• ISBN13: 9781844452002
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: Learning Matters
• Publication Date: January 1, 2009
• Pages: 160
• Original Price: GBP 31.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 341 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Aims & Objectives, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, and Educational Psychology

This book provides an accessible undergraduate-level introduction to the central educational concepts of learning and culture. In examining these themes it addresses key issues including: what is meant by ′culture′; characteristics commonly associated with contemporary culture; relationships between culture and learning; changing understandings of how, what, where and when we learn; the relationship between learning, national identity and citizenship; and the impact of all these on our way of life today. These ideas are approached from historical, philosophical, sociological, political and psychological perspectives: the traditional disciplines of Education Studies.

Curtis, Will: - Will Curtis is Education Subject Leader and Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at De Montfort University.

Pettigrew, Alice: - Alice Pettigrew is a researcher at the Institute of Education, University of London