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Women in Teacher Training Colleges, 1900-1960by Elizabeth Edwards
Routledge 2000; US$ 40.95Focuses on the culture of femininity which pervaded the work of women's teacher training colleges in Britain during the first half of the 20th century. more...
Secondary Education in England 1870-1902by John Roach
Routledge 1991; US$ 128.00Roach 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...
Transforming Northicote Schoolby Geoff Hampton; Jeff Jones
RoutledgeFalmer 2000; US$ 53.95Northicote School in Wolverhampton was branded 'appalling in every way' by Ofsted in 1994. This is the story of how its decline has been reverted by the strategies of head, Geoff Hampton. more...
University Autonomy: Higher Education in Russia Since Perestroikaby Olga Bain
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 170.00This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy. more...
Creative Schoolby Peter Woods; Bob Jeffrey
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 45.95Using a single case-study school as a role model, this book provides a framework for practice in primary schools. The school in question succeeds in meeting the Government's objectives within its own set of aims and values. more...
Teacher Training at Cambridgeby Pam Hirsch; Mark McBeth
RoutledgeFalmer 2004; US$ 57.95This 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 University and, therefore, serve as test cases to examine the relationship between teacher training and the university. As their early programmes foreshadowed the work of the present-day Faculty of Education, a historical review of these Victorian educational experiments uncovers how the unstable relationship between teacher trainers, the university and the government of the day has affected the status of the Education Department within the university.... more...
Transformation of the Student Careerby Michael Nugent
Routledge 2004; US$ 140.00This study examines the transformation of the structural characteristics and ideological assumptions of university study in these three countries between the mid-1950s and the early 1990s. more...
Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Centuryby William J. Courtenay; Rosamond McKitterick; Christine Carpenter; Jonathan Shepard
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 49.00Based on newly reconstructed documentation for the University of Paris, this book is the most detailed study of the social composition of a medieval university at a single point in time ever attempted, exploring both the socio-economic background of medieval university education and the history and topography of medieval Paris. more...
Social Paralysis and Social Changeby Neil J. Smelser
University of California Press 1991; US$ 70.00Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain?often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict?struggled forward toward change. This book is ambitious in scope. It is both a detailed history of educational development and a theoretical study of social change, at once a case study of Britain and a comparative study of variations within Britain. Smelser simultaneously meets the scholarly standards of historians and critically addresses accepted theories of educational change?"progress," conflict, and functional theories. He also sheds new light on the process of secularization,... more...
Britain's Educational Reformby Mike Howarth
Routledge 1990; US$ 195.00Considers the changes that the Education Reform Act has made to the British education system and then examines the reforms from the perspective of the system in Japanese education. The text outlines areas in which the new system is deficient and discusses economic objectives of education. more...









