A Student's Guide to Education Studies

Book Overview

This new edition of A Student's Guide to Education Studies is an essential resource for any undergraduate making their first explorations into the fascinating world of education. It explores a wide range of alternative visions of education encouraging students to challenge the perceived notions about learning and knowledge.

Offering new perspectives and powerful ideas for discussion on a variety of long-standing topics such as class, race and gender, the book is organised around five enduring themes: Policy and Politics, Global and Environmental Education, Knowledge and Learning, Childhood and Youth, Professionalism and Employment. With a distinctive international and global focus, this new edition has been extensively updated to reflect the latest research and thinking in the field and features new chapters on:

The sociology of education and the philosophy of education

Inclusion

Childhood and youth

Professionalism and work-based learning

Populism in politics

Including summary points, questions for discussion and annotated suggestions for further reading, this book provides the theoretical background needed to carry out a critical analysis of education policy and practice and is an essential resource for all students of Education Studies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367276690
• ISBN13: 9780367276690
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.6"