Routledge Library Editions: Education 2011 Online Catalogue

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

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

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...

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Comparative Education

A Study of Educational Factors and Traditions

By Nicholas Hans

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book is divided into four parts. In Part One the author considers the natural factors which have influenced the various national systems of education. They comprise racial, linguistic, geographical and economic factors. In Part Two he considers the contribution of religious traditions to...

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The Russian Tradition in Education

By Nicholas Hans

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume describes the Russian tradition in education and in particular the dominant role of Russian nationality. The whole history of Russian education is covered from Peter the Great to Khruschev....

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Communist Education

Edited by Edmund King

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Developments and trends in Communist education are traced in this authoritative survey by specialists. Eight chapters deal with particular aspects: ideology, psychology, the selective process, the roles of teachers and parents, polytechnical education, the universities and professional institutes....

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Comparative Studies and Educational Decision

Edited by Edmund King

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume offers a conceptual justification and methodology for comparative studies of education matching developments in the social sciences and other comparative disciplines. It also relates comparative studies of education to the practical business of policy formulation at all levels. Thus it...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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Higher Education in German Occupied Countries (RLE Edu A)

By A Wolf

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book gives a comprehensive account of what happened to higher education in Austria, Belgium, the former Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Russia and the former Yugoslavia during 1938-1944. It reveals the mentality of the German cultural...

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Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set J Multi-cultural Education 8 vol set

By Various

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Mini-set J: Multi-cultural Education re-issues 8 volumes originally published between 1984 and 1994. The books in this mini-set: Look closely at widely held assumptions about ‘race’ and schooling in Britain, and evaluate the role of the school in a multi-ethnic society. Discuss...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge