.6 Disability: a complex interaction TOM SHAKESPEARE Section 4 Policy and governance Introduction to section 4 HUGH LAUDER 4.1 Realising the Potential of System Reform DAVID HOPKINS 4.2 Using Assessment in Education Reform: Policy, Practice and Future Possibilities HARRY TORRANCE 4.3 Why do some policies not work in schools? VIVIANNE ROBINSON 4.4 School as Imagined Community in Discursive Space: a perspective on the school effectiveness debate ANDREW STABLES Section 5 Deploying theory Introduction to section 5 HARRY DANIELS 5.1 How do secondary school subject departments contribute to the learning of beginning teachers? ALASTER DOUGLAS 5.2 Developing pedagogy for doctors-as-teachers: the role of Activity Theory CLARE MORRIS 5.3 Teacher/researcher: an unsustainable identity SARAH O’FLYNN 5.4 Using theory in social research: reflections on a doctoral study MARIA BALARIN

AUTORE

Harry Daniels is Professor of Education: Culture and Pedagogy, Head of the Learning as Cultural and Social Practice Research Programme, and Director of the Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research at the University of Bath, UK. Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy, and Head of the Policy and Management Research Group, at the University of Bath, UK. Jill Porter is Senior Lecturer in Research Methods and Special Education at the University of Bath, UK.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415491198
• Collana: Critical Perspectives on Education
• Dimensioni: 9.75 x 6.75 in Ø 1.60 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 36 b/w images, 9 tables, 10 halftones and 26 line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 310
• Pagine Romane: x