Children and Schooling

ISBN-13: 9780415753227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Phillip Gammage

Opis

The book provides a synthesis of a broadly-based social-psychology of education and bridges the gap between theory and practice in education by emphasising the relationship between research and actuality. The author discusses the major issues in childhood socialisation relating to schooling, achievement and the curriculum, and in so doing makes a sensitive and well-argued case for the social-psychological perspective.He presents a social-psychologist’s view of the interaction between child, school and curriculum, and summarises mainstream psychological contributions to current thinking on achievement, self-esteem and education. He covers areas of social learning and attribution theory not commonly dealt with in education texts, showing that there are major fields of research which have until now been neglected.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements – Introduction – 1. Perspectives of Childhood: Historical Overview – 2. Schooling – 3. Psychology and Education – 4. Language, Communication and the Curriculum – 5. Socialisation and Achievement – 6. Constraints on the Curriculum – Social-Psychological Issues7. Self-Esteem and Social Learning.Appendix A: A Rough Linguistic/Cognitive Socialisation Chart Showing Changes in Conceptual Growth and Development. Appendix B: The CARALOC Pupil Questionnaire. Appendix C: Twenty Official Rules of the Schools in USSR. Index

O autorze

Gammage, Phillip