Book Reviews

Steve Adams, Derbyshire LEA/University of Nottingham, Perspectives on Pastoral Care, Woocester, A. and Hall, E. 1986, University of Nottingham School of Education, (No. 5 in Human Relations in Education Series)

Eileen Callely, University of Cardiff, Educational Systems for Disruptive Adolescents, Topping, Keith 1983, Croom Helm Ltd., Beckenham, Kent, U.K. (also St. Martin's Press Inc, New York) £7.95

Susan Heyes, Essex Institute of Higher Education, All in a day's work, Walker, D. 1985, Edward Arnold; Them and Us, Parkes, R. 1985, Edward Arnold

Peter Ribbins, University of Birmingham, GO 87: Graduate Opportunities, Pierce, Liz, (Ed), 1986, Newpoint Publishing, £15.00 pp. 920

Barbara Sharples, Worden High School, Lanes, Child Psychology in Action , John Harris, 1986, Croom Helm

Colin J. Smith, University of Birmingham, Special Need in Ordinary Classrooms, G. Hanko, Publisher: Basil Blackwell     

Book Reviews

Ted Goodhew, T.R.I.S.T. Advisory Teacher, Berkshire County Council, ‘New Directions in Pastoral Care’, Edited by Peter Lang & Michael Marland, 1985 Blackwell —

Professor R. F. Dearden, University of Birmingham, Profiles and Records of Achievement, Patricia Broadfoot (ed) 1986 Holt, Rinehart and Winston £6.50 paperback

Pat Salder, Education for Capability, Ed Tyrrell Burgess N. F. E. K./Nelson 1986 £10.95

John Alcock, University of Warwick, Solo Monologues for Drama,John Goodwin and Bill Taylor 1985 Edward Arnold Ltd £2.15

Caroline Lodge, White Hart Lane School, London, Sharing,Beryl Heather FPA Education Unit 1984 52pp £3.50     

The conflict over the control of elementary education 1870–1902 and its effect upon the life and influence of the church

Aims, Values and Education. F. W. Garforth. Pp. 191. Hull: Christygate Press, 1985.

Religious Education: Philosophical Perspectives. by John Sealey. Pp. xi., 97. London: George Allen &; Unwin, 1985. Hardback £12.50, Paperback £4.95.

Cultural Identity and Educational Policy. Edited by Colin Brock and Witold Tulasiewicz. Pp. 350. London: Croom Helm, 1985. £19.95.

The Social Science Encyclopedia, edited by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper. Pp. 916. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, November 1985. £29.95

A Generation of Schooling: English Secondary Schools since 1944 by Harry Judge. Pp. 227. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hardback, £12.50. Paperback, £3.95.

Private Education in Britain by Clive Griggs. Pp. 230. London: The Falmer Press 1985. £7.95.

The Lost Elementary Schools of Victorian England. By Phil Gardner. Pp. viii, 296. London: Croom Helm, 1984. £22.50

1985 Women Who Teach In Universities. Margaret Sutherland. Trentham Books. Stoke‐on‐Trent. Pp. 212

Linguistic Minorities Project: The Other Languages of England Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1985

Language Development in the preschool years. By Gordon Wells. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. 484. Hardbacked £35, Paperbacked £12.95

New Directions in Pastoral Care. Edited by Peter Lang &; Michael Marland. Pp. 253. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell Limited, 1985. £6.25 (paperback)

Reviews Review of D. Murray Worlds Apart. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1985. Pp. 164. £10.95.     

Humanism,the university and the monastic life: The case of Robert Joseph,monk of evesham

Education Accountability: An Analytic Overview by M. Kogan. Pp. 178. London: Hutchinson, 1986, £8.95.

Handbook of Moral Development. Edited by Gary L. Sapp. Pp. 296. Birmingham, Alabama: Religious Education Press, 1986. $14.95.

Human Conditions. The Cultural Basis of Educational Development. By Robert A. LeVine and Merry L. White. Pp. 245 + vii. New York and London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1986. £17.50.

Classroom Environment by Barry J. Fraser 226 pp. Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm, 1986, £17.95. hbk.

The Developmental Psychology of Music. By David J. Hargreaves. Pp. 260. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. £8.95.

Girls into Maths Can Go. Edited by Leone Burton. Pp. 257. Eastbourne: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Ltd., 1986, £5.75.

Work Out Biology A‐Level By G. W. Stout and N. P. O. Green 230 Pp. Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1986. £5.95.

Education and Class: The Irrelevance of IQ Genetic Studies by M. SchifT and R. Lewontin. Pp, 243. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. £30.00.

Children, Youth and Families: the Action‐Research Relationship. Edited by Robert N. Rapoport. Pp. 320. Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1986. £27.50.

Standards and Criteria in Higher Education. Edited by G. C. Moodie. Pp. viii + 170. London: NFER‐Nelson, 1986. £15.95.

C. Durucan: Continuing Education in British Universities. Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham, 1986. 165 pp. £8.95.

Adult Education: International Perspectives from China. Edited by Chris Duke. Pp. 254. London: Croom Helm, 1987. £19.95.

Philosophy of Lifelong Education. By K. Wain. Pp. 259. Beckenham: Croom Helm Ltd., 1987. HB £22.50.

Planning Adult Learning: Issues, Practices and Directions. By W. M. Rivera. Pp. 189. Beckenham: Croom Helm Ltd., 1987. H.B. £19.95.

Growing and Structure of Distance Education. By B. Holmberg. Pp. 163. Beckenham: Croom Helm Ltd., 1986. H.B. £17.95.

Professional Parents: Parent Participation in Four Western European Countries by Nicholas Beattie. Pp. viii + 289. London and Philadelphia: The Falmer Press, 1985. £

Western Perspectives on Soviet Education in the 1980. Edited by J. J. Tomiak. Pp. 217. London: Macmillan, in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1986. £29.50.     

