Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy
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Education is a field sometimes beset by theories-of-the-day and with easy panaceas that overpromise the degree to which they can alleviate pressing educational problems. The two-volume Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy introduces readers to theories that have stood the test of time and those that have provided the historical foundation for the best of contemporary educational theory and practice.Drawing together a team of international scholars, this invaluable reference examines the global landscape of all the key theories and the theorists behind them and presents them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses.In addition to interpretations of long-established theories, this work offers essays on cutting-edge research and concise, to-the-point definitions of key concepts, ideas, schools, and figures. Features:

  • Over 300signed entries by trusted experts in the field are organized into two volumes and overseen by a distinguished General Editor and an international Editorial Board.
  • Entriesare followed by cross references and further reading suggestions.
  • AChronology of Theory within the field of education highlights developments over the centuries; a Reader’s Guide groups entries thematically, and amaster Bibliography facilitates further study.
  • The Reader’s Guide, detailed index, and cross references combinefor strongsearch-and-browse capabilities in the electronic version.

Available in a choice of print or electronic formats, Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy isan ideal reference for anyone interested in the roots of contemporaryeducational theory.

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Publisher
SAGE Publications, Inc
Year
2014
ISBN
9781483364759
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General

Index

Entry titles and their page numbers are in bold. Page numbers preceded by 1: are in volume 1, and page numbers preceded by 2: are in volume 2.
  • Abecedarian Program, 1:6
  • Abilities, measurement of, 1:1–2 See also Aptitude–treatment interactions: evolution of research
    • education production, 1:262
    • intelligence, 1:417–421
  • Ability, motivation affected by beliefs about, 2:545
  • Abington v. Schempp (1963), 1:130
  • Academic achievement, 1:21, 151. See also Achievement gap
  • Academic freedom, 1:388
  • AcadĂŠmie Royale d’Architecture, Paris, 2:666
  • Accommodation (group relations), 1:63
  • Accommodation (learning), 1:24, 170
  • Accountability and standards-based reform, 1:3–4. See also Evidence-based policy and practice; High-stakes testing
    • charter schools, 1:118
    • loose coupling, 2:496
    • management strategy of, 1:3–4
    • managerialism, 2:509
    • problems with, 1:3–4
  • Acculturation, 1:402–403. See also Enculturation; Indoctrination; Socialization
  • Acemoglu, Daron, 1:250
  • Achievement. See Academic achievement
  • Achievement gap, 1:4–7
    • Coleman Report, 1:150–151
    • early childhood education, 1:6–7
    • existing gaps, 1:5
    • explanations, 1:5
    • public policy, 1:7
    • race, 1:5–6
    • teacher quality, 1:6
  • Achievement motivation, 1:7–9
  • Ackerman, Bruce, 1:213
  • Action. See Theories of action
  • Action learning, 1:280
  • Action r...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Editorial Board
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. About the Editor
  8. Contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. A
  11. Abilities, Measurement of
  12. Accountability and Standards-Based Reform
  13. Achievement Gap
  14. Achievement Motivation
  15. Activity Theory
  16. Actor–Network Theory: Bruno Latour
  17. Addams, Jane
  18. Adler, Mortimer, and the Paideia Program
  19. Adolescent Development
  20. Advance Organizers
  21. Aesthetic Education
  22. Affirmative Action
  23. Aims, Concept of
  24. Alienation
  25. Analytic Philosophy of Education: Development and Critiques
  26. Analytical Psychology: Carl Jung
  27. Anthropology of Education: Main Traditions and Issues
  28. Apple, Michael
  29. Aptitude–Treatment Interactions: Evolution of Research
  30. Aquinas and Thomism
  31. Arendt, Hannah
  32. Aristotle
  33. Arnold, Matthew
  34. Assimilation
  35. Associationism
  36. At-Risk Children
  37. Augustine
  38. Autonomy
  39. B
  40. Bacon, Francis
  41. Beauvoir, Simone De
  42. Behavioral Objectives and Operational Definitions
  43. Behaviorism
  44. Bell Curve
  45. Bildung
  46. Bilingual Education
  47. Bourdieu, Pierre
  48. Bruner, Jerome
  49. Buber, Martin
  50. Buddhism
  51. C
  52. Capability Approach: Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen
