The Routledge international encyclopedia of education
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The Routledge international encyclopedia of education
Routledge, 2008
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International encyclopedia of education
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  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education is a unique and major resource for the field of education. It is a comprehensive, single-volume work, arranged alphabetically and comprising around 600 entries.
The entries range from definitions of key educational concepts and terms to biographies of key educators and specially written substantial essays on major educational topics. The volume includes authoritative and critical commentary on historical and contemporary themes; examinations of continuities, changes and emerging issues; and discussions of the educational traditions and features of major countries and continents. The following special features are also included:
Unrivalled coverage of education in a single volume
Entries by leading international educational researchers
Contributors drawn from all over the globe, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States
A distinguished international advisory board
Fully cross-referenced and indexed
Suggestions for further reading
Offering insight into the world of education in an interesting, informed and sometimes provocative way, The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education is an invaluable work of reference for educators, students, researchers and policy makers in education and related fields internationally.
Table of Contents
- abacus
- Abeland, Peter
- ability grouping
- academic
- academic freedom
- academy
- access/admission
- accomplishments
- accountability
- accountancy
- accreditation of prior achievement/learning
- action research
- Addams, Jane
- adult education
- aegrotat
- Africa
- agriculture
- algebra
- alternative education
- alumni
- antiracist education
- apprenticeship
- approved school
- aptitude
- Argentina
- Aristotle
- arithmatic
- armed forces
- Arnold, Matthew
- Arnold, Thomas
- art
- art, college and school of
- Ascham, Roger
- Asia assessment (inc. continuous, criterion referenced, diagnostic, formative, norm referenced, summative)
- Association of University Teachers (AUT)
- astronomy
- athenaeum
- attainment
- attendance
- Australia
- Austria
- autodidact
- autonomy
- baccalaureate
- Baltic States
- baseline assessment
- basic skills
- Beecher, Catherine
- benchmarking
- Benelux countries
- Bernstein, Basil
- bicultural education
- bilingual education
- binary policy
- Binet, Alfred
- biology
- blind children, teaching of
- boarding school
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- boys, education of
- brain drain
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