The Right to Learn raises questions about the future of the learning society. It suggests that the rights of children and parents are not being addressed by the UK Government's concentration on a highly centralised education system. more »

This text directly focuses on student empowerment through meaningful research. It makes explicit the relationship between teaching method, classroom practice, and the production of knowledge. ... more » more »

Product Info Charts and analyses the working days of 326 primary teachers and then relates the findings to issues of school management and curriculum manageability. more »

With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their essential conversation--the dialogue ... more »

The contributors of this book provide practical guidance on the introduction of staff appraisal into a range of schools, outline a planning process for the establishment and preparation for staff ap... more » more »

Centred around the topic of school leadership, this book addresses the difficulties and challenges which present themselves to school leaders across the western world. All the evidence is primary and secondary school-based. more »

This book provides a compelling account and analysis of the delicate balance between power and resistance and the ways in which developing conceptions of 'self' must be entered into any theoretical ... more » more »

This books looks at how the notion of the learning society has developed over the years, and how, and why, flexibility has become a more central concept in much policy and academic debate. more » more »

Argues for the financial backing from governments and industry for adult education and will help adult and community educators draw comparisons between their own work and that of their colleagues in other developed countries. more »

Brendan Evans explains both the policy processes and ideological assumptions underpinning recent innovations. He sets the debate in the context of changing initiatives over the last thirty years, and looks at recent schemes such as the TECs. more »

This book examines the role of psychology in informing adult education practice. The approach is to examine the seminal traditions of some key psychological theories and the issues and problems in a... more » more »

Product Info This book is about how special education policy and practice is being negotiated within the context of educational reform in the USA and Britain. more »