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