TY - BOOK
T1 - Understanding education
T2 - History, politics and practice
AU - Kemmis, Stephen
AU - Edwards-Groves, Christine
N1 - Includes bibliographical references.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This short book provides an introduction to the study of education, outlining the dual purpose of education – to help people live well and to help develop a world worth living in. It argues that education initiates people into forms of understanding, modes of activity, and ways of relating to each other and the world that not only help individuals to live good lives, but also help secure a culture based on reason, productive and sustainable economies and environments, and just and democratic societies. Subsequent chapters address the history of education in the West; explore how education reproduces the practices and forms of life in societies and groups, and also how it transforms them; and introduce the theory of practice architectures to explain what practices are composed of, and how they are enabled and constrained by local and more general conditions and circumstances. The book closes by showing how the theory of practice architectures unfolds to offer a theory of education – a theory that underpins the definition of education offered at the start of the book. Understanding Education is essential reading for anyone interested in the theory and practice of education.
AB - This short book provides an introduction to the study of education, outlining the dual purpose of education – to help people live well and to help develop a world worth living in. It argues that education initiates people into forms of understanding, modes of activity, and ways of relating to each other and the world that not only help individuals to live good lives, but also help secure a culture based on reason, productive and sustainable economies and environments, and just and democratic societies. Subsequent chapters address the history of education in the West; explore how education reproduces the practices and forms of life in societies and groups, and also how it transforms them; and introduce the theory of practice architectures to explain what practices are composed of, and how they are enabled and constrained by local and more general conditions and circumstances. The book closes by showing how the theory of practice architectures unfolds to offer a theory of education – a theory that underpins the definition of education offered at the start of the book. Understanding Education is essential reading for anyone interested in the theory and practice of education.
KW - Educational formation
KW - Progressive education
KW - Mass compulsory education
KW - Educational theory
KW - Critical educational science
KW - Practice theory
KW - Education and society
KW - Aristotle and education
KW - Intersubjectivity
KW - Mathematics education
KW - Education Complex
KW - Control of curriculum
KW - Education versus schooling
KW - Curriculum development
KW - Correspondence theory of reproduction
KW - Indigenous education
KW - Disadvantage and marginalisation
KW - Practice architectures
KW - Professional learning
KW - Action research
UR - https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811064326#aboutBook
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-10-6433-3
DO - 10.1007/978-981-10-6433-3
M3 - Scholarly edition
SN - 9789811064326
T3 - Springer Texts in Education
BT - Understanding education
PB - Springer
CY - Singapore
ER -