The Taming of Education Evaluating Contemporary Approaches to Learning and Teaching /

• Main Author: Creasy, Rob (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Educational policy.; Education and state.; Teaching.; Educational sociology.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Higher education.; Child development.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Sociology of Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Higher Education.; Early Childhood Education.

This book evaluates contemporary approaches to education, with a particular focus on the ways in which assessment shapes the educational experience and influences pupils and students. It adopts a critical approach, arguing that there is a need for students to develop critical thinking skills, be fle...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Seeing Education as a Process
• Chapter 2. Education: Wicked or Tame?
• Chapter 3. Control over Teachers: Taming Teachers
• Chapter 4. Shaping the Landscape of Education
• Chapter 5. Where We Learn
• Chapter 6. Education as a Process: Assessment, Outcomes and Achievement
• Chapter 7. Taming Assessment in Higher Education
• Chapter 8. Where Are We Now?
• Chapter 9. Towards Wicked Education.