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.
Questions in Aesthetic Education (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By H.B. Redfern
February 25, 2014
The Question of what ‘aesthetic education’ is, or might be, is often a source of incomprehension. This book opens up discussion of a complex, difficult, but highly important topic, and offers an introductory survey of the whole area. In examining the relationship of the concept of the aesthetic to ...
Race Relations and Cultural Differences: Educational and Interpersonal Perspectives
1st Edition
By Gajendra Verma, Christopher Bagley
February 25, 2014
A collection of key papers given at three international conferences in Britain, the United States and Canada on race relations and multiculturalism are drawn together in this book. The first section includes three papers on the state of theory in race relations; the second contains papers on ...
Racial Inequality in Education
1st Edition
Edited
By B. Troyna
February 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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 Verma, Robert Wild, Jon Nixon
February 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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 ...