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's Play and Its Place in Education: With an Appendix on the Montessori Method
1st Edition
By Walter Wood
July 03, 2014
Published long before the importance of early childhood education was formally recognised in the educational landscape this book explores the significance of play for young children. The volume includes an appendix on Montessori education....
Class, Culture and Education (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Harold Entwistle
July 03, 2014
This book examines the concepts of equality, class, culture, work and leisure and explores their interrelationship through the discussion of some current problems, especially the problems posed for schools for the ‘culturally deprived.’ The debate about differential provision of schooling for ...
Class, Ideologies and Educational Futures
1st Edition
By D.W. Livingstone
July 03, 2014
This book provides a systematic and detailed analysis of class relations in advanced capitalist societies as a basis for understanding both class differences in educational practices and the relative effects of class and other social background factors on public attitudes toward education. Secondly...
Common Sense and the Curriculum
1st Edition
By Robin Barrow
July 03, 2014
This book addresses the question ‘What should be taught in schools and why?’. The book begins by stressing the way in which such a question should be approached and goes on to offer a comprehensive and stringent critique of a variety of principles for the selection of curriculum content, with ...
Comparative Education: A Study of Educational Factors and Traditions
1st Edition
By Nicholas Hans
July 03, 2014
This book is divided into four parts. In Part One the author considers the natural factors which have influenced the various national systems of education. They comprise racial, linguistic, geographical and economic factors. In Part Two he considers the contribution of religious traditions to ...
Comparative Studies and Educational Decision
1st Edition
Edited
By Edmund King
July 03, 2014
This volume offers a conceptual justification and methodology for comparative studies of education matching developments in the social sciences and other comparative disciplines. It also relates comparative studies of education to the practical business of policy formulation at all levels. Thus it ...
Crisis in the Curriculum
1st Edition
Edited
By E Cuff, George Payne
July 03, 2014
This collection of papers surveys key aspects of the curriculum, investigates the present situation and discusses what improvements need to be made. It is contributed by teachers, educational advisers and researchers and ranges across a variety of different institutional teaching settings and a ...
Curriculum Practice: Some Sociological Case Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Martyn Hammersley, Andy Hargreaves
July 03, 2014
When first published this book was one of the first collections of empirical research in the area of the knowledge transmitted in schools and the responses of students to it. It includes studies of the histories of particular school subjects and of how the knowledge they embody is presented in the ...
Disaffection From School (RLE Edu M)
1st Edition
By David Hargreaves, Stephen Hester, Frank Mellor
July 03, 2014
A large number of pupils are, or are liable to become, disaffected with their schooling. In this comprehensive account of the problem, Ken Reid suggests that school can and should do much more to prevent and overcome disaffected behaviour, as manifested by such factors as absenteeism, disruption ...
Education and Society (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By E Biaggini
July 03, 2014
This volume discusses how the lay-person responds to written appeals to his intelligence and feelings with particular emphasis on education and culture. The author indicates a possible approach to the task of investigation rather than all that can be done with the method employed. The second part ...
Education in the Soviet Union: Policies and Institutions Since Stalin
1st Edition
By Mervyn Matthews
July 03, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive survey of the successes and failures of education and training in the Khrushchev and Breshnev years. The author gives an objective assessment of the accessibility of the main types of institution, of the contents of courses and of Soviet attempts to marry the ...
Educational Differences (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Arthur Jensen
July 03, 2014
Among particular issues discussed in this book are the problems of the cultural disadvantaged, the problems of devising psychological tests which are not biased towards any particular culture, the problems of minority groups of children in education and the relationship between heritability and ...