Understanding and enhancing pupils’ learning progress in schools in deprived communities

ABSTRACT

This paper draws on data from the ‘Raising Pupil Attainment in Key Stage 1 in Stoke-on-Trent’ research project. The particular focus is on how teachers, head teachers and teaching assistants (n?=?59) articulate pupils’ learning success in five highly achieving schools in deprived communities. Six key themes are highlighted which are identified by participants as influencing successful pupil learning and progress. These are analysed in relation to Biesta's theory on the parameters of ‘Good Education’ [Biesta, G. J. J. 2010. Good Education in an Age of Measurement. Boulder, CO: Paradigm] and within Bourdieu's understanding of ‘distinction’ [Bourdieu, P. 1998. Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action. Oxford: Polity Press]. The research reveals that issues related to socialisation and subjectivity are presented as critical and foundational for the more formal measures of success in pupil learning.     

World War II — Survey of Recent Literature

We Make the Road by Walking by Myles Horton and Paolo Freire. Edited by Brenda Bell, John Gaventa, and John Peters. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990, 248 pp., hardcover. (ISBN 0-8722-771-3)

The Color of Strangers, The Color of Friends: The Play of Ethnicity in School and Community by Alan Peshkin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991, 304 pp., softcover. (ISBN 0-226-66201-2)

In the Mind's Eye by Thomas G. West, Buffalo. New York: Prometheus Books, 1991, 359 pp., hardcover. (ISBN 0-87975-646-2)     

Short notices

Metropolitanism : Its Challenge to Education. Edited by Robert J. Havinghurst, for the National Society for the Study of Education. Pp. xiv, 393. London: University of Chicago Press, 1968. 50s.

Modern Education for the Junior High School Years. By William Van Til, Gordon F. Vars, John H. Lounsbury, Pp. xi, 592. Indianapolis: Bobbs‐Merrill, 1967. $7.50.

The School at Mopass: A Problem of Identity. By A. Richard King. Pp. 96. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. 22s.

Success and Failure at the University, Vol. II: The Problem of Failure. By G. W. Parkyn. Pp. viii, 234. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1967. $ NZ 3.60.

Fundamental Research and the Universities: Some Comments on International Differences. By Joseph Ben‐David. Pp. 111. Paris: O.E.C.D. London: H.M.S.O., 1968. 10s.

Innovation and Change in Reading Instruction. 67th N.S.S.E. Yearbook, Pt. II. Pp. x, 439. London: Chicago University Press, 1968. 50s.

Philosophy of Education: An Organization of Topics and Selected Sources. By Harry S. Broudy, Michael J. Parsons, Ivan A. Snook and Ronald D. Szoke. Pp. xii, 287. University of Illinois Press. London: American University Publishers Group, 1968. Paperback, 25s.

Turning Points in American Educational History. By David B. Tyack. Pp. xiv, 488. Waltham, Mass., and London: Blaisdell Publishing Co. (Ginn and Co.). No price.

Prayer in the Public Schools : Law and Attitude Change. By William K. Muir, Jr. Pp. ix, 170. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1968. 54s.

Decimal Currency in Britain. By D. Neville Wood. Pp. 92. London: Ward Lock, 1968. 15s.; 75 New Pence.

World Affairs since 1939: The United States and Canada. By J. R. Mitchell. Pp. viii, 220. Oxford: Blackwell, 1968. 22s. 6d.

The Education of Mations. By Robert Ulich. Revised edition. Pp. xv, 365. Harvard University Press. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. 76s.

Educational Documents : England and Wales, 1816–1967. By J. Stuart Maclure. Second Edition. Pp. ix, 323. London: Methuen (Education Paperbacks), 1968. 25s.

Educational Policy and the Mission Schools: Case Studies from the British Empire. Edited by Brian Holmes. Pp. xv, 352. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968. 50s.     

