Routledge Library Editions: Education 2011 Online Catalogue

Aa is for Aesthetic (RLE Edu K)

Essays on Creative and Aesthetic Education

By Peter Abbs

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume reaffirms the indispensable place of the arts in any coherent curriculum. The author hopes that the specific arguments formulated in the book will advance the conservationist post-Modernist aesthetic....

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

Living Powers(RLE Edu K)

The Arts in Education

By Peter Abbs

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

When originally published this was the first book to offer a collective history of all the arts – Art, Drama, Dance, Music, Literature and Film – in the curriculum. It also offers a coherent framework for the teaching of arts which is in line with the best current trends since the Gulbenkian Report...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

Knowledge and Character bound with The Modern Teacher(RLE Edu K)

By William Archer

Edited by A Bain

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Written before, but published after The First World War, this volume’s plea for a national system of education which will produce a nation of prosperous, morally fulfilled people able to live at peace with other nations is doubly poignant given the sacrifice of the ‘lost generation’. However, the...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

Knowledge and Character bound with The Modern Teacher(RLE Edu K)

By William Archer

Edited by A Bain

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Written before, but published after The First World War, this volume’s plea for a national system of education which will produce a nation of prosperous, morally fulfilled people able to live at peace with other nations is doubly poignant given the sacrifice of the ‘lost generation’. However, the...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

Happiness (RLE Edu K)

By Robin Barrow

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The first part of the book reviews empirical work relating to happiness (including attitudinal studies), claims made in an educational context and postwar philosophical treatment of the concept. There is a useful account of Aristotle’s pioneering work and a stimulating summary of some of the main...

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Moral Philosophy for Education (RLE Edu K)

By Robin Barrow

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Teachers and students are frequently confused as to the relevance of abstract philosophical theorising to the reality of the classroom and this book is distinctive for the attention it devotes to philosophy and its potential contribution to practical matters, and education in particular. The author...

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Plato and Education (RLE Edu K)

By Robin Barrow

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This introduction to Plato’s philosophical and educational thought examines Plato’s views and relates them to issues and questions that occupy philosophers of education. Robin Barrow stresses the relevance of Plato today, while introducing the student both to Plato’s philosophy and to contemporary...

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Radical Education (RLE Edu K)

A Critique of Freeschooling and Deschooling

By Robin Barrow

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume is a comprehensive critique of the radical tradition in educational theory. It traces the development of the key ideas in radical literature from Rousseau to the present day. Two opening chapters set Rousseau’s educational views and arguments in their political perspective, and subject...

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The Rationality of Feeling (RLE Edu K)

Learning From the Arts

By David Best

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume emphasizes the necessity for arts teachers to nurture the personal development of their students by expanding their artistic understanding and creativity. In aiming to provide a broader understanding for the effective teaching of the arts, the author provides powerful reasons for seeing...

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Freedom and Choice in Education (RLE Edu K)

By James Breese

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Much of the material included here owes it inspiration to discussions held with groups of student teachers in the early 1970s. The book is written for such students and discusses issues such as the acquisition of knowledge, the value of examinations, dependency and religion in education. The book...

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Educating the Virtues (RLE Edu K)

An Essay on the Philosophical Psychology of Moral Development and Education

By David Carr

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Tracing the views on moral life of such past philosophers as Plato, Aristotle and Kant, as well as of such theorists as Durkheim, Freud, Piaget and Kohlberg, the author sets forth a full discussion of the nature and educational implications of the idea of moral virtue....

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The Philosophy of Primary Education (RLE Edu K)

An Introduction

By R Dearden

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume provides a rigorous examination of theoretical concepts such as need, interest, growth, play, experience, activity and self-expression. It also makes an important contribution towards getting a closely argued educational theory. In the first part of the book the author establishes...

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Problems in Primary Education (RLE Edu K)

By R Dearden

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The first part of the book discusses aims, who should determine them and how they might be determined. The second part discusses some more specific topics of learning and teaching, such as learning how to learn, the integrated day and the use of competition. The author distinguishes three broad...

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Theory & Practice in Education (RLE Edu K)

Edited by R F Dearden

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The main concern of the volume is the relation of theory to practice in education but the book also reviews the state of educational theory, and its relation to politics. Beginning with a group of papers on specific areas of the relation between theory and practice, the book goes on to discuss...

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Dreams and Education (RLE Edu K)

By J Hill

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Written at a time when the psychology of education was still in its infancy, this volume explains the scientific interpretation of dreams. The importance of the Dream Mind in normal behaviour, and in the production and appreciation of literature and art, is illustrated by numerous examples....

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Educational Theory and Its Foundation Disciplines (RLE Edu K)

Edited by Paul Hirst

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

At the time this book was first published the disciplines of philosophy of education, educational psychology, sociology of education and the history of education had developed rapidly. The papers in this volume outline the developments that took place. The first paper analyses the nature of a...

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The Logic of Education (RLE Edu K)

Edited by Paul Hirst, R S Peters

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book explores the implications for the curriculum, for teaching and for the authority structure of schools and colleges of an analysis of ‘education’ in which the development of knowledge and understanding is accorded a central position. The book explains what philosophy of education is, and...