  53. Capital: Cultural, Symbolic, and Social
  54. Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
  55. Case Studies
  56. Castoriadis, Cornelius
  57. Causation
  58. Cavell, Stanley
  59. Century of the Child, The: Ellen Key
  60. Character Development
  61. Charter Schools
  62. Childhood, Concept of
  63. Children’s Rights
  64. Chinese Philosophical Traditions and Education
  65. Chomsky, Noam
  66. Church and State
  67. Cicero
  68. Citizenship and Civic Education
  69. Code Theory: Basil Bernstein
  70. Cognitive Load Theory and Learning
  71. Cognitive Revolution and Information Processing Perspectives
  72. Coleman Report
  73. Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
  74. Comenius, Johann Amos
  75. Common Curriculum
  76. Common School Movement
  77. Communicative Action
  78. Communitarianism
  79. Communities of Learners
  80. Competence
  81. Complexity Theory
  82. Conceptual Change
  83. Confucius
  84. Connoisseurship and Educational Criticism
  85. Constructivism
  86. Continental/Analytic Divide in Philosophy of Education
  87. Cosmopolitanism
  88. Cost–Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analyses
  89. Counts, George
  90. Creative and Lateral Thinking: Edward de Bono
  91. Creativity
  92. Critical Race Theory
  93. Critical Theory
  94. Critical Thinking
  95. Cultural Literacy and Core Knowledge/Skills
  96. Curriculum, Construction and Evaluation of
  97. D
  98. Dalton Plan
  99. Daoism
  100. Deconstruction
  101. Deliberative Democracy
  102. Democratic Theory of Education
  103. Deschooling Society: Ivan Illich
  104. Design Experiments
  105. Dewey, John
  106. Dialogue
  107. Dilthey, Wilhelm
  108. Disciplinarity
  109. Discourse Analysis
  110. Discovery Learning: Pros and Cons
  111. Distributed Cognition
  112. Diversity
  113. Dropouts
  114. Du Bois, W. E. B.
  115. E
  116. Economic Development and Education
  117. Edinburgh School of Sociology of Knowledge
  118. Education, Concept of
  119. Education, Transcendental Justification of
  120. Education Production Functions
  121. Educational Measurement and Assessment
  122. Educational Research, Critiques of
  123. Educational Science
  124. Educational Theory, Nature of
  125. Embodiment
  126. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  127. Epistemologies, Teacher and Student
  128. Epistemology, Multicultural
  129. Equality of Educational Opportunity
  130. Erasmus
  131. Essentialism, Perennialism, and the “Isms” Approach
  132. Ethics in Research
  133. Ethics in Teaching
  134. Ethics of Care
  135. Ethnicity and Race
  136. Evaluation of Educational and Social Programs: Models
  137. Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
  138. Evolution and Educational Psychology
  139. Existentialism
  140. Experiential Learning
  141. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research: Campbell and Stanley
  142. F
  143. Faculty Psychology and Mental Discipline
  144. Feminist Epistemology
  145. Feminist Ethics
  146. Feminist Standpoint Theory
  147. Foucault, Michel
  148. Freire, Paulo: Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Critical Pedagogy
  149. Freud, Sigmund
  150. Froebel, Friedrich
  151. G
  152. Gadamer, Hans Georg
  153. Gandhi, Mahatma
  154. Gender and Education
  155. General Systems Theory
  156. Globalization and World Society
  157. “Gold Standard” Research: Controversies
  158. Goodman, Paul
  159. Great Books
  160. Greene, Maxine
  161. H
  162. Habermas, JĂźrgen
  163. Habits
  164. Happiness
  165. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
  166. Heidegger, Martin
  167. Herbart, Johann F.
  168. Hermeneutics
  169. Hidden Curriculum
  170. Higher Education: Contemporary Controversies
  171. High-Stakes Testing
  172. Homeschooling
  173. House of Intellect, The
  174. Human Capital Theory and Education
  175. I
  176. Identity and Identity Politics
  177. Ideology
  178. Immigrants, Education of
  179. Indian Religious and Philosophical Traditions and Education
  180. Individual Psychology: Alfred Adler
  181. Indoctrination
  182. Insight Learning
  183. Intelligence: History and Controversies
  184. Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  185. International Student Assessment (PISA)
  186. Isocrates
  187. J
  188. James, William
  189. Jewish Educational Philosophy
  190. Justice as Fairness
  191. K
  192. Kant, Immanuel
  193. Key, Ellen
  194. Knowledge, Analysis of
  195. Knowledge, Structure of: From Aristotle to Bruner and Hirst
  196. Kuhn, Thomas S.
  197. L
  198. Laboratory School, University of Chicago
  199. Lakatos, Imre
  200. Language Acquisition, Theories of
  201. Learning, Theories of
