Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities in UK Education [electronic resource] : Tensions and Inequalities /
McQueen, H.author.
Top scholars systematically explore roles, rights, and responsibilities of major participants in UK education: the government, the educators, the learners, and the parents. They investigate the inequalities produced by their current arrangement and look into how changing these arrangements might lead to different outcomes for all involved.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Preface; Why This Book?; Setting the Scene; The United Kingdom and Education; What Is Education?; Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities; Outline of Content; Chapter Summary; 2 Governance; Thinking about Education Governance; The Roles, Rights and Responsibilities of Those in Educational Governance; Roles; The Role of Central Government and Agencies; The Role of Local Governance, Leaders and Stakeholders; Rights; Responsibility; Tensions; Neoliberalism, Choice and Social Unity; Equity and Efficiency; Inequalities
Chapter Summary3 Learners; Rebalancing the Learner-Teacher Partnership; Roles; Active-passive; Autonomous-Dependent; Compliant-Resistant; Expert-Novice; Learner-Teacher; Academic-Vocational; Past-Future Roles; Bully-Victim; Rights; Right to an Education; Right to Complain or Appeal; Right to Participate; Responsibilities; Tensions; Autonomy-Dependence; Learner Comfort or Risk and Challenge; Consumerism in Education; Inequalities; Access and Participation; Educational Development; Educational Pathways and Choice; Chapter Summary; 4 Parents; Parents, Gender and Education; Roles
Choosing a Place for EducationPreparing Children for an Education System; Monitoring Progress and Behaviour; Getting Involved with Education; Rights; The Right to Choose; The Right to Complain; Responsibilities; Tensions; Choice-Equity; Home-School Agreements; Inequalities; Choice, Equity and (Lack of) Social Mobility; The Relationship between School and Home; Parent Voice; Concluding Comments; Chapter Summary; 5 Teachers; Teaching in Turbulent Times; Teachers and Supporters of Learning; Roles; Teachers; Teaching Assistants (TAs)
Lecturers, Tutors, and Trainers (Lifelong Learning and Further Education)Lecturers, Professors, Tutors, and Readers (HE); Teaching and Learning Managers; Teaching Support (Personal Tutors, Mentors, Student Services, and Counsellors); Rights; Responsibilities; Tensions; Qualified and Unqualified Teachers; Practical and Theoretical Tensions; Emotional Well-Being and Achievement; Responsibility, Accountability and Blame; Inclusion: Removing and Creating Barriers; Teaching and Research in Higher Education; Inequalities; Gender; Race, Colour and Ethnicity; Concluding Comments; Chapter Summary
6 Tensions and Inequalities Revisited: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities and RecognitionThe Role of Recognition in Education; Responsibility, Autonomy and Choice; Vocational and Academic Pathways; Equality and Equity; Concluding Comments; Chapter Summary; Appendix; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Top scholars systematically explore roles, rights, and responsibilities of major participants in UK education: the government, the educators, the learners, and the parents. They investigate the inequalities produced by their current arrangement and look into how changing these arrangements might lead to different outcomes for all involved.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Educational sociology.
Education and state.
Educational policy.
School management and organization.
School administration.
International education .
Comparative education.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Education Policy.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
International and Comparative Education.