This case-study of Morocco investigates the reciprocal relationshipbetween schooling and society. for the purpose of understanding the roleplayed by the educational institutions within the context of theliberal development strategy followed.The efforts of the Moroccan leadership…
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This cross-cultural study examines the process of transplanting a system of education into a society other than the one from which it had evolved; focusing upon the influence of British Colonial administration and policy on the development of education and most specifically, Phy…
This study explores the effect of a teacher development programme, emphasising the development of critical thinking, in producing changes in teaching practice. The theoretical point of view adopted in this thesis considers the active role played by learners in the construction o…
The Panel of Assessors for District Nurse Training (Panel) existed during the period 1959-1983, as a national training body for district nursing. Initially, its remit was for England and Wales but in 1969 this was extended to the United Kingdom. The Panel owed its existence to t…
Part I of the study analyses the development of comprehensive education on England between 1944 and 1980, concentrating on the post-1965 period. The progress of reorganisation and the build up of resistance to that policy are both included. At the end of part I the complex natio…
Earlier work by Leonard (1966) and Heraud (1970) in formulating a holistic, comprehensive sociology of social work has been largely overtaken by developments both in sociology and in social work. Current sociological analyses of social work exhibit two distinctive features. Firs…
Enterprise education is defined by some educators as a distinctive approach to teaching with the aims of improving motivation to learning and enhancing the development of enterprising behaviours in young people (e.g. Bridges, 1992; Gibb, 1993; Harris, 1993a). However, after two …
Fieldwork has occupied a prominent position in UK geography teaching since the establishment of the discipline in the late nineteenth century, and remains a ubiquitous element of the geography curriculum for pre- and post- sixteen year-olds today. Utilising autobiography as a me…
This thesis examines teachers' perceptions of the relationship between teachers and government in the field of curriculum development, in the light of changes in the mode of curriculum control under which teachers carry out their work in Korea and England. In both countries, maj…
This thesis is in two Parts. Part One consists of Chapters One to Four. Chapter One establishes a definition of the term 'Development Education' as it will be used in this thesis. Chapter Two is a comparative analysis of the socio-political contexts within which Development Educ…
The focus of this study is preparation for parenthood in U.K. secondary schools in the decade of the 1970s. During this period it was suggested that cycles of deprivation are set up by inadequacies in parenting, resulting in a range of social problems, and preparation for parent…
This case study grounded in the tradition of practitioner-research (Jarvis, 1999) was carried out from 1994 to 1999 at a major land-grant university in the United States. Specifically, the study aimed to explore the nature of American academic advising in the 21st century using …
The exponential rate, and structural nature of, change in Libya - demographic, social, cultural, economic, political, infrastructural - have placed a massive strain on its education service to cope with these changes. Currently teachers in Libya are experiencing serious problems…
The study seeks to provide both a methodology and an application of that methodology in its account, partly historical, partly philosophical, of the metaphors in the educational narratives since 1945. It considers, in particular, selected texts of the Conservative Party and focu…
This study offers, a critical analysis of the theory - and practice of development education in Britain in the 1990s, and it seeks to explore the nature and extent of the marginalization of development education and the ways in which it can be addressed through an analysis' of t…
The study addresses the management of pre-vocational education programmes in secondary education with particular reference to the management of resources. The educational context is the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) in the United Kingdom which provides opp…