  202. Legal Decisions Affecting Education
  203. Liberal Education: Overview
  204. Liberalism
  205. Lifelong Education
  206. Linguistic Diversity
  207. Literacy and the New Literacy Studies
  208. Little Commonwealth: Homer Lane
  209. Locke, John
  210. Loose Coupling
  211. Lyotard, Jean-François
  212. M
  213. MacIntyre, Alasdair
  214. Makiguchi, Tsunesaburo
  215. Managerialism
  216. Maritain, Jacques
  217. Martin, Jane Roland
  218. Marx, Karl
  219. Mead, George Herbert
  220. Mencius
  221. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
  222. Metacognition
  223. Mill, John Stuart
  224. Mixed Methods Research
  225. Modernization Theory
  226. Montaigne, Michel de
  227. Montessori Education
  228. Moral Development: Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan
  229. Moral Education
  230. Motivation
  231. Multicultural Citizenship
  232. Multiculturalism
  233. Multiple Intelligences: Howard Gardner
  234. Multiversity
  235. Murdoch, Iris
  236. Muslim Educational Traditions
  237. N
  238. Narrative Research
  239. Neill, A. S., and Summerhill
  240. Neoliberalism
  241. Neurosciences and Learning
  242. Newman, John Henry (Cardinal)
  243. Nietzsche, Friedrich
  244. Noddings, Nel
  245. O
  246. Oakeshott, Michael
  247. Open Schools
  248. P
  249. Paideia
  250. Patriotism
  251. Peace Education
  252. Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Lee Shulman
  253. Perfectionism
  254. Pestalozzi, Johann H.
  255. Peters, R. S.
  256. Phenomenological Pedagogy
  257. Phenomenology
  258. Philosophical Issues in Educational Research: An Overview
  259. Phronesis (Practical Reason)
  260. Piaget, Jean
  261. Plato
  262. Play
  263. Popper, Karl
  264. Positive Psychology and Education
  265. Positivism
  266. Postmodernism
  267. Postpositivism
  268. Poststructuralism
  269. Privatization
  270. Probability and Significance Testing
  271. Problem-Based Learning
  272. Productive Labor and Occupations: From Dewey to Makarenko
  273. Progressive Education and Its Critics
  274. Project Method
  275. Psychoanalytically Oriented Theories of Child Development
  276. Pure and Applied Research and Pasteur’s Quadrant
  277. Q
  278. Qualitative Versus Quantitative Methods and Beyond
  279. Quality of Education
  280. Quintilian
  281. R
  282. Racism and Multicultural Antiracist Education
  283. Radical Constructivism: Ernst von Glasersfeld
  284. Rancière, Jacques
  285. Rationality and Its Cultivation
  286. Rawls, John
  287. Recapitulation, Theory of
  288. Reflective Practice: Donald SchĂśn
  289. Religious Education and Spirituality
  290. Religious Symbols and Clothing
  291. Reproduction Theories
  292. Rhetorical Canons
  293. Right to an Education
  294. Rights: Children, Parents, and Community
  295. Rogers, Carl: Freedom to Learn
  296. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
  297. Russell, Bertrand
  298. S
  299. Sartre, Jean-Paul
  300. Scheffler, Israel
  301. Schleiermacher, Friedrich
  302. School and Classroom Climate
  303. School Choice
  304. Schooling in the United States: Historical Analyses
  305. Schwab, Joseph: The Practical
  306. Science Studies
  307. Self-Regulated Learning
  308. Semiotics
  309. Service-Learning
  310. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
  311. Single- and Double-Loop Learning
  312. Situated Cognition
  313. Social Class
  314. Social Cognitive Theory
  315. Social Constructionism
  316. Social Darwinism
  317. Social Reconstruction
  318. Social Systems Theory: Talcott Parsons and Niklas Luhmann
  319. Socialization
  320. Sociology of Knowledge
  321. Socrates and Socratic Dialogue
  322. Sophists
  323. Spectator Theory of Knowledge
  324. Spencer, Herbert
  325. Stage Theories of Development
  326. Stereotype Effects and Attributions: Inside and Out
  327. Symbolic Interactionism
  328. T
  329. Taoism
  330. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
  331. Teaching, Concept and Models of
  332. Teaching Machines: From Thorndike, Pressey, and Skinner to CAI
  333. Technology and Education
  334. Technology and Society, Critiques of
  335. Theories of Action
  336. Theory of Mind
  337. Toleration
  338. Topophilia (Love of Place)
  339. Transfer of Learning
  340. U
  341. Utilitarianism
  342. Utopias
  343. V
  344. Validity, Types of
  345. Value-Free Ideal for Research: Controversies
  346. Values Clarification
  347. Values Education
  348. Verstehen
  349. Virtue Ethics
  350. Vocational Education
  351. Vygotsky, Lev
  352. W
  353. Waldorf Education: Rudolf Steiner
  354. Whitehead, Alfred N.
  355. Wittgenstein, Ludwig
  356. Wollstonecraft, Mary
  357. Y
  358. Young, Iris Marion
  359. Youth Culture, Theories of
  360. Index