Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: denis lawton

9 resultados

  • A HISTORY OF WESTERN EDUCATIONAL IDEAS
    PROFESSOR PETER GORDON / PROFESSOR DENIS LAWTON
    It is important that all those concerned with education - parents, teachers, administrators and policymakers - should have a reasonable understanding of the present system and how it has developed, sometimes over a period of many years. This work traces the development of Western educational ideas from the Greek society of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, to the ideas and ideolog...

    $1,380.00

  • VALUES AND THE CURRICULUM
    JO CAIRNS, ROY GARDNER AND DENIS LAWTON
    In this volume, educationists and experts on values, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, discuss the question of values and the curriculum in societies which are changing rapidly and in which disagreements about values are sometimes acrimonious. ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE POLITICS OF THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM
    DENIS LAWTON
    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...

    $1,420.00

  • CLASS, CULTURE AND THE CURRICULUM
    DENIS LAWTON
    It is often argued that education is concerned with the transmission of middle-class values and that this explains the relative educational failure of the working class. Consequently, distinctive culture needs a different kind of education. This volume examines this claim and the wider question of culture in British society. It analyses cultural differences from a social histor...

    $640.00

  • THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CURRICULUM STUDIES
    DENIS LAWTON
    This book deals with curriculum issues and problems, and one of its aims is to help practising teachers to clarify their own theory and practice in relation to the curriculum. The contributors look at three popular theories or sets of assumptions held by teachers: the child-centred view of education; the subject-centred or knowledge-centred view; and the society-centred view. E...

    $1,420.00

  • SOCIAL CLASS LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION
    DENIS LAWTON
    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. ...

    $1,320.00

  • EDUCATION AND LABOUR PARTY IDEOLOGIES 1900-2001AND BEYOND
    DENIS LAWTON
    In 1997 Tony Blair broke with tradition by naming education as a major priority for the General Election Manifesto. In the past, Labour leaders had tended to give education a much lower priority. Despite this, Blair has been greatly criticised for his educational programme 1997-2001. Was he taking education away from traditional labour values of fairness and equality? Was Blair...

    $1,380.00

  • DICTIONARY OF BRITISH EDUCATION
    PROFESSOR PETER GORDON / PETER GORDON / PROFESSOR DENIS LAWTON / DENIS LAWTON
    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 ...

    $1,420.00

  • EDUCATION AND POLITICS FOR THE 1990S
    DENIS LAWTON
    Examines the ideological differences between the education policies of the two main political parties in the UK and discusses the emergence of these differences within the context of the 1988 Education Reform Act. It also looks at the world-wide influence of the "New Right" politics on education. ...

    $1,359.00