Woburn Education Series
Reasoning, Rationality and Dual Processes: Selected Works of Jonathan St B T Evans
1st Edition
By Jonathan St B T Evans
June 26, 2017
In this book Jonathan St B T Evans has selected a number of key publications which have strongly influenced the psychology of reasoning from the 1970s to the present day.It will be essential reading for researchers in the psychology of reasoning, and a wider audience of advanced students with an ...
International Yearbook of History Education
1st Edition
Edited
By A. Dickinson, P. Gordon, P. Lee, J. Slater
July 21, 2016
This international academic and professional yearbook contains articles and reviews on matters of interest to all concerned with history in education from contributors throughout the world. The yearbook will encourage rigorous exploration or philosophical, psychological, sociological and historical...
Socialism and Education in Britain 1883-1902
1st Edition
By Kevin Manton
June 03, 2016
Examines the British socialist movement in the last two decades of the 19th century through its policies on children's education. The author reassesses the nature of these policies and comments on the validity of those historiographical models used in analyses of the socialism of this period....
International Review of History Education: International Review of History Education, Volume 3
1st Edition
Edited
By Alaric Dickinson, Peter Gordon, Peter Lee
July 17, 2014
The third volume in this international review takes "raising standards" as its central theme. Raising standards is no simple matter, either conceptually or empirically, whatever politicians might think. If it is to happen, it must draw on research and practical experience from other countries....
Understanding History: International Review of History Education 4
1st Edition
Edited
By Ros Ashby, Professor Peter Gordon, Peter Lee
May 30, 2014
What sense do children and young people make of history? How do they cope with competing historical accounts in textbooks? How do they think historical or archaeological claims are supported or rejected? And whatever students think about history, how do their teachers see history ...
Universities and the State in England, 1850-1939
1st Edition
By Keith Vernon
May 30, 2014
The question of the relationships between universities and the state is one of considerable current concern and debate. This book studies the development of the modern university system in England from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the Second World War, focusing on the role of the ...
The TUC and Education Reform, 1926-1970
1st Edition
By Dr Clive Griggs, Clive Griggs
September 05, 2013
This book covers a crucial period for the development of state education in Britain; the advent of the comprehensive debate before and during the Second World War; the War years themselves and the 1944 Education Act; the post-War Labour Government; and Churchill's last government in a time of ...
Gender, Colonialism and Education: An International Perspective
1st Edition
By Joyce Goodman, Jane Martin
November 08, 2005
An examination of the ways in which gender intersects with informal and formal education in England, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, USA and the Netherlands. The book looks at various issues including: citizenship; authority; colonialism and education; and the construction of national identities....
Musical Visitors to Britain
1st Edition
By Peter Gordon
November 07, 2005
Britain has attracted many musical visitors to its shores. A varied and often eccentric collection of individuals, some were invited by royalty with musical tastes, some were refugees from religious or political oppression, some were spies, and others came to escape debt or even charges of murder....
Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960
1st Edition
Edited
By David Doughan, Professor Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon
October 28, 2005
This dictionary is the first attempt to identify systematically the large heterogeneous group of women's organisations that grew up from the early 19th century up to the beginning of the modern women's movement, from women abolitionists and Chartists through Social workers, nurses, suffragists and ...
Curriculum Change in Secondary Schools, 1957-2004: A curriculum roundabout?
1st Edition
By Norman Evans
October 14, 2005
This book is about curriculum change in secondary schools and shows how the quality of education has been affected by increasing intervention from central government. Following the story of one secondary school between 1957 and 2004, Norman Evans looks at: * the school before and after the ...
The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland: Gender, Education and Identity
1st Edition
By Jane McDermid
September 22, 2005
The portrayal of Scotland as a particularly patriarchal society has traditionally had the effect of marginalizing Scottish women, both teachers and students, in both Scottish and British history. The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland examines and challenges this assumption and ...