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.
Children and Learning to Read (RLE Edu I)
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Goodacre
February 25, 2014
This is a study of the nature of the process whereby children go about the business of learning to read. The author relates her own practical teaching experience closely to studies in developmental psychology, and also considers the special needs of individual children. In all, the book ...
Children into Pupils (RLE Edu I): A Study of Language in Early Schooling
1st Edition
By Mary Willes
February 25, 2014
This book makes work in the field of sociolinguistics easily accessible to working teachers and to teachers in training. It focuses on the crucial first weeks that children spend in school, and deals with talk as a joint production, in which teachers and pupils are engaged from the earliest stages ...
Classroom Control (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Martyn Denscombe
February 25, 2014
Survival as a school teacher depends on an ability to achieve classroom control. In the years since this book was first published little has changed in this respect. Classroom control continues to lie at the heart of competent teaching. Teachers know it, pupils know it. They know it implicitly ...
Critical Events in Teaching & Learning
1st Edition
By Peter Woods
February 25, 2014
This volume describes and analyses exceptional educational events – periods of particularly effective teaching representing ultimates in teacher and pupil educational experience. The events themselves are reconstructed in the book through teacher and pupil voices and through documentation. A model ...
Democracy, Schooling and Political Education (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By Colin Wringe
February 25, 2014
The relationship between educational practice and the social principles of democracy forms an important strand in the history of educational thought, and is central to the debate on many contemporary issues in the educational field. In this concise, introductory book, Colin Wringe examines the ...
Doing Science (RLE Edu O): Images of Science in Science Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Millar
February 25, 2014
Doing Science is unique in seeking to make explicit the links between science education and science studies. These fields of study and their respective academic communities, whilst appearing to have many potential points of contact, remain surprisingly separate, with little apparent recognition of ...
Education (RLE Edu K): Its Nature and Purpose
1st Edition
By M Jeffreys
February 25, 2014
This book discusses the very nature and purpose of education and provides a foundation upon which more specialized studies in the psychology, history and sociology of education can be based. The book therefore surveys the main problems of human life – the relation of the individual and society, ...
Education and the Social Construction of 'Race' (RLE Edu J)
1st Edition
By Peter Figueroa
February 25, 2014
Does the education system help or hinder the fight against racism? This volume provides a constructive critique of the Swan Report of 1985 and of sociological research into racial and ethnic relations. The author undertakes a searching philosophical and sociological analysis of multicultural and ...
Education and the Spirit of Man (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By Francis Pollard
February 25, 2014
This volume was the Swarthmore Lecture for 1932, one of an annual series of lectures delivered by and for members of the Society of Friends (Quakers). The lecture discusses the place of education and moral philosophy in the world of the early twentieth century, as well as the place of religious ...
Education, Racism and Reform (RLE Edu J)
1st Edition
By Barry Troyna, Bruce Carrington
February 25, 2014
In this introductory text the authors look closely at widely held assumptions about ‘race’ and schooling in Britain, and evaluate the role of the school in a multi-ethnic society. Focusing on contemporary issues and concerns, they consider such controversial questions as: Is the education system ...
Educational Theory (RLE Edu K): An Introduction
1st Edition
By Terence W. Moore
February 25, 2014
This book comes strongly to the defence of educational theory and shows that it has a structure and integrity of its own. The author argues that the validity of educational theory may best be judged in terms of the various assumptions made in it. His argument is illustrated by a review and critique...
Freedom and Choice in Education (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By James Breese
February 25, 2014
Much of the material included here owes it inspiration to discussions held with groups of student teachers in the early 1970s. The book is written for such students and discusses issues such as the acquisition of knowledge, the value of examinations, dependency and religion in education. The book ...