Education systems and learners : knowledge and knowing /: knowledge and knowing. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Scott.
• Authors: Scott, David, 1951-
• Contents: Education Systems and Learners; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Tables; 1 Introduction -- Education Systems and Their Sub-systems; The Research Excellence Framework; Inspection; Class Sizes; Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA); Developing the Practice; Education Systems; The English Education System; 2 Accounts of Education Systems, Teachers and Learners; Social and Educational Research; Epistemology; Induction; Deduction; Retroduction and Retrodiction; Abduction; Reasons and Causes; Practical Methodologies -- Retroductive and Abductive Strategies 3 Judgements About Education Systems, People and PracticesJudgemental Criteria; Internal, External and Parasitic Criteria; Probative Force; Evidence in Judgement; 4 Learning Environments; A Theory of Learning; Behaviourism; Phenomenology; Cognitive Theories of Knowledge; Constructivist Theories of Learning; Post-Human, Actor-Network and Complexity Theories of Learning; Learning Models; Pedagogic Knowledge; Feedback; 5 Learning and Academic Knowledge; Everyday Practical Knowledge; Teaching and Learning in the Modern Academy; The 'Totally Pedagogised Society' 6 Global Education and Educational ReformGlobalising Processes; 7 Conclusions -- Educational Discourses; Theory-Practice Relationships; School Effectiveness; Equity Debates; New Public Management Discourses; Field Construction; The Examination; Higher Education Pedagogy; Market Entry, Quality and Risk-Based Regulation; Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice; Higher Education, Research and Innovation Architecture; Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice; An Educational Theory. Judgemental RationalityReferences; Author Index; Subject Index.
• Publisher Details: London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 163 pages.)
• Subjects: 378.42; Education; Education, Higher -- England; Educational tests and measuremen; Education and state; Education, Higher; Education -- Computers & Technology; Education -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education -- Evaluation; Education -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL); Education; Examinations & assessment; Central government policies; Educational strategies & policy; England
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137598844; 1137598840
• Related ISBNs: 1137598832; 9781137598837
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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