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Education Theories for a Changing World
- Karl Aubrey - Bishop Grosseteste University, UK
- Alison Riley - Bishop Grosseteste University, UK
October 2023 | 272 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
How can education be a vehicle for social change?
This book looks at how different educational theories can be used to address complex and vital issues in society by exploring key concepts and challenging traditional thought through an educational lens. Each topic area is explored in both theoretical and practical terms with direct application to the classroom throughout.
Key topics include:
The climate crisis
The Black Lives Matter movement
The rise of right-wing populism
The experience of LGBTQ+ students in school
The impact of COVID-19
This is essential reading for anyone training to teach at any age phase and students undertaking the academic study of education.
This book looks at how different educational theories can be used to address complex and vital issues in society by exploring key concepts and challenging traditional thought through an educational lens. Each topic area is explored in both theoretical and practical terms with direct application to the classroom throughout.
Key topics include:
This is essential reading for anyone training to teach at any age phase and students undertaking the academic study of education.
Chapter 1: How theory has shaped practice
Chapter 2: The Curriculum Part 1: Knowledge and curriculum models
Chapter 3: The Curriculum Part 2: Curriculum applications
Chapter 4: Education as a vehicle for social mobility
Chapter 5: Populism and education
Chapter 6: Black Lives Matter
Chapter 7: Education and the COVID-19 pandemic
Chapter 8: Taking pride – the LGBTQ+ experience in school
Chapter 9: Climate change
Chapter 10: Realigning education with social justice in changing times
This is a very useful addition to this series from Aubrey and Riley, covering contemporary thinkers. It offers a really good introduction to the theories it covers.
Department of Education, Gloucestershire University
April 10, 2024
Key text to support learners on post-16 teacher training programme- highly beneficial for students who have come from a different discipline to education UG studies- giving clear guidance and information to support
School of Education and Community, Wrexham Glyndwr University
February 21, 2024
An important text that brings current perspectives and thinking to the fore on a range of important complex issues.
School of Education, Birmingham City University
October 26, 2023
