Routledge Library Editions: Education

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31. Primary Understanding

    Education in Early Childhood

    By Kieran Egan

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan constructs his argument that constituting this foundational layer are sets of cultural sense-making capacities, reflected in oral cultures throughout the...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
32. The Education of Children Under Seven

    By Mary Sturt

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This book does not cover the whole field of Infants’ Teaching but is concerned mainly with general principles and matters which are open to the non-specialist. Some technical subjects such as Physical Education have been omitted but nonetheless the volume provides a thorough (if somewhat dated)...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
33. Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education

    Edited by Doris Fromberg, Leslie Williams

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This Encyclopedia is a reference work about young children in the USA, designed for use by policy makers, community planners, parents of young children, teacher and early childhood educators, programme and school administrators, among others. The field of early childhood education has been affected...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
34. Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set C: Early Childhood Education 5 vol set

    By Various

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Mini-set C: Early Childhood Education re-issues 5 volumes originally published between 1913 and 1992. Over that period, but particularly in the last 4 decades, educational policy makers have become increasingly aware of the importance of early childhood education. There are many...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
35. Children's Play and Its Place in Education

    With an Appendix on the Montessori Method

    By Walter De Burley Wood

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Published long before the importance of early childhood education was formally recognised in the educational landscape this book explores the significance of play for young children. The volume includes an appendix on Montessori education....

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
36. Christianity in Education

    The Hibbert Lectures 1965

    Edited by F Hilliard

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    The Christian churches have frequently pioneered educational advances – from the seventh century down to the nineteenth. Schools, universities and colleges of education stand as tangible evidence of these efforts. Do all these ventures belong merely to educational history – relics of the days when...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
37. Creativity and Education

    By Hugh Lytton

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    The author gives a lucid account of creativity and its educational context. He discusses the creative process, the character of different kinds of creativity, creative people, developing creativity, and the creative child at school, to give his readers an understanding of the issues that home or...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
38. Broken Ground

    John F Kennedy and the Politics of Education

    By Lawrence McAndrews

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Throughout United States history, and particularly from the 1930s through the 1960s, education was a sensitive political issue which preoccupied Congresses, Presidents and interest groups. By the time of John F Kennedy’s Presidency federal aid to education was all but inevitable but the...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
39. Learning for Life

    Politics and Progress in Recurrent Education

    Edited by Frank Molyneux, George Low, Gerry Fowler

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Although the 1970s and 1980s witnessed a widespread reaction against investment in education there has been an extraordinary growth of interest in recurrent education. This book, sponsored by the Association for Recurrent Education, reports these considerable developments in both theory and...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
40. Perspectives on School at Seven Years Old

    Edited by John Newson, Elizabeth Newson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This volume looks at the social and intellectual forces which the child encounters in class-room and playground from the parent’s point of view. School and home are seen as the separate yet overlapping worlds of childhood – for some children more uncompromisingly separated than for others. In the...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge