How have the ideals of working-class secondary education related to its practical outcomes, and to what extent has it failed the 'ordinary child'? How can the historical tradition of working-class secondary education illuminate our understanding of contemporary debates at the end of the 20th century? In seeking to answer these questions, this book explores working-class secondary education over the past century in terms that help to explain the unresolved issues and debates of the 1990s. It focuses on social distinctions in secondary education, and especially on initiatives designed to provide for the mass of the population, or the 'ordinary child'.

Failing the Ordinary Child?: The Theory and Practice of Working-Class Secondary Education

Education & Teaching

McCulloch, Gary

Schools & Teaching

Open Univ Pr

History

Historical Research in Educational Settings

* What is historical research in education? * How can researchers get started in this area? * Why does this field offer a common project for historians, educationists, and researchers across the social sciences? This book explores how to set about historical research in education. The first general guide of its kind for fifty years, the book locates this field in relation to changes in educational research, historical research, and a wide range of social sciences. It offers a theoretical guide to the rationales and problems of the field as well as to current opportunities for research. It also gives practical advice for getting started and for suitable research methods in different kinds of projects, and in doing so draws critically on extensive international literature. It includes detailed case studies on the following topics in historical research: Curriculum and Classrooms, Foucauldian Interpretations, the 'Alternative Road', Literacy in the Nineteenth Century, and the University History Curriculum.

Open University Press

Explores the application of historical research to the field of education, providing both practical advice for researchers who are new to historical research in education and offering a review of continuing controversies in the field. McCulloch (education, U. of Sheffield, UK) and Richardson (education, U. of Exeter, UK) include detailed case studies on themes including curriculum and classrooms, Foucauldian interpretations, literacy in the 19th century, and the university history curriculum. Of likely interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of history, education, and the social sciences. Distributed by Taylor &amp; Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Richardson, William

A Social History of Educational Studies and Research (Foundations and Futures of Education)

A Social History of Educational Studies and Research examines the development of the study of education in the UK in its broader educational, social and political context since its early beginnings in the first part of the twentieth century. By providing a historical analysis of the contested growth of the field this book examines the significant contribution that has been made by institutions of higher education, journals, text books, conferences, centres, and academic societies. It discusses the problems and opportunities of the field, and its prospects for survival and adaptation to current changes in the decades ahead. The work draws on documentary sources, social network analysis, and interviews with leading figures from across the field. This book highlights international influences on the development of educational studies and research in the UK, its role in the growing internationalisation of the field as a whole, and also comparisons and contrasts with the nature of the field elsewhere. It relates the development to the wider social, political and economic changes affecting higher education in general and educational studies and research in particular. It addresses the historical development of disciplines in higher education institutions and the nature, extent and limitations of interdisciplinarity. A Social History of Educational Studies and Research discuss the problems and opportunities facing the study of education today, and its prospects of adapting to changes in the decades ahead. It is a distinctive and original analysis of educational studies and research that provides the first comprehensive study of its type.

Cowan, Steven

Routledge

Documentary Research: In Education, History and the Social Sciences (Social Research and Educational Studies Series)

Documentary sources have become increasingly neglected in education and the social sciences. This book seeks to emphasise their potential value and importance for an understanding of modern societies, while also recognising their limitations, and explores their relationship with other research strategies.This up-to-date examination of how to research and use documents analyzes texts from the past and present, considering sources ranging from personal archives to online documents and including books, reports, official documents, works of fiction and printed media.This comprehensive analysis of the use of documents in research includes sections covering:* analysing documents* legal frameworks and ethical issues* records and archives* printed media and literature* diaries, letters and autobiographies.

Documentary Research (Social Research and Educational Studies Series, 22)

Reference

This up to date examination of how to research and utilise documents analyses texts from the past and present, considering sources ranging from personal archives to online documents and including books, reports, official documents and printed media.

The history of education is a contested field of study, and has represented a site of struggle for the past century of its development. It is highly relevant to an understanding of broader issues in history, education and society, and yet has often been regarded as being merely peripheral rather than central to them. 
Over the years the history of education has passed through a number of approaches, more recently engaging with a different areas such as curriculum, teaching and gender, although often losing sight of a common cause. In this book McCulloch contextualizes the struggle for educational history, explaining and making suggestions for the future on a number of topics, including: <ul>
<li>finding a set of common causes for the field as a whole</li> <li>engaging more effectively with social sciences and humanities while maintaining historical integrity</li> <li>forming a rationale of missions and goals for the field</li> <li>defining the overall content of the subject, its priorities and agendas</li> <li>and reassessing the relevance of educational history to current educational and social issues.</li> </ul>
Throughout this book the origins of unresolved debates and tensions about the nature of the field of history of education are discussed and key examples are analysed to present a new view of future development. The Struggle for the History of Education demonstrates the key changes and continuities in the field and its relationship with education, history and the social sciences over the past century. It also reveals how the history of education can build on an enhanced sense of its own past, and the common and integrating mission that makes it distinctive, interesting and important for a wide range of scholars from different backgrounds.

The Struggle for the History of Education (Foundations and Futures of Education)

Struggle History Education (Foundations and Futures of Education)

Philosophers and Kings examines how the theme of "education for leadership" has developed, changed and declined in English secondary education during the twentieth century. Gary McCulloch examines the contributions of significant educators such as Cyril Norwood, Victor Gollancz and Eric James, and shows how an inherently "elitist" notion could in fact be adapted to form an important part of radical and even socialist educational thought, and share in the discrediting such notions have suffered during the 1980s. In so doing Philosophers and Kings makes an important contribution not only to the educational history of contemporary England, but to our understanding of the manifold cultural changes that have affected English society in the recent past.

Philosophers and Kings: Education for Leadership in Modern England

Europe

Cambridge University Press

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Failing the Ordinary Child?: The Theory and Practice of Working-Class Secondary Education

Failing the Ordinary Child?: The Theory and Practice of Working-Class Secondary Education

Historical Research in Educational Settings

Historical Research in Educational Settings

A Social History of Educational Studies and Research (Foundations and Futures of Education)

Documentary Research (Social Research and Educational Studies Series, 22)

Documentary Research: In Education, History and the Social Sciences (Social Research and Educational Studies Series)

The Struggle for the History of Education (Foundations and Futures of Education)

Struggle History Education (Foundations and Futures of Education)

Philosophers and Kings: Education for Leadership in Modern England