Throughout the last twenty-five years all areas of educational thought have been
preoccupied with the continuing conflict between conservative middle-class dominance of …

This article explores disciplinary approaches to educa‐tional studies over the past fifty years,
in particular those developed by exponents of the'foundation disciplines' of history …

It is, I think, important to clarify from the beginning of this book my understanding of the
nature of educational research and educational theory, for this carries implications for many …

Theories and paradigms of educational research as well as of educational philosophy in
general were strongly affected by the dynamic development in the late 1950s and 1960s …

The issues that are discussed nowadays in the discipline of education, and the particular
ways in which they are dealt with, need to be understood as part of the history of the subject …

This book is a comprehensive, student-friendly text, introducing you to the main education
disciplines in one handy volume. In a lively and accessible manner, it examines the …

Clearly, one of the most important tasks facing the educational philosopher is the basic one
of identifying, describing and analysing educational theories. It is also clear that many of the …

There can be little doubt as to the extraor-dinary importance of the “new” theories and
perspectives concerning education that have developed since about 1970. Drawing on a …

This textbook forms part of a five-book series, Education Studies: Key Issues, for which
Bartlett and Burton also serve as series editors. The twelve chapters of this volume are …

The academic discipline of education originated, according to the tradition of its own field of
study—the construction of a discourse of itself on the basis of an often very unilateral, linear …