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A Student-centred Sociology of Australian Education (ePub eBook) 1st ed. 2020


A Student-centred Sociology of Australian Education (ePub eBook) 1st ed. 2020

eBook by Jones, Tiffany;

A Student-centred Sociology of Australian Education (ePub eBook)

£109.50

ISBN:
9783030368630
Publication Date:
03 Jan 2020
Edition:
1st ed. 2020
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Imprint:
Springer
Pages:
346 pages
Format:
eBook
For delivery:
Download available
A Student-centred Sociology of Australian Education (ePub eBook)

Description

This book is based on a comparative study from 2018, of four different approaches to education, according to 2,500 Australians' experiences of them, on a range of topics. It shows that whilst the critical approach has strong research-based support across the board, sometimes a liberal, conservative or post-modern approach may have some merit for certain outcomes. This is a book about challenging our biases and calling on ourselves to aim higher for education, than what our own pre-conceived ideas might allow.What and who is valued in education, and the social roles and identity messages learned, differ wildly from school to school. Education is most impacted by the orientation of education dominant in that context - whether conservative, liberal, critical or post-modern. These terms are often used with little practical data on the real-life schooling they entail. Who learns what in which approach? Who learns best with which approach, on which topic and why? This book provides this previously missing information. It offers holistic, detailed descriptions of conservative, liberal, critical and post-modern approaches to education broadly. It provides statistics and stories from real students on how the four approaches work practically in schools in relation to: age, gender, sexuality, social class, race, news-media, popular culture and technology. Chapters offer background information to the four perspectives, data from student participants, tutorial questions and activities, and suggestions for further reading.

Contents

1. Introducing Sociology of Education 2. Designing a Comparative Sociological Education Study 3. Basic Demographics for Voices of Experience Participants 4. Paradigm - Australia's Largely Liberal & Conservative Schools 5. Age - Australia's Staging of Aging Via Spiral Curricula 6. Sex & Gender - Australian Schools Shout Sex & Whisper Gender 7. Sexuality - Australian Schools' Sexuality Wars 8. Social Class - Australian Schools Won't Merit the Need 9. Race - Australia's Critical Racial & Cultural Curricula 10. News Media - Australian Schools on Fake News & Media Objectivity 11. Popular Culture - Teaching Traditional Canons vs. Playing with Postmodern Pastiche 12. Technology - Australia's Phone Bans & Educational Use 13. Conclusion & Recommendations

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