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Adult and Continuing Education
Major Themes in Education
Av Peter Jarvis
2003
8080 kr
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Depicting the ways that adult education has evolved as society has changed and how it has been incorporated into lifelong learning, this is a truly unique set that puts a stamp on an exciting field and important, far-reaching issues. These five volumes represent a great advance to scholars, as this …
Teacher Education
Av David Hartley, Maurice Whitehead
2005
23088 kr
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The effective development and education of teachers is central to the enterprise of education itself, and teacher education is currently viewed as a key educational priority issue at European Union level, requiring attention and further development as part of a broad approach to the raising of …
Early Years Education
Av Rod Parker-Rees, Jenny Willan
2005
22758 kr
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The education and care of children under the age of eight has become one of the major focuses of attention in recent education research and policy-making around the world, and it is now widely recognised that investment in provision at this stage can be both cost effective and beneficial to the …
Science Education
2005
16603 kr
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Education in, about, and through, the sciences – physics, chemistry, biology, earth science – has grown rapidly in the last 150 years. Starting from the twin bases of an elective provision for those likely to become scientists and engineers and of informal provision for the general populace, it has …
History of Higher Education
Av Roy Lowe
2008
23078 kr
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This new Major Work is a five-volume collection in Routledge’s Major Themes in Education series. It charts the history and development of higher education. Encompassing the period since 1760, the principal focus is on the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although more recent developments …
Media Literacies
2007
12579 kr
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The past century has witnessed an ever-accelerating revolution in the ways by which we communicate with each other, and that revolution is far from complete. Understanding how our literacy skills and behaviours are evolving—how we make use of old technologies and adapt to new ones—and how critical …
Gifted and Talented Education
Av Deborah Eyre
2009
16135 kr
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The education of gifted and talented pupils is an established domain of study but research in the area has increased dramatically, particularly in the past fifteen years. The reason for this burgeoning interest relates principally not to conventional educational concerns but rather to the desire of …
Educational Assessment and Evaluation
2012
19030 kr
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Assessment and evaluation are crucial aspects of any educational system and rarely can they have been so central to educational policy-making and the reform of schooling as at the present time. (The introduction of the National Curriculum and Testing system in the UK and the test-based ‘No Child …
Higher Education
2010
3311 kr
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The recent, rapid, and massive expansion of higher education in the Western world has been such that in many developed countries it is now expected that close to—or more than—half of the population will have some significant engagement with a university at least once during their lives. More than …
Multicultural Education
2014
22834 kr
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Multicultural education is a thriving – though sometimes controversial and increasingly contested – field of study and research. Its major aim and purpose has been described as to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, social, and cultural backgrounds to …
Women and Education
2010
16367 kr
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If a primary objective of feminism is to expose and challenge the social relations of power embedded in all spheres of life, then an exploration of the issues attached to female education is a vital aspect of such a project. Indeed, ‘women and education’ is now an established—and flourishing—domain …
Education and Development
2011
19030 kr
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This series addresses the relation of education to knowledge-based growth and broader measures of development beyond growth, central features of the modern world in which education has a central role. This role includes the effects of education on pure economic growth including it’s effects on the …
Critical Education
2014
19030 kr
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Challenging and complex questions around inequality and power have been persistent within modern systems of education since their inception. But in the last four or five decades the vibrant field of critical education has developed and grown in response to such issues. Specifically, education …
Music Education
2012
29456 kr
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Music education is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study. It is also a complex and contested area in which there is a considerable variety of published work, ranging from the justificatory to the critical, and from advice on pedagogical practice to provocative alternative …
Education and Technology
Av Chris Davies, Rebecca Eynon
2015
23162 kr
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The widespread academic study of educational technology blossomed in the years following the development of the microprocessor. Of course, that is not to say that education was technology-free before the 1970s: the telephone, wireless radio, cinema, television, and mainframe computers had all in …
Reading
Av Rona Flippo
2017
22834 kr
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In the words of one academic, reading is ‘an important gateway to personal development, and to social, economic, and civic life’. Moreover, according to the International Reading Association, twenty-first-century adults ‘will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will …
Economics of Higher Education
2018
17376 kr
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Participation in higher education has never been greater, and governments around the world continue to invest huge sums of money in the sector, not least to encourage even more enrolment. Meanwhile, many countries are moving away from centralized, taxpayer-funded systems to more ‘marketized’ …
Smith: Psychology of Education II (4-vol. set)
2019
16450 kr
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This new title in Routledge’s Major Themes in Education series is a four-volume collection of major works of scholarship. It is an essential successor to an earlier Routledge anthology, Psychology of Education (978-0-415-19302-3) (2000), edited by Peter K. Smith and Anthony D. Pellegrini.Research …
Elites in Education
2018
16556 kr
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The sociopolitical, and cultural, implications of the provision and consumption of elite education are dizzyingly complex and controversial. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, one of the most publicized and contested areas of research focuses on the education of elites, and the institutional and power …
Education and Sexualities
2016
22844 kr
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Both from the point of view of the experiences of different groups of students, and also with respect to the form that education about sexuality, sex, and relationships should take, education and sexuality raises complex questions and provokes heated—sometimes furious—debate. This four-volume …
Education and Religion
Av James Arthur, L. Philip Barnes
2016
23843 kr
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The intersection of education and religion raises complex questions and provokes heated—sometimes fraught—debates. Fundamentally, what is the role of religious education in national curricula? And how especially does religious education work in countries that seek explicitly to separate church from …
Education Policy (4-vol. set)
Av Stephen Ball
2016
20989 kr
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Educational research is inextricably interwoven with national and global debates about and around political and economic policy. Now, to help make sense of an enormous—and growing—corpus of scholarship, and to enable users to discriminate the useful from the tendentious, superficial, and otiose, …
Sociology of Education II
2017
20692 kr
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A new title from Routledge’s Major Themes in Education series, Sociology of Education II is a four-volume anthology of the very best scholarship. It is an essential successor to Sociology of Education (2000), also edited by Stephen J. Ball.Sociology of Education (2000) was the first comprehensive …
Critical Race Theory in Education (4-vol. set)
Av David Gillborn, Adrienne D. Dixson m. fl.
2018
16556 kr
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Critical Race Theory (CRT) offers an account of society based on systemic, deep-rooted racist oppression that saturates our commonsensical judgements to such an extent that all but the most extreme racism appears normal and unexceptional, simply ‘business as usual’. CRT is one of the fastest …
Philosophy of Education: Major Themes in the Analytic Tradition
1998
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In the last forty years philosophy of education has become established as a distinct area of philosophical study concerned within educational thought and practice. Twentieth century analytic philosophy prompted the emergence of a philosophy of education as a separate subject.The work collected here …
History of Education
Major Themes
Av Roy Lowe
2000
24197 kr
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History of Education: Major Themes brings together some of the most significant and influential writing on the history of education during the past thirty years. It illustrates the key themes on which historians of education have worked during this period and shows their relevance for our …
Psychology of Education
Major Themes
Av Anthony D. Pellegrini, Peter K Smith
2000
22593 kr
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This set is comprised of four volumes, covering the following topics:* Schools, teachers and parents* Pupils and learning* The school curriculum* School behaviour and the school peer groupThe selected pieces include review articles as well as original studies. Selections includes contributions from …
Educational Management
Major Themes in Education
2004
20532 kr
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Education management and leadership is a key area of study in education. Educational Management: Major Themes in Education brings together the most important literature in the field, exploring the historical context, the training and development of leaders and their roles in leading people and …
Literacy
Major Themes in Education
Av David Wray
Inbunden, 2004
14556 kr
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There can be few areas of education which have been more controversial than the teaching of literacy. In an increasingly information-dense society, the ability to make sense of and to produce text is crucial to success, and literacy has understandably assumed the burden of the benchmark of …
Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education
Major Themes in Education
2004
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The field of special educational needs and inclusive education is not only of enormous importance to the study of education as a whole, it also constitutes a site of major debate. Conflicting arguments include:* changes in the conceptualisation of special needs* the role of assessment* the extent …
