Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Christina Tilstone (ed.), Observing Teaching and Learning
Catherine Clark, Alan Dyson and Alan Millward (eds), Theorising Special Education
B. Wong (ed.), Learning About Learning Disabilities
Ann Farrant, Sibling Bereavement: Helping Children Cope with Loss
Alan Roulstone, Enabling Technology: Disabled People, Work and New Technology
Joan Freeman, Educating the Very Able: Current International Research     

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Book reviewed in this article: Editorial: Order and Progress Art in American Schools in the Nineteenth Century Foster Wygant W. R. Lethaby 1857–1931: Architecture, Design and Education Sylvia Backemeyer and Tag Gronberg (ed) Drawing Figure Movement John Croney Experience and Art: teaching children to paint Nancy R. Smith     

Book Reviews

Caroline Winterer. The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 272pp. Susan Schulten. The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 328pp. Alan R. Sadovnik and Susan F. Semel (eds.). Founding Mothers and Others: Women Educational Leaders During the Progressive Era. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 288pp. Thomas A. O'Donoghue. Upholding the Faith: The Process of Education in Catholic Schools in Australia 1922–1965. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 170pp. Mariorie Lamberti. The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002. 240pp. John L. Rudolph. Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. 288pp. David O. Solmitz. Schooling for Humanity: When Big Brother Isn't Watching. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 244pp. William Westfall. The Founding Moment: Church, Society, and the Construction of Trinity College. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2002.200pp. Tracy Schier and Cynthia Eagle Russett (eds.). Catholic Women's Colleges in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 480pp. Michael Dennis. Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880–1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 272pp. Charles A. Nelson. Radical Visions: Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, and Their Efforts on Behalf of Education and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 2001. 248pp. Martha Stephens. The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 349pp. Karen Graves, Timothy Glander, and Christine Shea (eds.). Inexcusable Omissions: Clarence Karier and the Critical Tradition in History of Education Scholarship. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 313pp. F. Stuart Gulley. The Academic President as Moral Leader: James T. Laney at Emory University, 1977–1993. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001. 250pp. Philippa Strum. Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. 448pp. Ernest Freeburg. The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 272pp. Ellis L. Yochelson. Smithsonian Institution Seretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2001. 589pp.     

Book Reviews

Dealing with Dyslexia (Second Edition) Pat Heaton & Patrick Winterson July 1996 London Whurr Publishers Ltd $40.00 (approx.)

Dyslexia ‐ How Would I Cope? Michael Ryden 1989 London Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 13 Brunswick Centre, London WC1 N1AK $18.00

Paperback, Size 21cm. x 13.5cm., 64pp.

‘This book doesn't make sens cens sns scens sense’ ‐ Living and Learning with Dyslexia Jean Augur First printed 1981, Reprinted 1995 London Whurr Publishers Ltd June Pollard, 2 St. Lois Street, Toowoomba Qld $25.00

Paperback, Size 21cm. x 14cm., 127pp.

Psychological Assessment of Dyslexia Martin Turner 1997 London, UK Whurr Publishers Ltd $52.00

Soft cover, well bound, 15 x 23cm, 364 pages with black and white tables throughout, ISBN 1–897635–53–2.

Dyslexia: Parents in Need Pat Heaton 1996 London, UK Whurr Publishers Ltd $38.50

Dyslexia, Speech and Language: A Practitioner's Handbook Margaret Snowling & Joy Stackhouse (Eds.) 1996 London, UK Whurr Publishers $48.00

Soft cover, well bound, 15 x 23cm, 267 pages, ISBN 1–897635–48–6.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Emotions of teacher stress D. Carlyne & P. Woods Social Capital: critical perspectives Stephen Baron , John Field & Tom Schuller (Eds) The Politics of Professionalism: teachers and the curriculum Gary Mcculloch , Gill Helsby & Peter Knight Towards a Sociology for Childhood‐thinking from children's lives B. Mayall Teacher Learning for Educational Change G. Hoban Smart But Stuck: emotional aspects of learning disabilities and imprisoned intelligence N. Orenstein Writing and Revising the Disciplines J. Monroe (Ed) Creativity in Education A. Craft , B. Jeffrey & M. Leibling (Eds)     

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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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 .     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article: School Improvement in an Era of Change David Hopkins , Mel Ainscow & Mel West Schools of Reconciliation. Issues in joint Roman Catholic-Anglican education Priscilla Chadwick Children's Understanding of Disability A. Lewis Juggling for a Degree-mature students' experience of university life Hilary Arksey , Ian Marchant & Cheryl Simmill (Eds) Japan and the Pursuit of a New American Identity: work and education in a multicultural age Walter Feinberg A Significant Social Revolution: cross-cultural aspects of the evolution of compulsory education J. A. Mangan (Ed.)