NoNonsense Rethinking Education
Whose knowledge is it anyway?
Published on 21. March 2016
144 pages
978-1-78026-310-6 (ISBN)
Description
What is knowledge? Who decides what is important? Who owns it? These are central themes that run through this title that aims to change perceptions and understanding of education. Using historical and contemporary examples, the authors examine the motivations, conflicts, and contradictions in education. In breaking down the structures, forces, and technologies involved they show how alternative approaches can emerge.
Dr. Adam Unwin is Senior Lecturer in Business and Economics Education at University College London's Institute of Education.
John Yandell is Senior Lecturer in Education at University College London Institute of Education.
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Adam Unwin: Dr Adam Unwin is Senior Lecturer in Business and Economics Education at University College London Institute of Education. Research and professional interests include e-learning in teacher education, learning outside the classroom and global perspectives in in Business and Economics education.
John Yandell: John Yandell is Senior Lecturer in Education at University College London Institute of Education. He taught in inner London secondary schools for 20 years. Research interests include the ways in which literature is read in urban English classrooms and the development of teacher identities.
John Yandell: John Yandell is Senior Lecturer in Education at University College London Institute of Education. He taught in inner London secondary schools for 20 years. Research interests include the ways in which literature is read in urban English classrooms and the development of teacher identities.
Content
- Intro
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. What is the point of school?
- Learning in and out of school
- Is technology the answer?
- 2. How we learn - in and out of school
- The Gradgrind model of education
- Street and school mathematics
- 3. Technology is the question, not the answer
- The possibilities of technology
- Virtual learning
- Social media and digital natives
- 4. Knowledge, curriculum and control
- History and school history: worlds apart
- Content versus skills
- What do we mean by literacy?
- Evolution and/or creationism
- 5. Instituting difference: how schools reproduce inequality
- Selection versus inclusion
- 'Choice' and private schooling
- The IQ test as Sorting Hat
- Schooling and gender
- Five myths about assessment
- 6. Neoliberalism: education as commodity
- The GERM
- Payment by results
- International league tables (and PISA envy)
- Pearson: new markets and a new model
- 7. Another education is possible
- Radical popular alternatives
- Freire and education for liberation
- Different schooling, different society
- The creativity of ordinary classrooms
- Index
