Kevin J Flint, Nick Peim

Rethinking the Education Improvement Agenda

A Critical Philosophical Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

Offering a philosophical perspective to the educational improvement agenda, this engaging text provides a new language for research into educational improvement, bringing leading-edge philosophy to current practice. Drawing on philosophical work, including that of Derrida, Foucault and Heidegger, the authors deconstruct the ethic of improvement before exploring key dimensions of education, its institutions and technologies. Each chapter draws on international case studies, provides engaging questions and makes suggestions for further reading to support the reader. Topics covered include:  . The Ethic of Improvement . Teacher Education . Leadership and Management . Lifelong Learning . The Rhetoric of Numbers . The Governance of Childhood . The State of Education Research An essential text for all looking at how we think and talk about education and improvement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781441161895
• ISBN-10: 1441161899
• Artikelnr.: 31708395

Autorenporträt

Kevin J. Flint

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction \ 1. Education, the School and the State \ 2. Education, the
Language of Improvement and Governmentality: The Enframing in Practice \ 3.
Governing Childhood \ 4. Educational Research: Improvement and Metaphysics
\ 5. Schooling: The Social Landscape of Modernity \ 6. Initial Teacher
Education: Practice, Performativity and Identity \ 7. The Enframing in the
Leadership and Management of Education \ 8. The Enframing and Lifelong
Learning \ 9. The Rhetoric of Numbers \ 10. Fifteen Theses on Education \
References \ Index