Comparative education studies in great Britain

Philosophy and Human Movement. By David Best. Pp. 164. London: George Allen &; Unwin, (Unwin Education Books), 1978. £3.50 (paperback).

Perimeters of Social Repair. Edited by W. H. G. Armytage and John Peel. Pp. 157. London, New York and San Francisco: Academic Press, 1978. (No price.)

The University of Hull: the first Fifty Years. By T. W. Bamford. Pp. x, 290. London: OUP for University of Hull, 1978. £8.00.

Education and Industry in the Nineteenth Century: the English disease? By G. W. Roderick and M. D. Stephens. Pp. ix+196. London: Longman, 1978. £3.95.

Education in Britain since 1944. By W. K. Richmond. Pp. 168. London: Methuen, 1978. £7.00. Education paperback £2.95.

Paths to Excellence and the Soviet School. By John Dunstan. Pp. 302. Windsor: National Foundation for Educational Research Publishing Company, 1978. £9.75.

From Armstrong to Nuffield: Studies in twentieth‐century science education in England and Wales. By E. W. Jenkins. Pp. viii, 318. London: John Murray, 1979. Hardback £7.92, Limp £3.95.

Educational Research: the Art and Science of Investigation. By G. J. Monly. Pp. 390. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1978. £12.80.

Learning Later: Fresh Horizons in English Adult Education. By Enid and Edward Hutchinson. Pp. 200. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. £6.95.

The Evaluation of In‐Service Teacher Training. By E. S. Henderson. Pp. 224. London: Croom Helm, 1978. £9.95. ISBN: 0 85664 619 9.

How Shall I Put It? By Malcolm Young. Pp. 97. Hythe: Marsland Press, 1978. £3.50. ISBN o 85606 060 7.     

NewsLetter

Colin Conner, University of Cambridge Institute of Education, Learning: Principles, Processes and Practices, Rosemary J. Stevenson and Joy A. Palmer. London: Cassell, 1994. 216 pp. pb ISBN 0 304 32563 5, £12.99

Caroline Lodge, NAPCE National Committee, Life Goes On, Two training videos from St Margaret's Somerset Hospice. Taunton, Somerset: Emerald Films Production. £50 each, £75 for two +£1.75 p + p.

Caroline Lodge, NAPCE National Committee, Chasing Rainbows: Children, Divorce and Loss , by Brynna Kroll. Lyme Regis: Russell House Publishing Limited, 1994. 187pp. pb ISBN 1 898924 10 4, £14.95

Carrie Herbert, Carrie Herbert Consultancy, Cambridge, Bullying and the Dysfluent Child in the Primary SchoolA pack to help teachers with a dysfluent child in their class and speech and language therapists working with small groups of dysfluent children. Produced by Siobhan Mooney and Jim Lewis for The British Stammering Association, 15 Old Ford Road, London E2 9PJ. £18.90.     

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     

Book Review

Steve Adams, Derbyshire LEA/University of Nottingham School of Education, The Evaluation of Pastoral Care, Clemett, Tony & Pearce, John, 1986, Blackwell, £5.95 pp. 180

Margaret Bowes, John Port School, Art Therapy for Groups, Marian Liebmann 1986, Croom Helm Ltd., £9.95 [Paperback], ISBN 0-7099-4108-0

Sylvia Lindoe, Westhill College, The Education of Children with Severe Learning Difficulties: Bridging the gap between Theory and Practice Coupe, J. & Porter, J. (1986), London, Croom Helm Paperback £9.95

Michael Marland, North Westminster School, “You don't have to fill in a form to have a baby” The frustrations and fulfilment of the adoption process Margaret S. Evans, 1986. Family Welfare Association. £2.95     

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.     

Teaching poetry

The two articles which follow suggest ways in which teachers can encourage young readers to read poetry with greater pleasure and understanding. The articles complement each other, not least because Andrew Stibbs had a hand in both of them. The first piece discusses various approaches with illustrative detail; the second provides a list of suggestions.Andrew Stibbs taught in English secondary schools for fifteen years and is now a Lecturer in Education at the University of Leeds. He has published articles on English teaching and on children's literature (some of them inCle), poems, andAssessing Children's Language (Ward Lock Educational, for the National Association for the Teaching of English).     

