Knowledge, policy and practice in education and the struggle for social justice essays inspired by the work of Geoff Whitty
The essays in this volume - written by some of the most influential authors in the sociology of education and critical policy studies - take the work of educator and sociologist Geoff Whitty as the starting point from which to examine key contemporary issues in education and the challenges to social...
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| Language: | English |
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London
UCL Press
2020, 2020
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Knowledge
- 1. Social Mobilizations and Official Knowledge
- 2. Sex, Sexuality and HIV: 'Education', in the Broadest Sense of the Word
- 3. Education for Inclusion or Exclusion: Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Mainstream History Textbooks
- 4. Social Theory, Biological Sciences and the Sociology of Knowledge in Education
- 5. Geoff Whitty: Student, Friend and Colleague
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 11. Revolutions in Educational Policy: The Vexed Question of Evidence and Policy Development
- Part III: Practice
- 12. Why Isn't This Empowering? The Discursive Positioning of Teachers in Efforts to Improve Teaching
- 13. Can Teachers Still Be Teachers? The Near Impossibility of Humanity in the Transactional Workplace
- 14. Contestation, Contradiction and Collaboration in Equity and Widening Participation: In Conversation with Geoff Whitty
- 15. Quality, Impact and Knowledge Traditions in the Study of Education
- Geoff Whitty: A Biographical Note
- Index
- Some Personal Reflections
- Part II: Policy
- 6. The Neoliberalization of the State, the Processes of 'Fragmentation', and Research Implications of the New Political Terrain of English Schooling
- 7. The White Bones of Policy: Structure, Agency and a Vulture's-Eye View with Critical Race Theory
- 8. From Bastion of Class Privilege to Public Benefactor: The Remarkable Repositioning of Private Schools
- 9. Pursuing Racial Justice within Higher Education: Is Conflict Inevitable?
- 10. The Policy Sociology of Geoff Whitty: Current and Emergent Issues Regarding Education Research in Use