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NoNonsense Rethinking Education : Whose knowledge is it anyway?

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: No-Nonsense GuidesPublisher: Oxford : New Internationalist, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (94 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781780263106
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: NoNonsense Rethinking EducationDDC classification:
  • 370.1
LOC classification:
  • LB14.7 .U595 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: This guide challenges common assumptions and the commodification of education. Within a global context it presents a progressive, egalitarian alternative.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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