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Education in a Post Welfare Society
McGraw-Hill Education 2005; US$ 245.00Provides a critical overview of education policy. This book demonstrates how a relatively decentralised education system became a system in which funding, teaching and curriculum are centrally controlled and privatisation encouraged. It examines the relationship of education policy to social class, race, gender and the economy. more...
Race And Education
McGraw-Hill Education 2008; US$ 172.00Offers information on educational issues and conflicts in Britain, starting from the 1960s. This title uses examples such as political and media reactions to Afro hairstyles in the 1970s through to hijabs and niquabs, to illustrate how misplaced are the simplistic arguments that blame minorities for segregation or lack of community cohesion. more...
A Sociology of Special Education (RLE Edu M)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 120.00At the time of original publication, special education in Britain was permeated by an ideology of benevolent humanitarianism and this is ostensibly the moral framework within which the professionals ? teachers, educational psychologists, medical officers ? operate. The author widens the debate about special education by introducing sociological perspectives... more...
Ignorant Yobs? Low Attainers in the Global Knowledge Economy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 40.95What happens to young people who are defined as lower attainers or having learning difficulties in a global knowledge economy? How do we stop those with learning difficulties or disabilities being seen as social problems or simply as consumers of resources? Governments in developed countries are driven by the belief that in a global economy all... more...
Special Education and Social Interests (RLE Edu M)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 120.00Until this book was published, most writing on special education was about specific disabilities and how to cope with them. This book, however, considers the broader context, looking at many problems for the wider system that have arisen through integration of special education within it. The book is international and comparative in its focus and... more...
School Effectiveness for Whom?
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 61.95School effectiveness research together with what is now described as the 'school improvement movement' (Barber, 1996) has captured both the Conservative and New Labour imaginations as a basis for educational planning and policy making in the UK. Internationally school effectiveness enjoys and expanding and enthusiastic audience. This book provides... more...
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