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Routledge Library Editions: Education


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Routledge Library Editions: Education consists of 244 volumes by some of the greatest educationalists, teaching professionals and policy makers of the twentieth century. The volumes are available in a set; in mini-sets themed by sub-discipline; or individually, in your choice of print or ebook.

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Primary Understanding Education in Early Childhood

Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood

1st Edition

By Kieran Egan
July 03, 2014

Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan constructs his argument that constituting this foundational layer are sets of cultural sense-making capacities, reflected in oral cultures throughout the ...

Rethinking Curriculum Studies

Rethinking Curriculum Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Martin Lawn, Len Barton
July 03, 2014

This book reappraises the British and American experience in curriculum studies, the curious way in which it has been dominated by certain ideas and introduces the reader to alternative ways of perceiving, defining and approaching its problems. It provides a radical critique of the whole area, ...

Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum (RLE Edu L)

Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum (RLE Edu L)

1st Edition

Edited By Len Barton, Roland Meighan, Stephen Walker
July 03, 2014

Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to explore the ways in which notions of the relations between theory and practice, between belief and action, can be used to develop three kinds of ...

Schools, Teachers and Teaching (RLE Edu N)

Schools, Teachers and Teaching (RLE Edu N)

1st Edition

Edited By Len Barton, Stephen Walker
July 03, 2014

This volume considers how various sociological approaches to the exploration of the conditions of teachers’ might be co-ordinated so as to produce a more penetrating and reliable understanding of the main dimensions of teachers’ work. Three dimensions are selected for special attention: historical,...

Streaming (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education) An Education System in Miniature

Streaming (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education): An Education System in Miniature

1st Edition

By Brian Jackson
July 03, 2014

In this volume a streamed school is studied in detail and parents’ responses are recorded. Eleven plus is (and has been) under criticism, but many children are selected by a ‘seven plus’ because they are streamed into A, B or C classes. Few children escape the label once it is pinned on them – less...

The Challenge For the Comprehensive School Culture, Curriculum and Community

The Challenge For the Comprehensive School: Culture, Curriculum and Community

1st Edition

By David Hargreaves
July 03, 2014

By 1982 the ambitious claims made for newly established comprehensive schools were being put to the test. How effectively does the comprehensive meet the needs of all young people? Do urban, working-class students enjoy more success than in the secondary modern schools? Are they more engaged in ...

The Ecology of the School

The Ecology of the School

1st Edition

By John Eggleston
July 03, 2014

Within a single educational system – that of England and Wales – the nature of schooling available to a child can be dramatically different. Even between residential areas the differences in educational climate can be striking. Apart from differences in the organization of schools and the ...

The Enquiring Tutor (RLE Edu O) Exploring The Process of Professional Learning

The Enquiring Tutor (RLE Edu O): Exploring The Process of Professional Learning

1st Edition

By Stephen Rowland
July 03, 2014

Stephen Rowland explores the relationship between the turor (or facilitator) and the professional worker on post-experience professional courses. His emphasis in on the processes of reflection and enquiry in professional learning and is not content specific. Drawing upon his experience as a course ...

The Moral Curriculum A Sociological Analysis

The Moral Curriculum: A Sociological Analysis

1st Edition

By P Musgrave
July 03, 2014

Teachers are, and always have been seen as agents of respectability in our society, but today this role is far less easily defined than it once was. Now, for most teachers, the whats and hows of moral behaviour, guidance and instruction have become debatable issues. In this book the author gives us...

The Politics of  the School Curriculum

The Politics of the School Curriculum

1st Edition

By D Lawton
July 03, 2014

If the curriculum can be defined as a ‘selection from the culture of society’, the central question then becomes ‘who selects’. This volume answers this question, reviewing various aspects of the curriculum and its planning. For many years the control of the curriculum was uncontroversial. In the ...

The Tory Mind on Education 1979-1994

The Tory Mind on Education: 1979-1994

1st Edition

By D Lawton
July 03, 2014

This book discusses conservative education policies since 1979 by referring to beliefs, values and attitudes. It relates ideology to policies and provides some background about the years before 1979 – definitions of Conservatism and descriptions of Tory beliefs and traditional Conservative views on...

Towards Successful Schooling  (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

1st Edition

Edited By Hugh Lauder, Cathy Wylie
July 03, 2014

The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentieth century. For other Western societies who have felt the impact of New Right policies the New Zealand case is interesting because it ...

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