Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Jacqueline M. Moore. Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880–1920.
Richard A. Barney. Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth Century England.
Laura C. Berry. The Child, The State, and the Victorian Novel.
David A. Henkin, City Reading: Written Words and Public Space in Antebellum New York.
Sarah Bendall, Christopher Brooke, and Patrick Collinson. A History of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse (eds.). Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender.
Gary Michael Carney. Native American Higher Education in the United States.
James Turner. The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton.
John Aubrey Douglass, The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan.
Timothy Glander. Origins of Mass Communications Research During the American Cold War: Educational Effects and Contemporary Implications.
Carolyn J. Lawes. Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815–1860.
Robert M. Buchanan. Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850–1950.
Carolyn Terry Bashaw. "Stalwart Women": A Historical Analysis of Deans of Women in the South.     

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Book Reviewed in this Article:
Barry M. Franklin (ed.). Curriculum and Consequence .
William E. Marsden. The School Textbook: Geography, History and Social Studies .
Thomas Fleming, ed. School Leadership: Essays on the British Columbia Experience, 1872–1995 .
Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston .
Chester J. Fontenot, Jr. and Mary Alice Morgan, eds. W. E. B. Du Bois and Race: Essays Celebrating the Centennial Publication of The Souls of Black Folk .
John Bloom. To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools .
Daphne Spain. How Women Saved the City .
Kathleen Broome Williams. Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II .
Katherine H. Adams. A Group of Their Own: College Writing Courses and American Women Writers , 1880–1940.
Jana Nidiffer. Pioneering Deans of Women: More Than Wise and Pious Matrons .     

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Book Reviewed in this Article:
Victoria Bissell Brown. The Education of Jane Addams: Politics and Culture in Modern America .
Elizabeth N. Agnew. From Charity to Social Work: May E. Richmond and the Creation of an American Profession .
Alice Fahs. The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861–1865 .
Michael S. Foley. Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War
Penny Schine Gold. Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America .
Gerd Horten. Radio Goes To War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II .
Clark Kerr. The Gold and the Blue, A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967: Political Turmoil .
Ron Miller. Free Schools, Free People: Education and Democracy after the 1960s .
Richard Neumann. Sixties Legacy: A History of the Public Alternative Schools Movement, 1967–2000 .
Steven Mintz. Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood .
Christopher Newfield. Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980 .
Brian Pusser. Burning Down the House: Politics, Governance, and Affirmative Action at the University of California .
Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder. American Indian Education: A History .
Darwin H. Stapleton and Donna Heckman Stapleton. Dignity, Discourse, and Destiny: The Life of Courtney C. Smith .
Kim Tolley. The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective .     

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Book Reviewed in this Article:
William J. Courtenay and Jurgen Miethke, eds. Universities and Schooling in Medieval Society .
William J. Courtenay. Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait .
Michael J. Hofstetter. The Romantic Idea of a University: England and Germany, 1770–1850
Maria Bucur. Eugenics and Modernization in Intemar Romania.
Volker R. Berghahn. America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe: Shephard Stone Between Philanthropy, Academy, and Diplomacy
John Connelly. Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education , 19451 956.
Sirkka Ahonen and Jukka Rantala, eds. Nordic Lights: Education for Nation and Civic Society in the Nordic Countries , 1850–2000.
Simphiwe Hlatshwayo. Education and Independence: Education in South Africa, 1658–1988
Eileen Lebow. The Bright Boys: A History of Townsend Harris High School.
Herbert M. Kliebard. Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum
Peter J. Knapp in collaboration with Anne H. Knapp. Trinity College in the Twentieth Century: A History .
Lillian S. Williams. Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an Afiican American Community, Bufalo , New York, 1900–1940
Stephen G. N. Tuck. Beyond Atlanta: The Stmgglefor Racial Equality in Georgia , 1940–1980.
Howard Ball. The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action
Sharon Hartman Strom. Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform .
Bradford W. Wright. Comic Book Nation: The Tranformation of Youth Culture in America .
Elizabeth C. Ramirez. Chicanas/Latinas in American Theatre: A History of Performance.
Alicia Arrizón. Latina Performance: Traversing the Stage .
Richard Light. Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds .
Barbara Lovitts. Leaving the Ivory Tower: The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study .     

