Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Developing the Arts in Primary Schools: Good Practice in Teacher Education C. SHARP Art in the Primary School J. Lancaster A Tool for Learning: Some Functions for Art in Pirmary Education M. Rubens & M. Newlands     

Reviews Editorial: Art & Design in the Primary School

Art in the Classroom: A Handbook for Primary Teachers, Pat Southern. Design and Technology in the Primary School: case studies for teachers, Makiya, Hind & Rogers, Margaret. The Handbook for Primary Art in the National Curriculum, John Bowden. Teaching Art at Key Stage 1, Nigel Meager. A Year in the Art of a Primary School, Robert Clement and Elizabeth Tarr. Art in Practice Motivation and development 3–12 years, Margaret Morgan. The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood, Edith Cobb. Experience in Art - Teaching Children to Paint, Nancy R. Smith with Carolee Fucigna, Margaret Kennedy, Lis Lord Foreword by Elliot Eisner. Drawing to Learn, Sedgwick, Dawn and Fred. Designs We Live By, Loeb, H., Slight, P., and Stanley, N. (Eds).     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Planning and Managing Effective In-Service Development Andy Miller
Managing Difficult Children in School Lyndsey Stone
Managing Behaviour in the Primary School Jim Docking
Education and Alienation in the Junior School Jim Docking (ed.)
Teachers in Control: Cracking the Code M. Powell, J. Solity
One Step at a Time Margaret Slade
The Motor Impaired Child Myra Tingle
Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education C.R. Reynolds, E. Fletcher-Janzen (eds.)
Entitlement for All in Practice; Mathematics for All; Communication for All; Science for All S. Fagg, P. Aherne, S. Skelton, A. Thornber
Humanities for All J. Clarke, K. Wrigley
Take Time M. Nash-Wortham, J. Hunt
Special Educational Needs and the National Curriculum H. Daniels, J. Ware (eds.)     

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Book Reviews in this Articles: State of the Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980s Sandy Nairne The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colors and their Application to the Arts M. E. Chevreul ; FABER Birren (Ed.) Schiffer, Westchester Principles of Colour Design Wucius Wong VNR Teaching Art to Young Children 4–9 Rob Barnes The Arts: a Preparation to Teach Shirley Cleave & Caroline Sharpe NFER See What I Mean: an Introduction to Visual Communication John Morgan & Peter Welton Essex Papers in Education: Vol. 1 Art, Craft and Education D. Baines , A. Thornton & M. Kennedy Shula Newick . Fabrics and Wallpapers Mary Schoeser Sixty Alphabets GUnnlaugher S. E. Briem The Art of Chinese Calligraphy Jean Long Design and British Industry Richard Stewart     

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Book Reviews in this article: Trends in curriculum planning, The School Curriculum . W. K. RICHMOND. The banishment of Frend, University Rebel, The Life of William Frend 1757–1841 . FRIDA KNIGHT. The CATS discussed, Policy and Practice: The Colleges of Advanced Technology . TYRRELL BURGESS and JOHN PRATT. A context for programmed learning?, Aspects of Educational Technology IV . Edited by A. C. BAJPAI and J. F. LEEDHAM.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Drawing , PHILIP RAWSON Drawing: Seeing and Observation , IAN SIMPSON A History of Photography: Social and Cultural Perspectives , Ed. Jean -Claud Lemagny & Andree Rouille Trans. Janet Lloyd Saints and She-Devils: Images of Women in the 15th and 16th Centuries , Ed. Lene Dresden -Coenders The Arts at Black Mountain College Mary Emma Harris The Royal College of Art: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Art and Design , Christopher Frayling The Design Dimension: The New Competitive Weapon for Business , Christopher Lorenz Design History: A Students' Handbook , Ed. Hazel Conway Handwriting: Theory, Research and Practice , Jean Alston & Jane Taylor     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Young Friends: Schools and Friendship Roffey, S., Tarrant, T. & Majors, K.
Educating Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties Ware, J. (ed.)
Let's Enjoy Nature Nasheder, M.
School Travel Organker's UK Handbook: Special Educational Needs Edition Grady, C.
Museums and Children with Learning Difficulties: The Big Foot Pearson, A. & Aloysius, C.
Augmentative Communication in Practice: An Introduction Millar, S. & Wilson, A.
Innovations in Educating Children with Severe Learning Difficulties Harris, J. (ed.)
Learning Disabilities: A Neurophysiologica I Perspective Rourke, B.P. & Del Dotto, J.E.     

The treasury grants, 1833–1839

Theory of Education by Margaret Sutherland. 182 pp. Longman (London and New York), £6.75, 1988.

