Education: Control, Inequality and Innovation
June 9, 2024
1979 is a key date in the development of education in England and Wales because it was in that year that Margaret Thatcher became Prime
1979 is a key date in the development of education in England and Wales because it was in that year that Margaret Thatcher became Prime
In their new book Equity in Education Professor Lee Elliot Major and Emily Briant offer a practical guide for teachers looking to play their part
Key Points Recommended for those with short attention spans or too little time to spend wading through a lot of informative but quite detailed stuff.
It’s probably fair to say that most discussion of concepts like setting, streaming and banding in a-level sociology focus on things like the basic principles
The previous post in this two-part examination of the relationship between educational achievement and intelligence focused on the questions “what is intelligence?” and how can
To understand how intelligence relates to educational achievement it needs to be defined; we need, in other words, to know what intelligence is before we
A month or so ago I posted a 2004 resource (Gender in Education 3 – 19: A Fresh Approach) in which a range of well-known
“Gender and Education” consists of “a spectrum of views commissioned and published by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers” and while it was published in
Explanations for differences in educational achievement based around concepts like class, gender, ethnicity and, for rather different reasons, age are well-known and generally covered comprehensively
The Education Policy Institute’s Annual Report into Education in England, authored by Hutchinson, Reader and Akhal (2020), makes a number of observations and assessments about
This set of resources, created by Lizzie Read, covers different aspects of Education across three main categories: 1. The Role of Education is a 50-page+
Social democratic approaches refer to a range of ideas about the relationship between the individual and the state that focus on using various forms of
marxism For traditional Marxism the main role and function of education is cultural reproduction – a concept based on a different interpretation of secondary socialisation
functionalism Functionalist arguments about the role of education focus on the various ways education links to other social institutions, such as the family and the
The final part of the “Structure and Organisation of Education” trilogy (Part 1: Structure and Organisation and Part 2: Schools, Marketisation and Parentocracy are, as