Studies at queen's college,Harley street, 1848–1868

Preface to the Philosophy of Education. By J. Wilson. Pp. x, 249. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1979. £9.95.

Doctrines of the Great Educators. By Robert R. Rusk. Fifth edition revised by James Scotland. Pp. viii, 310. London: Macmillan, 1979. £10.00, paperback £4.95.

Growing Up With Philosophy. Ed. by Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp. Pp. 410. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978. $20.00.

John Stuart Mill's Theory of Education. By F. W. Garforth. Pp. xiii, 269. Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1979. £12.00.

Teachers of Teachers: a history of the Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education. By Joan D. Browne. Pp. 277. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979. Boards edition £9.95; paperback edition £4.95.

Understanding Educational Research: An Introduction. Fourth edition. By Deobold B. Van Dalen. Pp. 547. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, 1979. £12.00.

Communicative Syllabus Design. By J. Munby. Pp. vi, 232. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. £6.95.

Social pressures and curriculum innovation: A study of the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project. By Mary Waring. Pp. viii, 263. London: Methuen, 1979. £4.95.

The University Teacher and his World: A Sociological and Educational Study. By Richard Startup. Pp. ix, 178. Farnborough, Saxon House, 1979. £10.50.

Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934. By Sheila Fitzpatrick. Pp. x, 355. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. £15.50.

Planning in Education. By B. W. Vaughan. Pp. vii, 120. Cambridge University Press, 1979. Hardback £9.50, paperback £4.75.

The Effective Use of Reading. Edited by E. Lunzer and K. Gardiner. Pp. 337. London: Heinemann Educational Books for the Schools Council, 1979. £4.50 paper.     

The Aims of English Teaching: A View from History

Once again, the National Curriculum orders for English are being rewritten. The writers of the new curriculum have looked to the education systems of ‘high-performing jurisdictions’ for inspiration. The result is a curriculum draft that offers a limited view of the subject and one which apparently fails to prioritise the needs of the learner. The model of English developed in the postwar years by those working within the London Association for the Teaching of English (LATE) offers a very different view of the subject. The Aims of English Teaching is an early document articulating LATE’s vision of the subject; this article offers a reading of this document and suggests that there may be much in this history to draw on as teachers are apparently offered more freedom to design their own programmes of study.     

Demographics and professional practices of school psychologists: A comparison of NASP members and non–NASP school psychologists by telephone survey

A national telephone survey was conducted to examine potential differences between National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) members and non–NASP member school psychologists. Identified schools were contacted by telephone and the researchers asked to speak with the school psychologist. A sample of 124 practicing school psychologists was obtained. Overall, 57.3% (n = 71) of respondents were NASP members, and 42.7% (n = 53) were not. In most respects, current results were similar to NASP‐member‐only surveys. Current results suggest that previous studies overestimated the proportion of NASP members among school psychologists and may have underestimated the total number of school‐based practitioners. Significant differences between NASP members and nonmembers were found in ethnicity, national certification, professional organization membership, and use of Curriculum Based Measurement. Results are discussed in the context of previous national surveys. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

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.     

Anxiety and education

A Lesson For Us All. The making of the national curriculum. By Duncan Graham with David Tytler. Pp. 160. Index. London: Routledge, 1993. £12.99. ISBN 0–415–08928‐X (pbk)

Schools in Wales 1500–1900: a Social and Architectural History by Malcolm Seaborne. Pp. 273. Denbigh: Gee &; Son Ltd., 1992. £15.00 hardback, ISBN 0–7074–0222–0

School and Community in Rural Wales by J. Roger Webster, 345 pp., Aberystwyth, Y Ganolfan Astudiaethau Addysg, 1991, £7.95 paper, ISBN 1 85644 139 3

Developing Assessment for the National Curriculum. Edited by Caroline Gipps. Pp viii, 103. London: Kogan Page in association with The Institute of Education, University of London, 1992. £12.95 paperback. 0–7494–0837–5. The Bedford Way Series.

Schools and Employment Law. By Patricia Leighton. Pp 168. London: Cassell, 1992. £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0–304–32445–0.

Policy and Power in Education: The rise and fall of the LEA. H. Heller with P. Edwards. Pp 232. Index. London: Routledge, 1992. £35 hardcover. ISBN 0–415–06982–3. Routledge Educational Management Series.

Public Expenditure on Higher Education: a Comparative Study in the Member States of the European Community. Frans Kaiser, Raymond J. G. M. Florax, Jos. B.J. Koelman, Frans A. van Vught. Pp 251. Index. London: Jessica Kingsley, 1992. 00.00 hardcover. ISBN 1 85302 532 1 hc. Higher Education Policy Series, Volume 18.

The Search for Enlightenment: The Working Class and Adult Education in the Twentieth Century Edited by Brian Simon. Pp 334. Index. Name Index. Leicester: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 1992. £10.95 flexicover. ISBN 1 872941 21 4.

Integrating Special Children: Some Ethical Issues. Edited by Gavin and Susan Fairbairn. Ppxi, 163. Index. Aldershot: Avebury, 1992. £30 hardback. ISBN 1 85628 259 7.

The Search for Quality: Planning for Improvement and Managing Change. By Del Goddard and Marilyn Leask. Pp xii, 242. Paul Chapman Publishers, 1992. £14.95. Paperback. ISBN 1–85396–190–6. Education Management Series.

Developing Resourceful Humans: adult education within the economic context. Edited by Lynn Elen Burton. Pp xvi, 222. Index. London: Routledge 1992 £40 hardcover. ISBN 0–415–00121–8.

Community Education in the Third World. Edited by Cyril Poster and Jurgen Zimmer. Pp. viii 253. London: Routledge, 1992. £35 hardcover. ISBN 0 415 04209 7.

Teachers’ Voices for School Change: An Introduction to Educative Research. Andrew Gitlin et al. Pp 207. London: Routledge, 1992. £35.00 hardback; £11.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 05612 8 hb; ‐ 05613 6 pb. Routledge series in Investigating Schooling.

The Contours of Christian Education. Edited by J. Astley and D. Day. Pp 428. Index. Great Wakering, Essex (Great Britain). McCrimmons, 1992. £8.50p, Flexicover. ISBN 0 85597 495 8.

Women and Literacy, Marcela Ballara, xii, 84 pages, London, Zed Books, 1992. £29.95 hardcover; £9.95 paperback. ISBN 1–85648–980–9 (hardcover); ISBN 1–85649–981–7 (paperback). Women and World Development Series.     

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     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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     

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     

A Tale of Two Conferences: L.A.T.E., Two Key Moments in the Development of ‘London' English and the Questions that Still Need Asking

Current and recent policy around curriculum and pedagogy for English in England has seen a lack of principled thinking about what the subject should be and how it should best serve the needs of children. In postwar England, in London in particular, teachers and academics working within the London Association for the Teaching of English (L.A.T.E.) were engaged in just such principled thinking, driven by the need to formulate a ‘new' English in the context of a changing school landscape and a changing school population. Central to L.A.T.E.'s work was the focus on the child, and the need to devise a model of the subject that was, at its core, responsive to the experience, interests and language of students. Given the direction central policy around English has taken in the past 20 years, this article considers the importance of reevaluating L.A.T.E.'s work, and considers two key conferences in the history of the Association as important watershed moments in the development of these aspects of ‘London' English. In doing so, it argues that the questions for which L.A.T.E. members sought answers are precisely those that should be asked today, but that seem to be absent from policymakers' debates about English.     

Beyond externalizing and finalizing definitions: Standards for Teachers of English Language and Literacy in Australia (STELLA)

This article explores issues relating to the development of the Standards for Teachers of English Language and Literacy in Australia (STELLA). STELLA is the product of work by members of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) and the Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA), the two key professional bodies in Australia representing secondary English teachers and primary school literacy teachers respectively. However, the question remains as to the extent to which English literacy teachers around Australia can meaningfully identify with these standards. This article asks whether professional standards can provide a framework for practitioner inquiry and the renewal of the English teaching profession in contradistinction to managerial pressures to impose standards for regulatory purposes.