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1. Education for Values: Morals, Ethics and Citizenship in Contemporary Teaching

   Edited by Cairns, Jo, Gardner, Roy (all of Institute of Education, University of London), Lawton, Denis

   Values in education, in terms of both how they are taught and of the ethics of teaching itself, are an area of lively debate. This text provides a resource of ideas, issues and practice for all those with an interest in this area of education....

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. World Yearbook of Education 2001

   Values, Culture and Education

   Edited by Jo Cairns, Roy Gardner, Denis Lawton

   Series: World Yearbook of Education

   This yearbook on education for 2001 brings together leading international voices on values in education and presents a window on current debates. These include such fundamental issues as who should decide upon the values we adopt....

   Published March 24th 2012 by Routledge
3. Class, Culture and the Curriculum

   By Denis Lawton

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   It is often argued that education is concerned with the transmission of middle-class values and that this explains the relative educational failure of the working class. Consequently, distinctive culture needs a different kind of education. This volume examines this claim and the wider question of...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. Theory and Practice of Curriculum Studies

   By Denis Lawton

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This book deals with curriculum issues and problems, and one of its aims is to help practising teachers to clarify their own theory and practice in relation to the curriculum. The contributors look at three popular theories or sets of assumptions held by teachers: the child-centred view of...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Politics of the School Curriculum

   By Denis Lawton

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   If the curriculum can be defined as a ‘selection from the culture of society’, the central question then becomes ‘who selects’. This volume answers this question, reviewing various aspects of the curriculum and its planning. For many years the control of the curriculum was uncontroversial. In the...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
6. Faith Schools

   Consensus or Conflict?

   Edited by Jo Cairns, Roy Gardner, Denis Lawton

   Until fairly recently the separation of pupils according to religion was felt to be compatible with a comprehensive education. That consensus no longer holds and there is a strong positive lobby either to absorb faith schools altogether within the state system or at least to dilute their...

   Published March 23rd 2005 by Routledge
7. Education and Labour Party Ideologies 1900-2001and Beyond

   By Denis Lawton

   Series: Woburn Education Series

   In 1997 Tony Blair broke with tradition by naming education as a major priority for the General Election Manifesto. In the past, Labour leaders had tended to give education a much lower priority. Despite this, Blair has been greatly criticised for his educational programme 1997-2001. Was he taking...

   Published September 29th 2004 by Routledge
8. Royal Education

   Past, Present and Future

   By Professor Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon, Professor Denis Lawton, Denis Lawton

   Series: Woburn Education Series

   Many people assume that kings and queens have generally received a "good education", perhaps the best that money could buy at the time. This book investigates the reality: what is known about the education of British sovereigns from the beginning of the Tudor period to the end of the 20th...

   Published August 29th 2003 by Routledge
9. Dictionary of British Education

   By Professor Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon, Professor Denis Lawton, Denis Lawton

   Series: Woburn Education Series

   This is an up-to-date guide for teachers and parents, administrators, governors , students and others to help the find their way about the increasingly complex world of education. The main section provides a dictionary that is more than a simple set of definitions: many words in education have been...

   Published March 31st 2003 by Routledge
10. Education for Values

    Morals, Ethics and Citizenship in Contemporary Teaching

    Edited by Jo Cairns, Roy Gardner, Denis Lawton

    Values in education - how they are taught, the ethics of teaching itself, plus their role in the education of educators - is an area of lively and passionate debate. This book provides an essential resource of ideas, issues and current practice for all those with an interest in this area of...

    Published February 28th 2003 by Routledge