From gender-not-an-issue to gender is the issue: the educational and migrational pathways of middle-class women moving from urban Bangladesh to Britain

This paper explores the educational and migrational pathways which a number of middle-class women from Bangladesh took as they grew up in the 1980s and 1990s. It draws on qualitative research, conducted between July and November 2011, with highly educated Bangladeshi women who migrated to Britain in the early 2000s. French Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's critique of education, as a means of middle-class social reproduction [Bourdieu, P., and Jean-C. Passeron. ([1977] 1990). Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture. 2nd ed. Translated from the French by Richard Nice. London: Sage], and his notion of ‘academic capital’ [Bourdieu, P. 1984. Distinction: A social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Translated from the French by Richard Nice. London: Routledge; Bourdieu, P. 1986. “The Forms of Capital.” In Handbook of Theory and Research For the Sociology of Education, edited by J. G. Richardson, 241–258. New York: Greenwood] are applied to this empirical data. While the participants’ experiences of early education confirms Bourdieu's arguments, in terms of the centrality of the family's educational and cultural capital in making a qualitative difference to their children's academic achievements, the analysis of the participants’ higher education complicates this picture. Here, the paper calls Bourdieu's umbrella term ‘academic capital’ into question. The author suggests that three categories of academic capital were needed to explain the different and unequal ‘value’ of the participants’ academic qualifications before and after migration. These are – elite, standard and general. Through this exploration of these women's educational and migrational pathways, and the classed and gendered nature which many of them took, this paper seeks to further the feminist project of making Bourdieu's theories ‘useful’ in understanding contemporary issues which affect women's lives (Adkins, L. 2004. “Introduction.” In Feminism After Bourdieu, edited by L. Adkins and B. Skeggs, 110–128. Oxford: Blackwell, 3).     

The Teaching Principal is a Supervising Principal

Educational Wastelands (second edition) by Arthur Bestor. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1985, 292 pp.

In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America by Barbara Miller Solomon. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985, 298 pp. hardcover

Curriculum and Aims by Decker F. Walker and Jonas F. Soltis. New York: Teachers College Press, 1986, 716 pp., softcover.

The Duke Longitudinal Studies of Normal Aging 1955-1980 by Ewald W. Busse and George L Maddox. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1985, 168 pp.,     

Some sources for the history of technical education in England —Part One

The Economics of Education. By J. Vaizey. Pp. 165. Faber and Faber, 1962. 21s.

Education for the Professions. Edited by Nelson B. Henry. The 61st Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II. Pp. xi, 312, cvii. University of Chicago Press, 1962. $4.50.

American Higher Education: A Documentary History. By Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith. Two vols., pp. xv+474, viii + 542. University of Chicago Press, 1962. $15.00.

Ability and Educational Opportunity. Edited by A. H. Halsey. Pp. an. London: H.M. Stationery Office (for O.E.C.D.), 1962. 15s.

Medicine—A Lifelong Study. (Proceedings of the Second World Conference on Medical Education, Chicago, 1959.) Edited by Hugh Clegg, B.M.J., London. Pp. XX+816. New York and London: World Medical Association, 1961. £6.18s.od.

Learning and Living, 1790–1960. By J. F. C. Harrison. Pp. 404. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1961. 45s.

University Adult Education. By Renee and William Petersen, and Warren Rovetch. Pp. 288. New York: Harper, 1961. $5.50.

The Inquiring Mind. By C. O. Houle. Pp. 88. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. $5, and (paper) $1.50.

Parent Education—an International Survey. By H. H. Stern. Pp. 164. University of Hull and Unesco Institute for Education, 1961. 6s. (paper).

The Growth of Basic Mathematical and Scientific Concepts in Children. By K. Lovell. Pp. 154. University of London Press, 1962. 15s.

On Teaching Mathematics. By B. Thwaites. Pp. 116. London: Pergamon Press, 1962. 7s. 6d.

Popular Lectures in Mathematics. Parts 2, 4, 5, 6. About 75 pp each. London: Pergamon Press, 1962. 10s. each.

