This essay will review chapters two and eight from the text Practicing Education by Meadmore et al, and discuss the concepts of discipline and devolution and the conceptual links between them. ... The topic of educational institutions being an organised disciplinary society is the central theme of chapter two. ... , as will be discussed further in chapter 8, was to occur. ... , but rather two tactics which form part of a wider strategy aimed at the correct training of young people?. ... Chapter 8 addresses the educational theory and practice of devolutionary management within the educati...

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In Apple's second chapter, he begins by stating that Americans aren't learning as much as they should, or don't know enough of what they should know, and yet continue to criticize those who they feel are more intellectually inferior to them. ... I propose that a part of teacher education include bringing parents and community members into the university classroom to tell prospective teachers (and their teacher educators) what their concerns about education are, what they feel schools are doing well or poorly for their children, and how they would like to see schooling changed. ...

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Abstract Reading Comprehension research has a long and rich history, when examining the process of reading comprehension and the effective instruction of it. What comprehension is, how comprehension occurs and how to teach comprehension have driven hundreds of research studies in the last 30 yea...

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