Understanding and Using Challenging  Educational Theories
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Understanding and Using Challenging Educational Theories

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Understanding and Using Challenging Educational Theories

About this book

Introducing: 20 key educational thinkers who have offered challenging perspectives on education
Exploring: Their ideas, how to apply them in practice and their relevance to teaching and learning today.
Understanding: The strengths and limitations of each theory and links to other concepts.

This third edition includes:
  • Two new chapters on the works of Diane Ravitch and Gloria Ladson-Billings
  • Revamped reflective tasks with a greater practical focus for the classroom
  • Fully updated chapters with links to current educational socio-political developments, and expanded critical commentary
This is an essential textbook for any university course that includes learning theory, with particular relevance for initial teacher education, education studies and early childhood degrees.

Karl Aubrey has recently retired from his post at Bishop Grosseteste University.
Alison Riley is the Programme Leader for the BA Early Childhood Studies at Bishop Grosseteste University.

The perfect companion to Aubrey & Riley: Understanding and Using Educational Theories 3e (9781529761306).

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. About the Authors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. New to this Edition
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The Third Force in Psychology
  11. 2 Learner-Centred Teaching and the Fully Functioning Person
  12. 3 Freedom To Learn
  13. 4 The Renewal of Teaching and Learning, Schools and Teacher Education
  14. 5 Language Codes, Social Class, Pedagogy and the Curriculum
  15. 6 Deschooling society: challenging the concept of school
  16. 7 Theory of Society
  17. 8 Power, Surveillance, Discipline and Control in Education
  18. 9 The Reggio Emilia experience
  19. 10 Caring In Education
  20. 11 Linking the Curriculum With Theory, Research and Practice
  21. 12 Ideology, Knowledge, Power and the Curriculum
  22. 13 Critical Pedagogy
  23. 14 Multiple Intelligences and Education
  24. 15 Unschooling or Home-schooling
  25. 16 Education as the Practice of Freedom
  26. 17 Transformative Learning
  27. 18 Equity in Education: Policy, Teachers and Teaching
  28. 19 From Champion to Critic of the American Education System
  29. 20 Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
  30. Index