Philosophy and Education. By Louis Arnaud Reid. Pp. xvi, 203. London: Heinemann, 1962. 25s.

Modern Philosophies of Education (Third Edition). By John S. Brubacher. Pp. ix, 373. New York and London: McGraw‐Hill, 1962. 52s. 6d.

An Introduction to the Sociology of Education. By Karl Mannheim and W. A. C. Stewart. Pp. xyiii, 187. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. 21s.

Sociometry and Education. By K. M. Evans. Pp. vii, 149. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. 18s.     

Conceptualising technology practice in education using Bourdieu's sociology

Evidence from large-scale studies of primary and secondary students’ technology practices at school over the last decade show disparities in student practices and suggest that schools need to do more to cater for all students. Research that explores the influence of social and cultural factors may be useful for understanding such inequality in student practice. Bourdieu’s theory of practice [(1977). Outline of a Theory of Practice. London: Cambridge University Press] is proposed as an example of a sociological theory that can be adopted in educational technology research to move towards understanding the wider complexities of technology practice. To encourage discourse and application of Bourdieu’s sociology in the field of educational technology research, this paper provides an introduction to the theory, a review of its application in research of primary and secondary students’ technology practice and relevant conceptual work. The paper presents a conceptual framework based on Bourdieu’s theory that has been developed through two recent studies, and review of empirical and conceptual works and invites its application in future research so that it can be critiqued and further developed.     

Climatology for guidance

African Education: An Introductory Survey of Education in Commonwealth Countries. Donald G. Burns. (London: Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 215. $2.40.)

Education Through English: The Use of English in African Schools. Eva Engholm. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. 182. $4.50.)

Techniques of Teaching. A. D. C. Peterson, editor. (New York: Pergamon Press, Inc., 1965. 3 volumes. $2.95 each volume.) (Vol. 1, Primary Education; vol. 2, Secondary Education; vol. 3, Tertiary Education.)

Education and the Development of Nations. John W. Hanson and Cole S. Brembeck, editors. (New York: Holt, Reinehart and Winston, Inc., 1966. Pp. 529. $4.95, paper.)

The Experience of Higher Education. Peter Marris. (New York: Humanities Press, 1964. Pp. 220. $5.00.)

Psychology and Education of the Gifted: Selected Readings. Walter B. Barbe, editor. (New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1965. Pp. 534. $4.50, paper.)

The Public Schools and Religion, the Legal Context. Sam Duker. (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1965. Pp. 238. $2.75.)

Society Schools and Progress in the U.S.A. Edmund J. King. (New York: Pergamon Press, Inc., 1965. Pp. 241. $4.50.)

Teaching Gifted Students: A Book of Readings. James J. Gallagher, editor. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1965. $6.00, paper.)     

The Great Teacher is a Creative Individual

Paradoxes of Education in a Republic By Eva Brann The University of Chicago Press, 1979,172 pages, $12.95. Reviewed by Perry C. Mason.

Group Memory: A Guide to College and Student Survival in the 1980s By Alston Chase Boston: Little, Brown, xviii + 330 pages, $12.95 Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth.

Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and Its Decline By John Simon New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980, 222 pages, index, $12.95. Reviewed by Carol A. Martin.     

Speech: The wedemeyer award, 1989

Beyond the Text: Contemporary Writing on Distance Education. Edited by Terry Evans and Bruce King (Geelong, Victoria, Australia: Deakin University Press, 1991, 264 pp., $25.50 Australian Dollars).     

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.     

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

Education's Lasting Influence on Values: By Herbert H. Hyman and Charles R. Wright: University of Chicago Press, 1979, 161 pages, index, $12.50. Reviewed by William B. Allen.

Attitudes, Language, and Change: By Anne Gere and Eugene Smith: National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Illinois, 1979, $4.75, 108 pages, paperback. Reviewed by Gary M. Godfrey.

