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Rethinking education : whose knowledge is it anyway? / Adam Unwin, John Yandell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: No-nonsense guides (New Internationalist Publications (Firm))Publisher: Oxford : New Internationalist, 2016Description: 143 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1780263090
  • 9781780263090
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.1 23
Contents:
1. What is the point of School? -- 2. How we Learn - in and out of School -- 3. Technology is the Question, not the Answer -- 4. Knowledge, Curriculum and Control -- 5. Instituting Difference: how Schools reproduce Inequality -- 6. Neoliberalism: Education as Commodity -- 7. Another Education is Possible.
Summary: "What is knowledge? Who decides what is important? Who owns it? These are central themes which run through this title that aims to change perceptions and understand of education. Using historical and contemporary examples the authors examine the motivations, conflicts and contradictions in education. Breaking down the structures, forces and technologies involved they chart an alternative approach." -- Provided by publisher.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 370.1 UNW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A555209B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. What is the point of School? -- 2. How we Learn - in and out of School -- 3. Technology is the Question, not the Answer -- 4. Knowledge, Curriculum and Control -- 5. Instituting Difference: how Schools reproduce Inequality -- 6. Neoliberalism: Education as Commodity -- 7. Another Education is Possible.

"What is knowledge? Who decides what is important? Who owns it? These are central themes which run through this title that aims to change perceptions and understand of education. Using historical and contemporary examples the authors examine the motivations, conflicts and contradictions in education. Breaking down the structures, forces and technologies involved they chart an alternative approach." -- Provided by publisher.

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