Education Studies: Issues and Critical Perspectives

Contributors <br>Acknowledgements <br>Foreword <p>Section 1: Inside the school <br>Section introduction <br>Early years education: mixed messages and conflicts <br>Evidenced-based education: finding out what works and what hurts <br>The politics of the National Numeracy and Literacy Strategies <br>Shaping pedagogy from psychological ideas <br>When evidence is not enough: freedom to choose versus prescribed choice: the case of Summerhill <p>Section 2: Policy, politics and education <br>Section introduction <br>New Labour’s education policy <br>England: educating for the twenty-first century <br>What do we really know from school improvement and effectiveness research? <br>Away with all teachers: the cultural politics of home learning <br>New students: same old structures <p>Section 3: Education at the margins <br>Section introduction <br>Stephen and Anthony: the continuing implications of the Macpherson report for teacher education <br>Meeting the educational needs of forced migrants <br>Education of looked after children: who cares? <br>Women and state schools: Britain 1870 to present day <br>Lifelong learning, just a slogan? The reality for working-class women <p>Section 4: Global education: global issues <br>Section introduction <br>New Labour, globalisation and social justice: the role of teacher education <br>Pakistan: whither educational reforms? <br>Changing geographies of power in education: the politics of rescaling and its contradictions <br>Education for sustainable development <p>Index