Perspectives on Educational Management and Leadership

Les Bell

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• This book brings together for the first time a collection of Professor Les Bell's work on educational leadership and management. His discussion of the... Lees meer

Meritocracy, Citizenship and Education

John Beck

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• Young's iconic book The Rise of the Meritocracy, which not only coined the word meritocracy but contained a prescient warning about the dangers of pur... Lees meer

Theory and Practice of Education

David a Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• "To fellow academics may I say this: Don't put it unread on your students' reading list. Tackle it for yourself, for this is seminal." Professor Micha... Lees meer

Internationalizing the University

Yvonne Turner, Sue Robson

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• Globalization is changing the face of Higher Education across the world. Academics and students today are internationally mobiles and unprecedented nu... Lees meer

Analysing Teaching-Learning Interactions in Higher Education

Paul Ashwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• Whilst current research into teaching and learning offers many insights into the experiences of academics and students in higher education, it has two... Lees meer

Rethinking English in Schools

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• Why should young people study a subject called English? This question lies at the heart of this fascinating monograph, which brings together the diver... Lees meer

The Governance of Education

Suzy Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• Neo-liberalism, which has become the dominant economic doctrine in capitalist societies, is transforming education policy and practice. This book will... Lees meer

The Right to Childhoods

Dimitra Hartas

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• In this study, Dimitra Hartas analyses contemporary childhood. She discusses the plurality inherent in childhood and the forces that shape children's ... Lees meer

Romanticism and Education

David Halpin

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• In this original book, David Halpin argues that an understanding of the Romantic roots of progressive education is a necessary condition for restoring... Lees meer

Faith Schools and Society

Jo Cairns

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• - Do faith schools have a place in a plural society? - Which types of school contribute most effectively to a plural society? This fascinating monogra... Lees meer

Eugenics, Race and Intelligence in Education

Clyde Chitty

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• For over a hundred years, psychologists and human biologists have been engaged in an often heated debate as to whether 'heredity' or 'environment' sho... Lees meer

Teaching the Holocaust in School History

Lucy Russell

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• If we expose students to a study of human suffering we have a responsibility to guide them through it. But is this the role of school history? This is... Lees meer

Learning Cultures in Online Education

Dr Robin Goodfellow

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• With the growth of trans-national education online, more learners are experiencing learning environments characterised by cultural diversity. This tim... Lees meer

Modernizing Schools

Graham Butt, Helen M Gunter

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• Modernizing schools: people, learning and organisations' poses four key questions: * What are the antecedents of the current waves of modernization an... Lees meer

Educational Potential of Computer Games

Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• There is increasing focus on the use of computer games across all ages. The trend is leading to educators, theorists and researchers, most especially ... Lees meer

Towards the Sociology of Truth

Rob Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• This innovative monograph is concerned with a set of inter-related problems associated with the nature of knowledge, how it is produced within intelle... Lees meer

The Spirit of the School

Julian Stern

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• Recent interest in personalized learning and the issues raised by Every Child Matters have led to renewed enthusiasm for the more personal and holisti... Lees meer

Consumer Experience of Higher Education

Deirdre McArdle-Clinton

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• This work examines the philosophy underpinning current higher education provision. Contemporary culture seems to encourage consumers to purchase produ... Lees meer

Educational Attainment and Society

Nigel Kettley

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• Sophisticated monograph focussing on attainment at the end of secondary/high school education (and the interface with tertiary education). Combines re... Lees meer

Education, Democracy and Discourse

Knud Jensen, Stephen Walker

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• Education, Democracy and Discourse presents a commentary on democracy in education, and the macro- and micro-political discourses which permit and pro... Lees meer

Changing Pedagogy

Xin-Min Zheng, Chris Davison

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in Education (Hardcover)
• China's growing economic, military and political stability have, for the first time, started to gain international recognition. As China increasingly ... Lees meer