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.
Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Flude, JOHN AHIER
April 10, 2014
The sociology of education has been at the forefront of new developments in sociological theory. This book examines and criticizes a number of these new developments and discusses some empirical work on issues of current concern. One of the few books that integrates radical and critical sociology ...
Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education): In Search of A Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder
April 10, 2014
What unites the contributors to this book is an opposition to Thatcherite policies on education and an agreement upon the need for the development of democracy in education. This volume highlights the importance of an area of neglected theoretical and practical concern: the development of a ...
Education (RLE Edu L): Capitalist and Socialist
1st Edition
By Beryl Pring
April 10, 2014
This book argues that politics, in the sense of the government of our social structure, holds the key to the resolution of educational problems in the early twentieth century; that the teacher will only be relieved of his or her sense of frustration through government and ultimately socialist ...
Education For A New Society (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
1st Edition
By Ernest Green, Harold Shearman
April 10, 2014
Aimed at the layperson, this book discusses education for the man or woman in the street and the advantages to society of having an educated population, with the aim of not just convincing people of the importance of education but persuading them to take participate actively in education....
Education and Poverty (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Philip Robinson
April 10, 2014
This book describes the attempts that have been made to achieve an educational policy relevant to those most disadvantaged in our society; examines the different ways in which sociologists have conceptualized the related problems; and evaluates the success of the policy. He suggests that we are in ...
Education and the Social Condition (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Harold Silver
April 10, 2014
This book reviews the educational experience of the 1960s and 1970s and to suggest ways of approaching major contemporary themes such as equality, accountability and standards. The author underlines a nineteenth and twentieth-century sociological tradition in analysing education and covers a range ...
Education and the Working Class (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
1st Edition
By Brian Jackson, Dennis Marsden
April 10, 2014
When first published this book had a significant influence on the campaign for comprehensive schools and it spoke to generations of working-class students who were either deterred by the class barriers erected by selective schools and elite universities, or, having broken through them to gain ...
Education as a Social Factor (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
1st Edition
By Leonard Jacks
April 10, 2014
This volume presents a short survey of education at the beginning of the twentieth century. It considered the main educational agencies of that time, the home, the Church, the school and the university and the role to be played by each in preparing the citizens of the future. The author maintains ...
Education, Class Language and Ideology (RLE Edu L)
1st Edition
By Noelle Bisseret
April 10, 2014
This book presents an analysis of the ‘essentialist ideology’, which is inherent to class-based societies. The author argues that essentialist ideology is efficient through its unconscious component and is imposed on everyone. It guides school selection and imposes on each class a language specific...
Effective Schools in Developing Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Henry Levin, Marlaine Lockheed
April 10, 2014
This volume brings together eight case studies which describe a variety of initiatives to create more effective schools for children of poverty, especially in the Third World. The initiatives reviewed published and unpublished documents and both qualitative and statistical studies were examined. ...
Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Doris Pronin Fromberg, Leslie R. Williams
April 10, 2014
This Encyclopedia is a reference work about young children in the USA, designed for use by policy makers, community planners, parents of young children, teacher and early childhood educators, programme and school administrators, among others. The field of early childhood education has been affected...
English Education and the Radicals (RLE Edu L): 1780-1850
1st Edition
By Harold Silver
April 10, 2014
The radicalism of the period from the 1780s to the mid-nineteenth century represented a harnessing of knowledge in protest against injustices and oppression, a pooling of effort to transform society. In this book the author explores the main strains in working and middle-class radicalism over this ...