Exploring Key Issues in Education

Dean Garratt

ISBN 10: 1847060846 / ISBN 13: 9781847060846

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2009

About this Item

This is a key textbook for Education Studies that provides an insight into some of the issues and dilemmas that currently face education both from a UK perspective and internationally. Section 1 considers whether reform changes have really been for the better, with chapters on academies and the privatisation of education; standards and testing; and the choices for parents: public or private education for their children.Section 2 looks at issues concerning marginalization and education. Here authors focus on faith schools; inner city education; and two studies on the marginalization of white working class children and those from a Romany background.Section 3 considers pressing global issues. The first chapter looks to Europe to explore social pedagogy and looked after children. Another chapter considers the impact of AIDS in Southern Africa in an attempt to draw out lessons for the reader concerned about education at all levels. The final chapter seeks to evaluate the US policy No Child Left Behind. In each chapter issues are introduced to the reader and explored from a critical perspective.Full pedagogical features such as case studies, boxes for further reading and key questions are given throughout, making this text an engaging course companion for scholars of Education Studies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring Key Issues in Education
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847060846
• ISBN 13: 9781847060846
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 422 grams

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Synopsis

This book provides an insight into some of the issues and dilemmas that currently face education both from a UK perspective and internationally.

Section 1 considers whether reform changes have really been for the better, with chapters on academies and the privatisation of education; standards and testing; and the choices for parents: public or private education for their children.

Section 2 looks at issues concerning marginalization and education. Here authors focus on faith schools; inner city education; and two studies on the marginalization of white working class children and those from a Romany background.

Section 3 considers pressing global issues, including social pedagogy and looked after children in Europe, the impact of AIDS in Southern and the No Child Left Behind policy in the USA.

Each chapter introduces the issues to be discussed and then takes a critical perspective to explore them further. Full pedagogical features such as case studies, boxes for further reading and key questions are given throughout, making this text an engaging course companion for Education Studies students.

About the Authors

Derek Kassem is Principal Lecturer and Centre Leader for Education and Early Childhood Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Dean Garratt is Professor and Head of School of Education at York St John University, UK.