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.
Perspectives on School at Seven Years Old
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Newson
February 14, 2014
This volume looks at the social and intellectual forces which the child encounters in class-room and playground from the parent’s point of view. School and home are seen as the separate yet overlapping worlds of childhood – for some children more uncompromisingly separated than for others. In the ...
Preventing Classroom Disruption (RLE Edu O): Policy, Practice and Evaluation in Urban Schools
1st Edition
By David Coulby, Tim Harper
February 14, 2014
There has always been considerable debate about the best solutions to deal with disruptive behaviour in schools. On the one hand is the strategy of segregating disruptive pupils while on the other is a commitment to keeping such pupils in the ordinary school. This book advocates the latter ...
Readings in Educational Psychology
1st Edition
By Edgar Stones
February 14, 2014
The papers in this volume relate to the nature and conditions of classroom learning, with particular emphasis on the cognitive aspects. They are concerned with the question of concept formation and stress the importance of the teacher’s function in ensuring that the child really has assimilated the...
Reconstructions of Secondary Education: Theory, Myth and Practice Since the Second World War
1st Edition
By John Gray, Andrew McPherson, David Raffe
February 14, 2014
British secondary education has changed in major ways since 1945. This book examines some consequences and implications of both change and stability, drawing on a unique series of national surveys of school leavers in Scotland. The authors provide an empirical and theoretical account of central ...
School and Society in Victorian Britain: Joseph Payne and the New World of Education
1st Edition
By Richard Aldrich
February 14, 2014
Drawing on hitherto-unused sources this book represents a shift in the historiography of British education. At the centre of the investigation is Joseph Payne. He was one of the group of pioneers who founded the College of Preceptors in 1846 and in 1873 he was appointed to the first professorship ...
Schooling for Women's Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosemary Deem
February 14, 2014
This collection of original papers shows how women in Britain are still being discriminated against during schooling, despite the existence of legislation prohibiting such discrimination and despite apparent concern with promoting equality between the sexes in education. Focusing on the current ...
Schools for the Boys?: Co-education reassessed
1st Edition
By Pat Mahony
February 14, 2014
Do girls do better in single-sex or co-educational schools? Up to now, discussion has centred on girls’ academic achievements in single or mixed-sex groups, but Pat Mahony’s research clearly demonstrates that this is not the only issue, and that co-education is damaging for girls socially as well ...
Secondary Modern Schools: An Interim Report
1st Edition
By H C Dent
February 14, 2014
This book examines what progress the Secondary Modern Schools had made in the mid 1950s, based on first hand observation and conversations with teachers, parents, school governors and education officers. As well as looking at their achievements, the author highlights the challenges that the ...
Social Control and Education (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Bryn Davis
February 14, 2014
Social control is a central sociological concept which has generated many influential ‘models’ of man in society. This book examines these major models, and examines the rise of compulsory schooling in Britain and the USA and shows us which aspects of education and social control have been ...
Studies in the History of Educational Theory Vol 2: The Minds and the Masses, 1760-1980
1st Edition
By G Bantock
February 14, 2014
This volume completes G H Bantock’s comprehensive study of educational thought, and its relationship to the broad development of European culture, from the time of the Renaissance to the present day. During the period under consideration, the new freedom from dogma and hierarchy allowed for the ...
The 'Girl Question' in Education (RLE Edu F): Vocational Education for Young Women in the Progressive Era
1st Edition
By Jane Bernard-Powers
February 14, 2014
This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States. Home economics, trade training and commercial education – the three key areas of vocational training available to young women during the progressive era – are the focus of this work. ...
The Behaviourist in the Classroom
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Wheldall
February 14, 2014
In the decade preceeding the original publication of this book the discipline of behaviour analysis was becoming increasingly influential in educational circles, but many of the practices we now take for granted were still being pioneered. This book considers the place of behaviour analysis in ...