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Summary
Summary
The Study of Education: An Introduction considers the nature, aims and purposes of education. It introduces the student new looking at education as an academic discipline to the key perspectives and contexts of education in order to prepare them for further study in the field.
This book is an accessible, introductory course companion for education related courses. Boxed examples and case studies are provided where appropriate, to enable the student learner to contextualise the introductory theory that is presented.
The authors also introduce methods of autobiography through which students will be challenged to explore and contextualise their own educational journey in order to make sense of education in the past, present and future.
Author Notes
Jane Bates is Principal Subject Leader of Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements |
| Part 1 Personal Journeys |
| 1 Writing the Self: Educational Autobiography |
| Stories and Oral Histories |
| Educational Autobiographies |
| Personal Journeys |
| Writing â€~Your Self' |
| Summary |
| Part 2 The Nature of Education |
| 2 The Purpose of Education |
| What is Education? |
| What is Education For? |
| Education as a Product and a Process |
| Education and Schooling |
| Summary 3 What It Means To Be Educated |
| What it means to be educated |
| The Value of Education |
| Education as a Human Right |
| Summary |
| 4 The Structure of Education |
| Historical Perspectives |
| Orientation and Organisation |
| An Open Systems Perspective |
| A Comparative Perspective |
| Summary |
| 5 The English Education System |
| Influences |
| Meta-Organisation: Organisation and Control |
| Macro-Organisation: Contexts and Curriculum |
| Micro-Organisation: Teaching and Learning |
| Summary |
| Part 3 Perspectives on Education |
| 6 Sociological Perspectives on Education |
| Sociological Perspectives on Education |
| Consensus Theory: Functionalism |
| Conflict theory - Marxism and neo-Marxism |
| Interactionism |
| Critical Pedagogy |
| Perspectives on Race and Gender |
| Summary |
| 7 Philosophical and Ideological Perspectives |
| Philosophy and Education |
| Ideology and Education |
| Educationalists in the Romantic tradition |
| Rousseau 1712 - 1778 |
| Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 - 1827 |
| Maria Montessori 1870 - 1952 |
| John Dewey 1859 - 1952 |
| Makiguchi 1871 - 1944 |
| A.S. Neill 1883 - 1973 |
| Summary |
| Part 4 The Contexts of Education |
| 8 Formal Contexts for Learning |
| The Learning Society and Notions of Formal, Informal and Non-Formal Education |
| Choice - And the Diversity of Provision |
| Independent Schools |
| Faith Schools |
| Home Education |
| Summary |
| 9 â€~Learning in Places' |
| Museums, Galleries and Heritage Sites |
| Theatre as Education |
| Extended Schools |
| Summary |
| 10 Alternative Education |
| Alternative Education |
| Pupil Referral Units |
| Prison Education |
| Hospital Education |
| Improving Alternative Educational Provision |
| Summary |
| Part 5 Education Revisited |
| 11 Education in the Future |
| Future Studies |
| Future Challenges |
| Future Possibilities |
| Future Scenarios |
| Summary |
| References |
| Index |