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Book Reviewed in this Article:
Jane Hunter. How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood .
Christine Trimingham Jack. Growing Good Catholic Girls: Education and Convent Life in Australia .
Caroline F. Levander and Carol J. Singley (eds.). The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader .
Charles Morden Levi. Comings and Goings: University Students in Canadian Society, 1854–1973 .
Gerda Lerner. Fireweed: A Political Autobiography .
Jerald E. Podair. The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis .
Daniel Perlstein. Justice, Justice: School Politics and the Eclipse of Liberalism     

Reviews

Hatcher, Richard; Troyna, Barry and Gewirtz, Deborah Racial Equality and the Local Management of Schools
Hustler, David and McIntyre, Donald (eds) Developing Competent Teachers: Approaches to Professional Competence in Teacher Education
Daglish, Neil Education Policy-Making in England and Wales: The Crucible Years, 1895–1911
Diller, Ann; Houston, Barbara; Morgan, Kathryn Pauly and Ayim, Maryann The Gender Question in Education: Theory, Pedagogy and Politics
Webb, Rosemary and Vulliamy, Graham Roles and Responsibilities in the Primary School: Changing Demands, Changing Practices
Delamont, Sara A Women's Place in Education: Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Gender and Education
Copelman, Dina M. London's Women Teachers
Halstead, J. Mark and Taylor, Monica J. Values in Education and Education in Values
Cowen, Robert (ed) The Evaluation of Higher Education Systems
Jipson, Janice; Munro, Petra; Victor, Susan; Froude Jones, Karen and Freed-Rowland, Gretchen Repositioning Feminism and Education: Perspectives on Educating for Social Change
Carnoy, Martin (ed) International Encyclopedia of Economics of Education (Second Edition)
Elliott, Jane; Francis, Hywel; Humphreys, Rob and Instance, David (eds) Communities and Their Universities: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning
Oram, Alison Women Teachers and Feminist Politics 1900–39
Wang, Margaret C.; Reynolds, Maynard C. and Walberg, Herbert J. Handbook of Special and Remedial Education: Research and Practice (Second Edition)
Broadfoot, Patricia M. Education, Assessment and Society
Stoll, Louise and Fink, Dean Changing Our Schools     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article: Scott Casper et al., Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentaries. Douglas McKnight. Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of an American National Identity: Education's “Errand Into the WiLderness.” Doug Feldmann. Curriclllum and the American Rural School. Gay Pitman Zieger. For the Good of the Children: A Histoy ofthe Boys and Girls Republic. Steve Golin. The Newark Teachers Strikes: Hopes on the Line. Thomas S. Popkewitz, Barry M. Franklin, and Miguel A. Pereyra (eds.). Cultural Hirtury and Education: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Schooling. Elaine Franz Parsons. Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth‐Century United States. Peter N. Stearns. Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America. Robert Halpern. Making Play Work: The Promise of After‐School Programs for Low‐Income Children. Anne Behnke Kinney. Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China. Xiaomei Chen. Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporay China. Jack Boozer. Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique. Anthony Harkins. Hillbilly: A Cultural History of An American Icon. Patricia Mazón. Gender and the Modern Research University: The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865–1914. Paul K. Conkin. Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning. Thomas N. Bonner. Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning. Jared Stallones. Paul Robert Hanna: A Life of Expanding Communities. Judith Hicks Stiehm. The U.S. Army War College: Military Education in a Democracy. Robert Cohen and Reginald E. Zelnik (eds.). The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s. Joy Ann Williamson. Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965–1975. Robert Pratt. We Shall Not be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia. William H. Schneider. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War. John Schmalzbauer. People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education. Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware. Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution. Gordon E. Harvey. A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968–1976.     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Julie Armstrong, Susan Edwards, Houston Roberson, and Rhonda Williams, eds. Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom's Bittersweet Song .
Cally L. Waite. Permission to Remain Among Us: Education for Blacks in Oberlin, Ohio, 1880–1914 .
David M. Callejo-Perez. Southern Hospitality: Identity, Schools, and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, 1964–1972 .
Vivian Gunn Morris and Curtis L. Morris. The Price They Paid: Desegregation in an African American Community .
Winfred E. Pitts. A Victory of Sorts: Desegregation in a Southern Community .
Patterson Toby Graham. A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900–1965 .
Alexander S. Leidholdt. Editor for Justice: The Life of Louis I. Jaffé .     

