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1. Education and the Second World War

   Studies in Schooling and Social Change

   Edited by Roy Lowe

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This was the first book which globally surveyed the impact of the Second World War on schooling. It offers fascinating comparisons of the impact of total war, both in terms of physical disruption and its effects on the ideology of schooling. By analysing the effects on the education systems of each...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
2. Education in the Post-War Years

   A Social History

   By Roy Lowe

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This book provides an overview of the relationship between the sweeping social changes of the post-war period and education in England. It outlines the major demographic cultural and socio-economic developments which made new demands of the education service during the twenty years following the...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
3. The History of Higher Education

   Edited by Roy Lowe

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   This new Major Work is a five-volume collection in Routledge’s Major Themes in Education series. It charts the history and development of higher education. Encompassing the period since 1760, the principal focus is on the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although more recent developments...

   Published September 24th 2008 by Routledge
4. The Death of Progressive Education

   How Teachers Lost Control of the Classroom

   By Roy Lowe

   The first authoritative survey of the changing politics of the classroom since the Second World War. It charts the process by which society moved away from being one in which teachers decided both the content of the school curriculum and how it would be taught towards the present situation in which...

   Published July 4th 2007 by Routledge
5. History of Education

   Major Themes

   Edited by Roy Lowe

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   History of Education: Major Themes brings together some of the most significant and influential writing on the history of education during the past thirty years. It illustrates the key themes on which historians of education have worked during this period and shows their relevance for our...

   Published March 29th 2000 by Routledge
6. Schooling and Social Change 1964-1990

   By Roy Lowe

   This is the first book to offer an overview of the ways in which the sweeping social and economic changes of the modern period have impacted on the education system. Roy Lowe draws on estensive research to paint a vivid picture of the ways in which schools and universities were moulded by external...

   Published July 9th 1997 by Routledge