The Life and Death of Secondary Education for All

ISBN-13: 9780415536356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 208 str.

Richard Pring

Opis

Is there life after death for secondary education? This book focuses upon the quality of learning. 'Reform', so called, too often begins with qualifications, examinations, institutional provision, paths of progression. All those are very important, but their value lies in the support they give to learners and their learning in its different forms. One needs to start with the aims of education and then with what it means to learn (practically, theoretically, morally) and with the very many different needs of the learners. That is what this book aims to do. In so doing, it will be both philosophical in analysis and empirical in example.

Spis treści

Part I Aims, Values and Culture 1. Secondary Education for All: Dream or Reality?  2. The Rise and Fall of Standards  3. The Aims of Education – Watch Your Language  4. Transmission of Culture: But Whose?  5. A Pause – the Need for Philosophy  Part II Putting Aims into Practice  6. Can Education Compensate for Society?  7. Learning: a Wider Vision: ‘Learning How’ as well as ‘Learning That’  8. Learning: a Wider Vision: Taking Experience Seriously  9. A Community of Learners in an Age of Communications Technology  10. Bring Back Curriculum Thinking  11. Bring Back Teaching  12. Testing, Testing, Testing: the Death of Education  13. ‘Know Thyself’: the Need for Guidance  14. Progression: Should We Take Employers and Universities Seriously?  Part III Provision of Education  15. Public Service or Private Gain?  16. Providing for All  17. Have Faith in Schools?  Conclusion  18. ‘Secondary Education for All’: Must It Be Just a Dream?

O autorze

Richard Pring was Professor and Director of Educational Studies, University of Oxford, UK.