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Education (RLE Edu K)

Its Nature and Purpose

By M Jeffreys

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book discusses the very nature and purpose of education and provides a foundation upon which more specialized studies in the psychology, history and sociology of education can be based. The book therefore surveys the main problems of human life – the relation of the individual and society,...

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Friedrich Froebel and English Education (RLE Edu K)

Edited by Evelyn Lawrence

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This collection of essays describes Froebel’s life and the history of his influence on the education of young children in Britain. It also traces the religious roots of his philosophy and discusses his psychological and educational principles in the light of developments in these fields since his...

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An Essay Towards A Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)

A Liberal Education for All

By Charlotte Mason

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This was the last and most important and comprehensive work of Charlotte Mason, (founder of the Parents’ National Educational Union). For more than half a century the practical results of her original thought on education could be seen in all parts of the world in the Charlotte Mason Method and the...

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Educational Theory (RLE Edu K)

An Introduction

By Terence Moore

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book comes strongly to the defence of educational theory and shows that it has a structure and integrity of its own. The author argues that the validity of educational theory may best be judged in terms of the various assumptions made in it. His argument is illustrated by a review and critique...

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Education, Society and Human Nature (RLE Edu K)

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

By Anthony O'Hear

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Intended primarily for education students this book provides an introduction to the philosophy of education that tackles educational problems and at the same time relates them to the mainstream of philosophical analysis. Among the educational topics the book discusses are the aims of education, the...

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Perspectives on Plowden (RLE Edu K)

Edited by R Peters

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The Plowden Report, Children and their Primary Schools (1967), had a huge impact on education in the latter 20th century, but at the time was labelled as left-wing, and of no practical use to the problems of education in the 1960s. The contributors to this volume were all concerned with the...

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Education (RLE Edu K)

A Search For New Principles

By Herbert Phillipson

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Contributing to early debates on nature versus nurture, schools and the social environment, town planning and a free comprehensive education, the author discusses key educational issues against the background of a distintegrating Europe in the midst of war....

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Education and the Spirit of Man (RLE Edu K)

By Francis Pollard

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume was the Swarthmore Lecture for 1932, one of an annual series of lectures delivered by and for members of the Society of Friends (Quakers). The lecture discusses the place of education and moral philosophy in the world of the early twentieth century, as well as the place of religious...

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Education for Peace (RLE Edu K)

By Herbert Read

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book deals with the everlasting problem of war and peace. In it, the author argues that mankind must be predisposed for peace by the right kind of education and he discusses how to devise methods of education which will prevent war....

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Questions in Aesthetic Education (RLE Edu K)

By H Redfern

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The Question of what ‘aesthetic education’ is, or might be, is often a source of incomprehension. This book opens up discussion of a complex, difficult, but highly important topic, and offers an introductory survey of the whole area. In examining the relationship of the concept of the aesthetic to...

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The Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)

An Introduction

By Harry Schofield

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

There are many students who find philosophy of education difficult, because they have never received teaching in the basic essentials of general philosophy. This book begins by asking the basic question ‘what is philosophy?’ and examines a number of possible answers. Step by step the reader is...

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The Dark Places of Education (RLE Edu K)

With a Collection of Seventy-Eight Reports of School Experiences

By Willi Schohaus

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The book is divided into two parts. The first forms a survey of the inadequacies of the Swiss school system in the early twentieth century (but the issues it discusses were universal ones which were just as prevalent in the English school system of that time). The second part of the book is a...

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Freedom and Discipline (RLE Edu K)

By Richard Smith

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Questions of discipline and order arise wherever formal education is practised, and are particularly acute for those training to teach or in their first school posts. For many years now writing on these topics has tended to depict teaching as the deployment of ‘skills’ and ‘techniques’ and...

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Can We Teach Children to be Good? (RLE Edu K)

By Roger Straughan

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The apparently straightforward question 'Can we teach children to be good?' cannot be properly understood without a great deal of careful thinking about the philosophical issues involved. Teachers and parents often assume that what the question means and how it should be answered are self-evidently...

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Everyday Imagining and Education (RLE Edu K)

By Margaret Sutherland

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book discusses the kind of imaginative thinking which is going on all the time without producing the masterpieces of art and culture. The author brings together the body of educational theory, psychological theory and some general opinions about imagination, to provide an account of everyday...

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A Modern Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)

By Godfrey Thomson

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

‘Philosophy’ in the context of this book means that the author is looking at education as a whole, without restrictions or simplifications; looking at ends and purposes, not merely at methods and means. He discusses early years education, the sociology and psychology of education as well as...

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Prologue to Education (RLE Edu K)

An Inquiry into Ends and Means

By John Wales

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Many people have come to feel that the controversy on education in Britain has got bogged down in political polemics, and that common polarisations between ‘conventional’ and ‘progressive’, ‘selective’ and ‘comprehensive’, ‘elite’ and ‘democratic’ are both unrealistic and damaging. The author...

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Democracy, Schooling and Political Education (RLE Edu K)

By Colin Wringe

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The relationship between educational practice and the social principles of democracy forms an important strand in the history of educational thought, and is central to the debate on many contemporary issues in the educational field. In this concise, introductory book, Colin Wringe examines the...

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