This is an up-to-date guide for teachers and parents, administrators, governors, students and others to help the find their way about the increasingly complex world of education. The main section provides a dictionary that is more than a simple set of definitions: many words in education have been put into some kind of historical context to become fully meaningful. The second part gives some important landmarks from the nineteenth century to the present time, and also provides a list of political heads of education since state education was established. The final section is devoted to a list...
This is an up-to-date guide for teachers and parents, administrators, governors, students and others to help the find their way about the increasingly...
15 volumes originally published between 1973 and 1993 on curriculum theory, changes in curricula and the politics and sociology of the school curriculum.
15 volumes originally published between 1973 and 1993 on curriculum theory, changes in curricula and the politics and sociology of the school curricul...
Titles in the Class, Race and Social Structure set of the International Library of Sociology consider every problem of socio-political importance that affected society in the years following the Second World War.
Titles in the Class, Race and Social Structure set of the International Library of Sociology consider every problem of socio-political importance that...
If the curriculum can be defined as a selection from the culture of society, the central question then becomes who selects . This volume answers this question, reviewing various aspects of the curriculum and its planning. For many years the control of the curriculum was uncontroversial. In the 1970s this situation changed: teachers were increasingly criticised for having too much power; the Department of Education was suspected of wanting more control and local education authorities felt they should be more involved in curriculum planning. In reviewing some of the reasons for these...
If the curriculum can be defined as a selection from the culture of society, the central question then becomes who selects . This volume answers th...