Historical developments in American undergraduate education: General education and the core curriculum

Does Education Matter? By Brian Simon. 240 pp. London: Lawrence and Wishart Ltd. 1985. £5.95.

The Politics of Education: Culture, Power and Liberation. Paulo Freire (with an Introduction by Henry A. Giroux). Macmillan, 1985. xxv + 199 pp. Price £20 HC, £7.95 PR.

Education, Persons and Society: A Philosophical Enquiry. By Glenn Langoford. Pp. x, 205. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985. £25.00 and £7.95.

Freedom and Discipline. Richard Smith. 129 pp. Allen &; Unwin 1985. Hardback £12.50. Paperback £4.95.

Beyond IQ: a Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence. By Robert J. Sternberg. Pp. xvi, 411. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. £8.95.

Literacy, Language and Learning. Edited by David R. Olson, Nancy Torrance, and Angela Hildyard. Pp. x, 438. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. HB £27.50, PB £9.95.

Moray House and Professional Education, 1835–1985; Papers to mark the College's 150's Anniversary. Edited by Gordon Kirk. Pp. x, 195. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1985. £10.50.

Re‐thinking Teacher Education. Edited by David Hopkins and Ken Reid. Pp. v + 262. Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1985, ISBN 0–7099–3705–9, £17.95.

(1) Structure and Process of Initial Teacher Education within Universities in England and Wales. (The acronym does not stretch all the way).

(2) Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984.

Key Issues in Education: Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Keith Watson. Pp. vi, 127. London: Croom Helm, 1985. £15.95.

A Teacher's Guide to Multicultural Education. By Jon Nixon. Pp. viii, 183. Oxford and New York; Basil Blackwell, 1985. £?

Keith Watson and Raymond Wilson (editors) Contemporary Issues in Comparative Education: a Festschrift in Honour of Professor Emeritus Vernon Mallinson. Croom Helm, London 1985. Pp. 227. £15.95.

Children's Rights. By C. A. Wringe. Pp. xi, 180. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1985. £4.95.     

Conferences past and future

Education and Enquiry. By John Anderson, edited by D. Z. Phillips. Pp. 240. Blackwell, 1980, £21.00 hardback, £5.25 paperback.

Injustice, Inequality and Ethics. By Robin Barrow. Pp. xii, 204. Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books, 1982. £18.95 (cloth) and £4.95 (paper).

Universities, Politicians and Bureaucrats: Europe and the United States. Edited by H. Daalder and E. Shils. Pp. viii, 511. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. £37.50.

Conflict and Compromise: Class Formation in English Society 1830–1914, A Comparative Study of Birmingham and Sheffield. By Dennis Smith. Pp. xiv, 333. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1982. £17.95.

English Education, Social Change and War 1911–20. By Geoffrey Sherington. Pp. xiii, 194. Manchester University Press, 1981. £14.50.

The Sociology of Childhood: Essential Readings. Edited by Chris Jenks. Pp. 290. Batsford Academic Books, 1982. £6.95 paperback.

Hooligans or Rebels? By Stephen Humphries. Pp. viii, 279. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981. £12.50.

A New Case for the Liberal Arts. By D. G. Winter, D. C. McClelland and A. J. Stewart. Pp. xxvii, 247. London: Sage Publications, 1981. £14.75.

Sources for English Local History. By W. B. Stephens. Pp. xvi, 342. Cambridge: University Press, rev. ed., 1981. Hard covers £25.00, paperback £8.95.

Innovation in the Science Curriculum. Ed. by John Olson. Pp. 178. London: Croom‐Helm, 1982. £12.50.

Brightest and Best. By W. P. Gothard. Pp. 270. Driffield: Nafferton, 1982. £10.95.

Verbal Deficit: A Critique. By J. C. B. Gordon. Pp. 181. London: Croom Helm, 1982.

Multi‐lingualism and Mother‐tongue Education. By D. P. Pattanayak. Pp. xvii, 185. Delhi: O.U.P., 1982. £7.95.

Asia: the Winning of Independence. Ed. Robin Jeffrey, London, the Macmillan Press Ltd., 1981, xv, 337     

Aspects of the work of Matthew Arnold for royal commissions

The Arts 5–16: Changing the Agenda. John White, pp. 38. London: The Tufnell Press, for the University of London Institute of Education. 1992. £3.95 flexicover. ISBN 1 872767 06 0. The London File. Music Education and the National Curriculum. Keith Swanwick. pp. 33. London: The Tufnell Press, for the University of London Institute of Education. 1992. £3.95 flexicover. ISBN 1 872767 11 7. The London File.

Barry Troyna &; Richard Hatcher, Racism in Children's Lives: A Study of Mainly White Primary Schools. London: Routledge and National Children's Bureau, 1992. Pp. xii, 216. ISBN 0–415–06085–0 hbk., ISBN 0–415–06086–9 pbk.

D. Phillips (ed), Lessons in Cross‐National Comparison in Education, Oxford Studies in Comparative Education No. 1, 1991, vi + 176 pp. Triangle Books, Wallingford, £18. ISBN 1–873927–02–9.

Government, Schools and the Law. P. Meredith. Pp. xv, 218. Index. London and New York: Routledge. 1992. £35.00 hbk. ISBN 0–415–03658–5.

Education, Culture and Society. Some Perspectives on the 19th and 20th Centuries. Essays. Presented to J. R. Webster. Edited by Gareth Elwyn Jones, pp. xii, 248. Index, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1991, £25.00 ISBN 0–7083–1132–6.

Steiner Education in theory and practice, Gilbert Childs, 288 pp. Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1992, £12.95 net, ISBN 0–86315–131–0

The Learning University: Towards a New Paradigm? By Chris Duke, Pp. xix, 136. Open University Press, 1992. £12.99. ISBN 0 335 15653 3

Learning to Teach in Higher Education. By Paul Ramsden. Pp. xiv, 290 London and New York: Routledge, 1992. £35 (hbk.) £12.99 (pbk.) ISBN 0–415–06414–7, ISBN 0–415–06415–5 (pbk.)

