Routledge Library Editions: Education 2011 Online Catalogue

The Irish Education Experiment

The National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century

By Donald Akenson

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume focuses on the creation, structure and evolution of the Irish national system of education. It illustrates how the system was shaped by the religious, social and political realities of nineteenth century Ireland and discusses the effects that the system had upon the Irish nation: namely...

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School and Society in Victorian Britain

Joseph Payne and the New World of Education

By Richard Aldrich

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Drawing on hitherto-unused sources this book represents a shift in the historiography of British education. At the centre of the investigation is Joseph Payne. He was one of the group of pioneers who founded the College of Preceptors in 1846 and in 1873 he was appointed to the first professorship...

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Studies in the History of Educational Theory Vol 1 (RLE Edu H)

Nature and Artifice, 1350-1765

By G Bantock

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book examines key theorists in depth in order to give some insight into cultural change as reflected in their curricular recommendations and in the interplay they reveal between the two fundamental educational concepts of ‘artifice’ and ‘nature’. The essays on the various theorists – Erasmus,...

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Studies in the History of Educational Theory Vol 2

The Minds and the Masses, 1760-1980

By G Bantock

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume completes G H Bantock’s comprehensive study of educational thought, and its relationship to the broad development of European culture, from the time of the Renaissance to the present day. During the period under consideration, the new freedom from dogma and hierarchy allowed for the...

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Education in Ancient Rome

From the Elder Cato to the Younger Pliny

By Stanley Bonner

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume examines the development, structure and role of education from the third century B.C to the time of Trajan, a period which saw great changes in Roman society. When originally published it was the first complete review of the subject for half a century and was based on a new collection...

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Higher Education in the Ancient World

By M Clarke

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume provides an authoritative survey of Greek and Roman education above the primary school level from the fourth century B.C onwards. Special attention is given to the teaching of philosophy, and there are also chapters on the liberal arts, in particular grammar and rhetoric, and on...

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Education

Examining the Evidence

By Evelyn Cowie

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume contains both text and contemporary document which together look at the history of education from the French Revolution to the late twentieth century. The connection between text and documents is closely preserved so that the volume both explains and illustrates the important issues and...

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Education in the Secondary Modern School

By J Dempster

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The articles which make up this book, originally published in the journal The Schoolmaster were originally published at the time of The Education Act 1944 which changed the education system for secondary schools in England and Wales. This Act made secondary education free for all pupils and...

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Secondary Education for All

Origins and Development in England

By H C Dent

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The Education Act of 1944 launched an unprecedented experiment in the history of education in the UK. This book is a brief survey of the routes by which compulsory free secondary education was arrived at, as well as an examination of the position in 1949 and suggestions for the future....

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Secondary Modern Schools

An Interim Report

By H C Dent

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book examines what progress the Secondary Modern Schools had made in the mid 1950s, based on first hand observation and conversations with teachers, parents, school governors and education officers. As well as looking at their achievements, the author highlights the challenges that the...

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The Children of England

A Contribution to Social History and to Education

By J Findlay

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

As much a social history as a volume charting the history of education this book examines the major forces influencing education in England during the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as class differences, economic success and poverty, the legacy of the industrial revolution and factors such as...

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History The Teacher

Education Inspired by Humanity's Story

By Frederick Gould

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Organized chronologically this volume examines education in England in the early twentieth century by discussing education through the ages, from pre-history to 1919. The author’s proposals were radical at the time of original education, although they embrace concepts which are now taken for...

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Reconstructions of Secondary Education

Theory, Myth and Practice Since the Second World War

By John Gray, Andrew McPherson, David Raffe

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

British secondary education has changed in major ways since 1945. This book examines some consequences and implications of both change and stability, drawing on a unique series of national surveys of school leavers in Scotland. The authors provide an empirical and theoretical account of central...

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How Different From Us

A Biography of Miss Buss and Miss Beale

By Josephine Kamm

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Frances Mary Buss, who began her teaching career at fourteen, was only twenty-three when she founded the North London Collegiate School, the forerunner and model of Girls’ High Schools throughout the country. Her friend Dorothea Beale was for nearly fifty years Principal of Cheltenham Ladies...

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Higher Education

Patterns of Change in the 1970s

Edited by John Lawlor

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume focuses on the changing pattern of tertiary education in the UK and the emphasis of the contributions is on the challenges and opportunities rather than the problems and difficulties of educationists at this level. The contributors are all leading figures in the educational world, and...

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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...

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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...

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The English Educational System

By G Lowndes

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Written expressly for the lay reader this volume combines statistics, achievements and failures of the educational system in England in the 20th century into a concise survey, set against the social, economic and political background of the mid 1960s. Primary, secondary and further education are...

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The Imperial Curriculum

Racial Images and Education in the British Colonial Experience

Edited by J. Mangan

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume presents the first comparative analysis of racial attitudes in the formal schooling of both Britain and its former dominions and colonies. The various contributions examine the issue right across the British imperial experience – with case studies ranging from Canada, Ireland, East and...

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Making Imperial Mentalities

Socialisation and British Imperialism

Edited by J. Mangan

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book discusses the way in which those born into the British empire were persuaded to accept it, often with enthusiasm. The study compares the perceptions of people at ‘home’, in the dominions and in the colonies. Across the diversity of imperial territories it explores themes such as the...

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Benefits Bestowed?

Education and British Imperialism

Edited by J. Mangan

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume concentrates on the processes and practices of formal education, which shaped, and were shaped by, imperial values, attitudes and behaviour. It is concerned with: The myths and visions of imperialism; The nature and extent of ethnocentric attitudes, declared and undeclared; The...

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The Higher Education of the Young

By S Sadler

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Taking into account the rapid progress in all areas of life that was made at the turn of the 20th century this volume discusses how best to educate both sexes, from all social classes, referring to Greek, Roman and Egyptian education as a starting point....

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Aubrey on Education

A Hitherto Unpublished Manuscript by the Author of Brief Lives

Edited by J. Stephens

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

In 1699 John Aubrey began to compile notes for a scheme for the education of young gentlemen. The manuscript he left has never been published. The editor of the volume organized and re-arranged the text and has provided an historical Introduction and detailed notes. Aubrey gives a graphic account...

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Educational Reform

The Task of the Board of Education

By Fabian Ware

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

As well as examining the history and contemporary state of primary and secondary education in England and Wales at the turn of the 19th Century, this volume provides comparative analyses of the education of Germany, Denmark and the British Empire (particularly India). Commercial, industrial and...

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