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1. Educational Assessment and Evaluation

   Edited by Harry Torrance

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until 3 months after publication) 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...

   Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Music Education

   Edited by Keith Swanwick

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   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...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. Physical Education

   Edited by David Kirk

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   As academic thinking about and around physical education continues to flourish and develop, this new title in the Routledge series, Major Themes in Education, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject’s vast literature and the continuing explosion in research...

   Published October 27th 2011 by Routledge
4. Education and Development

   Edited by Walter McMahon

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   This series addresses the relation of education to knowledge-based growth and broader measures of development beyond growth, central features of the modern world in which education has a central role. This role includes the effects of education on pure economic growth including it’s effects on the...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
5. Higher Education

   Edited by Malcolm Tight

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   The recent, rapid, and massive expansion of higher education in the Western world has been such that in many developed countries it is now expected that close to—or more than—half of the population will have some significant engagement with a university at least once during their lives. More than...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
6. Women and Education

   Edited by Jane Martin, Joyce Goodman

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   If a primary objective of feminism is to expose and challenge the social relations of power embedded in all spheres of life, then an exploration of the issues attached to female education is a vital aspect of such a project. Indeed, ‘women and education’ is now an established—and flourishing—domain...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
7. Islam and Education

   Edited by Tahir Abbas

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   Volume I of this new Routledge collection focuses on theories of education. The gathered materials explore and analyse the impact of the classical Islamic period in history and the developments in education which have emanated from it. Volume II focuses on education in Eastern Europe and Muslim...

   Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge
8. Mathematics Education

   Edited by Alan Bishop

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   Mathematics education is one of the most publicized and contested fields of endeavour in the area of education more generally. The entrails of international comparative mathematics achievement surveys are pored over by the media, politicians and educators alike; and, while for the last fifty years...

   Published December 13th 2009 by Routledge
9. English Language Teaching

   Edited by Patricia Hedge, Nick Andon, Martin Dewey

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   With contributions drawn from a variety of contexts, this extensive new six-volume collection from Routledge’s Major Themes in Education series, reflects the international diversity of English Language Teaching in practice. Bringing together material from a broad range of perspectives, it...

   Published July 29th 2009 by Routledge
10. Gifted and Talented Education

    Edited by Deborah Eyre

    Series: Major Themes in Education

    The education of gifted and talented pupils is an established domain of study but research in the area has increased dramatically, particularly in the past fifteen years. The reason for this burgeoning interest relates principally not to conventional educational concerns but rather to the desire of...

    Published March 11th 2009 by Routledge