The Sociology of Educational Innovation

The Sociology of Educational Innovation

Author: Tom Whiteside

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1000628329

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Innovation is a striking and polemical feature of contemporary schooling. The 1960s saw an upsurge of interest in progressive educational theories and debate and the benefits and disadvantages of their practical application, which continued after. But what was the reality behind the words? How far had teachers actually supported or adopted innov


Schools in the Spotlight

Schools in the Spotlight

Author: Mr Nigel Gann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1134581181

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What role does a school play in a community and society? This book examines the need for educational establishments to review their position in the local community and to develop strategies to deal with the management of their image. Increasing parental choice means that schools must begin to adopt marketing concepts and tell people what is happening both inside and outside the classroom. Techniques to generate, revisit and challenge a school's ethos are discussed together with ways of getting this message across to the wider community. Effective management of a school's image through judicious handling of the media can lead to better results, higher self-esteem for staff and pupils and a greater recognition of a school's contribution to a local community. This book gives practical guidance on how to identify potential news items and how to convince local newspapers, television and radio organisations to use the story. The book contains many examples of how schools have put comprehensive framework to effective media communication and how to avoid potential pitfalls.


All the Best, Neill (Routledge Revivals)

All the Best, Neill (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Jonathan Croall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-20

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1317330617

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A. S. Neill, founder of Summerhill, the most admired and most feared of all progressive schools, was famous as a schoolteacher, educational reformer, and author of illuminating and stylish books about education and the mind of the child. But few people know he was also a dedicated, prolific, uninhibited, witty and often mischievous letter writer. This selection of gems, first published in 1983, has been chosen from hundreds of his letters by his biographer. It includes letters about education, children, politics, writing, fatherhood, the Bomb, old age and death. ‘All the best, Neill’ was the familiar ending of his letters to the famous – H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Henry Miller, Paul Goodman, Wilhelm Reich, Homer Lane; to important educators – W. B. Curry of Dartington, John Aitkenhead of Kilquhanity, Bob Mackenzie of Braehead, Dora Russell of Beacon Hill; to unknown friends, parents, and even casual correspondents. To read these letters is to share the company of a great and always delightful man, who wrote each one with the same commitment and gaiety.


Equity and Efficiency?

Equity and Efficiency?

Author: Lynn Davies

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781850006596

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Inherent in the educational policies of most countries are concerns to make education both more efficient and more equitable. In theory these goals are not incompatible. However this book examines the reasons why, in practice, the harmonization of equity and efficiency has not proved feasible.


A Sociology of Educating

A Sociology of Educating

Author: Roland Meighan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2007-01-25

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 1441159487

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Intended to stimulate sociologically informed thinking about educating, this book has become firmly established in its field, winning places on reading lists for Education Studies, Initial Teacher Training and Continuing Professional Development courses. The book begins with a light-hearted taste of sociology, and then goes on to explore five key areas of education: the hidden curriculum ideologies of educating sociological perspectives and the study of education educational life chances, and the next learning system. This new edition includes sections on personalized learning, progressive education, and the impact of assessment on pupils. It also comes with a new chapter 'The Discourses of Education'.


Educreation and Feedback

Educreation and Feedback

Author: Paul Ritter

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2016-06-06

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1483139751

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Educreation and Feedback: Education for Creation, Growth and Change, Second Edition explains the pattern of actions based on self-regulation, co-operation, and the therapeutic attitude. Educreation means directed learning toward creation, growth, flexibility, adaptation, and development. This book discusses the concept of education that is required and needed, explaining the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the problems of education. The quantitative aspects include population growth and education selection, while the qualitative aspects address the need for practicable set of directions and the plight of professional education. This book also indicates the fresh pattern in the context of educational theories. One chapter outlines an integrated pattern approach, defining relationship as determining the nature of existence. This book then shows the general implications for education using the concept of educreation. The relevant chapter gives 15 criteria by which to judge if the innovations made in education represent real progress. This book also confers implementation in the field of architectural education by addressing the kind of ideas that will emerge from new patterns of thinking in architectural education. Chapter V of the book discusses feedbacks, such as problem solving in a counseling group; educreation — the change to a community school from a state school; and the adaptation of educreation to teaching history in advanced education. School administrators, academicians, educators, government officials in the education sector, and students of developmental studies will gain a new perspective from reading this book.


World Yearbook of Education 1970

World Yearbook of Education 1970

Author: Joseph A. Lauwerys

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1136168206

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First Published in 2005. The 1970 edition of the educational yearbook focuses on education in cities. The purpose, in this volume, was not to produce yet another book describing various aspects of the ‘urban crisis', but to concentrate on the effects of urbanization on education at all levels - an aspect which has, of course, been mentioned explicitly in the literature concerned with problems of urban growth though usually in the context of social problems, town planning, and so on.


Education in Cities

Education in Cities

Author: Joseph A. Lauwerys

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2005-12-08

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9780415392914

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"First Published in 2005, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."