Although most experts agree that mandatory testing leads to teaching to the test, they disagree about whether it leads to meaningless drill, wasted time, de-professionalizing teachers, and demotivating students, or to more challenging and thoughtful...

Over 20 of Ted Wraggs key writings on education are presented in one place. This internationally renowned author summarizes his thirty-year career in a specially written Introduction, preceding what he considers to be his most important work.

A follow-up to the best-selling Change Forces, will appeal to a wide range of classroom teachers, school administrators, student teachers and academics.

This book explores the key institutional settings of home and school, and other educationally linked organised spaces, in childrens lives, and the relationships between these.

Opens up a more general debate on how the curriculum is shaped and the compromises made between different ideologies of the nature and purpose of education.