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.
The Changing Urban School
1st Edition
By Robert Thornbury
February 14, 2014
The author takes a long look at what goes on in schools, and the roles played by people specifically concerned with them: but finally the problems of the school are seen as indissolubly bound up with the changes that have overtaken urban life. The school cannot be isolated, teachers, administrators...
The Children of England: A Contribution to Social History and to Education
1st Edition
By J Findlay
February 14, 2014
As much a social history as a volume charting the history of education this book examines the major forces influencing education in England during the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as class differences, economic success and poverty, the legacy of the industrial revolution and factors such as ...
The Costs of Education
1st Edition
By John Vaizey
February 14, 2014
This is the first book which authoritatively reviews the UK expenditure on education from 1920 – 1955, both by local authorities and private schools. The book takes the main elements of education in turn and discusses them in detail. There are original studies of local authority finance, of ...
The Drama of Schooling: The Schooling of Drama
1st Edition
By Robert Starratt
February 14, 2014
Starratt’s highly original book offers fresh insights into the nature of teaching, learning, schooling as a multi-cultural, social enterprise, and the importance of vision for that leadership—by using the analogy of drama. Schooling is a preparation to participate in the social drama, both as an ...
The Economics of Education
1st Edition
By John Sheehan
February 14, 2014
This book is a survey of the principal aspects of the economics of education, such as the demand for education as consumption and as an investment, good education and economic growth, education and manpower needs, and the finance of education. In some cases in recent years, economic theory has been...
The Education Industry
1st Edition
By W Kenneth Richmond
February 14, 2014
In one sense, education was always a service industry. This book examines the quality as well as the quantity of contemporary education as it answers the following questions: Are we getting value for money? What makes a good teacher? What sort of education do we want? In the UK in the twentieth ...
The English Educational System
1st Edition
By G Lowndes
February 14, 2014
Written expressly for the lay reader this volume combines statistics, achievements and failures of the educational system in England in the 20th century into a concise survey, set against the social, economic and political background of the mid 1960s. Primary, secondary and further education are ...
The Higher Education of the Young
1st Edition
By S Sadler
February 14, 2014
Taking into account the rapid progress in all areas of life that was made at the turn of the 20th century this volume discusses how best to educate both sexes, from all social classes, referring to Greek, Roman and Egyptian education as a starting point....
The Imperial Curriculum: Racial Images and Education in the British Colonial Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By J A Mangan
February 14, 2014
This volume presents the first comparative analysis of racial attitudes in the formal schooling of both Britain and its former dominions and colonies. The various contributions examine the issue right across the British imperial experience – with case studies ranging from Canada, Ireland, East and ...
The Little Ed Book
1st Edition
By Guy Claxton
February 14, 2014
Writing principally for teachers-in-training and for new teachers, Guy Claxton offers a fresh approach to what is often a stuffy and polemical area. New teachers today are being bombarded from all sides with advice, prescriptions and demands about what they ought to be, and about personal and ...
The Menace of Nationalism in Education
1st Edition
By Jonathan Scott French
February 14, 2014
Written between the two World Wars this volume examines education from the American, British, French & German perspectives and the degree to which the portrayal of those countries in school textbooks contributes to nationalism or world peace....
The Philosophy of Primary Education (RLE Edu K): An Introduction
1st Edition
By R Dearden
February 14, 2014
This volume provides a rigorous examination of theoretical concepts such as need, interest, growth, play, experience, activity and self-expression. It also makes an important contribution towards getting a closely argued educational theory. In the first part of the book the author establishes ...