Postgraduate Module Descriptor


EFPM914: Education Studies

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Dufour, B. & Curtis, W. (eds.) (2011) Studying education: an introduction to the key disciplines in educational studies. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Furlong, J. (2012) Education: An Anatomy of the Discipline, Rescuing the University Project. London: Routledge.

Lauder, H., Brown, P. and Halsey, A. (2009) ‘Sociology of Education: critical history and prospects for the future’ Oxford Review of Education 35, 5, 569-85

Phillips, D. & Schweisfurth, M. (2014) Comparative and International Education: an introduction to theory, method, and practice, 2nd edition. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

Hayes, D. (ed) (2004) The Routledge Falmer Guide to Key Debates in Education, London, Routledge.

Sheehy, N. (2003) Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology, London, Routledge.

Ball, S.J. (2004) The Routledge Falmer Reader in Sociology of Education, London, Routledge Falmer.

Scott, J. (2006) Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists, London, Routledge.

Black, J. & Macraild, D. (2000) Studying History, Basingstoke, Palgrave.

Jones, K. (2003) Education in Britain. 1944 to the Present Day, Cambridge, Polity.

Baggini, J. (2002) Philosophy: Key Texts, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

During, S. (2007) Introduction in The Cultural Studies Reader (3rd Edition), London: Routledge