Routledge International Companion to Education

, by Ben-Peretz, Miriam; Brown, Sally; Moon, Bob

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ISBN: 9780203639061 | 0203639065
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Copyright: 5/25/2000

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The Routledge International Companion to Education aims to address the key issues underpinning the rethinking and restructuring of education at the beginning of the new millennium.

List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xiv
Foundations
Philosophy of education	p. 3
Exploring theory and practice in moral education	p. 19
Theories of cognitive development and learning and their implications for curriculum development and teaching	p. 28
Cognition and teaching	p. 51
Learning	p. 65
Has classroom teaching served its day?	p. 83
How is language used as a medium for classroom education?	p. 109
The economics and resourcing of education	p. 128
Are we post-modern yet? Historical and theoretical explorations in comparative education	p. 153
Processes
The conduct and appraisal of educational research	p. 179
Educational policy-making and analysis: diverse viewpoints	p. 193
Curriculum: the case for a focus on learning	p. 204
Understanding European didactics	p. 235
From testing to assessment: current issues and future prospects	p. 263
Administration and management in education: theory and practice	p. 272
Fundamental shifts in schooling: implications for principal leadership	p. 283
School governance: educational excellence as shared aspiration	p. 292
School effectiveness and school improvement: past, present and future	p. 301
Community education through the twentieth century	p. 324
Substantive Issues
Standards: what are they, what do they do, and where do they live?	p. 351
Learning support for pupils in mainstream schools: policy context and practical implications	p. 364
Home-learning and school-learning in the twenty-first century	p. 379
Peace education: a review and projection	p. 397
Feminism and education	p. 426
Dappled and irrepressible: the kaleidoscope of multiculturalism in education	p. 441
Multiculturalism: one view from the United States of America	p. 456
Anti-racism: from policy to praxis	p. 476
Environmental education: a time for re-visioning	p. 489
Environmental education in changing times	p. 502
The new environment of media education	p. 513
Health education and the health-promoting school: addressing the drugs issue	p. 530
Computers in classrooms: learners and teachers in new roles	p. 558
Sectors
Early childhood education throughout the world	p. 575
Primary education	p. 602
Secondary school: a tense stasis in function and form	p. 621
New perspectives on the evolution of secondary school education in the UK	p. 642
Learning along the way: the evolution of adult and continuing education	p. 653
Adult education: social movements or public service?	p. 670
Understanding education and work: themes and issues	p. 683
Higher education in a context of change	p. 705
Technology in higher education: altering the goalposts	p. 723
Teacher education: from initial preparation to continuing professional development	p. 732
The open learning environment: a new paradigm for international developments in teacher education	p. 756
Subjects
Mother tongue teaching	p. 773
Reading: literacy and beyond	p. 801
Mathematics at the core of the educational process	p. 809
Science education: have enquiry-oriented science curricula failed?	p. 821
The past, present and future of history teaching in schools	p. 843
Expertise and the teaching of history	p. 855
What is the purpose of teaching geography in school?	p. 865
Civic/citizenship education and the social studies in the United States of America	p. 880
Civics and moral education	p. 897
Technology education: towards a new school subject	p. 910
Foreign language education: balancing communicative needs and intercultural understanding	p. 921
The place of physical education in the contemporary curriculum	p. 935
Theatre and drama education: themes and questions	p. 944
The shaping of visual arts in education	p. 956
Music education: where now?	p. 970
Index	p. 981
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