Review of Child Psychology and Childhood Education. By Lawrence Kohlberg. Longman, New York. 1987. 440 pages, index.

Literacy, Schooling and Revolution by Colin Lankshear with Moira Lawler. 1987. London: The Falmer Press, pp. xiv + 260.

Making the Future: Politics and Educational Reform in the United States, England, the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba. Edited by Edgar B. Gumbert, 139 pp. Atlanta, Georgia: Centre for Cross‐cultural Education, College of Education, Georgia State University, 1988. US‐Dollar 11.95.

University Adult Education in Crisis. By John McIlroy and Bruce Spencer. Pp xi, 206. Leeds: Leeds Studies in Adult and Continuing Education, University of Leeds Department of Adult and Continuing Education, 1988. £5.50. ISBN 0.907644.05.7.

A Common Policy for Education. By Mary Warnock. Pp 185. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. £12.95.

Effective Teaching in Higher Education. By George Brown and Madeleine Atkins. Pp vii, 245. London: Methuen. 1988, Price £9.95, ISBN 0–416–09082–6.

Curriculum y Educación. Edited by J. Sarramona. Pp 176. Barcelona: Ediciones CEAC, 1987. No price.

Power to the Parents: reversing educational decline. By Antony Flew. Pp. xii, 171. London: Sherwood Press, 1987. £6.95.

Speaking Mathematically: Communication in Mathematics Classrooms. David Pimm. Pp. 217. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1987. ISBN 0–7102–1133–3. £17.95.

Computing and Change on Campus. S. Kiesler and L. Sproull, Cambridge University Press, 1988, £15.00, pp 254, Cambridge.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Art, Design and Topic Work 8–13 ROB BARNES Unwin Hyman. Introducing Design Technology across the Curriculum TRISTRAM SHEPARD Ideas on Design STUART MACDONALD Hodder & Stoughton Photography: Towards a Multicultural Approach: a Sense of Place JIM HORNSBY (ed) Initiatives in Museum Education EILEAN HOOPER-GREENHILL (ed) Key Terms in Art, Craft and Design Teachers’ Book of Tests and Answers JOHN SKULL The Artist as Anthropologist: the Representation of Type and Character in Victorian Art MARY COWLING     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Arts‐Based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice Edited by Melisa Cahnmann‐Taylor and Richard Siegesmund Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts Michael Grenfell and Cheryl Hardy The Problem of Assessment in Art & Design Edited by Trevor Rayment     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article: A History of Art Education: Intellectual and Social Currents in Teaching the Visual Arts ARTHUR D. EFLAND Approaching Art and Design: A Guide for Students ROD and DOT TAYLOR Museum Education: History, Theory and Practice NANCY BERRY & SUSAN MAYERS (eds)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Rationality of Feeling, David Best Visual Arts in Education: Completing the Circle, Rod Taylor The Arts in the Primary School, Rod Taylor Glennis Andrews Aesthetics and Education, Michael J. Parsons Gene Blocker Art History and Education, Stephen Addiss Mary Erickson Drawing Research and Development: Art and Design Education Series, David Thislewood (Ed)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: The London Institute, Seeing Drawing Howe, Alan; Davies, Dan and Ritchie, Ron, Primary Design and Technology for the Future: Creativity, Culture and Citizenship Gale, Colin and Kaur, Jaspir, The Textile Book Bresler, Liora; Thompson, Marme Christine (eds.), The Arts in Children’s Lives: Context, Culture and Curriculum Harrison, Charles; Wood, Paul and Gaiger, Jason (eds.), Art in Theory 1648–1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Improving Learning: New Perspectives , P Ramsden (ed)
Appreciating Adults Learning: from the Learner's Perspective , David Boud and Virginia Griffin (editors)
Creating Adult Learning , H P Stroomberg (ed) Spruyt, Van Mantgem & De Does by Leiden
Educational Technology; the Closing-in or the Opening-out of Curriculum and Instruction , P Kenneth Komoski
Learning from Experience through Games and Simulations (Perspectives on Gaming and Simulation 13) Danny Saunders, Alan Coote and David Crookall (eds)
Hands-on HyperCard , Mimi Jones and Dave Myers
A Handbook of Computer Based Training, (Second Edition) Christopher Dean and Quentin Whitlock
Mind at Large: Knowing in the Technological Age , Paul Levinson
Implications of New Technology for the School Curriculum , Richard Fothergill
New Technologies and Professional Communications in Education (Occasional Paper 13) , David Smith (ed)
Training for School Management , Bruce S Cooper and R Wayne Shute
The 1988 Education Act: A Tactical Guide for Schools , Martin Leonard
Microcomputers in Secondary Education , S Moriguti, S Ohtsuki and T Furugori (eds)
CD-ROM: Fundamentals to Applications , Charles Oppenheim (ed)
Girls and Computers: General Issues and Case Studies of Logo in the Mathematics Classroom (Bedford Way Papers 34) , Celia Hoyles (ed)
The Media Lab , Stewart Brand
Smart Cards: Principles, Practice, Applications , Roy Bright
Geography in the National Curriculum , Richard Daugherty (ed)
Mastering Statistics , T J Hannagan
Dictionary of Image Technology , Bernard Happe (editor)
HyperCard Power: Techniques and Scripts , Carol Kaehler
1989 Open Learning Directory , Training Agency     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article: The Role of Design in International Competitiveness D. O. UGHANWA and M. J. BAKER Information Graphics: a Survey of Typographic, Diagrammatic and Cartographic Communication Peter Wildbur Discovering 19th Century Fashion: a Look at the Changes in Fashion through the Victoria and Albert Museum's Dress Collection ALEXANDRA BUXTON A Teacher's Guide to Using Portraits SUSAN MORRIS Discerning Art: Concepts and Issues G. W. HARDIMAN and T. ZERNICH     

