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- Offers holistic descriptions and research on conservative, liberal, critical and post-modern schooling approaches
- Uses real-world statistics and stories from 2,500 Australian students
- Helps to understand which approaches dominate in schools and and how they impact different student groups
Part of the book series: Critical Studies of Education (CSOE, volume 13)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is based on a comparative study from 2018, of four different approaches to education, according to 2,500 Australians’ experiences of them, on a range of topics. It shows that whilst the critical approach has strong research-based support across the board, sometimes a liberal, conservative or post-modern approach may have some merit for certain outcomes. This is a book about challenging our biases and calling on ourselves to aim higher for education, than what our own pre-conceived ideas might allow.
What and who is valued in education, and the social roles and identity messages learned, differ wildly from school to school. Education is most impacted by the orientation of education dominant in that context – whether conservative, liberal, critical or post-modern. These terms are often used with little practical data on the real-life schooling they entail. Who learns what in which approach? Who learns best with which approach, on which topic and why? This book providesthis previously missing information. It offers holistic, detailed descriptions of conservative, liberal, critical and post-modern approaches to education broadly. It provides statistics and stories from real students on how the four approaches work practically in schools in relation to: age, gender, sexuality, social class, race, news-media, popular culture and technology. Chapters offer background information to the four perspectives, data from student participants, tutorial questions and activities, and suggestions for further reading.Keywords
- Student-centred sociology of education
- Sociology of Australian education
- Higher education in Australia
- Post-modern approaches to education
- Voices of Experience: Secondary School Experiences Survey
- Comparative sociological education study
- Models of Australian education systems
- Conservative approach in Australian education
- Liberal approach in Australian education
- Gender, sexuality and race in Australian education
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Tiffany Jones
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Student-centred Sociology of Australian Education
Book Subtitle: Voices of Experience
Authors: Tiffany Jones
Series Title: Critical Studies of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36863-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36862-3Published: 04 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36865-4Published: 04 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36863-0Published: 03 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2543-0467
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 346
Number of Illustrations: 100 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Education Policy, Higher Education, Educational Philosophy