Children of the Cities, J. Boyden with P. Holden. Pp. viii, 152. Index, London: Zed Books Ltd., 1991. Flexicover, $10.95. ISBN 0–86232–957–4.

Initial Teacher Education: Policies and Progress. Edited by N. J. Graves. Pp. 160. London: Kogan Page in association with the Institute of Education, University of London, 1990. £22.50 hardback. ISBN: 07494 0095 1

Patterns of Educational Integration, Wade B. and Moore, M., Pp. ix, 173, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Triangle Books Ltd., 1992, £13.95 paperback. ISBN 1 873927 01 0.

Assessment in Early Childhood Education. Edited by Geva M. Blenkin and A. V. Kelly. Pp. x, 189. Index. London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 1992, £11.95 paperback. ISBN 1–85396–1537.

The Psychologist as Educator: The Writings of R. A. C. Oliver, (1989), Pearson, R., Turner, J. D. and Forrest, G. M. School of Education, University of Manchester. Pp. 192. £10. ISBN 0 902252 1718 6.

Fashioning The Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture and Schooling. By Pam Gilbert and Sandra Taylor. Pp. viii, 171. North Sydney NSW: Allen &; Unwin, 1991. £9.95. ISBN 0 04 442337 3.

Education and International Cultural Cooperation. Prem Kirpal. Pp. x, 295. Index. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House PVT Ltd, 1991. £18.95. ISBN 0–7069–5777–6:

Japan and Education, Michael D. Stephens. Pp. x, 166. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Academic and Professional Ltd, 1991. £29.50. ISBN 0–333–52645–7.     

H. A. L. Fisher,reconstruction and the development of the 1918 education act

Radical Education: a critique of freeschooling and deschooling. By Robin Barrow. Pp. 207. London: Martin Robertson &; Co., 1978. £7.95 (hardback); £3.50 (paperback).

Experience and the Growth of Understanding. By D. W. Hamlyn. International Library of the Philosophy of Education. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. £6.50.

Phenomenology and Education: Self‐consciousness and its development. Edited by Bernard Curtis and Wolfe Mays. Pp. xxvi, 150. London: Methuen, 1978. £6.95. (University paperback edition: £3.50).

Moral Education: Theory and Practice. By Meriel Downey and A. V. Kelly. Pp. ix, 226. London: Harper &; Row Ltd., 1978. Cloth £4.95, Paper £2.75.

Robert Owen as educator. By Karen C. Altfest. Pp. 191. Boston, U.S.A.: Twayne's World Leaders Series, G. K. Hall &; Co., 1977. $8.95.

Curriculum Change in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Peter Gordon and Denis Lawton. Pp. London: Hodder and Stoughton 1978. Hardback edition: £12.50. Paperback edition: £5.75.

The Development of an Education Service. The West Riding 1880–1974. By P. H. J. H. Gosden and P. R. Sharp. Pp. x, 273. Oxford: Martin Robertson &; Co. Ltd., 1978. £8.95.

Limits to educational change ‐ (Studies on Education in change). By Per Dalin. Pp. 112. Great Britain. The Macmillan Press in association with The International Movement Towards Educational Change. 1978. Price £8.95.

Schools and Schooling in England and Wales: A Documentary History. By Michael Hyndman. Pp. 269. London: Harper and Row, 1978. £3.95.

Two Centuries of Anglesey Schools. By D. A. Pretty. Pp. 383. Anglesey Antiquarian Society, Llangefni, 1977. £4.50.

Education in modern Egypt — ideals and realities. By G. D. M. Hyde. Pp. xx+245. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. £7.95.     

Books also received

Studies in the History of Educational Theory. Vol. I, Artifice and Nature, 1350–1765. By G. H. Bantock. Pp. 309. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1980. £15.00

Higher Education and the Needs of Society. By Ulrich Teichler, Dirk Harting and Reinhard Nuthmann. Pp. 141. Windsor: N.F.E.R. Publishing Company. 1980. £3.95.

The Meritocratic Intellect: Studies in the History of Educational Research, edited by James V. Smith and David Hamilton. Pp. 142. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press. 1980. £9.50.

The City University: A History. By S. John Teague. Pp. 270. London: The City University, 1980. £5.25 casebound, £3.50 paperback.

The University and the Colleges of Education in Wales 1925–1978. By D. Gerwyn Lewis. Pp. 280. University of Wales Press, 1980.

Education and the Social Condition. By Harold Silver. Pp. viii. 213, London &; New York: Methuen, 1980. £4.50.

Perspectives on the Sociology of Education: an Introduction. By Philip Robinson. Pp. 242. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. £4.95.

David H. Hargreaves (Ed.) Classroom Studies. Falmer Press: Educational Analysis 2, 2 (Winter 1980). Pp. 95. £5.50.

Schools in Society. By Eric Midwinter. Pp. 191. London: Batsford Academic and Education Ltd, 1980. £4.95.

Building a School System: a sociological study of Catholic Education. By Helen Praetz. Pp. xi, 178. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1980. $Aus 19.60.

Ideology and Curriculum. By Michael W. Apple. Pp. viii, 203. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Paperback edition 1980. £3.95.

Arts and the Schools. Edited by Jerome J. Hausman, assisted by Joyce Wright. New York: McGrawHill, 1980. £8.95.

Women and the Mathematical Mystique. By Fox, Brody and Tobin (Eds.). Pp. 208. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. £3.50.

Standards, Schooling and Education. Edited by Alex Finch and Peter Scrimshae. Pp. 406. Dunton Greene, Hodder &; Stoughton Educational in association with the Open University, 1980. £5.60.

Comparative Education: Some considerations of Method. By Brian Holmes. Pp. 193. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981. Hardback (ISBN 0–04–370101–9) £10.00, Paperback (ISBN 0–04–370102–7) £3.95.     

