The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education Book

The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education is a unique and major resource for the field of education. It is a comprehensive, single-volume work, arranged alphabetically and comprising around 600 entries.

The entries range from definitions of key educational concepts and terms to biographies of key educators and specially written substantial essays on major educational topics. The volume includes authoritative and critical commentary on historical and contemporary themes; examinations of continuities, changes and emerging issues; and discussions of the educational traditions and features of major countries and continents. The following special features are also included:

• Unrivalled coverage of education in a single volume


• Entries by leading international educational researchers


• Contributors drawn from all over the globe, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States


• A distinguished international advisory board


• Fully cross-referenced and indexed


• Suggestions for further reading

Offering insight into the world of education in an interesting, informed and sometimes provocative way, The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education is an invaluable work of reference for educators, students, researchers and policy makers in education and related fields internationally.

Rosanne M. Cordell - Library Journal

Numerous encyclopedias of education and education-related topics get published; single-volume general encyclopedias of education are less common. McCulloch and Crook have headed a team of over 200 international experts on various aspects of this broad subject to produce this one-volume work on the theory and practice of education throughout history and around the world. This is an ambitious undertaking and cannot be expected to have the depth of coverage offered by more lengthy works. Nonetheless, libraries that cannot afford multivolume works, practitioners who would benefit from a one-volume general handbook, and students who need brief introductions to a wide variety of topics in the field may find this work useful. Its roughly 600 A-to-Z entries include short-length (300-word) definitions or biographical information on significant educators, medium-length (750-word) entries giving more detail on specific topics, and lengthy (1500-word) essays on major themes. American readers will certainly notice the absence of entries on such key U.S. topics as athletics, community service, scheduling, latchkey children, school year, or uniforms and dress codes, but they'll get a broader international perspective on bilingual education or home schooling, for instance. Coverage of national systems is very selective, so a work such as Gale's second edition of World Education Encyclopedia: A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide(2002) may be needed as a supplement.