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Educational Controversies Towards a Discourse ofby Hugh Sockett; Pamela Lapage
RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 190.00This book moves forward debate and provides suggestions for developing nurturing and supportive learning communities and so lead to educational change. more...
Issues in English Teachingby Jon Davison; John Moss
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 47.50Invites primary and secondary teachers of English to engage in debates about key issues in subject teaching. This book will stimulate all those interested in education to reflect on the identity of the subject and its principles and practice. more...
Fieldwork in Educational Settingsby Sara Delamont
RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 51.95This new edition brings original, best-selling text right up-to-date for new researchers and includes a new chapter on computer software for data handling. more...
Philosophy and Educational Policyby Christopher Winch; John Gingell
RoutledgeFalmer 2004; US$ 45.95This book is designed to provide an up-to-date introduction to the Philosophy of Education. It addresses many of the 'traditional' topics in the field, as well as more contemporary policy issues in education. more...
What does Good Education Research Look Like?by Lyn Yates
McGraw-Hill Education 2004; US$ 49.98Explains the debates around education research: is it high quality? Is it scientific enough? And, is it useful? This book shows how research in education must meet different demands in different places, times, and conditions. It is a useful companion to textbooks on research methodology. more...
Education And Theoryby Gary Thomas
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 45.98Examines what theory means for both student and researcher and questions whether the confidence in educational theory is justified. This book also examines some theoretically significant influences on educational thought and practice in the twentieth century. It is intended for academics, researchers, teachers and students of education. more...
Real Educationby Charles Murray
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 11.99With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve , sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment. Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material. Doing our best for every child requires, above all else, that we embrace that simplest of truths. America’s educational system does its best to ignore it. Half of the children are below average. Many children cannot learn more than rudimentary reading and math. Real Education reviews what we know about the limits of what schools can do and the results of four decades of policies that require schools to divert huge resources to unattainable... more...
Power and Responsibility in Educationby Keith Watson
Continuum International Publishing 1996; US$ 160.00This study, by more than 130 contributors, assesses the moves to decentralize educational administration. The text contains overviews by individual authors, and joint papers forming dialogues between different academic contenders. It provides a survey of educational policies and planning, and an analysis of the changes in England and Wales. Curriculum control, privatization and leadership issues are also debated. This book is one of four volumes which consider the educational dilemmas facing governments, professional educators and practising administrators in the current educational climate. The issues are addressed from international and comparative perspectives. more...
Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Educationby Mark Mason
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 39.95A collection of scholarly essays, Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education provides an accessible theoretical introduction to the topic of complexity theory while considering its broader implications for educational change. Explains the contributions of complexity theory to philosophy of education, curriculum, and educational research Brings together new research by an international team of contributors Debates issues ranging from the culture of curriculum, to the implications of work of key philosophers such as Foucault and John Dewey for educational change Demonstrates how social scientists and social and education policy makers are drawing on complexity theory to answer questions such as: why is it that education decision-makers... more...
Exploring Unequal Achievement in the Schoolsby George Ansalone
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2009; US$ 30.99For over a half century, educational sociologists have struggled to explain the cause of differential academic achievement in the school. This book attempts to offer an explanation by examining the role played by ascribed characteristics of students (race, gender, and class) and educational practices and structures of schools (testing, tracking, and teacher expectations) as they combine to create a self-fulfilling prophesy of behavior and belief. more...