Samuel wilderspin and the early infant schools

A Mirror to Kathleen's Face: Education in Independent Ireland 1922–60. By D. H. Akenson. Pp. x, 224. Montreal and London: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1975. n.p.

Childhood in China. Edited by William Kassan. Pp. xiii, 221. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975. £6.80 cloth, £2.20 paper.

Theory and the Practice of Education. Edited by Anthony Hartnett and Michael Naish. Vol. One, pp. 204; Vol. Two, pp. 189. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1976. £3.50 each vol.

Curriculum Design. Edited by M. Golby et al. Pp. iv, 536. London: Croom Helm, 1975. £8.50 (Open University Reader).

Curriculum Innovation. Edited by A. Harris et al. Pp. x, 388. London: Groom Helm, 1975. £7.50 (Open University Reader).

Curriculum Development: Theory into Practice. By D. Tanner and L. N. Tanner. London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1975. £8.50.

Curriculum, School and Society. Edited by P. H. Taylor and K. A. Tye. Windsor: National Foundation for Educational Research, 1975. £5.65.

Dissemination of Innovation: The Humanities Curriculum Project. By Jean Rudduck. Pp. 173. London: Evans Methuen Educational, 1976, for the Schools Council. £2.10 net.

Sociology, Equality and Education. By Anthony Flew. Pp. 143. London: Macmillan, 1976. £4.95.

Political Education and Stability. By Ted Tapper. Pp. 265. London and New York, 1976. £7.75 and $17.05.

? There is a surprising number of misprints for a book which seeks above all to be ‘scholarly’. The most extravagant is the retitling of Rose's well‐known book on Ulster as Governing With Consensus! (at p. 235)

English Popular Education, 1780–1975. By David Wardle. Pp. 197. Cambridge University Press, 1976. £3.95. Paperback £1.95.

Women Teachers in the 20th Century in England and Wales. By Geoffrey Partington. Pp. ix, 107. Windsor: NFER Publishing Co., 1976. £2.95.

Management in Education: The Management of Organizations and Individuals. Edited by V. Houghton, R. McHugh and G. Morgan. Pp. 436.

Management in Education: Some Techniques and Systems. Edited by L. Dobson, T. Gear and A. Westoby. Pp. 405.

Both from Ward Lock Educational in association with the Open University Press, 1975. Each volume £10.50 hardback, £4.45 paperback.

Religious Education for Secondary Schools. By David Konstant. Pp. 359. London: Search Press and Macmillan. £4.25.

Piaget Sampler. By Sarah F. Campbell. Pp. x, 154. U.S.A.: John Wiley and Sons Inc., 1976. £6.10 cloth, £2.65 paper.     

A charity school in the nineteenth century: Old Swinford hospital school, 1815–1914

The University in Society. Edited by Lawrence Stone. 2 vols, pp. viii, 642. Princeton University Press. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. £4.75 each.

Education for National Efficiency: the contribution of Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Edited by E. J. T. Brennan. Pp. 208. London: The Athlone Press, 1975. £5.00.

Microteaching: A Programme of Teaching Skills. By G. Brown. Pp. 163. London: Methuen, 1975. £7.00 hardback, £3.60 paperback.

Heinrich Pestalozzi. Father of Modern Pedagogy. By Robert B. Downs. Pp. 147. Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1975. $7.50 (10% higher outside U.S.).

Authority and Organization in the Secondary School. By Elizabeth Richardson. Pp. 146. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1975. (Schools Council Research Studies). £2.25.

An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Education. By Vernon Mallinson, University of Reading, 4th ed. London: Heinemann, 1975.

The Sociology of Educational Ideas. By Julia Evetts. Pp. via, 168. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1973. £2.50.

Class, Culture and the Curriculum. By Denis Lawton. Pp. ix, 124. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1975. Cloth £3.00. Paperback £1.25.

Ideology and the Imagination. By Fred Inglis. Pp. 244. London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. £4.90 hard cover. £2.00 paperback.

Handbook on Curriculum Development. By Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. Pp. 179. Paris: OECD, 1975. £2.80.

Looking at Innovation: two approaches to educational reasearch. P. Sheldrake and S. Berry. NFER Publishing Company Ltd., 1975.

The Sciences, the Humanities and the Technological Threat. Edited by W. Roy Niblett. Pp. xiv, 168. London: University of London Press, 1975. £3.80.     

Science in the extra‐mural departments of British universities 1946–67

Private Schools and Public Policy: International Perspectives. Edited by William Lowe Boyd and James G. Cibulka. Pp. vi, 363. London, New York, Philadelphia: The Falmer Press, 1989. £11.95, ISBN 1–85000–447–1 fc. Education Policy Perspectives

Thomas Arnold Headmaster: A Reassessment. By Michael McCrum. Pp. viii, 157. Oxford University Press, 1989. £17.50. ISBN 0–19–211798‐X.

Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood. By Kieran Egan. Pp xvi, 287. New York, London: Routledge, 1988. £25.00. ISBN 0–415–90003–4

Towards Democratic Schooling: European Experiences. Edited by K. Jensen and S. Walker. Ppxii, 199. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1989. £10.95 (paperback) £27.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–335–09567–4 (paperback) CP335–09568–2 (hardback).

The Ethics of Educational Research. Edited by Robert G. Burgess. Pp x, 236. Index. Lewes, East Sussex: The Falmer Press, 1989. £25.00 hardcover; £9.95 flexicover. ISBN 1 85000 297 5 hc;‐ 1 85000 298 3 fc. Social Research and Educational Studies Series: 8.

The Educational Insiders: a study of the Society of Education Officers 1971–88. D. A. Howell. Pp x, 240, Index. Harlow: Longman Group U.K., 1989. £25 limp bound. ISBN 0 582 05920 8.

