Equity in Education
Published on 13. March 1989
Book
Hardback
190 pages
978-1-85000-404-2 (ISBN)
Description
The purpose of this book is to help bring equity back into the fore of discourse within educational debates and also to move that debate forward by providing new insights into the nature of equity. It looks at distribution of goods and wealth in Britain and the US and the concern for more efficient production in terms of economic, military and educational systems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85000-404-2 (9781850004042)
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Content
How equality has been redefined in the conservative restoration, Michael W.Apple; educational equity and research paradigms, Patricia B.Campbell; understanding and measuring equity - a conceptual framework, Glen Harvey and Susan S.Klein; educational equity versus equality in education - an alternative conception, Walter G.Secada; equity, equality, teachers and classroom life, Carl Grant; dilemmas of equity in art education - ideologies of individualism and cultural capital, Kerry Freedman; the use of biology to legitimate inequality - the eugenics movement within the high school biology textbook, 1914-1949, Steven Selden; gender, equity and mathematics, Elizabeth Fennema and Margaret R.Meyer; equity and technology in education - an applied researcher talks to theoreticians, Jo Sanders.