Instructional Techniques in Higher Education: By Robert B. Kozma, Lawrence W. Belle, George W. Williams: Educational Technical Publications, Inc. 1978, $15.95. Reviewed by Sharon L. Smith.

The Writing on the Wall: Inside Higher Education in America: By Gail Thain Parker: Simon and Schuster, 1979, $9.95, 208 pp. Reviewed by James Murphy.

American Academics: Then and Now: By Logan Wilson: Oxford University Press, 1979. Reviewed by David W. Felder.     

Review articles

The Essential Grammar School. By H. A. Rée. Pp. 86. London: Harrap, 1956. 7s. 6d.

Secondary Modern. By Harold Loukes. Pp. 127. London: Harrap, 1956. 7s. 6d.

Comprehensive Education: A New Approach. By Robin Pedley. Pp. 203. London: Gollancz, 1956. 13s. 6d.

A Design for Democracy. Adult Education Association of the U.S.A., Canadian Association for Adult Education, and National Institute of Adult Education. Pp. 222. London: Max Parrish, 1956. 15s.

Adult Education in Transition: a study of institutional insecurity. By Burton R. Clarke. Pp. vi + [160]. University of California Press, 1956. 3 dollars.

Adult Reading. The 55th Year Book of the National Society for the Study of Education. Part II. Edited by Nelson B. Henry. Pp. x+279+lxxxiv. University of Chicago Press, 1956.

The Tear Book of Education 1956. Edited by Robert King Hall and J. A. Lauwerys. Pp. xii +595. London: Evans Bros., 1956. 63s.

The Imperial Intellect: A Study of Newman's Educational Ideal. By A. Dwight Culler. Pp. xiii, 327. Yale University Press; London, Cumberlege, 1956. 40s.

John Henry Newman: Autobiographical Writings. Edited by Henry Tristram. Pp. xi, 338. London: Sheed and Ward, 1956. 18s.

The Education of Toung Children. By D. E. M. Gardner. Pp. 118. London: Methuen, 1956. 7s. 6d.

Labour and Learning. By H. P. Smith. Pp. 92. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956. 7s. 6d.

Pioneers of Popular Education, 1760–1850. By H. M. Pollard. Pp. ix+297. London: Murray, 1956. 28s.

Language and the Pursuit of Truth. By John Wilson. Pp. 105. Cambridge University Press, 1956. 8s 6d.

The Pronunciation of English. By Daniel Jones. Pp. xiv + 221. Cambridge University Press, 1956. 12s. 6d.

A Handwriting Manual. By Alfred Fairbank. Pp. 84 & 31 plates. London: Faber & Faber, 1956. 15s.

The Calligrapher's Handbook. Edited by C. M. Lamb. Pp. 252 & 50 plates. London: Faber & Faber, 1956. 30s.

The Child''s Conception of Space. By Jean Piaget and Baerbel Inhelder. Translated from the French by F. J. Langdon and J. L. Lunzer. Pp. 490. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956.

Some Observations on American Education. By Robert M. Hutchins. Pp. xiii, 112. Cambridge University Press, 1956. 15s.

A History of American Education. By H. G. Good. Pp. vii, 570. New York and London: The Macmillan Company, 1956. 42s.     

Book reviews

Post‐Secondary Distance Education in Canada: Policies, Practices, and Priorities. Edited by Robert Sweet. (Edmonton, Alberta: Athabasca University and the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, 1989, 272 pp., $15.95 Canadian.)

The Computer Revolution in Education: New Technologies for Distance Teaching. Edited by Ann Jones, Eileen Scanlon and Tim O'Shea. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 282 pp. $37.50)     

“Design” in the theatre

THE DEATH OF LITERATURE. By Alvin Kernan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990; pp. ix + 230. $22.50.

ECOLOGICAL COMMUNICATION. By Liklas Luhmann. Translated by John Bednarz, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989, pp. xviii + 187. $34.95.

