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  • Youth, Education and Employment

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Keith Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1983, Youth, Education and Employment tries to highlight the scale of the problem of youth unemployment in industrial societies by examining it from a variety of angles, and by drawing upon developments in other countries including those of the developing world. Examples are taken from France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden as well as from the United Kingdom, and also from Cuba and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Key Issues in Education

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Keith Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Comparative Education
    Originally published in 1985. Throughout the world the same key issues of concern recur in education in different countries. However, education specialists all too often are inward looking and consider problems only in the confines of their own country. This book argues that much is to be gained by taking a broader, more international view as the experiences of other countries can often provide ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Education and Religion

    Global Pressures, Local Responses

    Edited by Keith Watson, William I. Ozanne ...
    In most countries, whether secular or otherwise, education and religion are closely interlinked and no matter how hard the state tries, it can be very difficult to remove the ties between them. This book investigates the links between education, religion and politics.The dominant feature in creating a common culture between peoples, each of which has its own distinct heritage and practices, is ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Contemporary Issues in Comparative Education

    A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Emeritus Vernon Mallinson

    Edited by Keith Watson, Raymond Wilson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Comparative Education
    Originally published in 1985. In the last two decades education in the Third World has greatly expanded, raising many important issues. Some less developed countries have emulated the West in the style and organisation of their academic systems, hence, it could be said, increasing their dependence. Others have deliberately avoided this path, experimenting with systems more relevant to development ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Comparative and International Research In Education

    Globalisation, Context and Difference

    by Michael Crossley, Keith Watson ...
    From the foreword: This book is a major contribution to the field of comparative and international education. It has been co-authored by two distinguished figures, who write with authority and clarity, and who present conceptual insights which add creative and intellectual vitality to the field at a time of major change and development.Changing geopolitical relations, the acceleration of ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Education in the Third World

    by Keith Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    This reissue examines the crucial question of how the education systems of Third World countries continue to be influenced by the former colonial powers, arguing that decisions and views made early in the twentieth century cannot always be so readily condemned from the standpoint of the 1980s. The study begins by placing the problem in its historical context and goes on to examine different ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Dependence and Interdependence in Education

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Keith Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This volume provides an international perspective on educational dependency in considering both theories and actual developments throughout the world. Some less developed countries, in expanding their education systems, have emulated Western academic-style systems and have increased their dependence on Western models in various respects including examination validation. Others have deliberately ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    by Peter Baldock ...
    Assisting readers to understand how early years services have been transformed and to evaluate that process and to prepare for the future. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Education under Siege

    Why there Is a Better Alternative

    by Peter Mortimore ...
    At a time when education is considered crucial to a country’s economic success, recent UK governments have insisted their reforms are the only way to make England’s system world class. Yet pupils are tested rather than educated, teachers bullied rather than trusted and parents cast as winners or losers in a gamble for school places.Education under siege considers the English education system as it ... Read more

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  • Politics and Policy Making in Education

    Explorations in Sociology

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, this book maps the changes in education policy and policy making in the Thatcherite decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 Education Reform Act, its origins, purposes and effects, and it looks behind the scenes at the priorities of the politicians, civil servants and government advisers who were influential in making changes. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Comparative Histories of Crime

    Edited by Barry Godfrey, Clive Emsley, Graeme Dunstall ...
    This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discuss the value of comparative approaches in aiding understanding of comparative history, and providing research directions for the future; others address substantive issues and topics that will be of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • History Wars and the Classroom

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Tony Taylor, Robert Guyver ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Education
    The book is entitled History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how ten separate countries have experienced debates and disputes over the contested nature of the subject, for example the 'Black Armband' and 'Whitewash' factions in Australia who adopt opposingly celebratory or denigratory views of Australian history, especially when evaluating episodes of poor racial relations. ... Read more

    $44.29 USD