Routledge Library Editions: Education
About the Book Series
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.
Rationality, Education and the Social Organization of Knowledege (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Jenks
August 25, 2015
The manner in which we variously come to an understanding of our world presents problems for us all, but the unified method by which we ought best to acquire such knowledge represents the particular problem of contemporary education. This important book seeks to explore some of the underlying ...
Adult Education & The Working Class: Education for the Missing Millions
1st Edition
By Kevin Ward, Richard Taylor
August 12, 2014
This book has two purposes: first to argue that there is a greater need now than ever before for liberal adult education for the working class. Such provision would both help to ameliorate the gross inequalities of our society and provide some counter-balance to the increasingly utilitarian and ...
Adult Education as Theory, Practice and Research: The Captive Triangle
1st Edition
By Robin Usher, Ian Bryant
August 12, 2014
The authors argue that the aim of research should be to improve practice through a process of critical reflection. Focusing clearly on the everyday concerns and problems of practitioners, they emphasize the importance of practical knowledge. Their definition of ‘practice’ is wide, and includes the ...
Education for Adults: Volume 1 Adult Learning and Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Malcolm Tight
August 12, 2014
The nature of adult education at individual, group and community levels is the concern of this book. Definitions and patterns of adult learning are critically assessed in both this country and abroad, and the processes involved considered in detail. Both case studies and thematic articles have been...
Higher Education for All? (RLE Edu G)
1st Edition
Edited
By Gordon Roderick, Michael Stephens
August 12, 2014
The rapid expansion of higher education provision, particularly in Europe and North America during the 1960s opened up for the first time the question whether everyone should have the opportunity to experience the benefits of higher university and other institutions. The contributors are economists...
International Higher Education Volume 1: An Encyclopedia
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Altbach
August 12, 2014
This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars in their fields. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature ...
International Higher Education Volume 2: An Encyclopedia
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Altbach
August 12, 2014
This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars in their fields. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature ...
The Powers of Literacy (RLE Edu I): A Genre Approach to Teaching Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis
August 12, 2014
Literacy remains a contentious and polarized educational, media and political issue. What has emerged from the continuing debate is a recognition that literacy in education is allied closely with matters of language and culture, ideology and discourse, knowledge and power. Drawing perspectives ...
Breakthrough (RLE Edu M): Autobiographical Accounts of the Education of Some Socially Disadvantaged Children
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronald Goldman
July 03, 2014
Social mobility, educational priority areas and equality of opportunity are topics discussed as much today as when this book was first published over 30 years ago. This book is written by people of varying ages and professions who have broken through from poor social beginnings, deprived ...
Changing Educational Assessment: International Perspectives and Trends
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Broadfoot, Roger Murphy, Harry Torrance
July 03, 2014
Assessment is a key area of interest and debate in education. Its increased use by governments as a powerful means of influencing educational practice are now features of the educational scene worldwide. This volume was the first major international review of such developments and it explores the ...
Children's Play and Its Place in Education: With an Appendix on the Montessori Method
1st Edition
By Walter Wood
July 03, 2014
Published long before the importance of early childhood education was formally recognised in the educational landscape this book explores the significance of play for young children. The volume includes an appendix on Montessori education....
Class, Culture and Education (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Harold Entwistle
July 03, 2014
This book examines the concepts of equality, class, culture, work and leisure and explores their interrelationship through the discussion of some current problems, especially the problems posed for schools for the ‘culturally deprived.’ The debate about differential provision of schooling for ...