Books in the Routledge International Handbooks of Education series

The International Handbook of e-Learning, Volume 1 provides a comprehensive compendium of research and theory in all aspects of e-learning, one of the most significant ongoing global developments in the entire field of education.

This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today.

Are children playing less, or is play changing with the inventions of technology? Should the emphasis be that children need to play because it is fun? Or is the most important thing about play its moral dimension, and its role in the development and learning of a child? This unique handbook explores these issues and many more, with contributors from all over the world and is unique in bringing together the latest research and practice which focuses on play, from truly global perspectives.

Offering a variety of critical perspectives on a diverse and controversial field, this Handbook includes a range of internationally-sourced chapters, providing a critical and dialogical account of theories and practices of philosophy for and with children. Exploring insights into the key philosophical and educational debates that have been provoked by bringing philosophy to school classrooms and other learning contexts, this book will spark discussions and identify emerging questions and themes.

For artists, scholars, researchers, educators and students of arts theory interested in culture and the arts, a proper understanding of the questions surrounding ΓÇÿinterculturalityΓÇÖ and the arts requires a full understanding of the creative, methodological and interconnected possibilities of theory, practice and research. The International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research provides concise and comprehensive reviews and overviews of the convergences and divergences of intercultural arts practice and theory, offering a consolidation of the breadth of scholarship, practices and the contemporary research methodologies, methods and multi-disciplinary analyses that are emerging within this new field.

An essential resource for those interested in the effectiveness of educational systems, organisations and classrooms. It offers academics, researchers, students, policy-makers new insights into the latest thinking and evidence about educational effectiveness.

Provides an authoritative overview of global issues in religion and values by surveying the state of this academic area through contributions from international experts in a range of topics related to the broad field.

How and what to teach about religion is controversial in every country. The Routledge International Handbook of Religious Education is the first book to comprehensively address the range of ways that major countries around the world teach religion in different educational institutions.

This collection brings together the work of a group of the world¿s leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The chapters draw upon theory and research to provide `state of the art¿ accounts of contemporary educational processes, global trends, and changing and enduring forms of social conflict and social inequality. The topics which are addressed are of international relevance and significance.

Explores the dimensions of creative learning.

The International Handbook of e-Learning, Volume 2 provides a comprehensive compendium of implementation and practice in all aspects of e-learning, one of the most significant ongoing global developments in the entire field of education.

This ground-breaking handbook provides a much-needed, contemporary and authoritative reference text on young children¿s thinking. The different perspectives represented in the thirty-nine chapters contribute to a vibrant picture of young children, their ways of thinking and their efforts at understanding, constructing and navigating the world.The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children¿s Thinking and Understanding brings together commissioned pieces by a range of hand-picked influential, international authors from a variety of disciplines who share a high public profile for their specific developments in the theories of children¿s thinking, learning and understanding.Supported throughout with relevant research and case studies, this handbook is an international insight into the many ways there are to understand children and childhood paired with the knowledge that young children have a strong, vital, and creative ability to think and to understand, and to create and contend with the world around them.

As lifelong learning grows in popularity, few comprehensive pictures of the phenomenon have emerged. This title intends to demonstrate what is happening around the world and to do so within a systematic framework, showing the complexity of the phenomenon.

Examines the ways in which the sociology of education has responded to these two political agendas, addressing a range of issues which cover three key areas: perspectives and theories social processes and practices inequalities and resistances. This book is suitable for teachers, and of interest to practising sociologists of education.

Intends to synthesize key messages for policy and practice in English, Language and Literacy Teaching. This book focuses on the three key areas of reading, writing, and language, and issues that cut across them.

Presents a comprehensive international description and analysis of multicultural education around the world. Organized around key concepts, this title uses case studies from various nations in different parts of the world to exemplify and illustrate the concepts.

Offers a reference work providing an overview of the main issues in higher education around the world. This title surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of controversial areas.

As lifelong learning grows in popularity, few comprehensive pictures of the phenomenon have emerged. This work provides an overview of lifelong learning internationally. It presents vital snapshots of this subject from various perspectives including: learning throughout life; sites of lifelong learning; and geographical dimensions.

Presents an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling.

Mathematics plays an important part in every person¿s life, so why isn¿t everyone good at it? The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties brings together commissioned pieces by a range of hand-picked influential, international authors from a variety of disciplines, all of whom share a high public profile. By posing notoriously difficult questions such as these and studying the answers The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties is the authoritative volume and is essential reading for academics in the field of mathematics. It is an incredibly important contribution to the study of dyscalculia and mathematical difficulties in children and young adults.

This International Handbook brings together leading writers on Arts in Education to provide a much-needed, authoritative guide to the main debates in the field and an informed account of contemporary developments in policy and practice. Providing a detailed overview of key concepts and practical challenges, the book combines theoretical insight with specific examples of innovative projects drawing on theoretical, historical and empirical research perspectives to inform understanding. The range of content highlights the breadth of the field, addressing such issues as the importance of community arts and partnership as well as school education, and providing insight into developments in multiple and connecting arts as well as traditional art forms. Topics such as assessment, creativity, cultural diversity, special needs, the arts in early childhood, adult education, arts based research, are all addressed by recognised authorities in each area. The collection of chapters also serves to define the field of arts education, recognising its diversity but highlighting the common elements that provide its identity.

Written by leading international scholars from the main contributing perspectives and disciplines, The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History seeks to capture the range and scope as well as the considerable complexity of the field of narrative study and life history work by situating these fields of study within the historical and contemporary context.

An essential resource with international appeal, it offers researchers, educators and students in higher education new insights into the roots, latest thinking, practices and evidence surrounding SCLI in higher education.