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Education, Change and Society

Second Edition

Raewyn Connell, Craig Campbell, Margaret Vickers, Anthony Welch, Dennis Foley, Nigel Bagnall, Debra Hayes


In its second incarnation, Education, Change and Society continues to help readers situate educational activity in its broad social and policy contexts. The Australian education system and the government’s responsibilities for education have all been subject to radical reform in recent decades. It has never been more important for students of education to be able to understand the connections between the local and the global in explaining contemporary educational change. To assist with this, every chapter of this text not only describes and analyses what is going on, but each chapter also interprets the evidence in different ways. Also, pedagogical features throughout encourage discussion of the issues raised. Some of the questions explored include:

  • Who writes education policy documents and what purpose do they hold?
  • Why did state, private and corporate schools emerge as they did in Australia?
  • How do social class and gender differences affect schooling and its outcomes?
  • What do you people really learn in a school environment?
  • How has the role of research become increasingly significant in education and to teachers in particular?

New to this Edition

  • New author, Debra Hayes, applies her teaching background and research into teaching practices in a new chapter: ‘Young People and School’.
  • Improved pedagogy:

·         Boxes throughout each chapter with an expanded range of case studies provide evocative illustration and grounded examples of matters that the chapters discuss more generally.

·         End of chapter focus questions help students identify key points, and provoke thought and discussion beyond the text.

·         Suggestions for further reading for discovering the wealth of research and writing that has been done on the social contexts of education and policy studies in Australia and beyond.

·         Suggested websites to explore relevant education policy developments.

 

 

 

Contributors

Publisher's Note

Acknowledgments

Introduction      

1          Young People and School        

2          Growing Up      

3          Youth Transitions         

4          City and Bush  

5          Class and Competition

6          Cultural Difference and Identity

7          Aboriginality and Pedagogies   

8          Gender            

9          Making Education Policy          

10         Schools and School Choice      

11         Curriculum        

12         Teachers          

13         Globalisation

14         Researching Education

References      

Index

Raewyn Connell – Professor and University Chair, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney

Craig Campbell –Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney

Margaret Vickers – Professor, School of Education, University of Western Sydney

Anthony Welch – Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney

Dennis Foley – Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Nigel Bagnall – Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney

Debra Hayes – Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney