Music education is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study. It is also a complex and contested area in which there is a considerable variety of published work, ranging from the justificatory to the critical, and from advice on pedagogical practice to provocative alternative paradigms. The proliferation and range of these publications stems from the complexity of music and music education itself. Along with multiple perspectives on the nature and value of music, music education is much more socially interwoven than most school subjects. It is also very complex...
Music education is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study. It is also a complex and contested area in which there is a consi...
Assessment and evaluation are crucial aspects of any educational system and rarely can they have been so central to educational policy-making and the reform of schooling as at the present time. (The introduction of the National Curriculum and Testing system in the UK and the test-based 'No Child Left Behind' legislation in the USA are but two high-profile examples.) Assessment processes interact with curriculum and teaching methods to frame the student experience of education, and the outcomes of assessment are crucially important in determining individual educational progression and...
Assessment and evaluation are crucial aspects of any educational system and rarely can they have been so central to educational policy-making and t...
Language is at the very core of the educational process, both as a medium for the transmission of knowledge and as a cognitive tool. The learning and use of second languages has often been associated with purely instrumental views of education. This five-volume collection from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative, up-to-date, and comprehensive reference work to make sense of the area's voluminous literature.
Language is at the very core of the educational process, both as a medium for the transmission of knowledge and as a cognitive tool. The learning and ...
Challenging and complex questions around inequality and power have been persistent within modern systems of education since their inception. But in the last four or five decades the vibrant field of critical education has developed and grown in response to such issues. Specifically, education scholars adopting a critical approach seek to interrogate how social, economic, cultural, linguistic, racial, sexual, and other forms of difference intersect and play out within school policy and classroom practices. Additionally, such scholars have shed light on the ways in which education can transform...
Challenging and complex questions around inequality and power have been persistent within modern systems of education since their inception. But in th...
Multicultural education is a thriving - though sometimes controversial and increasingly contested - field of study and research. Its major aim and purpose has been described as to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, social, and cultural backgrounds to help them acquire the knowledge, aptitudes, and skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society. Multicultural education draws its content, concepts, paradigms, and theories from specialized interdisciplinary domains such as ethnic and women's studies (and from history and...
Multicultural education is a thriving - though sometimes controversial and increasingly contested - field of study and research. Its major aim and pur...
A new title from Routledge s Major Works series, Major Themes in Education, "Philosophy of Education II" is a five-volume mini library of the very best scholarship. It is an essential successor collection to "Philosophy of Education" (1998) (978-0-415-12944-2), edited by Paul Hurst and Patricia White, and described by the "Bulletin of the UK-Japan Education Forum" as indispensable for libraries ."
Philosophy of Education" (1998) was the first comprehensive collection of the field s canonical and cutting-edge research, and this new collection now takes full account of the numerous...
A new title from Routledge s Major Works series, Major Themes in Education, "Philosophy of Education II" is a five-volume mini library of the very ...
The widespread academic study of educational technology blossomed in the years following the development of the microprocessor. Of course, that is not to say that education was technology-free before the 1970s: the telephone, wireless radio, cinema, television, and mainframe computers had all in their time been heralded as educational marvels. But the scale of change, and the academic practices that responded to it, became of an entirely different order with the arrival of personal computers, promising as they did access for ordinary people to cheaper, faster, and smarter benefits of...
The widespread academic study of educational technology blossomed in the years following the development of the microprocessor. Of course, that is ...
In the words of one academic, reading is an important gateway to personal development, and to social, economic, and civic life . Moreover, according to the International Reading Association, twenty-first-century adults will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, all around the world, how best to teach children to read is one of the most publicized and contested fields of research. Now,...
In the words of one academic, reading is an important gateway to personal development, and to social, economic, and civic life . Moreover, accordin...
Educational research is inextricably interwoven with national and global debates about and around political and economic policy. Now, to help make sense of an enormous and growing corpus of scholarship, and to enable users to discriminate the useful from the tendentious, superficial, and otiose, Routledge announces a new title in its Major Themes in Education series."
Education Policy" is a four-volume mini library of the very best and most influential academic research concerned with the exploration, discussion, and analysis of educational policymaking, policy implementation, and...
Educational research is inextricably interwoven with national and global debates about and around political and economic policy. Now, to help make ...
Both from the point of view of the experiences of different groups of students, and also with respect to the form that education about sexuality, sex, and relationships should take, education and sexuality raises complex questions and provokes heated sometimes furious debate. This four-volume collection offers an authoritative overview of key issues within the rapidly developing field of sexualities and education. Under the editorship of Peter Aggleton (editor-in-chief of the international journal, "Sex Education"), the collection covers a wide range of contemporary issues and concerns,...
Both from the point of view of the experiences of different groups of students, and also with respect to the form that education about sexuality, s...