Education Handbooks

New and Published Handbooks

1. Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education

   Edited by Marvin Lynn, Adrienne D. Dixson

   This handbook illustrates how education scholars employ Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework to bring attention to issues of race and racism in education. It is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive description and analysis of the topic, from the defining...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Handbook of Test Security

   Edited by James A. Wollack, John J. Fremer

   High stakes tests are the gatekeepers to many educational and professional goals. As such, the incentive to cheat is high. This Handbook is the first to offer insights from experts within the testing community, psychometricians, and policymakers to identify and develop best practice guidelines for...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education

   Edited by Larisa V. Shavinina

   The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education is the international reference work on innovation education and potentially opens an entirely new direction in education. The overall goal of the handbook is to address the question of how to develop innovators in general and how to...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Handbook of Orthography and Literacy

   Edited by R. Malatesha Joshi, P.G. Aaron

   Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners. This situation is now changing. As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, researchers from different...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. The International Handbook of Collaborative Learning

   Edited by Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Clark Chinn, Carol Chan, Angela O'Donnell

   Series: Educational Psychology Handbook

   Collaborative learning has become an increasingly important part of education, but the research supporting it is distributed across a wide variety of fields including social, cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology, instructional design, the learning sciences, educational technology,...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
6. International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education

   Edited by Robert B. Stevenson, Michael Brody, Justin Dillon, Arjen E.J. Wals

   The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment,...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
7. Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching

   Edited by Paul Potrac, Wade Gilbert, Jim Denison

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
8. Handbook of Distance Education

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Michael Grahame Moore

   The third edition of this award-winning Handbook continues the mission of its predecessors: to provide a comprehensive compendium of research in all aspects of distance education, arguably the most significant development in education over the past three decades. While the book deals with education...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Routledge International Companion to Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

   Edited by Ted Cole, Harry Daniels, John Visser

   Responding to disruptive or troubled pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) remains a highly topical issue. The challenges these children present relate to wider issues of continuing political concern: the perceived declining discipline in schools; school and social exclusion; the...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children

    3rd Edition

    Edited by Olivia N. Saracho, Bernard Spodek

    The Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children is the essential reference on research on early childhood education throughout the world. This singular resource provides a comprehensive overview of important contemporary issues as well as the information necessary to make informed...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge