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.
Racial Inequality in Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry Troyna
February 27, 2014
The education system should be in the forefront of the battle to combat racial inequality. The contributors to this book, however, argue that, far from reducing racial inequality, the education system in the UK systematically generates, maintains and reproduces it. Through careful consideration of ...
Racism, Education and the State
1st Edition
By Barry Troyna, Jenny Williams
February 27, 2014
The education system should be in the forefront of the battle to combat racial inequality. The contributors to this book, however, argue that, far from reducing racial inequality, the education system in the UK systematically generates, maintains and reproduces it. Through careful consideration of ...
Radical Education (RLE Edu K): A Critique of Freeschooling and Deschooling
1st Edition
By Robin Barrow
February 27, 2014
This volume is a comprehensive critique of the radical tradition in educational theory. It traces the development of the key ideas in radical literature from Rousseau to the present day. Two opening chapters set Rousseau’s educational views and arguments in their political perspective, and subject ...
Research on Teacher Thinking (RLE Edu N): Understanding Professional Development
1st Edition
By James Calderhead, Pam Denicolo, Christopher Day
February 27, 2014
This is a companion volume to the editors’ Insights into Teachers’ Thinking and Practice (Falmer Press, 1999) and seeks to carry the discussion on further illustrating that there is a continuing intensity of thought, activity and debate on how to conceptualise research on teacher thinking, and thus...
Teacher Education in Plural Societies (RLE Edu N): An International Review
1st Edition
Edited
By Maurice Craft
February 27, 2014
The educational implications of cultural pluralism attracted a good deal of attention in Western societies in the 1970s and 1980s, on the grounds of equality and human rights, maximising national talent, and maintaining social cohesion. Maurice Craft and the international contributors to this book ...
Teacher Expectations and Pupil Learning (RLE Edu N)
1st Edition
By Roy Nash
February 27, 2014
In the field of teacher expectations and pupil learning one important psychological truth is that the pupils’ achievement in learning is strongly influenced by the teachers’ expectations of their level of performance, high or low. Roy Nash discusses critically and fully important research in this ...
Teachers, Ideology and Control (RLE Edu N)
1st Edition
By Gerald Grace
February 27, 2014
Teachers of the urban working class, especially in inner city areas, have always been regarded as strategic agents in processes of social and cultural formation. In the Victorian era, seen as ‘The Teachers of the People’, ‘Pioneers of Civilization’ and ‘Preachers of Culture’, their role in gentling...
Teaching About Race Relations (RLE Edu J): Problems and Effects
1st Edition
By Lawrence Stenhouse, Gajendra K. Verma, Robert Wild, Jon Nixon
February 27, 2014
This is the report of two linked research projects: the SSRC Project on Problems and Effects of Teaching about Race Relations, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project on Teaching About Race Relations through Drama. Its aim is to help teachers who will face race as a theme, whether it arises ...
The Arts in Education: Some Research Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Les Tickle
February 27, 2014
The arts in education are currently the subject of considerable controversy. Some people argue that fostering creativity in schools is important; that the arts can provide a substantial contribution to the development of the capacity for creative thought and action; and that therefore the arts ...
The Dark Places of Education (RLE Edu K): With a Collection of Seventy-Eight Reports of School Experiences
1st Edition
By Willi Schohaus
February 27, 2014
The book is divided into two parts. The first forms a survey of the inadequacies of the Swiss school system in the early twentieth century (but the issues it discusses were universal ones which were just as prevalent in the English school system of that time). The second part of the book is a ...
The Development of Meaning (RLE Edu I): A Study of Children's Use of Language
1st Edition
By Joan Tough
February 27, 2014
This book investigates children's use of language and considers its implications for children's learning at home and at school. The author compares the language used by children from different social environments at the ages of three, five and seven and considers the different approaches that ...
The Enquiring Classroom (RLE Edu O): An Introduction to Children's Learning
1st Edition
By Stephen Rowland
February 27, 2014
This book, by closely recording and reflecting upon the work and play of a group of 9 to 11 year-old children in a primary classroom, develops an approach to teaching and learning which is based upon the ways in which children are able to exercise a controlling influence over their own learning ...