Understanding Education by Alan Cribb

Understanding Education by Alan Cribb

Who should be educated, when, by whom and how? What purposes should education serve? Why does education matter? These fundamental questions of value are not always seen as central to the sociology of education. This book argues that they are pivotal and provides an introduction to the field that is designed to open up these debates.

"The authors are to be commended for their densely nuanced exploration of complex debates about values, reflexivity and ethics in sociological knowledge and for their use of local, national, global and interdisciplinary examples of educational practices, processes and instances"
Sociology

"Provides a thorough, cohesive and incisive account of the ways in which a value based approch to education has much to offer. The clarity of the arguments make it a good text to use with students whilst also providing an engaging resource for those who have a background in education but may not have considered their field in this light."
Sociological Research Online

"This book is about how the sociology of education works as an intellectual practice. It offers new and important insights into the complex and often troubled relations between sociology and education."
Stephen Ball, Institute of Education, University of London

"With extraordinary clarity, Gewirtz and Cribb map the complexity of theories and perspectives in the sociology of education and interweave a discussion of the centrality of its political and ethical dimensions. They build a compelling, nuanced – and much needed – case for a rigorous politically committed educational sociology."
Pauline Lipman, University of Illinois at Chicago

"This important book charts the field of sociology of education, with innovative attention to the issue of values within this body of work. The analysis both celebrates and interrogates the normative dimension of sociologists' work in education, and in doing so provides a lively engagement with the field that will stimulate students and experts alike."
Becky Francis, Roehampton University

Sharon Gewirtz, Professor of Education at King's College London.

Alan Cribb, Professor of Bioethics and Education at King's College London.

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ISBN 13	9780745633459
ISBN 10	0745633455
Title	Understanding Education
Author	Alan Cribb
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2009-08-21
Number of pages	240
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