Relational Realist Vision for Education Policy and Practice / Basem Adi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adi, Basem, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Education and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 177 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

"This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an alternative approach based on a relational realist-informed critical pedagogy. Adi casts familiar issues in a new light by drawing on a less familiar theoretical and meta-theoretical tradition, offering a critique that can be productively engaged with by many educational organizations to tackle the issues they face. A Relational Realist Vision for Education Policy and Practice will be of great interest to academics of sociology, critical realism, sociological theory and education, as well as policymakers and educators seeking a theoretical perspective on their work."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

List of Figures

Introduction

1. The Functionalist Symbolic Reference of UK Governance Models

2. Relational Realism as an Alternative General Sociological Approach

3. The Morphogenetic Paradigm: Conceptualising the Human in the Social

4. Social Capitalisation & the Making of Relational Goods

5. Student Development as the Referential Reality of Education

6. Morphogenetic Education with a Developmental Mission

7. A Summary of the Argument Presented

Glossary of Key Terms

References

Index.

Notes:

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