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How to Study Education Critically
- Helen Benstead - University of Sunderland, UK
October 2026 | 192 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
If you're studying for an Education degree and want to develop your skills in reading, writing and thinking critically this is the book for you.
Criticality is vital for succeeding in your academic work and a key professional skill for anyone training to become a teacher. This book will lead you through the process of developing a critical mindset, enabling you to feel more confident about your academic reading, how to analyse different types of texts, your academic writing and the construction of a balanced and evidenced line of argument.
It will also help you with building the critical skills required to undertake your own educational research project, explore ways to bring a critical thinking approach to different types of course assessment, and apply a critical perspective to the use of AI in education.
Criticality is vital for succeeding in your academic work and a key professional skill for anyone training to become a teacher. This book will lead you through the process of developing a critical mindset, enabling you to feel more confident about your academic reading, how to analyse different types of texts, your academic writing and the construction of a balanced and evidenced line of argument.
It will also help you with building the critical skills required to undertake your own educational research project, explore ways to bring a critical thinking approach to different types of course assessment, and apply a critical perspective to the use of AI in education.
PART 1: Developing critical thinking skills
Chapter 1: What is criticality?
Chapter 2: The foundations of critical thinking in education
PART 2: Developing critical reading and writing skills
Chapter 3: The principles of critical reading in education
Chapter 4: The principles of critical writing in education
Chapter 5: Critiquing different types of published work in education
PART 3: Developing criticality in educational research
Chapter 6: Critiquing different aspects of educational research
Chapter 7: The principles of planning and writing up critical educational research
Chapter 8: Criticality for professional life: applying education for transformation
PART 4: Criticality across other types of assessment in education
Chapter 9: Criticality on ‘non-traditional’ assessment methods
Chapter 10: A critical approach to AI in education
Chapter 11: Conclusion