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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Teaching Children with Visual Impairments A.B. Best
Curricula for Diversity in Education: Learning for All 1 Policies for Diversity in Education: Learning for All 2 T. Booth, W. Swann, M. Masterton, P. Potts (eds.)
The Handbook of Assistive Technology: Equipment in Rehabilitation for Health Professionals Gregory Church, Sharon Glennen Chapman and Hall
Maths and Dyslexics Anne Henderson
Teaching Pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties: Practical Approaches Christina Tilstone David Fulton
Working with Children's Phonology G. Lancaster, L. Pope
Children with Language Disorders J. Lees, S. Urwin
Early Language Development - Implications for Clinical and Educational Practice J. Harris
See Me After School Daphne Lennox David Fulton
Improving Children's Reading in the Junior School: Challenges and Responses Peter Pumfrey
Combatting Mental Handicap: Social and Environmental Factors in the Prevention and Amelioration of Mental Handicap P.L.C. Evans, A.D.B. Clarke
Educational Psychology and Primary Education David Galloway, Anne Edwards Longman
I Can Do It Barnardo's
Dyslexia and Mathematics T.R. Miles, E. Miles     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Jacqueline Hayden (ed), Landscapes in Early Childhood Education: Cross-National Perspectives on Empowerment – A Guide for the New Millennium
Stephen Gorard, Education and Social Justice
Stephen J. Ball, Meg Maguire and Sheila Macrae, Choice, Pathways and Transitions Post-16: New Youth, New Economics and the Global City
Ian Davies (ed), Teaching the Holocaust: Educational Dimensions, Principles and Practice
Trevor Gale and Kathleen Densmore, Just Schooling Explorations in the Cultural Politics of Teaching
Helen Simmons and Robin Usher, Situated Ethics in Educational Research
Otto Peters, Learning and Teaching in Distance Education: Pedagogical Analyses and Interpretations in an International Perspective
Peter Jarvis (ed), Twentieth Century Thinkers in Adult and Continuing Education (2nd edition)
Martin Monk and Kathleen Osborne (eds), Good Practice in Science Teaching: What Research has to say
C. Hoy, C. Bayne-Jardine and M. Wood, Improving Quality in Education
Jane Thompson, The Politics and Practice of Widening Participation in Higher Education
C. Aubrey, T. David, R. Godfrey and L. Thompson, Early Childhood Educational Research
R. Griffith, National Curriculum: National Disaster? Education and Citizenship     

Book reviews

Streznewski, M. K. (1999). Gifted grownups: The mixed blessings of extraordinary potential . New York: John Wiley & Sons (292 pp., $24.95 hb, ISBN‐0–471–29580–9).

Johnson, N.G., Roberts, M.C., & Worell, J., Eds.(1999). Beyond appearance: A new look at adolescent girls . Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (464 pp., ISBN‐1–55798–582–0).

Smutny, J.F. (1998). The young gifted child: Potential and promise, an anthology . Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc. (582 pp. $35.00, paperback, ISBN 1–57273–108–7).

Elias, M. J., Zins, J. E., Weissberg, R. P., Frey, K. S., Green‐berg, M. T., Haynes, N. M., Kessler, R., Schwab‐Stone, M. E., & Shriver, T. P. (1997). Promoting social and emotional learning . Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. (164 pp., $22.95 pb, ISBN‐0–87120–288–3).

Friedman, R. C., & Rogers, K. B. (Eds.). (1998). Talent in context: Historical and social perspectives on giftedness . Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (218 pp., $29.95 Hardback, ISBN 1–55798–493).     

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.