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 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 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...
The Politics of the School Curriculum
1st Edition
By Professor Denis Lawton
July 03, 2014
If the curriculum can be defined as a ‘selection from the culture of society’, the central question then becomes ‘who selects’. This volume answers this question, reviewing various aspects of the curriculum and its planning. For many years the control of the curriculum was uncontroversial. In the ...
The Tory Mind on Education: 1979-1994
1st Edition
By Professor Denis Lawton
July 03, 2014
This book discusses conservative education policies since 1979 by referring to beliefs, values and attitudes. It relates ideology to policies and provides some background about the years before 1979 – definitions of Conservatism and descriptions of Tory beliefs and traditional Conservative views on...
Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
1st Edition
Edited
By Hugh Lauder, Cathy Wylie
July 03, 2014
The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentieth century. For other Western societies who have felt the impact of New Right policies the New Zealand case is interesting because it ...
Adult Learning in the Social Context
1st Edition
By Peter Jarvis
June 09, 2014
This book is a logical progression from The Sociology of Adult and Continuing Education. The author takes a completely new approach to the subject and puts forward a model of adult learning which is analysed in depth. This model arises from the results of a research project in which adults analysed...
Aubrey on Education: A Hitherto Unpublished Manuscript by the Author of Brief Lives
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Stephens
June 09, 2014
In 1699 John Aubrey began to compile notes for a scheme for the education of young gentlemen. The manuscript he left has never been published. The editor of the volume organized and re-arranged the text and has provided an historical Introduction and detailed notes. Aubrey gives a graphic account ...
Beyond Initial Reading (RLE Edu I)
1st Edition
By John Potts
June 09, 2014
This book sets out a clear and logical framework for the teaching of reading throughout different age groups, whereby systematic progression can be developed within a structured framework. A detailed set of recommendations are offered and are both illustrated and justified, for the teacher to ...
Classroom Environment (RLE Edu O)
1st Edition
By Barry Fraser
June 09, 2014
The increasing impact of performance based judgments on schools and teachers in the classroom has its critics and supporters. Some oppose the trend and seek to deny the importance of quantitative measures. Others have sought to find ways of implementing educational measurement constructively and ...
Classroom Language: What Sort (RLE Edu O)
1st Edition
By Jill Richards
June 09, 2014
The acquisition and use of language are just as vital to children’s learning when the newer classroom methods are being employed as ever they were when the more traditional approaches were being used. Child centred learning has increasingly influenced language use and language work in the classroom...
Cognitive Science: Contributions to Educational Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Marlin L. Languis, James Buffer, Daniel Martin, Paul Naour
June 09, 2014
This volume brings together theory, research and development in cognitive neuro-science. It investigates the neural processes involved in cognition and learning, using developments in computer technology to study the brain in action and other topographic brain mapping. Electrical activity patterns ...
Dreams and Education (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By J Hill
June 09, 2014
Written at a time when the psychology of education was still in its infancy, this volume explains the scientific interpretation of dreams. The importance of the Dream Mind in normal behaviour, and in the production and appreciation of literature and art, is illustrated by numerous examples. ...