Introducing: 20 key educational thinkers who have offered challenging perspectives on education
Exploring: Their ideas, how to apply them in practice and their relevance to teaching and learning today.
Understanding: The strengths and limitations of each theory and links to other concepts.

This third edition includes:

• Two new chapters on the works of Diane Ravitch and Gloria Ladson-Billings
• Revamped reflective tasks with a greater practical focus for the classroom

• Fully updated chapters with links to current educational socio-political developments, and expanded critical commentary This is an essential textbook for any university course that includes learning theory, with particular relevance for initial teacher education, education studies and early childhood degrees.

  Karl Aubrey has recently retired from his post at Bishop Grosseteste University.
  Alison Riley is the Programme Leader for the BA Early Childhood Studies at Bishop Grosseteste University.

  The perfect companion to Aubrey & Riley: Understanding and Using Educational Theories 3e (9781529761306).

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  Karl Aubrey is a Visiting Tutor on the Professional Studies in Education programmes at Bishop Grosseteste University. Prior to this Karl was the Programme Leader for a range of initial teacher education and professional development programmes at a large city further education college. Between 2003 and 2005 he was seconded to the DfES Standards Unit as a learning and teaching practitioner in the East Midlands. Karl has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of Education. His doctoral thesis explored the reforms in further education teacher education from 2000 to 2010, from the viewpoint of teacher educators. Karl's research interests include inclusion, education policy, pedagogy and work-based learning.