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Joyce Taylor, Joseph Lancaster, The Poor Child's Friend: Educating the Poor in the Early Nineteenth Century
Damian F. Hannan, Emer Smyth, John McCullagh, Richard O'Leary and Dorren McMahon, Co-Education and Gender Equality
Michael Barber, The Learning Game: Arguments for an Education Revolution
John Devine, Maximum Security: The Culture of Violence in Inner-City Schools
Derek Briton, The Modern Practice of Adult Education — A Post-Modern Critique
Paul Croll (ed), Teachers, Pupils and Primary Schooling: Continuity and Change
M. Morris and I. Schagen, Green Attitudes or Learned Responses?
Hywel Thomas and Jane Martin, Managing Resources for School Improvement: Creating a cost-effective school
Richard Aldrich, Education for the Nation
Elliot W. Eisner, Cognition and Curriculum Reconsidered
Making Sense of Primary Inspection . By Ian Sandbrook 442
Madan Sarup, Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World
Phil Hodkinson, Andrew C. Sparkes and Heather Hodkinson, Triumphs and Tears: Young People, Markets and the Transition from School to Work
John Furlong and Richard Smith (eds), The Role of Higher Education in Initial Teacher Training
Jeni Riley, The Teaching of Reading: The Development of Literacy in the Early Years of School
Brian Stratford and Pat Gunn (eds), New Approaches to Down Syndrome
Maurice Craft (ed), Teacher Education in Plural Societies, An International Review . Edited     

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Book reviewed:
K. Field, P. Holden and H. Lawlor Effective Subject Leadership
C. Paechter, Changing School Subjects: power, gender and curriculum
E. Margolis (ed.), The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education
G. Nicholls, Professional Development in Higher Education
R. Andrews, Teaching and Learning English: A Guide to Recent Research and its Application
P. T. Knight and P. R. Trowler, Departmental Leadership in Higher Education
R. Daugherty, R. Phillips and G. Rees (eds), Education Policy-making in Wales
G. Crozier, Parents and Schools – partners or protagonists?
H. Brighouse, School Choice and Social Justice
G. McCulloch and W. Richardson, Historical Research in Educational Settings
J. F. Donnelly and E. W. Jenkins, Science Education: Policy, Professionalism and Change
D. Warner and D. Palfreyman (eds), The State of UK Higher Education: Managing Change and Diversity
G. Mac Naughton, S. Rolfe and I. Siraj-Blatchford (eds), Doing Early Childhood Research – International Perspectives On Theory and Practice
G. Thomas and A. Loxley, Deconstructing Special Education and Constructing Inclusion
S. Tomlinson, Education in a Post-welfare Society     

Book Reviews

Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison, Research Methods in Education (5th edition)
Martyn Hammersley (ed), Researching School Experience; Ethnographic Studies of Teaching and Learning
Cecile Wright, Debbie Weekes and Alex McGlaughlin, 'Race', Class and Gender in Exclusion from School
Gary McCulloch, Gill Helsby and Peter Knight, The Politics of Professionalism: Teachers and the Curriculum
Brian Simon, A Life in Education
Howard Gardner, Intelligence Reframed
J. Swann and J. Pratt (eds), Improving Education: Realist Approaches to Method and Research
Peter Mortimore (ed), Understanding Pedagogy and Its Impact on Learning
Roger Marples (ed), The Aims of Education
Patrick Ainley and Helen Rainbird (eds), Apprenticeship: Towards a New Paradigm of Learning
Jim Docking (ed), New Labour's Policies for Schools – Raising the Standard?
Harry Daniels (ed), Special Education Re-formed: Beyond Rhetoric
Neil Ferguson, Peter Earley, Brian Fidler and Janet Ouston (eds), Improving Schools and Inspection: The Self-Inspecting School     

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Books reviewed:
Ian Copeland, The Making of the Backward Pupil in England, 1870–1914
Harry Daniels and Philip Garner (eds), Inclusive Education: World Year Book of Education 1999
David Corson, Changing Education for Diversity
A. Mackinnon, I. Elgqvist-Saltzman and A. Prentice (eds), Education into the 21st Century: Dangerous Terrain for Women?
Peter Sutherland (ed), Adult Learning – a Reader
Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith and Paul Standish, Thinking Again: Education After Postmodernism
David Carr (ed), Education, Knowledge and Truth
Frank Coffield (ed), Why's the Beer Always Stronger up North? Studies of Lifelong Learning in Europe
Colin Richards, Neil Simco and Sam Twiselton (eds), Primary Teacher Education, High Status? High Standards?
Megan Crawford, Richard Edwards and Lesley Kydd (eds), Taking Issue: Debates in Guidance and Counselling in Learning
M. Woodhead, D. Faulkner and K. Littleton, Making Sense of Social Development
Jack Demaine (ed), Education Policy and Contemporary Politics
Sandra Acker, The Realities of Teachers' Work: Never a Dull Moment
John Holford, Peter Jarvis and Colin Griffin, (eds), International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning     

