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    Education: A Very Short Introduction

    Education by Thomas, Gary;

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series: Very Short Introductions;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 2
    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 23 September 2021

    • ISBN 9780198859086
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages176 pages
    • Size 174x111x8 mm
    • Weight 134 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 12 black and white images
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    Short description:

    This new edition explores how and why education has evolved as it has, examining the ways in which it has responded over the centuries to influences in politics, philosophy, and the social sciences. Focussing on education today, it considers the controversies over progressive versus formal teaching, and also examines education worldwide.

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    Long description:

    Since the early Egyptians human beings have formalised the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students. In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Gary Thomas explores how and why education has evolved as it has, examining the ways in which it has responded over the centuries to various influences in politics, philosophy, and the social sciences. Focussing on education today, he considers especially the controversies over progressive versus formal teaching, and also examines education worldwide, assessing the accelerating trend on both sides of the Atlantic of the move to charter, academy, and 'free' schools.

    The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated moves to online learning in schools and universities, and in this new edition Thomas looks again at curriculums and what shape they should take in a rapidly changing world. He asks why action on race, gender and social inequality has borne so little fruit thus far, questioning the oft-made claim of education to be a force for social mobility, and offering an analysis on how education may develop over the coming century.

    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring

    ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

    Its stimulating, readable approach...make[s] sense of the principles, themes and connections in the continuing complex story of how contested ideas around education are put into policy and realised in practice.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Beginnings
    Oil and water: the formal and the progressive
    The traditions unfold: ideas into practice
    Big ideas from the 20th century
    Analysts and theorists: what did they ever do for us?
    The curriculum
    School's out!
    References and further reading
    Index

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