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.
Classrooms Observed (RLE Edu L): The Teacher's Perception and the Pupil's Peformance
1st Edition
By Roy Nash
April 10, 2014
In this study – the outcome of three years’ participant observation in local authority primary and secondary schools – the classroom teacher is shown to have a far greater impact upon and responsibility for his pupils than is generally admitted. The teacher’s perceptions of the children in his ...
Communist Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Edmund King
April 10, 2014
Developments and trends in Communist education are traced in this authoritative survey by specialists. Eight chapters deal with particular aspects: ideology, psychology, the selective process, the roles of teachers and parents, polytechnical education, the universities and professional institutes. ...
Community, Hierarchy and Open Education (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Gary Easthope
April 10, 2014
The book describes the English school, especially the secondary school, as a hierarchical community in which the head-teacher (principal) is an autocratic ruler. After explaining how that particular organisation of the school developed historically from the market situation faced by the English ...
Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
Edited
By John Eggleston
April 10, 2014
The subject matter of this book – what happens in schools, the effects of curriculum change, the reasons why some children are successful and others are not – explains just why the sociology of education is one of the most important areas to achieve political importance. There are five sections to ...
Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education): Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access
1st Edition
By Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, Greg Noble, Scott Poynting
April 10, 2014
This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an ...
Curriculum and Culture (RLE: Education): Schooling in a Pluralist Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Leslie Claydon, Tony Knight, Marta Rado
April 10, 2014
This book demonstrates how it is possible to value, respect and utilise cultural diversity and yet achieve a ‘good education’ for all. The authors contend that few issues in education can be examined in isolation from the world outside. This must surely apply to the question of cultural, social and...
Defining The Curriculum: Histories and Ethnographies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ivor F Goodson, Stephen Ball
April 10, 2014
This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine some of the factors involved at national, institutional and classroom levels in the making of school...
Dependence and Interdependence in Education: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Keith Watson
April 10, 2014
This volume provides an international perspective on educational dependency in considering both theories and actual developments throughout the world. Some less developed countries, in expanding their education systems, have emulated Western academic-style systems and have increased their ...
Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L): Teaching and Social Change
1st Edition
By Ann Berlak, Harold Berlak
April 10, 2014
This study illuminates how the everyday activity of teachers raises profound economic, cultural, ethical, political and research issues, and provides a new and fruitful way of examining the practice of teaching. The first part of the book offers a detailed description of sensitively recorded school...
Dissemination of Innovation (RLE Edu O): The Humanities Curriculum Project
1st Edition
By Jean Rudduck
April 10, 2014
This volume of topical working papers makes available to teachers and to others information intended to stimulate discussion so that all educators may bring their judgement and experience to bear on the concerns of the School Council and contribute to its work. The papers describe plans for ...
Divided School
1st Edition
By Peter Woods
April 10, 2014
In this ethnographic study of a secondary school in the UK, the author presents an incisive account of school life from the various points of view of the pupils, teachers and parents. He describes and analyses major areas of experience and methods of adapting to school for both the children and ...
Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Walford
April 10, 2014
This collection of specially commissioned articles exposes the practical and personal influences on the process of doing sociology of education. All of the authors have been involved in conducting well know major research projects, and discuss here the pitfalls and problems, conflicts and ...