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“Profound and useful, readers will benefit from the systematic treatment of learning through superb scholarship. Cultural-philosophical-curricular-pedagogical-historical perspectives on learning, curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment, and learners make this collection unique.” - Carol A. Mullen, Professor of Educational Leadership, Virginia Tech Learning is a fundamental topic in education. Combining traditional views of learning and learning theory with sociocultural and historical perspectives, this Handbook brings together original contributions from respected researchers who are leading figures in the field. The editors provide a insightful introduction to the topic, and the theories, frameworks, themes and issues discussed in the individual chapters are central to each and every learning episode. The Handbook is organized into four sections, each beginning with a short introduction: • Philosophical, Sociological and Psychological Theories of Learning • Models of Learning • Learning, Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment • Learning Dispositions, Life-Long Learning and Learning Environments
The Impact of Gender, Race and Class on Learning Dispositions in Schools
The Impact of Gender, Race and Class on Learning Dispositions in Schools
INTRODUCTION
This chapter draws on a case study of an inner-city primary classroom in order to make the case for a sociologically informed view of learning. The importance of developing more sociologically informed understandings is made starkly apparent when you enter the term ‘sociology of learning’ into Google Scholar. Hundreds of entries on learning sociology come up but nothing on the sociology of learning. However, in contrast, when you enter ‘psychology of learning’ over a million entries appear, primarily on the psychology of learning. It is this imbalance, the centrality of psychological understandings of learning and the ...
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