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.
Theory and Practice of Curriculum Studies
1st Edition
By Professor Denis Lawton
April 10, 2014
This book deals with curriculum issues and problems, and one of its aims is to help practising teachers to clarify their own theory and practice in relation to the curriculum. The contributors look at three popular theories or sets of assumptions held by teachers: the child-centred view of ...
Towards A Compulsory Curriculum
1st Edition
By John White
April 10, 2014
Written prior to the introduction of the national curriculum, this volume argued for precisely that: a broad framework of a compulsory education at national level for all schools. The author considers the question of the content of his proposed compulsory curriculum in terms of principles derived ...
Broken Ground: John F Kennedy and the Politics of Education
1st Edition
By Lawrence J. McAndrews
March 31, 2014
Throughout United States history, and particularly from the 1930s through the 1960s, education was a sensitive political issue which preoccupied Congresses, Presidents and interest groups. By the time of John F Kennedy’s Presidency federal aid to education was all but inevitable but the ...
Christianity in Education: The Hibbert Lectures 1965
1st Edition
Edited
By F.H. Hilliard, Desmond Lee, Gordon Rupp, W.R. Nibett
March 31, 2014
The Christian churches have frequently pioneered educational advances – from the seventh century down to the nineteenth. Schools, universities and colleges of education stand as tangible evidence of these efforts. Do all these ventures belong merely to educational history – relics of the days when ...
Creativity and Education
1st Edition
By Hugh Lytton
March 31, 2014
The author gives a lucid account of creativity and its educational context. He discusses the creative process, the character of different kinds of creativity, creative people, developing creativity, and the creative child at school, to give his readers an understanding of the issues that home or ...
Political Education in a Democracy
1st Edition
By Harold Entwistle
March 31, 2014
In this volume the author analyzes the relationships of concepts such as socialization and political education, explains those aspects of the theory and practice of democracy that are especially relevant for schools, and suggests ways in which teachers can better provide for the political education...
A Modern Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By Godfrey Thomson
February 25, 2014
‘Philosophy’ in the context of this book means that the author is looking at education as a whole, without restrictions or simplifications; looking at ends and purposes, not merely at methods and means. He discusses early years education, the sociology and psychology of education as well as ...
Aa is for Aesthetic (RLE Edu K): Essays on Creative and Aesthetic Education
1st Edition
By Peter Abbs
February 25, 2014
This volume reaffirms the indispensable place of the arts in any coherent curriculum. The author hopes that the specific arguments formulated in the book will advance the conservationist post-Modernist aesthetic....
Achieving Literacy (RLE Edu I): Longitudinal Studies of Adolescents Learning to Read
1st Edition
By Margaret Meek
February 25, 2014
How children learn to read well and what kind of teaching helps them is a scarcely penetrated mystery. This book is a fascinating and informative research report by a group of teachers who set out to teach children who have failed to acquire a useful degree of literacy; in it they discuss their ...
Advances in Teacher Education (RLE Edu N)
1st Edition
Edited
By V McClelland, Ved P Varma
February 25, 2014
During the 1980s, Britain’s educational system was restructured and redirected. Of the many changes which were made, perhaps the most far-reaching have affected the education of teachers themselves.The contributors to this book have all been centrally involved in the reforming process of teacher ...
An Essay Towards A Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K): A Liberal Education for All
1st Edition
By Charlotte Mason
February 25, 2014
This was the last and most important and comprehensive work of Charlotte Mason, (founder of the Parents’ National Educational Union). For more than half a century the practical results of her original thought on education could be seen in all parts of the world in the Charlotte Mason Method and the...
Can We Teach Children to be Good? (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By Roger Straughan
February 25, 2014
The apparently straightforward question 'Can we teach children to be good?' cannot be properly understood without a great deal of careful thinking about the philosophical issues involved. Teachers and parents often assume that what the question means and how it should be answered are self-evidently...