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9781441129734

Rethinking the Education Improvement Agenda A Critical Philosophical Approach

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  • ISBN13:

    9781441129734

  • ISBN10:

    1441129731

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-02-02
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Offering a philosophical perspective to the educational improvement agenda, this engaging text provides a new language for research into educational improvement, bringing leading edge philosophy to current practice.

Author Biography

Kevin J. Flint is Senior Lecturer in Education at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Nick Peim is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
Education, the School and the Statep. 12
Education, the Language of Improvement and Governmentality: The Enframing in Practicep. 42
Governing Childhoodp. 59
Educational Research: Improvement and Metaphysicsp. 99
Schooling: The Social Landscape of Modernityp. 130
Initial Teacher Education: Practice, Performativity and Identityp. 160
The Enframing in the Leadership and Management of Educationp. 190
The Enframing and Lifelong Learningp. 219
The Rhetoric of Numbersp. 246
Fifteen Theses on Educationp. 277
Referencesp. 279
Indexp. 299
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