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Woburn Education Series
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Public or Private Education?
Lessons from History
This collection of essays, edited by the distinguished historian of education Richard Aldrich, examines past, present and future relationships between the private and public dimensions…
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Teacher Training at Cambridge
The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes
This book focuses on two educationalists, Oscar Browning (1837-1923) and Elizabeth Hughes (1852-1925) who were the principals of the two separate day training colleges for… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-7130-4054-8 (Routledge)
Royal Education
Past, Present and Future
Many people assume that kings and queens have generally received a "good education", perhaps the best that money could buy at the time. This book… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8386-7 (Routledge)
Higher Education and Policy-making in Twentieth-century England
This book explores the changing patterns of higher education in England in the twentieth century, the types of institutions and the emergence of a 'system'… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7130-4049-4 (Routledge)
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British Private Schools
Research on Policy and Practice
British private schools are a continuing topic of fascination for many. In particular, the leading so-called public schools have long been subjected both to criticism… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7130-4048-7 (Routledge)
Dictionary of British Education
This is an up-to-date guide for teachers and parents, administrators, governors , students and others to help the find their way about the increasingly complex… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7130-4051-7 (Routledge)
A Genealogy of Equality
The Curriculum for Social Work Education and Training
This account of the incorporation of issues of equality into the social work education curriculum focuses upon the period between 1989 and 1995, a time… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-7130-4053-1 (Routledge)
The TUC and Education Reform, 1926-1970
This book covers a crucial period for the development of state education in Britain; the advent of the comprehensive debate before and during the Second… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7130-0236-2 (Routledge)
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Gender, Colonialism and Education
An International Perspective
An examination of the ways in which gender intersects with informal and formal education in England, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, USA and the Netherlands. The… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-7130-4046-3 (Routledge)
Power to Teach
Learning Through Practice
This book illustrates hitherto unexamined connections between the present state of teacher education in the UK and past models of practice. It locates contemporary debates…
read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-7130-4047-0 (Routledge)