Multicultural Education in a Global Society. By James Lynch. Pp. xxi, 191. Index. Lewes: The Falmer Press (Taylor and Francis Group), 1989, £9.95 flexicover ISBN 1 85000 558 3

Research Papers in Education Volume 4: Number 3; October 1989 (Festschrift for Jack Wrigley) pp. 94. Windsor: NFER‐Nelson, 1989. ISSN: 0267 1522

The Changing Secondary School. Edited by Roy Lowe. Pp 233. Index. The Falmer Press, 1989. £9.95 paper, ISBN 1–85000–556–7 pbk; £20.00 cloth, ISBN‐555–9.

The Search for Enlightenment: The Working Class and Adult Education in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Brian Simon. Pp 334. London: Lawrance and Wishart, 1990. £19.95. ISBN 0 85315 683 2.

Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750–1914. By David Vincent. Pp xii, 362. Index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £32.50/$49.50 hardcover. ISBN 0–521–33466–7.

The Social Contexts of Schooling. Edited by Mike Cole. Pp ix, 251. London, New York, Philadelphia: The Falmer Press, 1989. £25.00 cloth, £9.95 Paper. ISBN 1–85000–450–1, 1–85000–451‐X (pbk)

Working with Parents. A Whole‐school Approach. By John Bastiani. Pp x, 140. Windsor: NFER‐Nelson, 1989. £8.50 paperback. ISBN‐7005–1183‐Ofc. Parents and Teachers, Volume 3.

Industry, Children and the Nation: An analysis of national identity in school textbooks. By John Ahier p.p. 203. Index. Falmer Press, 1988. No price given. ISBN 1 85000 408 0.     

Lord Butler and the education act of 1944

Children's Problems in Text Comprehension: an Experimental Investigation. N. Yuill and J. Oakhill. Pp. xi, 241. Author and subject index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £30.00 Hardback. ISBN 0 521 35324 6 Series. Cambridge Monographs and Texts in Applied Psycholinguistics.

Education and the Social Order, 1940–1990, By Brian Simon. Pp. 646. London: Lawrence &; Wishart, 1991. £39.95 hardback. ISBN 0–85315–734–0. Studies in the History of Education Series.

An Educational War on Poverty: American and British Policy‐Making 1960–80. By Harold and Pamela Silver. Pp. xii, 447. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £45.00 hb. ISBN 0–521–38149–5.

Emerging as a Teacher by R. V. Bullough, J. G. Knowles, and N. A. Grow. Pp. xii, 224. London and New York: Routledge 1991. £35 hb, £11.99 pb, ISBN: 0–415–03862–6 and 0–415–07040–6 (pb) Series: Investigating Schooling.

Teacher Supply and Teacher Quality (Issues for the 1990s) Edited by Gerald Grace and Martin Lawn. Pp iv, 92. Clevedon, Philadelphia and Adelaide: Multilingual Matters Ltd., 1991. £23 hb, £7.95 pb, ISBN: 1–85359–156–4 and 1–85359–6 pb.

The Teaching of Values: caring and appreciation. By James L. Jarrett. pp. x 248 incl. Index. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. £35.00 Hb.; £12.99 Pb. ISBN Hb.: 0 415 05287 4; Pb.: 0 415 05288 2.

Thinking in Education. By Matthew Lipman. Pp. ix, 280. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £35.00/$49.50 hardcover; £12.95/$19.95 papercover. ISBN 0 521 40032 5 hc; 0 521 40911 X pc.

Key Concepts For Understanding Curriculum, Colin J. Marsh, 221 pp, London, The Falmer Press 1992, £32.00 cloth; £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0–75070–008–4 (cloth); 0–75070–009–2 (pbk) The Falmer Press Teachers’ Library: 5.

Collected Writings on Education and Drama by Dorothy Heathcote. Edited by Liz Johnson and Cecily O'Neill; pp. 218. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1991. $34.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paper) ISBN 0–8101–1003–2 (cloth) ISBN 0–8101–0999–9 (paper)

What Future for Education? Brian Simon. Pp 208. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1992. ISBN 0–85315–754–5. £8.99

Risky Business? Robert MacDonald and Frank Coffield. Pp x, 295. Basingstoke Falmer Press, 1991. £34.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback) ISBN 1–85000–897–3 (hardback); 1–85000–898–1 (paperback).

Adult Education in Development: methods and approaches from changing societies, Veronica McGivney and Frances Murray, 109 pages, Leicester, National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 1991, £8.95, ISBN 1 872941 08 7.

Opening Colleges to Adult Learners, Veronica McGivney (ed), 159 pages, Leicester, National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 1991 (report of NIACE/TEED Project) £11.95, ISBN 1 872941 06 0.

Learning and Leisure: a study of adult participation in learning and its policy implications. Naomi Sargant, 132 pages, Leicester, NIACE 1991 £12.95 ISBN 1 872941 11 7.

The Primary Head and The Secondary Head, Edited by Peter Mortimore and Jo Mortimore. Pp 132, 174. London: Paul Chapman, 1991. £11.95 each (pbk). ISBN 1–85396–140‐X and 1–85396–141–8.

Management in Education Series: Roles, Responsibilities and Reflections.

Empowering the Parents: How to Break the Schools Monopoly. Ed. David G. Green. Pp. ix, 90. London: Institute of Economic Affairs: Health and Welfare Unit, 1991. £6.95. ISBN 0–255 36270–6     

The education of royalty in the eighteenth century: George IV and William IV

Faith, Culture and the Dual System. By Bernadette O'Keefe. Pp. xii, 202. London: The Falmer Press, 1986. P.B. £7.50. H.B. £14.95.

Englishness: Politics and Culture 1880–1920. Ed. R. Colls and P. Dodd. Croom Helm, 1986. £25

Ethics and Social Responsibility in Science Education. Edited by M. J. Frazer and A. Kornhauser. Pp x, 264. Index. Oxford: Pergamon Press, for the ICSU Press, 1986. £16.50/525.00 hardcover; £8.50/12.50 flexicover. ISBN 0–08–0339115 hc; ‐0339123 fc. Science and Technology Education and Future Human Needs, Volume 2.

Research and Policy: The Uses of Qualitative Methods in Social and Educational Research. By Janet Finch, pp. xi, 275. London: The Falmer Press, 1986. £9.50 paperback, £16.50 hardback

Education Committees. By G. Cooke and P. Gosden. Pp x, 165, Harlow: Longman Group, 1986. £15.00 plus £1.50 postage and packing.

Learning and a liberal education: The study of Modern History in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester, 1800–1914. By Peter R. H. Slee, pp. x, 181. Manchester: University Press, 1986. £25.

Schools for the shires. The reform of middle‐class education in mid‐Victorian England. By David Ian Allsobrook. Pp. vi, 302. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986. £32.50.

Comenius's Pampaedia. Translated by A. M. O. Dobbie. Pp. 219. Dover: Buckland Publications Ltd., 1987. £25.

Lucy Sprague Mitchell: The Making of a Modern Woman. By Joyce Antler pp. xx, 436. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987. £30.

The theoretical and conceptual bases of instructional design. By Rita Richey. Pp 227. London, Kogan Page and New York: Nicholas Publishing, 1986. No Price given.

The Politics of School Management. By Eric Hoyle. Pp 188. London: Hodder and Stoüghton, 1986. £5.95.

Inside the Secondary Classroom. By Sarah Delmont and Maurice Galton. Pp ix, 292, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986, £15.95.

Classroom Environment. By Barry J. Fraser. Pp 226. Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm Ltd., 1986. £17.95     

The economics of education: Current debates and prospects

The Education of Feeling and Emotion. By Francis Dunlop. Pp. ix and 129. London: George Allen &; Unwin, 1984. HB £9.50; PB £4.25.

Reason and Feeling in the Arts. By David Best. Pp. 200. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1985. £6.95.

Metaphors of Education. By W. Taylor (Editor). Pp. ix, 150. London: Heineman Educational Books Ltd, 1984. £5.95 paperback.

Studies in Religion and Education. By John M. Hull. Pp. vii, 292. London and New York: The Falmer Press, 1984. £12.95 cloth, £6.95 paper.

The Making of a Moonie: Brainwashing or Choice. By Eileen Barker. Pp. ix. 305. Basil Blackwell, 1984. £12.00.

Theory and Practice in Education. By R. F. Dearden, Pp. xiii, 169. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1984. £11.95.

Giving Teaching Back to Teachers: A Critical Introduction to Curriculum Theory. By Robin Barrow. Pp. xvi, 301. Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1984. £20.00 hardback, £8.95 paperback.

Science versus Practice: chemistry in Victorian Britain. By Robert Bud and Gerrylynn K. Roberts. Manchester University Press 1984. £25.00.

Education and Psychology: Plato, Piaget and Scientific Psychology. By Kieran Egan. Pp. xiii, 210. London: Methuen, 1984. £10.50. PB £4.95.

Understanding History of Education. Edited by Robert R. Sherman, Pp. xii, 345. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Shenkman Publishing Company Inc., 1984.     

Grant‐maintained schools: Making a difference without being really different 1

Homo Sollers Beats Homo Sapiens. The Fourth Edinburgh Medal Address. Heinz Wolff. Pp. x, 44. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, on behalf of the City of Edinburgh District Council in association with The Edinburgh International Festival of Science and Technology, 1993. £4.95 in paperback. ISBN 0 7486 0442 1.

The Multicultural Dimension of the National Curriculum. Edited by Anna S. King and Michael J. Reiss. pp 297. London: The Falmer Press, 1993. £12.95. ISBN 0750700696 paperback. Also available in hardback.

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. By Iris Murdoch Pp. 512. Index. London: Chatto and Windus 1992. £20.00. ISBN 0 7011 3998 6.

World Yearbook of Education 1993; Special Needs Education. Edited by Peter Mittler, Ron Brouillette and Duncan Harris (Series Editor). Pp x 276. Index. London. Kogan Page. 1993. £32.00. ISBN 0 7494 0854 5. 11th in the series World Yearbook in Education.

The European and American University since 1800; historical and sociological essays. Edited by Sheldon Rothblatt and Björn Wittrock. pp. xi. 370. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press. 1993. £37.50. ISBN 0 521 43165 4 hardback.

Learner Managed Learning. Edited by Norman Graves. Pp x, 185. Index. Leeds: Higher Education for Capability and World Education Fellowship, 1993. £13.95 flexicover, ISBN 0–9521325–08.

Conflict in Child and Adolescent Development; edited by Shantz C. U. and Hartup, W. W. Pp. 453. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. £40/$59.95 hardcover only. ISBN 0–521–40416–9. Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development.

Children's Learning Difficulties: A cognitive approach by J. Dockrell and J. McShane. Pp. viii, 245. Index. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. £40 hard cover; £12.99 flexicover. ISBN 0–631–17016–2 hc; 0–631–17017–0 fc.

The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families by Jane Roland Martin. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: 1992. 237 pp. ISBN 0–674–79265–3. Price: $24.95.

Assessing the National Curriculum Edited by Philip O'Hear and John White. Pp 138. Index. London: Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd. 1993 £11.95 Paperback. ISBN 1 85396 232 5

Partnership in Initial Teacher Training: Talk and Chalk, Clare Hake, pp 36, London, Institute of Education, Tufnell Press £3.95 ISBN 1 872767 46 X The London File: Papers from the Institute of Education.

The Promise and Perils of Educational Comparison by Martin McLean. Pp. 40. London: Institute of Education, University of London, 1992: The London File ISBN 1 872767 31 1, £3.95

Case Studies in Teaching in Higher Education by Peter Schwartz and Graham Webb. Pp. 162; London: Kogan Page, 1993. £16.95; ISBN 0–7494–0972‐X.

Educational Values for School Leadership by Sylvia West. Pp x, 160. London: Kogan Page 1993. £14.95. ISBN 0 7494 0839 1. The Management and Leadership in Education Series.

Equality and Achievement in Education by James S. Coleman. Pp xi, 340. Boulder, San Francisco &; London: Westview Press 1993. £30.50 hardcover: £13.50 paperback. ISBN 0–8133–7791–9 hc;‐1860–2 pbk. Social Inequality Series #1.

Children in Time and Place, developmental and historical insights, edited by Elder, G., Modell, J., Parke, R.: pp. 289, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993. £35.00 hardback, ISBN 0 521 41784 8     

Isaac Ironside 1808–1870: The motivation of a radical educationist

Structuralism and Education. By Rex Gibson. Pp. viii, 166. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. £3.95.

Dimensions of Moral Education. By Robert E. Carter. University of Toronto Press. £23 cloth, £8.50 paper. 242 pp.

The Development of Social Knowledge. Morality and Convention. By Elliot Turiel. Pp. viii, 240. Cambridge University Press, 1984. £20.00 (Hardback), £7.95 (Paperback).

Personal and Social Education in the Curriculum. By Richard Pring. Pp. 184. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. £4.25

Development, Experience and Curriculum in Primary Education. By W.A.L. Blyth. Croom Helm Teaching 5–13 Series. 1984. Pp. 172. £6.95

Education and the City: Theory, History and Contemporary Practice. Edited by Gerald Grace. Pp. xiii, 302. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1984. £8.95.

Education As Social Policy. By Janet Finch. Pp. viii, 284. Harlow: Longman Group Ltd., 1984.

Navajo Infancy: An Ethological Study of Child Development. By James S, Chisholm. Pp. XII, 267. New York: Aldine Publishing Co. 1983. $29.95.

Soviet Education in the 1980s, Edited by J.J. Tomiak, Pp.x, 326. London, Croom Helm, 1983. £17.95.

The Crisis of the University. By Peter Scott. Pp. viii, 277. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1984. £16.95 hardback, £8.95 paperback.

The Mathematicians’ Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England 1560–1640. By Mordechai Feingold. Pp. viii, 248. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. £22.50.

A Guide to English Educational Terms. By Peter Gordon and Denis Lawton. Pp. xvii, 220. London: Batsford, 1984. £7.50.     

H. A. L. Fisher and the teachers‐further notes

Ways of Understanding and Education. By Louis Arnaud Reid. Pp xiii‐154. (£7.95) London: Heinemann Education Books Ltd., 1986.

Critical Theory and Education. Rex Gibson. 192 pp. London, £6.95, Hodder and Stoughton, 1986.

Inside Schools: Ethnography in Educational Research. By Peter Woods, pp XI, 204. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986, £8.95 pbk.

Education and Social Class. Edited by Rick Rogers. Pp. viii, 204. Barcombe: Falmer Press, 1986. £14.95 and £7.95 (paper).

Power and the Promise of School Reform: Grass roots movements during the Progressive Era. By William J Reese. Pp. xxx, 342. Boston, London and Henley: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1986. £19.95 cloth, £9.95 paper. ISBN 0–7100–9952–5 (cloth), 0–7102–0767–0 (paper).

Schools for the Shires: The reform of middle‐class education in mid‐Victorian England. By D. I. Allsobrook. Pp. vi, 302. Manchester University Press, 1986. £27.50.

In the Company of Educated Women. By Barbara Miller Solomon. Pp. xxi, 298. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. £10.95.

The Struggle for the American Curriculum (1893–1958). By Herbert M. Kliebard. Pp. xviii, 300. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. £19.95.

Teaching Adults. By Alan Rogers. Pp. xxxvi, 197. Milton Keynes; Open University Press, 1986. £5.95.

Learning Strategies. By J. Nisbet and J. Shucksmith. Pp. viii, 104. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. £15.95p.

Using Computers in English. A Practical Guide. By Phil Moore. Pp. 183. London: Methuen, 1986. £5.95.

’Special Care’ Provision: The Education of Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties. By Peter Evans and Jean Ware. Pp. 224. Windsor: NFER‐Nelson, 1986. £13.95.

Disaffection from School. By K. Reid. Pp. 264. London: Methuen, 1986, £18 Hb. £7.95 Pb.

The Conspiracy of the Text. The Place of Narrative in the Development of Thought. By Jeff Adams. Pp. viii, 152. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. £14.95.

Autobiography and Education. By Marian Metcalf, Timothy Towers and Peter Abbs. Edited by Trevor Pateman. Pp. 142. University of Sussex: Education Area Occasional Paper No. 13 1986. £3.50     

The educational researches of the Manchester statistical society, 1830–1840

Case Studies in Curriculum Administration History. Edited by Henning Haft and Stefan Hopmann. Pp. ix, 206. Index. Basingstoke: The Falmer Press, 1990. £10.95. ISBN 1–85000–858–2.

Education, Work and Pay in East Africa. By Arthur Hazlewood with Jane Armitage, Albert Berry, John Knight and Richard Sabot. Pp. xxxiv, 337. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. £37.50. ISBN 0–19–828685–6.

Constructing the Subject: Historical origins of psychological research. By Kurt Danziger. Pp. ix, 254. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0–521–36358–6. £25 h/b.

Education, Training and Employment, Volume 1: Educated Labour ‐ The Changing Basis of Industrial Demand, Volume 2: The Educational Response. Edited by Geoff Esland. Vol. 1 pp. xviii + 329, Index. ISBN 0–201–54424–5; Vol. 2 pp. xx + 373, Index. ISBN 0–201–54430‐X. Wokinghanv. Addison‐Wesley in association with The Open University, 1991. £12.95 each.

