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  • Education and the Community

    by Eric Midwinter ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    First published in 1975, this book is the first to set out a blueprint for how schools can move from a ‘traditional’ to a ‘community’ base at local authority level. After presenting a historical analysis of the organisational development of the local education authority, it goes on to put forward a detailed proposal for an across-the-board, radically reformed education service at pre-school, ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Fair Game (RLE Sports Studies)

    Myth and Reality in Sport

    by Eric Midwinter ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies
    This volume examines modern sport in its social context and concludes that it is beset with over-commercialised motives, damaged by dangerous political alignments and marred by wrongheaded social values. The book provides a thought-provoking analysis and offers new insights into why and how modern sport has evolved into its present dominant position. It calls for radical reforms in the structure ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Education for Sale

    by Eric Midwinter ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Teachers, schools and education authorities invariably hide their considerable lights and their public relations techniques are often inadequate for broadcasting the invaluable work accomplished in schools. This book offers clear-cut and highly –practical advice for every teacher from pre-school to sixth form on how to get the educational message across to parents. Over the past decades it has ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Salisbury

    by Eric Midwinter ...
    Series series British Prime Ministers
    Biography of the first Prime Minister of the 20th Century during the height of the British Empire ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Mutual Aid Universities (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Eric Midwinter ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, this collection of essays was the first account of the development of the University of the Third Age in Britain (U3A). Changing employment patterns and increasing pressure on traditional areas of secondary and higher education has led to the idea that learning can be a life-long process. The theories of U3As in Britain, their development under the influence of European ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

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  • The English

    by Jeremy Paxman ...
    In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are?Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers ... Read more

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  • Dominion

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