DEMOCRATIC ELOQUENCE: THE FIGHT OVER POPULAR SPEECH IN NINETEENTH‐CENTURY AMERICA. By Kenneth Cmiel. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990; 351 pp. $24.95.

IN PRAISE OF AENEAS: VIRGIL AND EPIDEICTIC RHETORIC IN THE EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. By Craig Kallendorf. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1989; pp. x + 228. $30.00.

DIALOGUE AND DECONSTRUCTION: THE GADAMER‐DERR1DA ENCOUNTER. Edited by Diane P. Michelfelder and Richard E. Palmer. Albany: SUNY Press, 1989; pp. 352. $17.95.

THE OTHER MARTIN BUBER: REFLECTIONS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES. Edited by Haim Gordon. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1988; pp. xiii + 180 $18.95.

LANGUAGE AND SPECIES. By Derek Bickerton. Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, 1990; pp. x +297. $24.95.

CONTROL THROUGH COMMUNICATION: THE RISE OF SYSTEM IN AMERICAN MANAGEMENT. By JoAnne Yates. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989; pp. xx. + 339. $29.50.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: APOSTLE OF MILITANT NONVIOLENCE, by James A. Colaiaco. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988; pp. vii + 238. $29.95.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, THEOLOGIAN, ORATOR, Vols. I—III. Edited by David J. Garrow. Brooklyn, New York: Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1989; pp. xi + 1017. $225.00.

PLAYING THE GAME: THE PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC OF RONALD REAGAN. By Mary E. Stuckey. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990; pp. xiv + 127. $37.95.

THE PRESIDENTS PARTNER: THE FIRST LADY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Myra G. Gutin. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989; pp. x + 195. $39.95.

THE RHETORIC OF SCIENCE. By Alan G. Gross. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990; pp. viii + 248. $29.95

MODERN RHETORICAL CRITICISM. By Roderick P. Hart. Glenview, 111.: Scott, Foresman/Little Brown Higher Education, 1990; pp. 542. paper $18.00.     

Opportunity in Alaska by George Sundborg. The Macmillan Company. 287 pp. $2.50

I Ought to but… A Philosophical Approach to the Problem of Weakness of Will in Education by Roger Straughan. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1982. 235 pp. $23.00.

The Problem of Values in Educational Thought by Philip L. Smith. Ames, la.: Iowa State University Press, 1982. 92 pp. $4.50.

Holistic Education: Teaching of Science in the Affective Domain by Isadore L. Sonnier. New York: Philosophical Library, 1982. 126 pp. $13.95.

Shaping Legislative Decisions: Educational Policy and the Social Sciences by Douglas E. Mitchell. Lexington, Ma.: Lexington Books, Inc., 1981.201 pp. $22.95.

“I Respectfully Disagree with the Judge's Order”: The Boston School Desegregation Controversy by J. Michael Ross and William M. Berg. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, Inc., 1981. 745 pp.     

Speaking of books

Changing Aims in Religious Education. Edwin Cox. New York: Humanities Press, 1967. 102 pp. $3.50.

Contemporary Mathematics for Elementary Teachers. Howard F. Fehr and Thomas J. Hill. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1966. 394 pp. $7.95.

Creative Encounters in the Classroom: Teaching and Learning Through Discovery. Bryon G. Massialas and Jack Zevin. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, Inc., 1967. 274 pp. $3.50.

Gods and Rituals: Readings in Religious Beliefs and Practices. John Middleton, New York: The Natural History Press, 1967. 468 pp. $6.95.

Language and Learning. Janet A. Emig, James T. Fleming, and Helen M. Popp, editors. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1966. 301 pp. $3.50.

Schools of Europe. Richard Emerson Werstler. Adrian, Michigan: Swenk‐Tuttle Press, 1967. 203 pp. $10.00.

Teaching Adults to Read. Wayne Otto and David Ford. Boston: Houghton‐Mifflin Company, 1967. 176 pp. $3.95.

What Is a Teacher? Henry W. Simon. New York: Collier Books, 1966. 96 pp. $.95.

