Are the disciplines of education ghosts of a productive past or
creative and useful forms of inquiry? Are they in a demographic and
organisational crisis today?
The contribution of the 'foundation disciplines' of sociology,
psychology, philosophy, history and economics to the study of
education has always been contested in the UK and in much of the
English-speaking world. But such debates are now being brought to a
head in education by the demographic crisis. Recent research has
shown that with the an ageing population of education academics, in
ten years' time, there could be very few disciplinary specialists
left working within faculties of education in UK universities. But
does that matter and is the UK no more than a special case? How
does this 'crisis' look from Europe where the disciplines of
education are more embedded, and from the USA with its more diverse
higher education system?
In this book, leading scholars - including A.H. Halsey, David
Bridges, John Furlong, Hugh Lauder, Martin Lawn and Sheldon
Rothblatt - consider the changing fortunes of each discipline as
education moved away from the dominance of psychology in the 1930s,
1940s and 1950s as a result of the growing importance of the other
disciplines and new social questions, and how the changing
epistemological and political debates of the last twenty years
haves resulted in their progressive demise. Finally, the book
confronts the question as to whether the disciplines have a place
in education in the twenty-first century.
The book brings the coming crisis into the public view and
explores the issue of the past, current and future relevance of the
disciplines to the study of education. It will be of interest to
all international academics and researchers in the field of
education and the contributory disciplines as well as to students
on educational research methods courses.
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