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1. Education and the Culture of Consumption

   Personalisation and the Social Order

   By David Hartley

   For nearly 200 years the organisational form of the school has changed little. Bureaucracy has been its enduring form. The school has prepared the worker for the factory of mass production. It has created the 'mass consumer' to be content with accepting what is on offer, not what is wanted. However...

   Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. Children, their World, their Education

   Final Report and Recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review

   By Robin Alexander, Michael Armstrong, Julia Flutter, Linda Hargreaves, David Harrison, Wynne Harlen, Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer, Ruth Kershner, John Macbeath, Berry Mayall, Stephanie Northen, Gillian Pugh, Colin Richards, David Utting

   Children, their World, their Education is the definitive text for students, teachers, researchers, educational leaders and all who are interested in primary education. As the culmination of the Cambridge Primary Review, the most comprehensive enquiry into English primary education for half a...

   Published October 13th 2009 by Routledge
3. Staff Support Groups in the Helping Professions

   Principles, Practice and Pitfalls

   Edited by Phil Hartley, David Kennard

   Staff burnout and work-related stress in mental health professionals cost the National Health Service not only millions of pounds each year, but also impact upon the welfare of those being cared for. Staff Support Groups in the Helping Professions takes the lead from recent Department of Health...

   Published April 22nd 2009 by Routledge
4. Teacher Education

   Edited by David Hartley, Maurice Whitehead

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   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...

   Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge
5. Rethinking Teacher Education

   Collaborative Responses to Uncertainty

   By Anne Edwards, Peter Gilroy, David Hartley, David Hartley

   Rethinking Teacher Education is a thorough and critical analysis of the ambivalences and uncertainties that face those in teacher education. The authors draw on their different experiences of teacher education to try to make sense of current practices and where they might lead.The book analyzes...

   Published October 9th 2002 by Routledge
6. Re-schooling Society

   By David Hartley, David Hartley

   This text describes and explains the sense of uncertainty faced by educators as the millenium approaches. It highlights the many transitions taking place in all aspects of public life and education during the postmodern phase of late capitalism by using examples from the study of childhood,...

   Published May 30th 1997 by Routledge