Education Studies: An Introduction by Lisa Murphy

By Lisa Murphy

This publication is a vital advisor for all schooling reports scholars, supplying you with a transparent evaluation of the foremost concerns inside of your first 12 months. it's an introductory textual content that encourages serious engagement, to enable you enhance a close realizing of the ability and value of education.

the problems are awarded in 4 major sections - Theoretical views; coverage; Society and the person; contained in the university - supporting you to make the connections among the several issues. 'Stop, imagine and Do' packing containers play a key half during the e-book, encouraging you to seriously examine either the problems in the chapters and inside schooling as a whole.

different positive factors include:

  • Introductions to every bankruptcy to hyperlink the topics mentioned in every one part
  • A precis of the most important matters in each one bankruptcy for mirrored image
  • Examples and case stories
  • hyperlinks to key readings

The e-book allows you to expand your figuring out of academic concerns past colleges to different stages of academic provision.

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By Lisa Murphy

This publication is a vital advisor for all schooling reports scholars, supplying you with a transparent evaluation of the foremost concerns inside of your first 12 months. it's an introductory textual content that encourages serious engagement, to enable you enhance a close realizing of the ability and value of education.

the problems are awarded in 4 major sections - Theoretical views; coverage; Society and the person; contained in the university - supporting you to make the connections among the several issues. 'Stop, imagine and Do' packing containers play a key half during the e-book, encouraging you to seriously examine either the problems in the chapters and inside schooling as a whole.

different positive factors include:

  • Introductions to every bankruptcy to hyperlink the topics mentioned in every one part
  • A precis of the most important matters in each one bankruptcy for mirrored image
  • Examples and case stories
  • hyperlinks to key readings

The e-book allows you to expand your figuring out of academic concerns past colleges to different stages of academic provision.

Show description

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In a sense, the teacher is a facilitator of learning and a mentor or role model. The influence of Locke’s ideology can be seen in education today in the UK in the move towards learning through play and games in the early years and literacy curriculum, in the concept of personalized learning and in the idea of the teacher as a facilitator and modeller of learning. Locke’s approach to education, while focusing on nurturing and the moral development of the pupil, cannot be classified as child-centred or psychological.

Public and private schools comprise roughly one-tenth of all schools in UK and by their very nature as fee-paying institutions, they are elite. However, as Hackett (2001) (cited in D. Matheson 2004: 25) points out, there are a number of state boarding schools in England where students can receive a public school education for a third or half of the cost of that of a fully independent school. Revisionist or technocratic ideology, in line with the elitist approach, also seeks to prepare individuals for certain roles and positions in society.

Try and find an individual, maybe in your family, who went to either a secondary modern school or grammar school and interview them. Compare your educational experiences with the person you have interviewed, what issues can you identify? The development of the comprehensive school The 1950s was a period of tight economic controls and education suffered from the restrictions on spending, as did other parts of the social provision funded by the state (Simon 1991: 168). However, it was during this period that a new type of school began to develop – the common or comprehensive school.

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