The study of education as a university subject in Britain

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5113549
AutoresBrian Simon (University of Leicester, autor de correspondencia)
Año1983
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas1-13
Fecha de publicación1983-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03075078312331379071
OpenAlexW1985068330
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas18

The first chairs in education were established in Scotland in 1876. But it was only from the late 1890s that education departments were founded in English universities. The study of education in Britain can be periodised into four stages, but it is in the last of these, from the 1960s, that the subject really ‘took off ̊s, based on a paradigm originally defined by the new philosophers who applied the techniques of linguistic analysis to the subject. The massive expansion of colleges of education and the establishment of new universities greatly increased the number of academic staff engaged on theoretical study at this time. As a result education has developed as a multi-disciplinary study and is now much more closely related to the mainstream of university studies than it ever was in the past

Discipline · Higher education · Library science · Mainstream · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Law · Psychology · Religious Education and Schools