The Social Contexts of Teaching and Learning (A Pearson Original)

Keith Crawford, University of Newcastle
Deborah O’Neill, University of Newcastle
Title The Social Contexts of Teaching and Learning (A Pearson Original)
Edition 1st
ISBN 9781442520226
ISBN 10 1442520221
Published 13/07/2009
Published by Pearson Custom Books
Pages
Format Paperback
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Total Price $74.95 Add to Cart
Description

The Social Contexts of Teaching and Learning seeks to engage the reader in the critical investigation and analysis of education and schooling within a cultural, socio-economic and ideological framework as the authors believe that education and schooling are political acts and that what happens inside our schools and classrooms is profoundly influenced by what happens in wider society.

Table of contents
  1. The Aims of Education and Schooling
  2. Teachers as Critical Practitioners
  3. Teachers, Professionalism and Ethical Practice
  4. Education, Ideology and Politics
  5. The School Curriculum
  6. The Social Contexts of Educational Achievement
  7. Education for Democratic Citizenship
  8. The Politics of Educational Testing and Assessment
  9. Culture, Identity and Difference
  10. Globalisation, Education and Schooling
Features & benefits

At the core of the book is an invitation for readers to consider a number of important issues such as:

  • The role of the teacher as a critical and reflective practitioner
  • What should we teach and why?
  • Why is it that education and schooling works better for some students than others?
  • The politics of educational testing and assessment
  • Education and schooling within globalised and diverse social environments.

Each chapter includes periodic summaries of major points and questions for reflection and discussion, indicative reading and web-based resources for further investigation.
Author biography

Keith Crawford is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Professor Crawford has taught in teacher education for over twenty years; his interests focus upon historical and sociological studies of curriculum construction; social justice and values education; history education and school textbook analysis within the context of the history and citizenship curriculum. Recent publications include S.J. Foster and K.A. Crawford (eds.) (2006) What Shall We Tell the Children?: International perspectives on school history textbooks, Information Age Publishers, Charlotte, NC; and Crawford, K.A. and Foster, S.J. (2007), War, Nation, Memory: International perspectives on World War II in school history textbooks, Information Age Publishers, Charlotte, NC.

Deborah O’Neill is Lecturer in Education in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Deborah’s doctorate is in the field of values education. Her other research interests include citizenship education, pedagogy for social justice, the place of encounter with ‘others’ in the formation of teaching professionals for a cosmopolitan world, adolescent fiction and adolescent well-being.