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.
Educating the Virtues (RLE Edu K): An Essay on the Philosophical Psychology of Moral Development and Education
1st Edition
By David Carr
June 09, 2014
Tracing the views on moral life of such past philosophers as Plato, Aristotle and Kant, as well as of such theorists as Durkheim, Freud, Piaget and Kohlberg, the author sets forth a full discussion of the nature and educational implications of the idea of moral virtue....
Education: Examining the Evidence
1st Edition
By Evelyn Cowie
June 09, 2014
This volume contains both text and contemporary document which together look at the history of education from the French Revolution to the late twentieth century. The connection between text and documents is closely preserved so that the volume both explains and illustrates the important issues and...
Education (RLE Edu K): A Search For New Principles
1st Edition
By Herbert Phillipson
June 09, 2014
Contributing to early debates on nature versus nurture, schools and the social environment, town planning and a free comprehensive education, the author discusses key educational issues against the background of a distintegrating Europe in the midst of war....
Education for Adults: Volume 2 Opportunities for Adult Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Malcolm Tight
June 09, 2014
This book opens with a survey of the historical evolution of adult education in the UK and leads on to the study of the structure of adult learning. It discusses distance teaching opportunities such as the Open University and the National Extension College, and face-to-face teaching provision in ...
Education for Peace (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By Herbert Read
June 09, 2014
This book deals with the everlasting problem of war and peace. In it, the author argues that mankind must be predisposed for peace by the right kind of education and he discusses how to devise methods of education which will prevent war....
Education in the Post-War Years: A Social History
1st Edition
By Roy Lowe
June 09, 2014
This book provides an overview of the relationship between the sweeping social changes of the post-war period and education in England. It outlines the major demographic cultural and socio-economic developments which made new demands of the education service during the twenty years following the ...
Education, Society and Human Nature (RLE Edu K): An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
1st Edition
By Anthony O'Hear
June 09, 2014
Intended primarily for education students this book provides an introduction to the philosophy of education that tackles educational problems and at the same time relates them to the mainstream of philosophical analysis. Among the educational topics the book discusses are the aims of education, the...
Educational Psychology
1st Edition
By Charles H. Judd
June 09, 2014
No influence has more profoundly affected educational thought and practice during the late 19th and early 20th centuries than the science of psychology. This volume discusses the major differences between education prior to the influence of educational psychology and then examines the impact this ...
Everyday Imagining and Education (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By Margaret Sutherland
June 09, 2014
This book discusses the kind of imaginative thinking which is going on all the time without producing the masterpieces of art and culture. The author brings together the body of educational theory, psychological theory and some general opinions about imagination, to provide an account of everyday ...
Freedom and Discipline (RLE Edu K)
1st Edition
By Richard Smith
June 09, 2014
Questions of discipline and order arise wherever formal education is practised, and are particularly acute for those training to teach or in their first school posts. For many years now writing on these topics has tended to depict teaching as the deployment of ‘skills’ and ‘techniques’ and ...
Gender and the Politics of the Curriculum
1st Edition
By Sheila Riddell
June 09, 2014
This book uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among fourteen-year-old pupils making their first choices about what subjects to pursue at exam level. It reveals a two way process. Pupils’ decisions on what ...
How Different From Us: A Biography of Miss Buss and Miss Beale
1st Edition
By Josephine Kamm
June 09, 2014
Frances Mary Buss, who began her teaching career at fourteen, was only twenty-three when she founded the North London Collegiate School, the forerunner and model of Girls’ High Schools throughout the country. Her friend Dorothea Beale was for nearly fifty years Principal of Cheltenham Ladies ...