Understanding Education : History, Politics and Practice / by Stephen Kemmis, Christine Edwards-Groves.
Kemmis, Stephen, author.; Edwards-Groves, Christine, author.
2018
LB5-3640
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Title Understanding Education : History, Politics and Practice / by Stephen Kemmis, Christine Edwards-Groves.
Author Kemmis, Stephen, author.
ISBN 9789811064333
9811064334
9811064326
9789811064326
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6433-3
Published Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint : Springer, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 164 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-10-6433-3 doi
Call Number LB5-3640
Summary This short book provides an introduction to the study of education, outlining the dual purpose of education - to help people live well and to help develop a world worth living in. It argues that education initiates people into forms of understanding, modes of activity, and ways of relating to each other and the world that not only help individuals to live good lives, but also help secure a culture based on reason, productive and sustainable economies and environments, and just and democratic societies. Subsequent chapters address the history of education in the West; explore how education reproduces the practices and forms of life in societies and groups, and also how it transforms them; and introduce the theory of practice architectures to explain what practices are composed of, and how they are enabled and constrained by local and more general conditions and circumstances. The book closes by showing how the theory of practice architectures unfolds to offer a theory of education - a theory that underpins the definition of education offered at the start of the book. Understanding Education is essential reading for anyone interested in the theory and practice of education.
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Added Author Edwards-Groves, Christine, author.
Series Springer Texts in Education.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9789811064326
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Preface
1 Studying Education
2 The Double History of Schooling: The History of a Practice and the History of an Institution
3 The Politics of Education: Reproduction and Transformation
4 Education, Practices, and Practice Architectures.

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