Editors:
- Expert collection of paired chapters addressing key contemporary debates in educational policy and practice
- Offers a double perspective on each topic, from supplementing to countering and most points in between
- Challenges prevailing orthodoxies in policy, curriculum, pedagogy and research
Part of the book series: Policy Implications of Research in Education (PIRE, volume 3)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is the outcome of a colloquium series organized by The University of Sydney in which leading and emerging researchers were invited to name what they took to be the deep flaws at the heart of contemporary educational and policy and practice in Australia and globally — to voice their potentially ‘heretical’ views on what most urgently needs to be done. The chapters in this collection are paired to offer two takes on each topic, from supplementing to critiquing to countering and most points in between.
The issues addressed in this volume include: the place of education in national and international marketplaces, mass testing and standardisation, the future of ‘multiculturalism’ in schools, the public funding of private schools, the complicated relationship between evidence and policy and the shifting politics of inequality. This book is based on the idea that recognising deep disagreements on big issues is a necessary accompaniment to imagining and developing productive ways forward.
Editors and Affiliations
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Fac. Education & Social Work, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Helen Proctor, Patrick Brownlee
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University of Sydney Fac. Education & Social Work, Sydney, Australia
Peter Freebody
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Controversies in Education
Book Subtitle: Orthodoxy and Heresy in Policy and Practice
Editors: Helen Proctor, Patrick Brownlee, Peter Freebody
Series Title: Policy Implications of Research in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08759-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08758-0Published: 19 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34731-8Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08759-7Published: 09 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2543-0289
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0297
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 220
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation