Ted Wragg has spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. This book offers his key writings in one place for the first time. This internationally renowned author starts with a specially written introduction, which gives an overview of his career and conceptualizes his selection. The chapters cover:

* classroom teaching and learning
* training new and experienced teachers
* curriculum in action
* educational policy and its implementation
* communicating with professional and lay people.

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At a time when postmodernism seems to have achieved a dominant position in cultural and critical theory the contributors to this volume provide a much needed corrective to the misleading images of modernism which have dominated recent debate. Richard Sheppard's account of European modernism focuses on the profound ideological crisis which beset Western culture between 1890 and 1930 and examines the ways in which artists and intellectuals responded to it; Bernard McGuirk analyses the ambivalent reactions of Apollinaire and Alberti to the machine age; David Wragg investigates the aesthetic and epistemological underpinnings of verbal and visual Vorticism in the work of Wyndham Lewis and Mike Johnson considers the potential for a (post)modernist political aesthetic in the Merz texts of Kurt Schwitters.