Key Issues in Education and Social Justice

This second edition provides a contemporary overview of education and social justice, helping readers to understand and analyse the inequalities that exist in today's world, how they are manifested in education systems and how education can engage with and address these issues.

List of contents

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Education and Social Justice
Chapter 2: Social justice and social inequality
Chapter 3: Childhood inequalities and social justice
Chapter 4: International perspectives on education and social justice
Chapter 5: Falling standards and failing students? Inequalities in student outcomes
Chapter 6: Good schools for all: schooling and social justice
Chapter 7: Social Justice and Education in America
Chapter 8: How do young people experience social justice?
Chapter 9: Higher education and social justice
Chapter 10: Social justice and the learning society
Chapter 11: Concluding comments

About the author

Emma Smith is Reader in Education at the University of Birmingham

Summary

This second edition provides a contemporary overview of education and social justice, helping readers to understand and analyse the inequalities that exist in today's world, how they are manifested in education systems and how education can engage with and address these issues.

Product details

• Authors: Author, Emma Smith, Emma (University of Warwick) Smith, Emma (University of Warwick) Author Smith
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781526402721
• ISBN: 978-1-5264-0272-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Education Studies: Key Issues; Education Studies: Key Issues
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Education, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy