Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Equity and Difference in Physical Education, Youth Sport and Health

   A Narrative Approach

   Edited by Fiona Dowling, Hayley Fitzgerald, Anne Flintoff

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Issues of equity remain an essential theme throughout the study and practice of physical education (PE), youth sport and health. This important new book confronts and illuminates issues of equity and difference through the innovative use of narrative method, telling stories of difference that...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. An Introduction to Primary Physical Education

   Edited by Gerald Griggs

   Physical Education is a core component of the primary school curriculum. The primary years are perhaps the most significant period for motor development in children, a time during which basic movement competencies are developed and which offers the first opportunity for embedding physical activity...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. Practice What You Teach

   Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets

   By Bree Picower

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   Many teachers enter the profession with a desire to "make a difference." But given who most teachers are, where they come from, and what pressure they feel to comply with existing school policies, how can they take up this charge? Practice What You Teach follows three different groups of educators...

   Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
4. Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre

   Practical Projects for Secondary Schools, 2nd Edition

   By Martin Lewis, John Rainer

   This revised and updated edition of Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre will be an essential text for anyone teaching drama in the modern classroom. It presents a model teachers can use to draw together different methodologies of drama and theatre studies, exemplified by a series of contemporary,...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
5. Eight European Central Banks (RLE Banking & Finance)

   Organization and Activities

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance

   Uniquely written from inside the banking world this book gives a comprehensive account of the organization and activities of the major central European banks during the 1980s. Each of the individually authored chapters has been written to a common pattern in order to facilitate reference and...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. Banking in Europe (RLE Banking & Finance)

   The Single Market

   By Robert Dixon

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance

   This book describes the different banking systems of the twelve European Community countries and examines how they were affected by the Single European market of 1992. Exploring the implications of relevant EC legislation, the book highlights the problems that face financial institutions trying to...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
7. Banks as Multinationals (RLE Banking & Finance)

   Edited by Geoffrey Jones

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance

   This comparative, international study looks at origins and business strategies of multinational banks. A distinguished team of bankers and academics from the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia survey the evolution of multinational banks over time and suggest a conceptual framework in which...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Gilt-Edged Market (RLE Banking & Finance)

   By Jeremy Wormell

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance

   This book was written at a time when the market for government stocks in London, the gilt-edged market of the title, had undergone a period of rapid innovation in the forms of its instruments – index-linked stocks, variable rate stocks, and other new types – and of methods of issue. This had been...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
9. Education Outcomes and Poverty

   A Reassessment

   Edited by Christopher Colclough

   Series: Education, Poverty and International Development

   What do we know about the outcomes of education in developing countries? Where are the gaps in our knowledge, and why are they important to fill? What are the policy challenges that underlie these knowledge gaps, and how can education best contribute to eliminating the problem of widespread poverty...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Tackling Behaviour in your Primary School

    A practical handbook for teachers

    By Ken Reid, Nicola S. Morgan

    Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School provides ready-made advice and support for classroom professionals and can be used, read and adapted to suit the busy everyday lives of teachers working in primary schools today. This valuable text sets the scene for managing behaviour in the primary...

    Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge