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Reading in Primary Schools
1st Edition
By Geoffrey R. Roberts
July 16, 2020
Learning to read and the teaching of reading have long been surrounded with controversy. Originally published in 1969, this book takes the view that the subject is best approached via linguistic theory. The relationship between reading and spoken language is clearly brought out in the author’s ...
The Active Teacher: Training and Assessment
1st Edition
By J. Elizabeth Richardson
July 16, 2020
Originally published in 1955, this book holds some techniques for helping teachers to diagnose their own faults and learn from one another. The first part is concerned with the handling of speech problems in general and the second part with the training of English specialists. Today it can be read ...
The Education of Children Engaged in Industry in England 1833-1876
1st Edition
By Adam Henry Robson
July 16, 2020
Originally published in 1931, this title looks at the education received by children working in industry in England between 1833 and 1876. The industrial revolution created more demand for child labour than ever before, but there were few laws to protect the children involved. School was not ...
The Future of the Sixth Form
1st Edition
By A.D.C. Peterson
July 16, 2020
Originally published in 1973, the nature of the sixth form and the objectives of sixth-form schooling were important issues in the field of education at the time. The author here provides a searching analysis of the changing structure and composition of the sixth form. He surveys the continued ...
The Place of Play in Education
1st Edition
By M. Jane Reaney
July 16, 2020
Originally published in 1927, this was a book written specially for teachers and parents, based upon the writer’s practical experience and research. It deals with the fundamental importance of play in the child’s development and as a basis for all education. A set of 74 games, arranged by Miss Amy ...
Wittgenstein: Making Sense of Other Minds
1st Edition
By Mark Addis
July 06, 2020
Originally published in 1999, Wittgenstein: Making Sense of Other Minds explores human relations and the issues raised by one immensely influential response to the problems generated by the claims about the existence and properties of other minds. How do we justify the interpretations which we ...
A Macroeconomics Model and Stabilisation Policies for the OPEC Countries: With Special Reference to the Iraqi Economy
1st Edition
By A. Khalik Salman
July 03, 2020
First published in 1999, this book focuses on the macroeconomics issues which directly affect OPEC countries, aiming to set them in the context of the overall development effort. The most extant theoretical and empirical aspects in macroeconomics are integrated smoothly with institutional issues ...
Ceylon
1st Edition
By Lord Holden
July 03, 2020
Published in 1939, this book provides a comprehensive observation of Ceylon and the Ceylonese people. Covering topics including the rest-house; the Lord Buddha; the Lost cities; Sigiriya, Buddhist temples and the Jungle, the book considers the human geography of the island calibrating it with the ...
Dreams of Power: The Role of the Organization of African Unity in the Politics of Africa 1963-1993
1st Edition
By K. van Walraven
July 03, 2020
Originally published in 1999, this book was the first study to provide a systematic reconstruction of the OAU's ideological ground-work. It is based on OAU documents; a corpus of African perceptions of OAU functioning collected from governmental and non-governmental newspapers and publications from...
Language, Ideology and Social Consciousness: Developing a Sociohistorical Approach
1st Edition
By Chik Collins
July 03, 2020
Originally published in 1999, this book sets out to develop a distinctive, critical approach to the study of social consciousness through empirical studies of sociopolitical conflict in the west of Scotland. It accords an analytical priority to language-use and provides a critical review of a ...
Making Residential Care Work: Structure and Culture in Children's Homes
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Brown, Roger Bullock, Caroline Hobson, Michael Little
July 03, 2020
This book was originally published in 1998, when over 6,000 children lived in residential homes in England and Wales. The fact that some children's homes are better than others is well established, but why should this be so? Past answers have tended to be tautologous - rather on the lines of 'a ...
Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-1797): Theatre, Opera and Art
1st Edition
Edited
By David Charlton, Mark Ledbury
July 03, 2020
Originally published in 2000, this book highlights the interst Sedaine's life and work is now, belatedly, provoking in many scholarly disciplines. If Sedaine speaks today to literary history, theatre history and opera studies, it is because he possessed a multivalent vision, one which accounts for ...