Bücher der Reihe Routledge International Handbooks of Education

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.

This handbook presents, for the first time, the work of leading researchers exploring the synergies and interrelationships between these fields, and provides a catalytic platform for advancing theory, practice, policy and research from an integrated perspective.

Selected case studies from each of the world's continents provide a truly global, comparative context and accessible, in-depth analysis of the historical and contemporary relationships between global universities, national security and intelligence agencies.

The Routledge International Handbook of Dyslexia in Education showcases the various examples, expertise, and successful initiatives attempted to include students with dyslexia around the globe.

Informal language learning beyond the classroom plays an important and growing role in language learning and teaching. This Handbook brings together and solidifies the existing body of research and unites the various disciplines that have looked at this area to present the current state of knowledge in one accessible resource.

The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Dialogic Education provides a comprehensive overview of the main ideas and themes that make up the exciting and diverse field of Dialogic Education.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.