| Description |
xvi, 334 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Education today |
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Education today
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| Contents |
Contents : 1.The discipline of education. -- 2. Education and the postmodern turn. -- 3. Education in context. -- 4. Competing perspectives on education. -- 5. The curriculum and the course of education. -- 6. Educational as a positional good: equality and schooling. -- 7. School to work, or learning labour. -- 8. The chronology of the school, or making subjects run on time. -- 9. The character-building building: the architecture of the school. -- 10. Assessment and examination: getting a measure of the subject. -- 11. Education and 'The Risk Society': teaching with an ecological time bomb. -- 12. Education for a change: some reflections for practice |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-319) and indexes |
| Subject |
Education -- Aims and objectives -- Australia.
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Educational sociology -- Australia.
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| Author |
Preston, Noel, 1941-
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| ISBN |
0582810132 |
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