Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools

By Mary Lee Smith, Linda Miller-Kahn, Walter Heinecke, Patricia F. Jarvis

The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are...

Published October 23rd 2003 by Routledge.

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Education and Conflict

Complexity and Chaos

By Lynn Davies

First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an international context. Based on...

Published October 23rd 2003 by Routledge.

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Body Knowledge and Control

Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health

Edited by John Evans, Brian Davies, Jan Wright

Today's society is obsessed with the body, its size, shape and healthiness. Governments, business and the popular media, spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat...

Published October 23rd 2003 by Routledge.

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Policy for Open and Distance Learning

World review of distance education and open learning Volume 4

Edited by Helen Lentell, Hilary Perraton

Policy for Open and Distance Learning considers the questions that planners and policy makers in open and distance learning need to address at any level...

Published October 16th 2003 by Routledge.

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Rethinking the School Curriculum

Values, Aims and Purposes

Edited by John White

In 2000, the school curriculum in England was equipped - for the first time in the country's history - with an extensive set of aims...

Published September 25th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Future of Physical Education

Building a New Pedagogy

Edited by Anthony Laker

Anthony Laker leads an outstanding international team of educational theorists in critically examining the theoretical underpinnings of physical education, and in challenging the rhetoric, the...

Published September 11th 2003 by Routledge.

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Standards-based School Mathematics Curricula

What Are They? What Do Students Learn?

Edited by Sharon L. Senk, Denisse R. Thompson

The Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1989 set forth a broad vision of...

Published September 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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Assessing Expressive Learning

A Practical Guide for Teacher-directed Authentic Assessment in K-12 Visual Arts Education

By Charles M. Dorn, Stanley S. Madeja, F. Robert Sabol, Robert Sabol

Assessing Expressive Learning is the only book in the art education field to date to propose and support a research-supported teacher-directed authentic assessment model for...

Published August 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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Schools, Markets and Choice Policies

By John Fitz, Stephen Gorard, Chris Taylor

Choice and selection are now cornerstones of education policies wherever these have been shaped by market economics. Now, as never before, schools can face uncertain...

Published July 31st 2003 by Routledge.

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Social Justice, Education and Identity

Edited by Carol Vincent

This book answers key questions regarding social justice in education. Its central theme is how the education system, through its organization and practices, is implicated...

Published July 24th 2003 by Routledge.

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