Books by Peter Abbs

Divided into four sections, the first examines the ends of education and outlines a conception of education as an initiation into critical enquiry and the personal art of learning. The middle sections consider aesthetic education. The final section offers appraisals of figures in the arts field.

An English school text designed to provide students aged 14-18 with a practical "map" of the various forms of narrative used in English literature. The text progresses from basic exercises and discussions about narrative in our daily lives to descriptions and examples of the major narrative forms.

This book calls for education to become an end in itself, as opposed to the means to an end, and for a place to be found in contemporary education for the spiritual, the aesthetic and the ethical.

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.