Description
Book SynopsisDoing Theory on Education explores key debates using examples from contemporary media and popular culture to guide Education Studies students through the perennial debates that surround teaching and learning. Aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates and teachers in education settings, it uses over seventy popular culture texts from television, music, videogames, fiction, film, architecture, social media, the press and art to illuminate important issues and make the critical theory that underpins educational debates more accessible and engaging.
Each chapter also offers essential background knowledge and historical perspective and includes reflective activities to help you develop a critical approach, enabling you to argue your own point of view with confidence and consider where issues may progress to in the future. It examines core issues such as:
- Class and educational choice
- Learning styles
- Testing and assessmen
Table of Contents
1: Class, Disadvantage and Hope: The Bullingdon v The ‘Bog Standard’ 2: Questions of Knowledge: What Counts in Education? Physics vs Media Studies 3: Learning Theory and Pedagogy 4: The Problem of Testing: "Testing, testing 1, 2, 3" v Vygotsky 5: The importance of leadership? The Apprentice vs The Co-Op? 6: Ways of being in education: The Ministry of Soundbites v The Hidden Curriculum
