Stephen Kemmis and Christine Edwards-Groves : Understanding education : history, politics and practice [book review]

Abstract

Springer texts in education series aim to provide researchers and scholars with professional and comprehensive pedagogical materials – on educational research, and for the scholarship of education. Accordingly, the fourteenth title of this series ‘understanding education: History, politics and practice’ aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the different assets and various perspectives of education; it reviews the history of education, the dual purpose of education, and the position of the educational practice, the book also discusses the political aspects of education; outlines the theory of education; and concludes some certain challenges to be an educator as well. The book comprises four chapters; Chapter I establishes a framework for understanding education and its dual purpose; Chapter II shows the relation between theory and practice, and the history of schooling and practice; Chapter III addresses the politics of education and sets out for the grounded theory of understanding education, and eventually Chapter IV concludes a theory of education and addresses the theory of practice.