Schooling and Society: Myths of Mass Education
Cambridge University Press, 4/27/2017
EAN 9781107158009, ISBN10: 1107158001
Hardcover, 424 pages, 24.6 x 18 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This new book is a wide-ranging, contemporary and accessible analysis of familiar and recurring myths about mass education in the United Kingdom. Looking at a variety of important issues and problems, each chapter begins by dispelling myths and assumptions about the classroom, going beyond class, race and gender, to offer analysis of topics such as discipline, youth cultures, information technology and globalisation. Utilising an interdisciplinary lens, this book offers knowledge from disciplines as diverse as sociology, philosophy, jurisprudence and cultural studies. Gordon Tait examines the strengths and weaknesses of different theoretical approaches to education, from critical theory to postmodernism, and Foucaultian governance to post-colonialism. Analysing the many assumptions about education taken for granted in British public discourse, important conclusions are drawn about which of these assumptions are fair and reasonable, and which we should challenge. This book is an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the sociology of education, culture and education, and the philosophy of education.
Introduction
Part I. Re-Assessing the Three Pillars
Modern and Postmodern Sociologies of Education
1. Social class
2. Gender
3. Race/ethnicity
Part II. The Foundations of an Alternative Approach
Education and Governance
4. Governance
5. Subjectivity
6. Pre-adulthood
7. Big data
Part III. Cultural Contexts of Contemporary Education
8. The media
9. Popular culture
10. Technology
11. Globalisation
Part IV. Philosophy and Mass Education
12. Philosophy
13. Ethics, disability and the law
14. Truth and postcolonialism
Conclusion
the central aims of this book.