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.
Marxist Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
1st Edition
By Maurice Levitas
April 10, 2014
The major theories explored are those concerned with social mobility and those which derive from a relativist position in Sociology, both of which see education as a selection mechanism for a stratified society. Social class, family, sociolinguistics and schools are among the topics discussed. In ...
On Helping the Dyslexic Child (RLE Edu M)
1st Edition
By T Miles
April 10, 2014
Many dyslexic children are well above the average in intelligence yet their disability makes progress at school extra hard and reading is often such an effort that they are deprived of the enjoyment from books. The author describes the difficulties of these children and records some of his own ...
Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L): The Social Functions of the Intellectual
1st Edition
By Thomas Popkewitz
April 10, 2014
This book explores the complex social assumptions and values that underlie research programmes about schools. The analysis of educational research draws upon American and European scholarships in the sociology of knowledge, social philosophy and the history and sociology of science. The discussion ...
Privatization and Privilege in Education (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Walford
April 10, 2014
Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector schools, ...
Pupil Strategies (RLE Edu L): Explorations in the Sociology of the School
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Woods
April 10, 2014
What do pupils actually do in school? There are remarkably few studies that take the pupils’ perspective and reconstruct experience from their point of view within the context of their own cultures and careers. This volume brings together a number of research studies on various aspects of how ...
Quality of Pupil Learning Experiences (RLE Edu O)
1st Edition
By Neville Bennett, Charles Desforges, Anne Cockburn, Betty Wilkinson
April 10, 2014
Very little is known about the quality of the learning experiences provided for pupils. This book contains the results of a major research project, conducted in a sample of English primary schools, in which particular attention was paid to the tasks children were assigned, to the degree of match ...
Race, Class and Education (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
Edited
By Len Barton, Stephen Walker
April 10, 2014
One problem which continues to absorb social scientists is the way in which so much social deprivation stems from racial or class status. The discussion in this book is developed in two ways: firstly, careful attention is given to an examination of the way minority groups create and maintain ...
Reconstructing Teacher Education (RLE Edu N)
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Day
April 10, 2014
This book maps out a new paradigm of teacher education and, by implication, professional education generally. The book opens with two alternative theories of teacher education and training and explains the concepts and assumptions on which they rest including beliefs about the nature and role of ...
Regenerating the Curriculum
1st Edition
By Maurice Holt
April 10, 2014
Since the ‘Great Debate’ on education was launched in 1976, the need to bring greater coherence to the secondary curriculum has been generally recognized but to be effective, a new curriculum design must be implemented, and the process of planned educational change must be understood. Regenerating ...
School Organisation (RLE Edu L): A Sociological Perspective
1st Edition
By William Tyler
April 10, 2014
The internal organisation of the school touches on many areas of contemporary debate. Is there such a thing as a ‘good school’? Are large urban comprehensives necessarily impersonal? Are the charges of indiscipline, conflict and declining standards in modern schools based on a failure to understand...
Schooling in Rural Societies (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Roy Nash
April 10, 2014
In industrialized societies the needs of people living in remote and sparsely populated areas are easily overlooked, whilst in developing countries the needs of the rural population are at once so obvious and so enormous that our practical concern is blunted. In this volume it is clearly ...
Sense and Nonsense and the National Curriculum
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Barber, Duncan Graham
April 10, 2014
Originally written after four years of the National Curriculum, at a time when adjustments and radical changes were being implemented, this book analyses from various points of view what is wrong with the National Curriculum and presents a series of options for putting it right....