An Introduction to the Study of Education

1. What is Education?

David Matheson

2. Ideology in Education in the United Kingdom

Catherine Matheson-Monnet

3. Philosophy in Education

Stephen Newman

4. Psychology in Education

Graham Mitchell & Callum E. Cooper

5. Learning Styles

John Pelley

6. Thinking about Assessment

Pete Bennett, Louise Curry and Helen Sinar-Platt

7. Online and Digital Education: a Critical Account

John Traxler

8. Schooling Food: Why Does it Matter?

Gurpinder Singh Lalli and Ellen Bishop

9. Early Childhood Education and Care in the UK

Eunice Lumsden

10. Children Looked After

Catherine Lamond

11. Social and Spatial Disparity in the History of School Provision in England from the 1750s to the 1950s

Colin Brock

12. Schooling in Ireland: Policy and Practice from Penal Times to the Present Day

Deirdre Raftery and Martina Relihan

13. Education in Scotland

David Matheson and Stephen McKinney

14. Education in Wales

Alison Murphy and Michelle Brinn

15. Compulsory Education in the United Kingdom

Ian Menter, Carmel Gallagher, Louise Hayward, Dominic Wyse and David Matheson

16. Lifelong learning

Catherine Matheson-Monnet and David Matheson

17. Special Educational Needs in the British context

Mary Kellett and Mike Lambert

18. Why Class Still Matters: A Case Study of University Access, a Mirror to the Education System

David Thompson

19. Gender and Education

Catherine Matheson-Monnet

20. Race as a Critical Lens in Education

Adam Vasco

21. Debates in Educational Research

Abdeljalil Akkari and Bernard Wentzel

22. Research in Professional Contexts

Catherine Matheson-Monnet and David Matheson

23. The Benefits of Using Co-creation in Higher Education

Anne Temple Clothier and David Matheson

24. Afterword: Now that I have read about Education, how do I write about it?

David Matheson