Controversies in education : orthodoxy and heresy in policy and practice /: orthodoxy and heresy in policy and practice. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Helen Proctor, Patrick Brownlee, Peter Freebody, editors.
• Editors: Proctor, Helen, 1959-; Brownlee, Patrick; Freebody, Peter
• Contents: Introduction: Heresies and orthodoxies in contemporary schooling: Helen Proctor, Peter Free body and Patrick Brownlee -- Schools not fit for purpose: New approaches for the times: Johanna Wyn -- Schools and communities fit for purpose: Dorothy Bottrell -- Testing times: Data and their (mis- )use in schools: Peter Reimann -- Are these testing times or is it a time to test? Reconsidering the place of tests in students? academic development: Andrew J. Martin -- Evidence-Based Policy: Epistemologically specious, ideologically unsound: Anthony Welch -- Neglecting the evidence: Are we expecting too much from quality teaching? Margaret Vickers -- Public diversity; private disadvantage: schooling and ethnicity: Carol Reid -- Building new social movements: The politics of responsibility and accountability in school-community relationships: Kelly Free body -- Does the new doxa of integrationism make multicultural education a contemporary heresy? Georgina Tsolidis -- Multicultural education: Contemporary heresy or simply another doxa: Megan Watkins -- Why global policies fail disengaged young people at the local level: Susan Groundwater-Smith & Nicole Mockler -- Education policy?at risk?: Kitty te Riele --?Money made us?: A short history of government funds for Australian schools Geoffrey Sherington and John P. Hughes -- Beyond modernity? A sociological engagement with?A short history of government funding for Australian schools?: Martin Forsey -- Markets all around: defending education in a neoliberal time: Raewyn Connell.-Markets made out of love: parents, schools and communities before neoliberalism: Helen Proctor -- Who are the heretics? Patrick Brownlee and Peter Free body.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 379.94; Education; Educational change -- Australia; Education and state -- Australia; Educational tests and measuremen; EDUCATION -- Administration -- General; EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General; Education and state; Educational change; Bildungspolitik; Soziologie; Evaluation; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Education -- Evaluation; Sociology; Examinations & assessment; Educational strategies & policy; Education; Educational Policy and Politics; Sociology of Education; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Australia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319087597; 3319087592; 3319087584; 9783319087580
• Related ISBNs: 9783319087580
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed September 22, 2014).
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