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51. The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys

    Edited by Robin Alexander, Christine Doddington, John Gray, Linda Hargreaves, Ruth Kershner

    The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is the outcome of the Cambridge Primary Review – England’s biggest enquiry into primary education for over forty years. Fully independent of government, it was launched in 2006 to investigate the condition and future of primary education...

    Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
52. Children’s Drawing and Writing

    The Remarkable in the Unremarkable

    By Diane Mavers

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Children’s everyday drawing and writing are paradoxical: charmingly engaging, yet seemingly unremarkable in their ordinariness. This book takes a very close look at what passes by largely unnoticed at home and in school: copying, texts fleetingly present then gone, a picture drawn after the valued...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
53. Beyond Binaries in Education Research

    Edited by Warren Midgley, Mark A. Tyler, Patrick Alan Danaher, Alison Mander

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Beyond Binaries in Education Research explores the ethical, methodological, and social justice issues relating to conceptualizations of binary opposites in education research, particularly where one side of the dualism is perceived to be positive and the other negative. In education research these...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
54. Education and Development

    Edited by Roger M. Garrett

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    First published in 1984, this collection represents the combined contributions to an international conference held at the University of Bristol in April 1983. In assessing the complex relationship between education and development, it covers a wide range of countries in its appraisal and presents...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
55. Education and development in Latin America

    By Laurence Gale

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    First published in 1969, this volume presents a survey of the contemporary national education system in Latin American countries. Laurence Gale describes the uneven provision of schools for different sections of the community and the problems which arise with the racial, cultural and geographical...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
56. The Educational Thought and Influence of Matthew Arnold

    By W.F. Connell

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Drawing on the great wealth of knowledge and experience of education practitioners and theorists, these volumes explore the very important relationship between education and society. These book became standard texts for actual and intending teachers. Drawing upon comparative material from Israel...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
57. Universities and the Public Sphere

    Knowledge Creation and State Building in the Era of Globalization

    Edited by Brian Pusser, Ken Kempner, Simon Marginson, Imanol Ordorika

    Series: International Studies in Higher Education

    Universities have been propelled into the center of the global political economy of knowledge production by a number of factors: mass education, academic capitalism, the globalization of knowledge, the democratization of communication in the era of the Internet, and the emergence of the knowledge...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
58. Innovations in Instructional Technology

    Essays in Honor of M. David Merrill

    Edited by J. Michael Spector, Celestia Ohrazda, Andrew Van Schaack, David A. Wiley

    M. David Merrill has been active in the field of instructional technology for almost 40 years. His contributions range from basic instructional principles and instructional design theory to development and implementation of learning environments. Innovations in Instructional Technology is a...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
59. The General Factor of Intelligence

    How General Is It?

    Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko

    This edited volume presents a balanced approach to the ongoing debate of just how general the "general factor" of intelligence is. To accomplish this goal, the editors chose a number of distinct approaches to the study of intelligence--psychometric, genetic-epistemological, cognitive, biological,...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press
60. The Engaged University

    International Perspectives on Civic Engagement

    By David Watson, Robert Hollister, Susan E. Stroud, Elizabeth Babcock

    Series: International Studies in Higher Education

    The Engaged University is a comprehensive empirical account of the global civic engagement movement in higher education. In universities around the world, something extraordinary is underway. Mobilizing their human and intellectual resources, institutions of higher education are directly tackling...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge