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.
Friedrich Froebel and English Education (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
Edited
By Evelyn Lawrence
February 25, 2014
This collection of essays describes Froebel’s life and the history of his influence on the education of young children in Britain. It also traces the religious roots of his philosophy and discusses his psychological and educational principles in the light of developments in these fields since his ...
Happiness (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By Robin Barrow
February 25, 2014
The first part of the book reviews empirical work relating to happiness (including attitudinal studies), claims made in an educational context and postwar philosophical treatment of the concept. There is a useful account of Aristotle’s pioneering work and a stimulating summary of some of the main ...
Inside the Secondary Classroom (RLE Edu O)
1st Edition
By Sara Delamont, Maurice Galton
February 25, 2014
Focusing on pupils moving from primary to middle or secondary school, it describes and evaluates the schools’ programmes to ease transfer, and includes material provided by the pupils themselves. The main body of the book is a rich and detailed account of the first months of life in new secondary ...
Keepers of the American Dream: A Study of Staff Development and Multicultural Education
1st Edition
By Christine E. Sleeter
February 25, 2014
This book reports an ethnographic study of thirty teachers from eighteen schools who participated in a staff development programme in multicultural education. The study examines how multicultural education was actually presented to teachers, and areas in which their classroom teaching and ...
Knowledge and Character bound with The Modern Teacher(RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By William Archer, A Bain
February 25, 2014
Written before, but published after The First World War, this volume’s plea for a national system of education which will produce a nation of prosperous, morally fulfilled people able to live at peace with other nations is doubly poignant given the sacrifice of the ‘lost generation’. However, the ...
Language & Teaching: A Psychological View
1st Edition
By Peter Herriot
February 25, 2014
Language is the basic means of communication in the classroom. It is therefore vital that teachers should know something about its acquisition, development, possible defects and the ways in which they may understand and develop its communicative powers. Peter Herriot describes the relationship with...
Linguistics and the Teacher
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronald Carter
February 25, 2014
Linguistics and the Teacher is a collection of essays by linguists on different aspects of the relationship between linguistics and education. All the contributors are united in their belief that linguistics should be a central element in the education of teachers, and argue for principled and ...
Living Powers(RLE Edu K): The Arts in Education
1st Edition
By Peter Abbs
February 25, 2014
When originally published this was the first book to offer a collective history of all the arts – Art, Drama, Dance, Music, Literature and Film – in the curriculum. It also offers a coherent framework for the teaching of arts which is in line with the best current trends since the Gulbenkian Report...
Perspectives on Plowden (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
Edited
By R Peters
February 25, 2014
The Plowden Report, Children and their Primary Schools (1967), had a huge impact on education in the latter 20th century, but at the time was labelled as left-wing, and of no practical use to the problems of education in the 1960s. The contributors to this volume were all concerned with the ...
Plato and Education (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By Robin Barrow
February 25, 2014
This introduction to Plato’s philosophical and educational thought examines Plato’s views and relates them to issues and questions that occupy philosophers of education. Robin Barrow stresses the relevance of Plato today, while introducing the student both to Plato’s philosophy and to contemporary ...
Problems in Primary Education (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By R Dearden
February 25, 2014
The first part of the book discusses aims, who should determine them and how they might be determined. The second part discusses some more specific topics of learning and teaching, such as learning how to learn, the integrated day and the use of competition. The author distinguishes three broad ...
Prologue to Education (RLE Edu K): An Inquiry into Ends and Means
1st Edition
By John Wales
February 25, 2014
Many people have come to feel that the controversy on education in Britain has got bogged down in political polemics, and that common polarisations between ‘conventional’ and ‘progressive’, ‘selective’ and ‘comprehensive’, ‘elite’ and ‘democratic’ are both unrealistic and damaging. The author ...