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1. The Role of Higher Education in Initial Teacher Training

   Edited by Furlong, John (Professor of Education, University of Wales, Swansea), Smith, Richard (Lecturer, School of Education, University of Durham)

   This text explores the issue of what role, if any, higher education should play in intial teacher training. The authors argue for the continued involvement of higher education in teacher training and cover such areas as the 1994 Education Act, the role of universities and the schools consortia....

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Policy and Politics in Teacher Education

   International Perspectives

   Edited by John Furlong, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Marie Brennan

   During the last 20 years, governments around the world have paid increasing attention to the recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers. Teacher supply and teacher quality have become significant policy issues, taken up by policy-makers at the highest levels. This is because teachers are...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Education – An Anatomy of the Discipline

   Rescuing the university project?

   By John Furlong

   Education – An Anatomy of the Discipline focuses on the development of the discipline of education, how it is understood and practised in contemporary universities, and the potential threats to its future. As the author, John Furlong argues, disciplines are not only intellectually coherent fields...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Policy and Politics in Teacher Education

   International perspectives

   Edited by John Furlong, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Marie Brennan

   During the last 20 years, governments around the world have paid increasing attention to the recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers. Teacher supply and teacher quality have become significant policy issues, taken up by policy-makers at the highest levels. This is because teachers are...

   Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge
5. Disciplines of Education

   Their Role in the Future of Education Research

   Edited by John Furlong, Martin Lawn

   Are the disciplines of education ghosts of a productive past or creative and useful forms of inquiry? Are they in a demographic and organisational crisis today? The contribution of the ‘foundation disciplines’ of sociology, psychology, philosophy, history and economics to the study of...

   Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
6. Assessing quality in applied and practice-based research in education

   Continuing the debate

   Edited by John Furlong, Alis Oancea

   One of the most persistent features of the research environment in the UK over the last decades has been the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE); now more and more countries are following suit by developing their own systems for research quality assessment. However, in the field of education, one of...

   Published September 26th 2007 by Routledge
7. Adult Learning in the Digital Age

   Information Technology and the Learning Society

   By Neil Selwyn, Stephen Gorard, John Furlong

   This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical...

   Published September 21st 2005 by Routledge
8. Screenplay

   Children and Computing in the Home

   By Keri Facer, John Furlong, Ruth Furlong, Rosamund Sutherland

   What are young people really doing on computers at home?Computers feature heavily in the lives of today's young people, and this book sets out to question commonplace assumptions about the use of technology by children at home. Bringing together research from the perspective of psychology,...

   Published August 3rd 2003 by Routledge
9. Education, Reform and the State

   Twenty Five Years of Politics, Policy and Practice

   Edited by John Furlong, Robert Phillips

   Published February 21st 2001 by Routledge
10. The Role of Higher Education in Initial Teacher Training

    Edited by Furlong, John (Professor of Education, University of Wales, Swansea), Smith, Richard (Lecturer, School of Education, University of Durham)

    This text explores the issue of what role, if any, higher education should play in intial teacher training. The authors argue for the continued involvement of higher education in teacher training and cover such areas as the 1994 Education Act, the role of universities and the schools consortia....

    Published January 31st 1996 by Routledge