Understanding Education
History, Politics and Practice
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Beschreibung
This short book provides an introduction to the study of education, outlining the dual purpose of education – to help people live well and to help develop a world worth living in. It argues that education initiates people into forms of understanding, modes of activity, and ways of relating to each other and the world that not only help individuals to live good lives, but also help secure a culture based on reason, productive and sustainable economies and environments, and just and democratic societies. Subsequent chapters address the history of education in the West; explore how education reproduces the practices and forms of life in societies and groups, and also how it transforms them; and introduce the theory of practice architectures to explain what practices are composed of, and how they are enabled and constrained by local and more general conditions and circumstances. The book closes by showing how the theory of practice architectures unfolds to offer a theory of education – a theory that underpins the definition of education offered at the start of the book. Understanding Education is essential reading for anyone interested in the theory and practice of education.
Explains the theory and practice of education to those students studying education
Includes a concise history of education
Demonstrates how to use the theory of practice architectures to understand schooling
Explains the theory and practice of education to those students studying education Includes a concise history of education Demonstrates how to use the theory of practice architectures to understand schooling Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Stephen Kemmis
Themen in »Understanding Education«
educational formation Progressive education mass compulsory education educational theory critical educational science practice theory education and society Aristotle and education intersubjectivity mathematics education Education Complex control of curriculum Education versus schooling curriculum development correspondence theory of reproduction
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“The book is recommended for graduate students, educational practitioners, educators, and educational researchers. … Stephen Kemmis and Christine Edwards-Groves, have made some remarkable contributions to the educational literature on the history of education, its politics, and the theory of practice.” (Khalaf Mohamed Abdellatif, Malta Review of Educational Research (MRER), Vol. 12 (2), December, 2018)
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