The authors outline the educational responses to the challenges and problems generated by the war. Each contributor is an established authority in the educational system of the country with which he/she is dealing. The book throws new light on the responses made by the warring partners to the challenge of world-wide conflict and aims to provide a genuinely comparative approach to the study of the history of education.

Product Description: This book provides an overview of the relationship between the sweeping social changes of the post-war period and education in England. It outlines the major demographic cultural and socio-economic developments which made new demands of the education service during the twenty years following the War and analyses the responses made by schools, colleges and universities...read more

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Product Description: This new Major Work is a five-volume collection in Routledge’s Major Themes in Education series. It charts the history and development of higher education. Encompassing the period since 1760, the principal focus is on the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although more recent developments are also addressed...read more

Presents an analysis of the changes that have taken place in the classroom. This work examines the rise of child-centred approached to teaching following WW2, and then traces changes to the role of teacher since the major debates on which should be taught and how it should be taught during the 1960s.

Product Description: In this Professorial Lecture Roy Lowe highlights important recent research on the debate on teaching in Britain in the post-Second World War era. He begins by reflecting on recent trends in the study of history of education and goes on to argue the need for research which is socially aware and sensitive to the political and social trends which underlie classroom practice...read more

This is the first book to offer an overview of the ways in which the sweeping social and economic changes of the modern period have impacted on the education system. Roy Lowe draws on estensive research to paint a vivid picture of the ways in which schools and universities were moulded by external events and of the part they played in promoting modernisation of society.The book explores some key themes:* the nature of the economic transformations taking place;* the growing awareness of gender issues;* the changing ethnic composition of modern Britain;* the bureaucratisation of society and the rise of a new politics.Exploring the links between these issues and educational provision, Lowe argues that the growing political significance of educational issues is largely explained by the critical part played by the education system in providing social and economic stability during these years of swift social change.Roy Lowe is Professor of Education at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Product Description: History of Education: Major Themes brings together some of the most significant and influential writing on the history of education during the past thirty years. It illustrates the key themes on which historians of education have worked during this period and shows their relevance for our understanding of the development of schooling and education systems worldwide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book surveys some of the key issues confronting secondary schools at the present time, and places them in the context of the recent history of English education. It examines the establishment of the secondary sector in the post-war years and the moves towards comprehensive reorganization...read more