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Teaching the Arts
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 60.00Provides a comprehensive introduction to Arts education in Australia and New Zealand dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts. more...
Language Teaching Through the Ages
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Konrad Koerner, a leading historian of linguistics, has long said that an academic field cannot be considered to have matured until it has history as one of its subfields. The history of linguistics is a growing area, having come into its own in the 1960s, especially after Noam Chomsky looked for historical roots for his work. In contrast, the history... more...
Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 64.95For centuries, the idea of collegiality has been integral to the British understanding of higher education. This book examines how its values are being restructured in response to the 21st-century pressures of massification and managerialism. more...
Fifty Major Thinkers on Education
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 29.95In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Covering a time-span from 500 BC to the early twentieth century each essay gives key biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, an assessment of their impact and influence,... more...
Inside the Primary Classroom: 20 Years On
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 61.95In recent years primary education has been the subject of continuing debate with questions of standards and their apparent decline being raised with alarming regularity. Central in informing these debates has been the ORACLE study of groupwork in primary classrooms. Published during the 1980s, the study described in detail the daily life of the primary... more...
Education in a Single Europe
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 71.95This book brings together contributors from the different member states of the European Union in order to understand the different degrees of subscription to the concept of Europe and the role education plays in such a process. This second edition includes the new countries which have become part of the union and also considers recent developments... more...
Tomorrow's Schools
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 53.95Today's schools are subject to increasing demand and constraint; their work is more complex and fast changing than ever before; politicians and press demand quick fixes. This book paints the picture of a new integrity for our schools as they face a challenging future. Themes addressed include: * schools as places of learning and integrity * the... more...
Victoria's Daughters
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. Previous books about ?Britain? invariably focus on England, and such ?British? studies tend not to include Ireland despite its incorporation into the Union in 1801. The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1900 presents a... more...
Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95This volume consists of a collection of essays devoted to study of the most recent educational reform in Russia. In his first decree Boris Yeltsin proclaimed education a top priority of state policy. Yet the economic decline which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union dealt a crippling blow to reformist aspirations, and to the existing school... more...
Dictionary of British Education
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 57.95This 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 put into some kind of historical context to become... more...









