ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Companion to Education addresses the key issues underpinning the rethinking and restructuring of education at the beginning of the new millennium. The volume contains over fifty major contributions exploring a wide range of issues, including:
* philosophy of education
* the economics and resourcing of education
* testing and assessment: current issues and future prospects
* standards
* multiculturalism
* anti-racism
* computers in classrooms
* mother tongue education
* civics and moral education.
Each chapter gives a contemporary account of developments in the field, and looks to the future and the directions that new activity and inquiry are likely to take. All the chapters are written from an international perspective.

part I|176 pages

Foundations

chapter 1|16 pages

Philosophy of Education

chapter 4|14 pages

Cognition And Teaching

chapter 5|18 pages

Learning

chapter 9|24 pages

Are We Post-Modern Yet?

Historical and theoretical explorations in comparative education

part II|172 pages

Processes

chapter 11|11 pages

Educational Policy-Making And Analysis

Diverse viewpoints

chapter 12|31 pages

Curriculum

The case for a focus on learning

chapter 13|28 pages

Understanding European Didactics

chapter 14|9 pages

From Testing To Assessment

Current issues and future prospects

chapter 15|11 pages

Administration And Management In Education

Theory and practice

chapter 16|9 pages

Fundamental Shifts In Schooling

Implications for principal leadership

chapter 17|9 pages

School Governance

Educational excellence as shared aspiration

chapter 18|23 pages

School Effectiveness And School Improvement

Past, present and future

part III|224 pages

Substantive Issues

chapter 20|13 pages

Standards

What are they, what do they do and where do they live?

chapter 21|15 pages

Learning Support For Pupils In Mainstream Schools

Policy context and practical implications

chapter 23|29 pages

Peace Education

A review and projection

chapter 24|15 pages

Feminism And Education

chapter 25|15 pages

Dappled And Irrepressible

The kaleidoscope of multiculturalism in education

chapter 26|20 pages

Multiculturalism

One view from the United States of America

chapter 27|13 pages

Anti-Racism

From policy to praxis

chapter 28|13 pages

Environmental Education

A time for re-visioning

chapter 31|28 pages

Health Education And The Health-Promoting School

Addressing the drugs issue

chapter 32|15 pages

Computers In Classrooms

Learners and teachers in new roles

part IV|198 pages

Sectors

chapter 34|19 pages

Primary Education

chapter 35|21 pages

Secondary School

A tense stasis in function and form

chapter 37|17 pages

Learning Along The Way

The evolution of adult and continuing education

chapter 38|13 pages

Adult Education

Social movements or public service?

chapter 39|22 pages

Understanding Education And Work

Themes and issues

chapter 41|9 pages

Technology In Higher Education

Altering the goalposts

chapter 42|24 pages

Teacher Education

From initial preparation to continuing professional development

chapter 43|15 pages

The Open Learning Environment

A new paradigm for international developments in teacher education

part V|210 pages

Subjects

chapter 44|28 pages

Mother Tongue Teaching

chapter 45|8 pages

Reading

Literacy and beyond

chapter 47|22 pages

Science Education

Have enquiry-oriented science curricula failed?

chapter 52|13 pages

Civics And Moral Education

chapter 53|11 pages

Technology Education

Towards a new school subject

chapter 54|14 pages

Foreign Language Education

Balancing communicative needs and intercultural understanding

chapter 56|12 pages

Theatre And Drama Education

Themes and questions

chapter 58|11 pages

Music Education: Where Now?