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11. Education in the Soviet Union

    Policies and Institutions Since Stalin

    By Mervyn Matthews

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This book provides a comprehensive survey of the successes and failures of education and training in the Khrushchev and Breshnev years. The author gives an objective assessment of the accessibility of the main types of institution, of the contents of courses and of Soviet attempts to marry the...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
12. German Influence on English Education

    By W Armytage

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This book traces the impact of German educationists, such as Froebel and Herbart, on practice in Britain while stressing the important and lasting influence of German scientists, technologists, philosophers, sociologists and historians on our educational system. This record of interplay between the...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
13. French Influence on English Education

    By W Armytage

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    In this volume the author discusses the influence of France from the Norman invasion to the late 1960s. French thought and ideas are examined and more tangible evidence is also given of the widespread and often unnoticed influence that France has exerted on English education....

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
14. American Influence on English Education

    By W Armytage

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    The American ideal has exercised a powerful influence over English educational policy over the last two centuries, even as it has itself changed. Today the very size of America enables it to rehearse problems we shall meet tomorrow. This volume answers key questions for education, as relevant...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
15. Effective Schools in Developing Countries

    Edited by Henry Levin, Marlaine Lockheed

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This volume brings together eight case studies which describe a variety of initiatives to create more effective schools for children of poverty, especially in the Third World. The initiatives reviewed published and unpublished documents and both qualitative and statistical studies were examined....

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
16. Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set A: Comparative Education 11 vol set

    By Various

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Mini-set A:Comparative Education re-issues 11 volumes originally published between 1945 and 1983 and covers educational theory and practice from the UK, France, Germany, Russia, America, Africa and Asia. ...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
17. Dependence and Interdependence in Education

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Keith Watson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This volume provides an international perspective on educational dependency in considering both theories and actual developments throughout the world. Some less developed countries, in expanding their education systems, have emulated Western academic-style systems and have increased their...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
18. Sense and Nonsense and the National Curriculum

    Edited by Michael Barber, Duncan Graham

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Originally written after four years of the National Curriculum, at a time when adjustments and radical changes were being implemented, this book analyses from various points of view what is wrong with the National Curriculum and presents a series of options for putting it right....

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
19. Common Sense and the Curriculum

    By Robin Barrow

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This book addresses the question ‘What should be taught in schools and why?’. The book begins by stressing the way in which such a question should be approached and goes on to offer a comprehensive and stringent critique of a variety of principles for the selection of curriculum content, with...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
20. Individual Development and the Curriculum

    By Kieran Egan

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This book describes four ‘layers’ or stages of education – Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic and Ironic and shows how children at each stage most effectively learn, and how they can be helped towards educational maturity. While drawing on a wide range of philosophical and psychological literature, this...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge