The Taming of Education

Assesses contemporary approaches to education and teaching Argues contemporary education needs to take more risks to ensure children develop critical thinking skills and the capacity for originalityExplores how a range of factors reduce the potential for creativity and originality in education

Assesses contemporary approaches to education and teaching Argues contemporary education needs to take more risks to ensure children develop critical thinking skills and the capacity for originality Explores how a range of factors reduce the potential for creativity and originality in education

Autorentext
Rob Creasy is Subject Director in Social Science at York St John University, UK.

Inhalt
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.