Understanding & using challenging educational theories / Karl Aubrey and Alison Riley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abraham Maslow: The father of American humanism -- Carl Rogers: The father of client-centred therapy -- A.S. Neill: Freedom to learn -- John Goodlad: The renewal of teaching and learning, schools and teacher education -- Basil Bernstein: Language codes, social class, pedagogy and the curriculum -- Pierre Bourdieu: Theory of society -- Michel Foucault: Power, surveillance, discipline and control in education -- Nel Noddings: Caring in education -- Lawrence Stenhouse: Linking the curriculum with theory, research and practice -- Henry Giroux: Critical pedagogy -- Howard Gardner: Multiple intelligences and education -- John Holt: Unschooling or home schooling -- bell hooks: Education as the practice of freedom -- Jack Mezirow: Transformative learning -- Linda Darling-Hammond: Equity in education -- policy, teachers, and teaching.

Some of the most important developments in educational thought have been put forward by theorists who have challenged existing notions about the aims of education and its role in society. But how do these ideas relate to today's classrooms and how can you use them to improve your own teaching practice? This textbook gives you a clear overview of fifteen thinkers who have offered challenging perspectives on education, including influential sociological thinkers (Bourdieu, Foucault, Mezirow, Bernstein), those who have questioned the orthodoxy on schooling (Holt, Darling-Hammond) and other key names whose writing has helped shaped our views on teaching and learning.