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  • Civil Society’s Education

    Reflections on the Informal Roots of Learning

    by Professor Christopher Winch ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education
    This book examines the relationship between the educational activities of civil society and those of the state via three case studies in vocational education, political education, and educational markets. Winch argues that the narrower educational activities of the state cannot be understood independently of those that take place in civil society which consists of institutions such as families, ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Educational Explanations

    Philosophy in Empirical Educational Research

    by Christopher Winch ...
    Series series Journal of Philosophy of Education
    EDUCATIONAL EXPLANATIONSEducational Explanations is a comprehensive study of the main philosophical questions that confront empirical educational researchers. The book outlines the sense in which empirical educational research pursues truth and sets out and defends an account of its task as the offering of explanations for the many educational problems that claim our attention. The book goes on to ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Practical Rationality, Learning and Convention

    Essays in the Philosophy of Education

    by Christopher Winch ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein
    This collection of articles by one of the leading philosophers of education in the English-speaking world takes up themes in the philosophy of language, epistemology and the philosophy of learning to shed light on philosophical puzzles concerning learning, concept formation, knowing how, the following of norms and whether there is a single concept of rationality that can be applied universally. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Education: The Key Concepts

    by John Gingell, Christopher Winch ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    This new edition of Philosophy of Education: The Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide summarizing all the key terms, ideas and issues central to the study of educational theory today. Fully updated, the book is cross-referenced throughout and contains pointers to further reading, as well as new entries on such topics as:Citizenship and Civic EducationLiberalismCapabilityWell ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Using Educational Research to Inform Practice

    A Practical Guide to Practitioner Research in Universities and Colleges

    by Lorraine Foreman-Peck, Christopher Winch ...
    This book gives practical guidance on how educational research can inform professional practice. Written in a clear and accessible style, it details the way in which evidence based knowledge can be used to develop teaching and learning, bringing together a range of resources for all levels of reader but specifically designed to aid the progressive practitioner researcher.The authors draw on their ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Special Educational Needs

    A New Look

    by Baroness Mary Warnock, Professor Brahm Norwich, Professor Christopher Winch ...
    Series series Key Debates in Educational Policy
    Special Educational Needs: A New Look by Mary Warnock was initially published by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain in 2005. In this new edition, Warnock has updated her argument, Brahm Norwich has contributed a counter-argument and Lorella Terzi has provided an introduction and afterword, drawing the two debates together.The issues debated in this new edition of Special ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • School Education in India

    Market, State and Quality

    Edited by Manish Jain, Archana Mehendale, Rahul Mukhopadhyay, Padma M. Sarangapani, Christopher Winch ...
    This volume examines how the public and private domains in school education in India are informed and mediated by current market realities. It moves beyond the simplistic dichotomy of pro-state versus promarket factors that define most current debates in the formulations of educational reform agendas to underline how they need to be interpreted in the larger context. The chapters in the volume ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Educational Assessment on Trial

    by Andrew Davis, Professor Christopher Winch ...
    Series series Key Debates in Educational Policy
    What purpose does educational assessment serve? Are the same instruments suitable for different purposes? How much trust can we place upon the outcomes of educational assessment?The subject of educational assessment is much discussed and much misunderstood. Policymakers assert its importance to quality in education and its essential role in ensuring accountability for public education, and the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Dyslexia

    Developing the Debate

    by Julian Elliott, Professor Christopher Winch, Professor Rod Nicolson ...
    Series series Key Debates in Educational Policy
    Dyslexia is often presented as a clearly delineated condition that can be diagnosed on the basis of appropriate cognitive tests with corresponding forms on intervention. However, this approachable text explores the issues behind this assertion in bringing together leading figures in the field to debate dyslexia.Julian Elliott shows that understandings and usage of the dyslexia label vary ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Dimensions of Expertise

    A Conceptual Exploration of Vocational Knowledge

    by Professor Christopher Winch ...
    A detailed philosophical debate on the nature of expertise is long overdue and Dimensions of Expertise opens up that debate. Christopher Winch firstly explores an account of know-how, derived primarily from the pioneering work of Gilbert Ryle, and moves on to relate this epistemological debate to discussions concerning the nature of expertise in vocational and professional education, including ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Language, Ability and Educational Achievement

    by Christopher Winch ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Education
    This title, first published in 1990, engages in the current debates about the teaching of literacy and the reform of education. Based on his dissatisfaction with prevalent theories of educational achievement and his experience of teaching in elementary schools, Winch argues that the dichotomy of biological inheritance and environmental influence is inadequate to describe the diverse phenomena of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Teachers' Know-How

    A Philosophical Investigation

    by Christopher Winch ...
    Series series Journal of Philosophy of Education
    Teachers’ Know-How: A Philosophical Investigation presents a comprehensive and up to date philosophical treatment of the kinds of knowledge and “know-how” that educators should possess.Offers an original and in-depth study of teachers’ know-how which situates teaching within the spectrum of professionsCritiques the currently fashionable craft conception of teaching and the view of teaching as ... Read more

    $29.00 USD