The Philosophy of Mathematics Education. By Paul Ernest. Pp. xiv, 329. Index. Basingstoke: The Falmer Press, 1991. £30 cloth; £13.95 paper. ISBN 1–85000–666–0 (cloth); 1–85000–667–9 (paperback). Studies in Mathematics Education.

Ethnic Differences. By J. Perlman. Pp. 321. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. £12.95. ISBN 0–521–38975–5.

Education and the Global Concern. By Torsten Husén. Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 162. ISBN 0–08–040489–8.

Technical Education and the State Since 1850. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by Penny Summerfield and Eric J. Evans. Pp. 223. Manchester University Press, 1990. £29.95. ISBN 0–7190–2967–8.

The High Status Track. Edited by Paul William Kingston and Lionel S. Lewis. Pp. xxxiv, 254, Index. New York: State University of New York Press, 1990. $54 cloth/ $17.95 paper. ISBN 0–7914–0010–7.

Emily Davies and the Liberation of Women 1830–1921. By Daphne Bennett. London: André Deutsch, 1990. Pp. 251. £15.95 ISBN 0–233–981194–1.

A Higher Education: The CNAA and British Higher Education 1964–1989. By Harold Silver. Pp. 294. London: Falmer Press, 1990. ISBN 1–85000–701–2 £12.95 p/b.

The Social Psychology of the Primary School. Edited by Colin Rogers and Peter Kutnick. Pp. 259. London: Routledge, 1990. ISBN 0–415–02400–5, hardback £35.

Classroom Ethnography. By Martyn Hammersley. Pp. xi, 164, Index. Buckingham: Open University Press and Toronto: OISE Press, 1990. £9.99 ISBN 0–7744–0354–3. In the series Modem Educational Thought.

Access and Alternative Futures for Higher Education. Edited by Gareth Parry and Clive Wake. Pp. xv, 228. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990. ISBN 0–340–51919–3. £12.95 p/b.

Education and the Good Life. By John White. London: Kogan Page, 1990. Pp. 188. ISBN 0–7494–0096‐X. £22.50 hardback.

Girls in their Prime: Scottish Education Revisited. Edited by Fiona M. S. Paterson and Judith Fewell. Pp. 168. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1990. £8.50. ISBN 0–7073–0578–0.     

Tagore—pioneer in education

Educating the Respectable: A Study of Fleet Road Board School, Hampstead, 1879–1903. By W. E. Marsden. London: The Woburn Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 281. £30, hardback. ISBN 0–7130–0184–4.

’Race’, ethnicity and education: teaching and learning in multi‐ethnic schools. By David Gillborn. Pp. xvi, 245. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. ISBN 0–04–445398. Key issues in education, series editor: Robert Burgess.

Becoming a Reader: the Experience of Fiction from Childhood to Adulthood. By J. A. Appleyard, S.J. Pp. x, 228. Index. Cambridge: University Press, 1990. £27.50/$34.50 hardcover. ISBN 0–521–38364.

Delivering Quality in Vocational Education. D. Müller and P. Funnell. Pp. 180 inc. index. London: Kogan Page, 1991. £25.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0–74940–174–5. Series New Developments in Vocational Education (Series editors P. Funnell and D. Miiller).

Vocational Education and the Challenge of Europe. P. Funnell and D. Müller. Pp. 176 inc index. London: Kogan Page, 1991. £25.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0–74940–127–3. Series New Developments in Vocational Education (Series editors P. Funnell and D. Miiller).

Children with Special Needs. Assessment, Law and Practice ‐ Caught in the Act. By Harry Chasty and John Friel. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1991. Pp. 201. £9.95 (pbk). ISBN 1–85302–096–6.

Education and Policy in England in the Twentieth Century. Peter Gordon, Richard Aldrich and Dennis Dean. Pp. vii, 355. London: The Woburn Press, 1991. £35 hardcover. ISBN 0–7130–0181‐X (cased), ISBN O‐713O‐4016–5 (pbk).

Romantic Understanding: The Development of Rationality and Imagination, Ages 8–15. By Kieran Egan. Pp. ix, 300. Index. New York and London: Routledge, 1990. £30.00 hardcover. ISBN 0–415–90050–6.

Understanding Intelligence. By Ken Richardson. Pp. 154. Index. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991. £10.99 paperback; £32.50 hardback. ISBN 0–335–09397–3.

Intelligence and Realism: A Materialist Critique of IQ. By Roy Nash. Pp. 173. Index. Basingstoke: MacMillan Press, 1990. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0–333–53455–7.

Doing Educational Research. Edited by Geoffrey Walford. Pp. xi, 237. London: Routledge, 1991. £35.00 hardback, £10.95 paperback. ISBN 0–415–05289–0 he; 0–415–05290–4 pbk.

Becoming a Person. Edited by M. Woodhead, R. Carr and P. Light. Pp. xiii, 346. Index. London: Routledge, 1991. £8.99. ISBN 0–415–05829–5. Child Development in Social Context, Volume 1.

Learning to Think. Edited by P. Light, S. Sheldon and M. Woodhead. Pp. xi, 339. Index. London: Routledge, 1991. £8.99. ISBN 0–415–05825–2. Child Development in Social Context, Volume 2.

Growing up in a Changing Society. Edited by M. Woodhead, P. Light and R. Carr. Pp. xi, 350. Index. London: Routledge, 1991. £8.99. ISBN 0–415–05827–9. Child Development in Social Context, Volume 3.

Training Adult Educators on Western Europe, edited by Peter Jarvis and Alan Chadwick, publ. by Routledge in association with European Bureau of Adult Education 1991, 235 pages £35.

Assessment and Testing: a survey of research. By Robert Wood. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, 273 pp. (incl. index). £40.00. ISBN 0–521–0369–3.

Education and The Social Construction of Race. Peter Figueroa. Pp. xiii, 216. Index. London: Routledge, 1991. £35.00 hardcover. ISBN 0–415–00914–6.