Exploring key issues in education /
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009Description: x, 183 pages ; 25 cmISBN: 9781847060846Subject(s): EDUCATION | EDUCATION -- SOCIAL ASPECTSLOC classification: LA 632 .E97 2009 | NULIB000011753
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LRC - Graduate Studies | National University - Manila | Gen. Ed - CEAS | General Circulation | GC LA 632 .E97 2009 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | c.1 | Available | NULIB000011753 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Why do politicians always sound the same? -- 2. Academies: the privatization of education -- 3. Standards, testing and reality -- 4. Choice: public, private and parents -- 5. Faith schools: diversity or division? -- 6. White working-class kids: why are they failing? -- 7. Inclusive education: where are the gypsies and travellers? -- 8. Inner-city education -- 9. Learning from Europe: social pedagogy and looked-after children -- 10. The impact of HIV/AIDS: education as a window of hope for the future? -- 11. No child left behind, really?
A textbook for Education Studies that provides an insight into some of the issues and dilemmas that face education from a UK perspective and internationally. This book considers whether reform changes have really been for the better, with chapters on academies and the privatisation of education; and standards and testing.
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