Woburn Education Series
British Private Schools: Research on Policy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Walford
June 17, 2005
British private schools are a continuing topic of fascination for many. In particular, the leading so-called public schools have long been subjected both to criticism for their elitism and praise for their academic success. Traditionally, Conservative governments have strongly supported the private...
Teachers and Football: Schoolboy Association Football in England, 1885-1915
1st Edition
By Colm Kerrigan
February 08, 2005
The 1870 Education Act that opened up elementary education for all children contained no provision for outdoor games. This book explains how teachers, through the elementary school football association, introduced boys to organized football as an out-of-school activity. The influence and ...
Education and Labour Party Ideologies 1900-2001and Beyond
1st Edition
By Denis Lawton
December 03, 2004
In 1997 Tony Blair broke with tradition by naming education as a major priority for the General Election Manifesto. In the past, Labour leaders had tended to give education a much lower priority. Despite this, Blair has been greatly criticised for his educational programme 1997-2001. Was he taking ...
Teacher Training at Cambridge: The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes
1st Edition
By Pam Hirsch, Mark McBeth
August 25, 2004
This book focuses on two educationalists, Oscar Browning (1837-1923) and Elizabeth Hughes (1852-1925) who were the principals of the two separate day training colleges for men and women at Cambridge. The early initiatives of these two leaders began the development of education studies at Cambridge ...
Public or Private Education?: Lessons from History
1st Edition
By Richard Aldrich
July 23, 2004
This collection of essays, edited by the distinguished historian of education Richard Aldrich, examines past, present and future relationships between the private and public dimensions of knowledge and education. Following the introduction, it is divided into three sections: * key themes and ...
A History of Western Educational Ideas
1st Edition
By Peter Gordon, Denis Lawton
June 16, 2004
It is important that all those concerned with education - parents, teachers, administrators and policymakers - should have a reasonable understanding of the present system and how it has developed, sometimes over a period of many years. This work traces the development of Western educational ideas ...
Becoming Teachers: Texts and Testimonies, 1907-1950
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Cunningham, Philip Gardner
June 16, 2004
There is an extraordinary gap in the published history of schooling in the twentieth century. Nowhere is the voice of the teacher, telling his or her own story, extensively to be heard. This book, drawing not only upon the official documentary record, but also upon the previously untapped ...
Dictionary of British Education
1st Edition
By Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon, Denis Lawton, Denis Lawton
June 16, 2004
This is an up-to-date guide for teachers and parents, administrators, governors , students and others to help the find their way about the increasingly complex world of education. The main section provides a dictionary that is more than a simple set of definitions: many words in education have been...
Higher Education and Policy-making in Twentieth-century England
1st Edition
By Harold Silver
June 16, 2004
This book explores the changing patterns of higher education in England in the twentieth century, the types of institutions and the emergence of a 'system' of education. At the same time it traces the relationship between the writer-advocates of higher education and the changing world of higher ...
The School Textbook: History, Geography and Social Studies
1st Edition
By William E. Marsden
June 16, 2004
A study of the school textbook grounded in historical and comparative perspectives. The approach is broadly chronological, revealing changes in the theory and practice of textbook production and use. The book focuses largely on three associated subjects - geography, history and social studies....
Clara Collet, 1860-1948: An Educated Working Woman
1st Edition
By Deborah Mcdonald
February 26, 2004
This absorbing account of the life and work of Clara Collet, a leading economist, statistician and champion of women's employment, is the first biography of this remarkable woman and reveals through Collet's diaries her fascinating personal life. An early female university graduate (1880), then ...
A Genealogy of Equality: The Curriculum for Social Work Education and Training
1st Edition
By Dr Hilary Walker, Hilary Walker
October 01, 2002
This account of the incorporation of issues of equality into the social work education curriculum focuses upon the period between 1989 and 1995, a time of considerable activity and rapid change. It is based upon research carried out by the author whilst studying for a doctorate in education....