Books in the Routledge International Handbooks of Education series

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Explores the dimensions of creative learning.

The aim of this handbook is to present an overview of the work on learning, written by leading scholars from all these different perspectives and disciplines.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.