Making Sense of Education provides a contemporary introduction to the key issues in educational philosophy and theory. Exploring major past and present conceptions of education, teaching and learning, this book makes philosophy of education relevant to the professional practice of teachers and student teachers, as well of interest to those studying education as an academic subject.The book is divided into three parts: education, teaching and professional practice: issues concerning education, the role of the teacher, the relationship of educational theory to practice and the wider moral dimensions of pedagogy learning, knowledge and curriculum: issues concerning behaviourist and cognitive theories of learning, knowledge and meaning, curriculum aims and content and evaluation and assessment schooling, society and culture: issues of the wider social and political context of education concerning liberalism and communitarianism, justice and equality, differentiation, authority and discipline. This timely and up-to-date introduction assists all those studying and/or working in education to appreciate the main philosophical sources of and influences on present day thinking about education, teaching and learning
Author(s): David Carr
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 320
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
1 Education persons and schooling......Page 18
2 The complex character of teaching......Page 34
3 The complex role of the teacher......Page 50
4 Educational theory and practice......Page 66
5 Wider moral implications of education......Page 82
6 Learning behaviour perception and cognition......Page 100
7 Learning meaning language and culture......Page 115
8 Knowledge explanation and understanding......Page 131
9 Curriculum purpose form and content......Page 147
10 Curriculum process product and appraisal......Page 163
11 Liberalism impartiality and liberal education......Page 182
12 Community identity and cultural inheritance......Page 197
13 Justice equality and difference......Page 213
14 Freedom authority and discipline......Page 229
15 Political dimensions of education......Page 245
Glossary......Page 261
Notes......Page 276
References......Page 297
Index......Page 306
