Education: A Very Short Introduction (Record no. 51385)
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| fixed length control field | 01562 a2200169 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20251008194909.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780198859086 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 370 THO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Thomas, Gary |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Education: A Very Short Introduction |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 2 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Oxford University Press |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | UK |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 140 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Since the early Egyptians human beings have formalised the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students. In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Gary Thomas explores how and why education has evolved as it has, examining the ways in which it has responded over the centuries to various influences in politics, philosophy, and the social sciences. Focussing on education today, he considers especially the controversies over progressive versus formal teaching, and also examines education worldwide, assessing the accelerating trend on both sides of the Atlantic of the move to charter, academy, and 'free' schools. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated moves to online learning in schools and universities, and in this new edition Thomas looks again at curriculums and what shape they should take in a rapidly changing world. He asks why action on race, gender and social inequality has borne so little fruit thus far, questioning the oft-made claim of education to be a force for social mobility, and offering an analysis on how education may develop over the coming century. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Education |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
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