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Books reviewed:
Richard Edwards and Robin Usher, Globalisation and Pedagogy: Space, place and identity
Jackie Brine, Educating Women: Globalizing Inequality
David Carr, Professionalism and Ethics
Andrew Pollard and Ann Filer, The Social World of Pupil Career: Strategic Biographies through Primary School
Bernard Crick, Essays on Citizenship
Mike Bottery and Nigel Wright, Teachers and the State: Towards a Directed Profession
Stephen Heathorn, For Home, Country and Race: Constructing Gender, Class and Englishness in the Elementary School 1880-1914
Jane M. Page, Reframing the Early Childhood Curriculum: Educational Imperatives for the Future
Leslie P. Steffe and Patrick W. Thompson (eds), Radical Constructivism in Action
Patricia Broadfoot, Marilyn Osborne, Clare Planel and Keith Sharpe, Promoting Quality in Learning – Does England have the Answer?
Claire Cameron, Peter Moss and Charlie Owen, Men in the Nursery: Gender and Caring Work
Mike Cole (ed), Education, Equality and Human Rights
R. Alexander, P. Broadfoot and D. Phillips, Learning from Comparing: New Directions in Comparative Educational Research , Volume 1 Contexts, Classrooms and Outcomes
OECD, Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Sensory Handicaps in Children Roy A. Fitt, Heather Mason
Parents, Schools and Communities: Working Together in Health Education Gill Coombes, Ann Craft
Transition from School to Work P. Wehman, M.S. Moon, J.M. Everson, W. Wood, J.M. Barcus
A Basic Attainments Programme for Young Mentally Handicapped Children Bill Gillham Croom Helm
Early Education: the School Years: a Sourcebook for Teachers Alan and Louis Cohen
A Critical Examination of Different Approaches to Communication in the Education of Deaf Children W. Lynas, A. Huntington, I. Tucker
Microelectronics and Pupils with Special Educational Needs John Garrett, Bob Dyke
Down Syndrome. A Resource Handbook Carol Tingey (ed.)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Lorraine M. McDonnell, P. Michael Timpane, and Roger Benjamin, (eds.). Rediscovering the Democratic Purposes of Education. Adam R. Nelson. Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964. Stuart J. Foster. Red Alert! Educators Confront the “Red Scare” in American Public Schools, 1947–1954. Lionel S. Lewis. When Power Corrupts: Academic Governing Boards in the Shadow of the Adelphi Case. Gordon B. Arnold. The Politics of Faculty Unionization: The Experience of Three New England Universities. Robert Burns. Being Catholic, Being American: The Notre Dame Story, 1934–1952, Volume II. David Cahan and M. Eugene Rudd. Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace. David Contosta. St. Joseph's: Philadelphia's Jesuit University. Roger Geiger (ed.). The American College in the Nineteenth Century. Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier (eds.). A History of Reading in the West. Franklin Court. The Scottish Connection: The Rise of English Literary Study in Early America. Weili Ye. Seeking Modernity in China's Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900–1927. Achim Leschinsky and Karl Ulrich Mayer (eds.). The Comprehensive School Experiment Revisited: Evidence from Western Europe. Diane Ravitch. Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms. William W. Cutler, III. Parents and Schools: The 150‐Year Struggle for Control in American Education. Thomas V. O'Brien. The Politics of Race and Schooling: Public Education in Georgia, 1900–1961. Susan E. Eaton. The Other Boston Busing Story. Nina de Angeli Walls. Art, Industry, and Women's Education in Philadelphia. Judy Yung (ed.). Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. Amanda J. Cobb. Listening to Our Grandmothers’Stories: Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949. Gillian Weiss. Trying to Get It Back: Indigenous Women, Education, and Culture. Philip S. Zachernuk. Colonial Subjects: An African Intelligentsia and Atlantic Ideas. Michael Gebel. Friedrich Fröbel und die Juden. Victor Acker. Celestin Freinet. Jean O'Grady. Margaret Addison: A Biography. J. E. M. Latham. Search for a New Eden: James Pierrepont Greaves (1777–1842): The Sacred Socialist and His Followers. Christopher R. Reed. All the World is Here: The Black Presence at White City. Ellen M. Litwicki. America's Public Holidays, 1865–1920. Douglas B. Craig. Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920–1940. Virginia E. McCormick. Educational Architecture in Ohio: From One‐Room Schools and Carnegie Libraries to Community Education Villages.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article:
Joseph Moreau. Schoolbook Nation: Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present .
José-Manuel Navarro. Creating Tropical Yankees: Social Science Textbooks and U. S. Ideological Control in Puerto Rico, 1898–1908 .
Gregory Paul Wegner. Anti-Semitism and Schooling under the Third Reich .
Peter Uwe Hohendahl (ed.). German Studies in the United States: A Historical Handbook .
Pam Hirsch and Mark McBeth. Teacher Training at Cambridge: The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes .
Colin Barr. Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845–1865 .
Olga Bain. University Autonomy in the Russian Federation since Perestroika .
Robert A. McCaughey. Stand Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754–2004 .
Kathleen Krebbs Whitson. Bill Jason Priest: Community College Pioneer .
Richard Ian Kimball. Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890–1940 .
Ann Hulbert. Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice about Children
Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards and Carolyn De Swarte Gifford (eds.). Gender and the Social Gospel .
Anne M. Boylan. The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797–1840 .
Ronald D. Cohen. Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940–1970 .
Lynn Moss Sanders. Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey: Transformation to Tolerance through African American Folk Studies .
Carol Faulkner. Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement .
Martin Summers. Manliness and its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900–1930 .
Jack Dougherty. More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee .
Michael D'Antonio. The State Boys Rebellion .
Lawrence A. Peskin. Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry .     

