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This four volume set includes articles covering: school, teachers and parents; pupils and learning; the school curriculum; and school behaviour and the school peer group.

This collection explores the historical context, the training and development of leaders and their roles in leading people and managing resources, and provides a focus on the major issues which are current throughout the world.

There can be few areas of education which have been more controversial than the teaching of literacy. This four-volume collection covers the major debates about exactly what it means to be literate and how literacy can best be taught, focusing on research findings into processes and pedagogy.

A demonstration of how the fields of special education and inclusive education have evolved philosophically and technically since the 1970s, this collection shows the contemporary state of approaches to educating students with special education needs.

Covering the key points of dispute and areas of controversy within the field of curriculum studies, this four-volume collection contains over 90 papers drawn from a broad range of contemporary writing on the curriculum. Major trends and developments from the 1970s through to 2003 are represented.

Part of the "Major Themes in Education" series, this book charts the history and development of higher education. It encompasses the period since 1760 and focuses on the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It also focuses on the rise and development of universities and of higher education in Britain.

Focuses on the theoretical questions and the educational issues arising out of the constantly changing nature of the technological revolution. This book examines the behaviours of media users themselves, from their first tacit understandings of how to make sense of a new kind of text to their later articulated and critical responses.

Focuses on the various methods and theories applied to the study of higher education. This title is organized into eight principal parts: teaching and learning; course design; the student experience; system policy; institutional management; quality; academic work; and, knowledge and research.