First published in 1969, The Role of the Teacher demonstrates how the modes of description and analysis employed by sociologists of education can shed light on the teacher’s role in the classroom, school, and society. Contemporary studies of the teacher’s role were primarily presented as research reports and scattered articles. The evidence and conceptual threads brought together in this book contribute to a systematic analysis of the teacher’s role, offering value to both aspirin...

Published in the year 2005, World Yearboook of Education 1984 is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works.

Hoyle and Wallace illustrate with penetrating insight the perverse outcome of tightening management and leadership so much that it leads to three different forms, each with the same five characteristics, of what they call "managerialism": excessive micromanagement of schools in a sometimes futile and self-defeating quest for success′ - Tim Brighouse, Times Educational Supplement`This book is an excellent read about management and leadership in schools. Overall, I felt that this boo...

The World Yearbook of Education was first published by the Evans Brothers in 1965 in association with the University of London Institute of Education and Teachers College, Columbia University. Since then it has become established as one of the most important forums for work in comparative education in the world.Each volume addresses a major issue in comparative education and includes contributions from a range of leading international scholars. Subjects covered include:

First Published in 2005. The phrase 'education of minorities' raises a variety of questions. As a World Yearbook theme it demands clarification. We are using the word 'minority' to refer not to relative numbers but to 'the condition of being inferior or subordinate'. This could be taken to include students with a variety of handicaps - physical, intellectual, socioeconomic, cultural; pupils with low literacy or language problems; and victims of race or sex discrimination. However, this boo...

Published in the year 2005, World Yearbook of Education is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works.

Published in 2005, "World Yearbook of Education 1980" is an important contribution to the Major Works Series.