Paul A. Witty, editor. The Educationally Retarded and Disadvan‐taged The Sixty‐Sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part 1. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1967. 384 pp.

Report of the Harvard Committee. The Graduate Study of Education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. 125 pp. $2.75.     

Educational Records: II Some sources for the History of English grammar schools

Soviet Education for Science and Technology. By Alexander G. Korol. Pp. xxv, 513. London: Chapman and Hall, 1957. 68s.

The Development of Education in Canada. By Charles E. Phillips. Pp. xiii, 626. Toronto: W. J. Gage and Company Ltd., 1957. 6½ dollars.

La Scuola Italiana dal 1870 al Giorni Nostri. By Dina Bertoni. Jovine. Pp. 500. Rome: Editori Riuniti, 1958. 3500 lire.

The Revolution in Education. By Mortimer J. Adler and Milton Mayer. Pp. 224. University of Chicago Press and Cambridge University Press, 1958. 28s.

Adolf Reichwein: eine politisch‐pädagogische Biographie. By James L. Henderson, translated and edited by Helmut Lindemann. Pp. 224. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags‐Anstalt, 1958. No price.

Psychology and Teaching. By H. S. N. McFarland. Pp. 232. London: Harrap, 1958. 12s. 6d.

New Opportunities for Deaf Children. By I. R. and A. W. G. Ewing. Pp. 145. University of London Press, 1958. 15s.

Eleven‐Year‐Olds Grow Up. By John S. Macpherson. Publication XLII of the Scottish Council for Research in Education. Pp. xxiii, 186. London: University of London Press, 1958. 15s.

What Happened to Religious Education? The Decline of Religious Teaching in the Public Elementary School, 1776–1861. By William Kailer Dunn. Pp. xv, 346. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1958. 40s.

Secondary Modern Schools: an Interim Report. By H. C. Dent. Pp. xvi, 207. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958. 15s.

Other Schools and Ours. By E. J. King. Pp. xiv, 234. New York: Rinehart, 1958. 24s.

Sociological Review, Monograph Number 1: Papers on the teaching of personality development. Pp. 132. University College of North Staffs, Keele, July 1958. 12s.

The Growth of Logical Thinking. By Barbel Inhelder and Jean Piaget. Pp. xxiv, 356. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1958. 32s.

Education through Art. By Herbert Read. Pp. 352. London: Faber &; Faber, 3rd revised edition, 1958. 35s.

The Education of the Individual. By Alfred Adler. Pp. xi, 143. New York: Philosophical Library, 1958. 3½ dollars.

Friends and their Children. By Harold Loukes. Pp. 128. London: Harrap, 1958. 9s. 6d.     

The war and intercollegiate contests

Educational Wastelands. By Arthur E. Bestor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1953; pp. 226. $3.50.

General Education and the Liberal College. By William F. Cunningham. St. Louis and London: B. Herder Book Co., 1953; pp. 286. $4.00.

Causes of Public Unrest Pertaining to Education. Edited by Raymond F. Howes. Washington, D. C.: American Council on Education, 1953; pp. 80. $1.00.

The Conflict in Education in a Democratic Society. By Robert M. Hutchins. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953; pp. 112. $2.00.

The University of Utopia. By Robert M. Hutchins. University of Chicago Press, 1953; pp. 103. $2.50.

Quackery in the Public Schools. By Albert Lynd. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953; pp. 282. $3.50.

How to Judge a School—A Handbook for Puzzled Parents and Tired Taxpayers. By William F. Russell. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954; pp. 143. $2.50.

Education and Social Integration. By William O. Stanley. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1953; pp. 290. $4.50.

The Changing Humanities. By David H. Stevens. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953; pp. 272. $4.00.

Public Education and Its Critics. By V. T. Thayer. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954; pp. 170. $2.50.

Let's Talk Sense About Our Schools. By Paul Woodring. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1953; pp. 215. $3.50.