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1. Rethinking Curriculum Studies

   Edited by Martin Lawn, Len Barton

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This book reappraises the British and American experience in curriculum studies, the curious way in which it has been dominated by certain ideas and introduces the reader to alternative ways of perceiving, defining and approaching its problems. It provides a radical critique of the whole area,...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
2. Teachers: The Culture and Politics of Work (RLE Edu N)

   Edited by Martin Lawn, Gerald Grace

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This book examines the experience and politics of teachers’ work, questions of teacher appraisal, and the struggles of the teachers’ action of 1984-86. A major section of the book charts the changing power relations between organized teachers and the State in Britain from 1900 to the late 1980s....

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
3. Disciplines of Education

   Their Role in the Future of Education Research

   Edited by John Furlong, Martin Lawn

   Are the disciplines of education ghosts of a productive past or creative and useful forms of inquiry? Are they in a demographic and organisational crisis today? The contribution of the ‘foundation disciplines’ of sociology, psychology, philosophy, history and economics to the study of...

   Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
4. Modern Times?

   Work, Professionalism and Citizenship in Teaching

   By Martin Lawn

   This is an account of modern since the 1930s teaching. The book examines changes in teaching, past policy, and new policies introduced since the 1988 Education Act. In the context of market-led education replacing a public education system, the book looks at the impact of: the end of collective...

   Published November 21st 1996 by Routledge