Understanding and Using Challenging Educational Theories

Karl Aubrey is a Visiting Tutor on the Professional Studies in Education programmes at Bishop Grosseteste University. Prior to this Karl was the Programme Leader for a range of initial teacher education and professional development programmes at a large city further education college. Between 2003 and 2005 he was seconded to the DfES Standards Unit as a learning and teaching practitioner in the East Midlands. Karl has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of Education. His doctoral thesis explored the reforms in further education teacher education from 2000 to 2010, from the viewpoint of teacher educators. Karl's research interests include inclusion, education policy, pedagogy and work-based learning.

A comprehensive textbook on important educational theorists, building on Aubrey & Riley¿s main book (Understanding and Using Educational Theories 3e) and offering a practical, theoretical and critical overview of more challenging theorists, including many with a strong sociological focus.

IntroductionCh1 Abraham Maslow: The third force in psychologyCh2 Carl Rogers: Learner-centred teaching and the fully functioning personCh3 A.S. Neill: Freedom to learnCh4 John Goodlad: The renewal of teaching and learning, schools and teacher educationCh5 Basil Bernstein: Language codes, social class, pedagogy and the curriculumCh6 Ivan Illich: Deschooling society: challenging the concept of schoolCh7 Pierre Bourdieu: Theory of societyCh8 Michel Foucault: Power, surveillance, discipline and control in educationCh9 Loris Malaguzzi: The Reggio Emilia experienceCh10 Nel Noddings: Caring in educationCh11 Lawrence Stenhouse: Linking the curriculum with theory, research and practiceCh12 Michael Apple: Ideology, knowledge, power, and the curriculumCh13 Henry Giroux: Critical pedagogyCh14 Howard Gardner: Multiple intelligences and educationCh15 John Holt: Unschooling or home schoolingCh16 bell hooks: Education as the practice of freedomCh17 Jack Mezirow: Transformative learningCh18 Linda Darling-Hammond: Equity in education: policy, teachers and teachingCh19 Diane Ravitch: From Champion To Critic Of The American Education SystemCh20 Gloria Ladson-Billings: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy