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.
Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Doris Pronin Fromberg, Leslie R. Williams
April 10, 2014
This Encyclopedia is a reference work about young children in the USA, designed for use by policy makers, community planners, parents of young children, teacher and early childhood educators, programme and school administrators, among others. The field of early childhood education has been affected...
English Education and the Radicals (RLE Edu L): 1780-1850
1st Edition
By Harold Silver
April 10, 2014
The radicalism of the period from the 1780s to the mid-nineteenth century represented a harnessing of knowledge in protest against injustices and oppression, a pooling of effort to transform society. In this book the author explores the main strains in working and middle-class radicalism over this ...
Essays on Political Education
1st Edition
By Bernard Crick, Derek Heater
April 10, 2014
In the 1960s and 1970s there was a remarkable development of interest in political education not only in Britain but also in other countries, namely the USA, Germany and Australia. This volume provides scholars and teachers in this field with a picture of British work in the area of political ...
German Influence on English Education
1st Edition
By W Armytage
April 10, 2014
This book traces the impact of German educationists, such as Froebel and Herbart, on practice in Britain while stressing the important and lasting influence of German scientists, technologists, philosophers, sociologists and historians on our educational system. This record of interplay between the...
Higher Education in German Occupied Countries (RLE Edu A)
1st Edition
By A Wolf
April 10, 2014
This book gives a comprehensive account of what happened to higher education in Austria, Belgium, the former Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Russia and the former Yugoslavia during 1938-1944. It reveals the mentality of the German cultural ...
Individual Development and the Curriculum
1st Edition
By Kieran Egan
April 10, 2014
This book describes four ‘layers’ or stages of education – Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic and Ironic and shows how children at each stage most effectively learn, and how they can be helped towards educational maturity. While drawing on a wide range of philosophical and psychological literature, this...
Language, Schools and Classrooms (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
1st Edition
By Michael Stubbs
April 10, 2014
The role of language is central in education – but there is much debate about the exact relation between children’s language and their educational success. The author provides a clear guide to the basic issues in the debates over language deficit, standard English and classroom language, and in ...
Life in Public Schools (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Walford
April 10, 2014
Britain’s public (that is, its major independent) schools have a conspicuous role in the country’s social system, and as a result are the subject of a long-standing political debate. The discussion is generally founded on a stereotyped image of what these school may have been like in the 1950s – ...
Maladjusted Boys (RLE Edu M)
1st Edition
By Otto Shaw
April 10, 2014
Written by the founder of a pioneering establishment for disruptive boys who had been excluded from mainstream schools and in some cases turned to crime, this book discusses the methods and reasons for success of Red Hill School. It also discusses the causes of disruptive or obsessive behaviour and...
Maladjusted Schooling (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By John F. Schostak
April 10, 2014
The problems this book discusses are the same now as they were 25 years ago: unemployment, poor housing, inadequate facilities, poverty, racism, violence. What is the function of a school in such a situation? Although many schools hold reformist ideals, their practice is constrained by ...
Marx and Education in Russia and China (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By R Price
April 10, 2014
To many education students, Russian and/or Chinese education is at the same time their introduction to Marxism, and many students go no further. This book sets the record straight by giving a thorough introduction to the writings of Marx himself as they relate to education. It shows what Marxism ...
Marxism and Education (RLE Edu L): A Study of Phenomenological and Marxist Approaches to Education
1st Edition
By Madan Sarup
April 10, 2014
This book introduces the student to the various phenomenological and humanistic Marxist perspectives as they are being applied to education and provides an account of the strengths and weaknesses of these perspectives, drawing on a variety of disciplines in order to explain the controversies ...