Reviews

Beginnings Begin Here … The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning
Towards Partnership Industry and Higher Education: Collaboration to Improve Students' Learning and Training.
Becoming Your Own Teacher Learning to Learn Across the Lifespan
Canadian Higher Education Youth, University and Canadian Society: Essays in the Social History of Higher Education
Making a Middle Class: Student Life in English Canada during the Thirties Paul Axelrod (Kingston, Montreal
Accounting for Performance Quality Assurance and Accountability in Higher Education
Perfmmance Indicators in Higher Education     

Reviews

Nicholas Beattie, The Freinet Movements of France, Italy, and Germany, 1920–2000: Versions of Educational Progressivism.
Terence Copley, Indoctrination, Education and God: The Struggle for the Mind.
Fred Inglis (ed.), Education and the Good Society.
Christopher Winch and John Gingell, Philosophy and Educational Policy: A Critical Introduction.
Denis Lawton, Education and Labour Party Ideologies 1900–2001 and Beyond.
Richard Willis, The Struggle for the General Teaching Council.
Tony Gallagher, Education in Divided Societies.
Andrew Goodwyn and Andrew Stables, Learning to Read Critically in Language and Literacy.
Bridget Somekh and Cathy Lewin (eds), Research Methods in the Social Sciences.
Peter K. Smith, Debra Pepler and Ken Rigby (eds), Bullying in Schools: How Successful Can Interventions Be?
J. Ahier, J. Beck and R. Moore, Graduate Citizens? Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education.
Audrey Osler and Hugh Starkey (eds), Citizenship and Language Learning: International Perspectives.
Felicity Armstrong and Michele Moore (eds), Action Research for Inclusive Education: Changing Places, Changing Practices, Changing Minds.
Dennis Hayes (ed.), The RoutledgeFalmer Guide to Key Debates in Education.
Thomas S. Weisner (ed.), Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development: Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life.     

Staff meetings: Planning meaningful curriculum

Young children of the 80s feel a lack of involvement of significant others in their lives. They perceive the world as a place where important adults are not seriously involved in their lives even if the same adults would describe themselves as being very caring about their children. The reasons for this perception were developed in a Children of the 80s seminar at California State University, Fresno recently.Doris O. Smith is Coordinator of the Early Childhood Education Program of the School of Education and Human Development at California State University in Fresno.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Mary Lynn Stewart. For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for French Women 1880s–1930s. John Cleverley. In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province. David L. McConnell. Importing Diversity: Inside Japan? JET Program. Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod, Etta Baichman‐Anisef, Carl James, and Anton Turrittin. Opportunity and Uncertainty: Life Course Experiences of the Class of‘73. Toronto: Julian A. Soares. The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University. Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman. Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition. Philip Pauly. Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey. Louis Leonard Tucker. Worthington Chauncey Ford: Scholar and Adventurer. Robert E. Sullivan (ed.). Higher Learning and Catholic Traditions. Clarence L. Mohr and Joseph E. Gordon. Tulane: The Emergence of a Modern University, 1945–1980. Jana Nidiffer and Carolyn Terry Bashaw. Women Administrators in Higher Education: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Kate Weigand. Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation. Joanne P. Sharp. Condensing the Cold War: Reader's Digest and American Identity. Donald Parkerson and Jo Ann Parkerson. Transitions in American Education: A Social History of Teaching. Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo. Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650–1920. Laura Browder. Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities. Adam Fairclough. Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow. Gerald Home. Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois. V. Celia Lascarides and Blythe F. Hinitz. History of Early Childhood Education. Peter Middleton and Tim Woods. Literature of Memory: History, Time and Space in Postwar Writing.