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  • Academically Adriftby Richard Arum; Josipa Roksa

    University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 18.00

    In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor’s degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they’re born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift : are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there? For a large proportion of students, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s answer to that question is a definitive no. Their extensive research draws on survey responses, transcript data, and, for the first time, the state-of-the-art Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test administered... more...

  • Deschooling Societyby Ivan Illich

    Marion Boyars 1970; US$ 15.74

    Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper yardsticks for measuring the quality of human life. Our universities have become recruiting centres for the personnel of the consumer society, certifying citizens for service, while at the same time disposing of those judged unfit for the competitive rat race. In this bold and provocative book, Illich suggests some radical and exciting reforms for the education system.  more...

  • Learning By Heartby Roland S. Barth

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 24.95

    A decade after publication of his best-selling book, Barth returns to the schoolhouse. Drawing from a career committed to building schools rich in community, learning, and leadership, he shows how to accomplish the most difficult task of school reform-transforming a school's culture so that it will be hospitable to human learning. In an engaging conversational style, he suggests how school people can become the architects, engineers, and designers of their own schools-and of their own destinies. more...

  • Secondary Education in England 1870-1902by John Roach

    Routledge 1991; US$ 128.00

    Roach argues for a reassessment of the relative importance of State regulation and private provision in this history of secondary education in England between 1870 and 1902. more...

  • Education, Reform and the Stateby Robert Phillips; John Furlong

    RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 64.95

    This book supplies the definitive contemporary history of education policy in the late twentieth century. Some of the leading educationalists reflect on the major legislative and structural changes in the field over the last 25 years. more...

  • Century of Educationby Richard Aldrich

    RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 56.95

    Edited by an eminent historian, this review of Twentieth Century education looks at the successes and failures of the past century and at education in the Twenty First Century and what the future holds. more...

  • Enduring Schoolsby Rita S. Brause

    RoutledgeFalmer 1992; US$ 45.95

    This work on school practice questions the reasons behind the pervasive focus on "facts" and suggests that exam-oriented learning trivializes the importance of the process of education in its entirety. The author puts forward suggestions for an agenda that combines old and new practice. more...

  • Educational Reform At The State Levelby Jean Madsen

    RoutledgeFalmer 1993; US$ 190.00

    Sets out to describe the personal experiences of a state worker in Missouri as she attempted to implement educational reform programmes in the late 1980's. This was a critical time in America as other states were mandating new regulations to improve the quality of schools. more...

  • Developing Democratic Character in the Youngby Roger Soder; John I. Goodlad; Timothy J. McMannon

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 42.00

    Sponsored by the Institute for Educational Inquiry How are students going to function effectively in a democratic society? This collection of original essays outlines the critical role of our schools in helping create the conditions necessary for a democracy--and helping create in students the characteristics or dispositions critical to maintaining a democracy. more...

  • English University Life in the Middle Agesby Alan Cobban

    Routledge 1999; US$ 40.95

    This text offers insights into the social and economic conditions of the lives of students, teaching masters and fellows in medieval England. It also examines teaching methods and the relationship between Oxford and Cambridge. more...