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1. Understanding History

   International Review of History Education 4

   Edited by Ros Ashby, Professor Peter Gordon, Peter Lee

   Series: Woburn Education Series

   What sense do children and young people make of history? How do they cope with competing historical accounts in textbooks? How do they think historical or archaeological claims are supported or rejected? And whatever students think about history, how do their teachers see history...

   Published May 11th 2005 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. A History of Western Educational Ideas

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

   Series: Woburn Education Series

   There are many aspects of an education system that only make sense if we know how that system has developed over time. Part of this comes from knowing how institutions have changed, but it is also important to understand how ideas in education have developed.This book discusses the continuous...

   Published April 29th 2002 by Routledge
5. Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960

   Edited by David Doughan, Professor Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon

   Series: Woburn Education Series

   This dictionary is the first attempt to identify systematically the large heterogeneous group of women's organisations that grew up from the early 19th century up to the beginning of the modern women's movement, from women abolitionists and Chartists through Social workers, nurses, suffragists and...

   Published March 30th 2001 by Routledge