Education & Training

The thesis investigates Literature Education as one cultural representation of societies. The use of literature is seen as essential to the process of educating social subjects. It is a subject founded on an interdisciplinary triangle composed of an asymmetrical combination of l…

The thesis intends to explore struggles over the content of musical knowledge and musical meaning within the music education system, in relation to overall social political change. The research focuses on music education in Hong Kong, with reference to the transfer of Hong Kong'…

This study examines the roles of the principal groups and individuals, who, during the years 1800-1839, promoted the education of the poor and pressurised governments with the notion that the state ought to ac ept responsibility for the formation of a nationa1 system. Their m ti…

Bullying has been a source of disquiet, if not moral panic, in recent years. Yet pupil experience outside the classroom has rarely been given the attention it deserves in educational research devoted to the problem. This study examines the social relations between pupils in the …

This study developed from my Interests in the industrial system and the education and training needs of individuals. The starting point for the research was Maslow's need theory, and Scheler's proposition that Individuals must continually update their acquisition of technologica…

This thesis examines how far and in what manner political considerations determined the nature of higher education policy in Mexico during the Presidency of Luis Echeverria. Between 1970 and 1976 the provision of places in higher education was doubled. This represented a signifi…

The thesis attempts to explain the emergence of maintained secondary education in Ealing by 1913 and to describe the subsequent development of the maintained secondary schools up to 1944. These developments are set within the context of the community which formed the borough and…

The aim of this research is to explore the social mechanisms and processes of curriculum change in two secondary schools, an urban secondary modern and a rural high school. The implementation of the Geography for the Young School Leaver Project provided the initial impetus for t…

The aim of this thesis is to find out about the nature of science views held by British Muslim science teachers teaching in Muslim secondary schools, and whether or not these views have any impact on how they teach the National Curriculum. In the course of the study the views of…