The thesis starts with an account of the post-war changes in the ethnic composition of the British population including an estimation of the racial and ethnic mix of the school classroom. Basic terms such as "race", ethnicity and culture are defined and the concepts of a multi-r…
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This study is a critical enquiry into the relationship between ideologyand educational development. The People's Republic of China (PRC) hasbeen chosen to illustrate the particular case of engineering socialchange through educational reforms. Ideological contradictions betweenth…
This thesis investigates primary teachers' attitudes towards mathematics and mathematicsteaching, and whether or not they are amenable to change. As used in the study, the termfocuses on people, objects and issues, and brings together thought, action and emotion.The purpose of t…
This thesis undertakes the collection, analysis and evaluation ofinformation concerning the development of vocational and technicaleducation in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Tracing the history of vocationaleducation from 1900, the work emphasises the separate racial provisionof educatio…
This case study is concerned with the perspectives of staff and governors in the secondary school where the researcher works as deputy head. The focus of the inquiry is school development planning and its relationship to wider strategic planning. The study further explores the S…
This thesis presents a comparative exploration of the historical development and provision of school-based sex education within England and Wales and the Netherlands - countries which have experienced significantly differing rates of unintended pregnancy to women aged under 20 o…
This study investigates the incorporation of a European dimension in teacher education in five countries: namely, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland and Slovakia. To understand changes in teacher education one must explore the wider context and the influences operating…
The problem addressed is the evaluation of a school and the study conducts a philosophical analysis of the normative and political presuppositions of educational evaluation. This involves the articulation of a comprehensive theory of education, integrating social and political p…
This thesis is a study of the developLent of tne Greek educational system, from the foundation of the modern Greek State in 1828 to 1981. In that period, Greece underwent a series of changes in political organisation. Greece was a monarchy, a republic, a democracy and a dictator…
This study explores the tension between the preservation of cultural and political identity and economic modernization in the higher education systems in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) between 1949 and 1993. Chapter One introduces the resear…
This dissertation is an attempt to map contradictions faced by thestudent in his/her experience of literary study. These contradictionscoalesce around an apparent struggle between proponents of difference incritical theory and forces of regulation in educational politics. In map…
The need for a greater understanding of the teaching-learning process in higher education is clearly evident from the rapid increase in research activity in this area over the last decade. Economic and political pressure often defines the rationale for such research in terms of …
This thesis look. at two levels of teacher's roleconception, 'ideal' and classroom. Findings supportedthe premise that there would be variance between these twolevels and between role segments which form part of role.A major aim was to explain the variance between roleconception…
During the past twenty years drama teaching has been developed as a specialist element in secondary school curricula. This thesis reconsiders the central claims which have been made for this and presents a new model of the roles and functions of dramatic activity relating them t…
The most recent development in the worldwide expansion of higher education is the move to open universities since they are less expensive for Governments than traditional universities and because they give the opportunity to expand and extend university education to a wider rang…
The question of who ought to have control of the curriculum was a dormant issue poked alive by a succession educational ideologues, government commissions and concerned segments of the public, since the 1960s. For the free school movement, community education movement, Plowden R…
This thesis offers a comparative analysis of the transformation of the structures of secondary education in two Latin American countries: Brazil and Colombia, with particular reference to the 1970s. At that time, these educational reforms aimed to introduce vocational education,…