Whatever Happened to Extended Schools?
The story of an ambitious education project
By Doug Martin
Dewey in Our Time
Learning from John Dewey for transcultural practice
By Peter Cunningham and Ruth Heilbronn
Valuing Higher Education
An appreciation of the work of Gareth Williams
Edited by Ronald Barnett, Paul Temple and Peter Scott
London Review of Education
Higher education policy-making in an era of increasing marketization
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Whatever Happened to Extended Schools?
The story of an ambitious education project
At a time when the government more than ever seems to view schools as businesses selling exam results, we should remember Extended Schools. This book, based on research in schools and communities, gives a vivid insight into an ambitious education project and builds an imaginative portrayal of how an Extended School of the future might be.
Voices in the Air
Making sense of policy and practice in education
In this collection of his journalism and policy commentary, former Director of the Institute of Education Chris Husbands provides a wide-ranging account of the nature, shape and impact of policy reform in education. Writing with wit, pathos, and authority he analyses the likely impact of reforms over five years of tumultuous change in education.
Valuing Higher Education
An appreciation of the work of Gareth Williams
Leading international analysts examine Gareth Williams’s contribution to the economics of higher education in essays that are a testimony to Williams’s conception that the field cannot be properly understood unless viewed alongside social policy, changes in knowledge production, the life chances of students, and their actual learning experience.
Dewey in Our Time
Learning from John Dewey for transcultural practice
Dewey in Our Time brings together leading writers from from the Americas, Asia and Europe who are actively engaged in applying Dewey’s thought to the challenges facing educational systems and teachers in school. Issues concerning equity, social justice, curriculum and pedagogy, teachers’ roles and their professional identity are considered.
Guiding Readers – Layers of Meaning
A handbook for teaching reading comprehension to 7-11-year-olds
Reading comprehension is so much more than just reading words, and this book explains how to develop all aspects of it for pupils aged 7–11. Written by top experts in the field, it includes eleven in-depth case studies – taken from real-life classrooms – of lessons on fiction and non-fiction, poetry and picture books, advertising and film.
John Dewey’s Democracy and Education
A British tribute
Some of the foremost historians, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists of education working in Britain today mark the centenary of John Dewey's 'Democracy and Education' with a series of essays that show how its themes continue to resonate in the controversies and debates animating education in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.