The Routledge Education Studies Textbook is an academically comprehensive and appropriately challenging resource for students beyond the introductory stages of a degree programme in Education Studies. Written in a clear and engaging style, chapters are divided into three sections that examine fundamental ideas and issues, explore educational contexts, and offer study and research guidance respectively. Debates between contributors are interspersed within sections, in response to the following questions: Do private schools legitimise privilege? Should the liberal state support religious schooling? Are developments in post-14 education reducing the divide between the academic and the vocational? Do schools contribute to social and community cohesion? Do traditional and progressive teaching methods exist or are there only effective and ineffective methods? Educational Research: a foundation for teacher professionalism? Each chapter opens with an overview of the rationale behind it and closes with a summary of the main points. At the end of every chapter key questions are posed, encouraging the student to critically reflect on the content, and suggestions for further reading are made.
The Routledge Education Studies Textbook is essential reading for students of Education Studies, especially during years 2 and 3 of the undergraduate degree. It will be of interest to trainee teachers, including those working towards M level. The Routledge Education Studies Reader containing key academic articles can be used alongside this textbook.