Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum

Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum
ISBN-10
0415504112
ISBN-13
9780415504119
Category
Education
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2011-12-08
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Roland Meighan, Len Barton, Stephen A. Walker

Description

Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to explore the ways in which notions of the relations between theory and practice, between belief and action, can be used to develop three kinds of sensitivity in the sociology of education. A sensitivity towards how school systems are created, maintained and made to function; towards developing a more refined, critical and constructive awareness of the reliability and validity of descriptions, analyses and explanations offered in this field of study; and a sensitivity towards the ways in which changes take place within the education system and how the insights and realisations generated in the discipline might be used to control such occurrences.

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