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  • Thinking Philosophically about Education

    The Selected Works of Richard Pring

    by Richard Pring ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Education, Social Reform and Philosophical Development

    Evidence from the Past, Principles for the Future

    by Richard Pring ...
    Reflecting on the meaning and purpose of an education at the mercy of political changes and innovation, this book considers the social, historical, religious and cultural contexts that define education systems. With a particular focus on how historical contexts shape the nature of education and its relevance to wider society, it explores the history of education in relation to social reform, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Future of Publicly Funded Faith Schools

    A Critical Perspective

    by Richard Pring ...
    The Future of Publicly Funded Faith Schools addresses and critically examines the arguments both for and against the continued maintenance of faith-based schools within a publicly funded state system. Addressing the issue systemically, first grounding the discussion in the practical world of education before raising the central philosophical issues stemming from faith-based education, it provides ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Life and Death of Secondary Education for All

    by Richard Pring ...
    Is there life after death for secondary education?This book focuses upon the quality of learning. ‘Reform’, so called, too often begins with qualifications, examinations, institutional provision, paths of progression. All those are very important, but their value lies in the support they give to learners and their learning in its different forms. One needs to start with the aims of education and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Challenges for Religious Education

    Is There a Disconnect Between Faith and Reason?

    by Richard Pring ...
    Major social changes, especially as a result the more multicultural nature of society, have raised important issues about the teaching of religion and the rational basis of different religious faiths. Challenges for Religious Education addresses and critically examines these changes and asks where religious education and Faith Schools fit within secular society and indeed whether there is still a ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Educational Research

    by Professor Richard Pring ...
    This classic text in educational research literature has been thoroughly updated to take into account new philosophical theories and the current political context for educational research. Remaining, however, are the three, key central themes: the nature of social science in general; the nature of educational enquiry in particular; and the links between the language and concepts of research, on ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • John Dewey

    by Professor Richard Pring, Professor Richard Bailey ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought
    Bertrand Russell's History of Philosophy refers to Dewey as 'generally admitted to be the leading living philosopher of America'. This honourable mention lay partly in his pragmatic theory of meaning, through which so many baffling philosophical problems were claimed to have been solved – as well as educational ones. It is in connection with his educational ideas, however, that Dewey became either ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Education for All

    The Future of Education and Training for 14-19 Year-Olds

    by Richard Pring, Geoffrey Hayward, Ann Hodgson, Jill Johnson, Ewart Keep, Alis Oancea, Gareth Rees, Ken Spours, Stephanie Wilde ...
    There are two key questions at the heart of the ongoing debate about education and training for all young people, irrespective of background, ability or attainment:What counts as an educated 19 year old today?Are the models of education we have inherited from the past sufficient to meet the needs of all young people, as well as the social and economic needs of the wider community?Education for All ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Affirming the Comprehensive Ideal

    Edited by Richard Pring, Geoffrey Walford ...
    Examines the ideals which lay behind the development of comprehensive schools. Written by 14 British educationalists, this text considers the evidence and suggests how further progress might be made within the moral framework of secondary education for all, irrespective of background or ability. The text includes an afterword by the Rt Hon John Prescott, MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Generation of Radical Educational Change

    Stories from the field

    Edited by Richard Pring, Martin Roberts ...
    How much have teachers and their pupils benefitted from the top-down Westminster-led control of policy held in place by a powerful national inspection regime?A Generation of Radical Educational Change: Stories from the Field is an exploration of the revolutionary impact of the greater and continuing involvement of central government in education policy-making which began in 1976 and was ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Education Matters

    60 years of the British Journal of Educational Studies

    Edited by James Arthur, Jon Davison, Richard Pring ...
    Series series Education Heritage
    Education Matters draws together a selection of the most influential papers published in the British Journal of Educational Studies by many of the leading scholars in the field over the past sixty years. This unique collection of seminal articles published since the first issue of the Journal provides students and researchers in education with an informed insight and understanding of the nature ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • The Micro-Politics of the School

    Towards a Theory of School Organization

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Stephen Ball’s micro-political theory of school organization is a radical departure from traditional theories. He rejects a prescriptive ‘top down’ approach and directly addresses the interest and concerns of teachers and current problems facing schools. In doing so he raises question about the adequacy and appropriateness of the existing forms of organizational control in schools. Through case ... Read more

    $73.99 USD