NoNonsense Rethinking Education : Whose knowledge is it anyway?
Unwin, Adam.
NoNonsense Rethinking Education : Whose knowledge is it anyway? - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (94 pages) - No-Nonsense Guides . - No-Nonsense Guides .
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.
This guide challenges common assumptions and the commodification of education. Within a global context it presents a progressive, egalitarian alternative.
9781780263106
Education-Philosophy.
Electronic books.
LB14.7 .U595 2016
370.1
NoNonsense Rethinking Education : Whose knowledge is it anyway? - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (94 pages) - No-Nonsense Guides . - No-Nonsense Guides .
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.
This guide challenges common assumptions and the commodification of education. Within a global context it presents a progressive, egalitarian alternative.
9781780263106
Education-Philosophy.
Electronic books.
LB14.7 .U595 2016
370.1