'this volume features many excellent articles on broad educational topics. For students needing a highly readable context within which to place basic educational concepts (e.g., "classroom," "evaluation"), this source's utility is without question. McCulloch and Crook attempt in a single volume to take a panoramic view of education by including practice and theory, history, and the present.' — Choice, E. S. Petersen, Dana College
'This volume's broad content will render it useful to students of all social sciences' — Choice, E. S. Petersen, Dana College
‘The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education is a major achievement. The breadth of its coverage is impressive and the writing is crisp and clear. This is a book that deserves a long life.’ - Michael W. Apple, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
‘This wonderful book is a treasure trove of information for experts as well as novices. Its coverage is truly impressive. It’s not only a useful reference book, it’s fascinating to dip into at random. Like all good books, it stimulates you to find out more.’ - Sally Power, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
‘This encyclopedia is an excellent compilation of short articles on a range of concepts and themes necessary for an understanding of current developments in education. Global in its scope, it provides accounts that are not only historically informed but also point to new directions in educational research.’ - Fazal Rizvi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
'This volume's broad content will render it useful to students of all social sciences.' — CHOICE
'...fine piece of reference writing' - reference reviews
'Recommended for the larger general and specialist education libraries.' - Reference Reviews
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.
—Rosanne M. Cordell
