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.
Marxism/Structuralism/Education (RLE Edu L): Theoretical Developments in the Sociology of Education
1st Edition
By Madan Sarup
July 03, 2014
This interdisciplinary textbook provides an introduction to the many theoretical developments and controversies which took place in the sociology and politics of education during the 1970s and 80s. The book Discusses the arguments concerning humanist and structuralist Marixsm. Provides a ...
One in Five (RLE Edu M): The Assessment and Incidence of Special Educational Needs
1st Edition
By Paul Croll, Diana Moses
July 03, 2014
At the time of its original publication this book was the first major survey of the nature of the difficulties that children with special educational needs experience in the classroom context of mainstream junior schools. The book is based on research involving interviews with heads and teachers, ...
Politics and Policy Making in Education: Explorations in Sociology
1st Edition
By Stephen J. Ball
July 03, 2014
Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, this book maps the changes in education policy and policy making in the Thatcherite decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 Education Reform Act, its origins, purposes and effects, and it looks behind the scenes at the priorities ...
Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood
1st Edition
By Kieran Egan
July 03, 2014
Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan constructs his argument that constituting this foundational layer are sets of cultural sense-making capacities, reflected in oral cultures throughout the ...
Rethinking Curriculum Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Lawn, Len Barton
July 03, 2014
This book reappraises the British and American experience in curriculum studies, the curious way in which it has been dominated by certain ideas and introduces the reader to alternative ways of perceiving, defining and approaching its problems. It provides a radical critique of the whole area, ...
Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
Edited
By Len Barton, Roland Meighan, Stephen Walker
July 03, 2014
Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to explore the ways in which notions of the relations between theory and practice, between belief and action, can be used to develop three kinds of ...
Schools, Teachers and Teaching (RLE Edu N)
1st Edition
Edited
By Len Barton, Stephen Walker
July 03, 2014
This volume considers how various sociological approaches to the exploration of the conditions of teachers’ might be co-ordinated so as to produce a more penetrating and reliable understanding of the main dimensions of teachers’ work. Three dimensions are selected for special attention: historical,...
Streaming (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education): An Education System in Miniature
1st Edition
By Brian Jackson
July 03, 2014
In this volume a streamed school is studied in detail and parents’ responses are recorded. Eleven plus is (and has been) under criticism, but many children are selected by a ‘seven plus’ because they are streamed into A, B or C classes. Few children escape the label once it is pinned on them – less...
The Challenge For the Comprehensive School: Culture, Curriculum and Community
1st Edition
By David Hargreaves
July 03, 2014
By 1982 the ambitious claims made for newly established comprehensive schools were being put to the test. How effectively does the comprehensive meet the needs of all young people? Do urban, working-class students enjoy more success than in the secondary modern schools? Are they more engaged in ...
The Ecology of the School
1st Edition
By John Eggleston
July 03, 2014
Within a single educational system – that of England and Wales – the nature of schooling available to a child can be dramatically different. Even between residential areas the differences in educational climate can be striking. Apart from differences in the organization of schools and the ...
The Enquiring Tutor (RLE Edu O): Exploring The Process of Professional Learning
1st Edition
By Stephen Rowland
July 03, 2014
Stephen Rowland explores the relationship between the turor (or facilitator) and the professional worker on post-experience professional courses. His emphasis in on the processes of reflection and enquiry in professional learning and is not content specific. Drawing upon his experience as a course ...
The Moral Curriculum: A Sociological Analysis
1st Edition
By P. W. Musgrave
July 03, 2014
Teachers are, and always have been seen as agents of respectability in our society, but today this role is far less easily defined than it once was. Now, for most teachers, the whats and hows of moral behaviour, guidance and instruction have become debatable issues. In this book the author gives us...