Who are the key thinkers in education?
What are the hot topics in education?
Where will education go from here?
The Routledge Companion to Education presents the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide available to the key theories, themes and topics in education. Forty specially commissioned chapters, covering all aspects of education, introduce you to the ideas, research and issues that have shaped this most diverse, dynamic and fluid field.
- Part one provides an introduction to the key theories, thinkers and disciplines within education
- Part two covers ideas and issues about how, what and why learning takes place
- Part three includes analysis on particular approaches to education and explores the issues that attract much contemporary interest.
Written by an international team of expert contributors, the chapters all include a descriptive introduction, an analysis of the key ideas and debates, an overview of the latest research, key questions for research and carefully selected further reading.
The Routledge Companion to Education is a succinct, detailed, authoritative overview of the topics which are at the forefront of educational research and discourse today. This classic collection is a bookshelf essential for every student and scholar serious about the study of education.
- ISBN10 0415583470
- ISBN13 9780415583473
- Publish Date 17 October 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English