Rationing Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rationing Education write by David Gillborn. This book was released on 1999-12-16. Rationing Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This research should make us extremely sceptical that the constant search for 'higher standards' and for ever-increasing achievement scores can do much more than put in place seemingly neutral devices for restratification." - Michael W Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison Recent educational reforms have raised standards of achievement but have also resulted in growing inequalities based on 'race' and social class. School-by-school 'league tables' play a central role in the reforms. These have created an A-to-C economy where schools and teachers are judged on the proportion of students attaining five or more grades at levels A-to-C. To satisfy these demands schools are embracing new and ever more selective attempts to identify 'ability'. Their assumptions and practices embody a new IQism: a simple , narrow and regressive ideology of intelligence that labels working class and minority students as likely failures and justifies rationing provision to support those (often white, middle class boys) already marked for success. This book reports detailed research in two secondary schools showing the real costs of reform in terms of the pressures on teachers and the rationing of educational opportunity. It will be important reading for any teacher, researcher or policymaker with an interest in equality in education.
Education for Victory
Education for Victory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Education for Victory write by . This book was released on 1942. Education for Victory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Racism And Antiracism In Real Schoolsa
Racism And Antiracism In Real Schoolsa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Racism And Antiracism In Real Schoolsa write by Gillborn , David. This book was released on 1995-02-01. Racism And Antiracism In Real Schoolsa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. * How are 'race' and racism implicated in education policy and practice? * What does effective antiracism look like in practice? * How can teachers and school students be encouraged to think critically about their racialized assumptions and actions? In exploring these questions David Gillborn makes a vital contribution to the debate on 'race' and racism in education. He focuses on racism in the policy, research, theory and practice of education, and includes the first major study of antiracism at the level of whole-school management and classroom practice. The voices of teachers and school students bring the issues to life, and illustrate the daily problems of life in urban schools. This is a fascinating picture of the key matters facing managers, classroom teachers and their students as schools struggle to develop strong and workable approaches to anti-racist education. It is accompanied by a critical review of current debates and controversies concerning 'race', ethnicity and identity. Arguing for a critical return to the concept of 'race', Racism and Antiracism in Real Schools represents an important addition to the literature on the theory and practice of education in a racist society.
Assessing Children'S Mathematical Knowledge
Assessing Children'S Mathematical Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assessing Children'S Mathematical Knowledge write by Cooper, Barry. This book was released on 1999-12-01. Assessing Children'S Mathematical Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'this work is highly relevant to the proliferation of accountability measures worldwide' James Scheurich and Douglas Foley In many countries, the lives of teachers and children are increasingly dominated by programmes of national testing of mathematics and other subjects. In England, the majority of the items in such tests have set mathematical tasks in every day situations such as 'shopping'. This requires children to make decisions about whether to use or not their own every day knowledge and experience in their problem-solving. Some children are likely to have a better 'feel for this game' than others. Assessing Children's Mathematical Knowledge draws on the analysis of national curriculum test data from more than 600 children of 10-11 and 13-14 years of age, as well as in-depth interviews with 250 of these as they attempt to solve test problems, in order to explore the nature of the difficulties children experience with 'realistic' items. The book shows, by comparing test and interview data, that many children, as a consequence of their confusion over the requirements of 'realistic' test items, fail in tests to demonstrate mathematical knowledge and understanding that they actually possess. The book also explores whether this problem of invalid measurement is equally spread across children from different social backgrounds, and across the sexes. The book will be of interest to academics and teachers studying for advanced degrees in mathematics education, sociology of education and educational assessment.
Sociology of Education Today
Sociology of Education Today - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sociology of Education Today write by J. Demaine. This book was released on 2001-03-13. Sociology of Education Today available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is almost twenty years since Macmillan published Jack Demaine's Contemporary Theories in the Sociology of Education . This completely new book brings together important recent work of the most prominent sociologists working in the field of education today, and reaffirms the reputation of sociology of education as an international discipline at the forefront of original research and analysis. The book examines a wide range of empirical issues and different theoretical perspectives.
