TY - BOOK ID - 32075313 TI - Understanding Education : History, Politics and Practice AU - Kemmis, Stephen. AU - Edwards-Groves, Christine. PY - 2018 SN - 9811064334 9811064326 PB - Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Education. KW - Educational sociology. KW - Teaching. KW - Education KW - Education and sociology. KW - Sociology, Educational. KW - Learning & Instruction. KW - Teaching and Teacher Education. KW - Schools and Schooling. KW - Educational Philosophy. KW - History of Education. KW - Sociology of Education. KW - Philosophy. KW - History. KW - Education and sociology KW - Social problems in education KW - Society and education KW - Sociology, Educational KW - Sociology KW - Teaching KW - Didactics KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - School teaching KW - Schoolteaching KW - Instructional systems KW - Pedagogical content knowledge KW - Training KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Aims and objectives KW - History KW - Schools. KW - Education-History. KW - Public institutions KW - Public schools KW - Learning. KW - Instruction. KW - Education—Philosophy. KW - Education—History. KW - Learning process KW - Comprehension UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32075313 AB - This short book provides an introduction to the study of education, outlining the dual purpose of education – to help people live well and to help develop a world worth living in. It argues that education initiates people into forms of understanding, modes of activity, and ways of relating to each other and the world that not only help individuals to live good lives, but also help secure a culture based on reason, productive and sustainable economies and environments, and just and democratic societies. Subsequent chapters address the history of education in the West; explore how education reproduces the practices and forms of life in societies and groups, and also how it transforms them; and introduce the theory of practice architectures to explain what practices are composed of, and how they are enabled and constrained by local and more general conditions and circumstances. The book closes by showing how the theory of practice architectures unfolds to offer a theory of education – a theory that underpins the definition of education offered at the start of the book. Understanding Education is essential reading for anyone interested in the theory and practice of education. ER -