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.

Table of Contents

• Editorial Board
• List of Entries
• Reader's Guide
• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Abilities, Measurement of
• Accountability and Standards-Based Reform
• Achievement Gap
• Achievement Motivation
• Activity Theory
• Actor–Network Theory: Bruno Latour
• Addams, Jane
• Adler, Mortimer, and the Paideia Program
• Adolescent Development
• Advance Organizers
• Aesthetic Education
• Affirmative Action
• Aims, Concept of
• Alienation
• Analytical Psychology: Carl Jung
• Anthropology of Education: Main Traditions and Issues
• Apple, Michael
• Aptitude–Treatment Interactions: Evolution of Research
• Aquinas and Thomism
• Arendt, Hannah
• Aristotle
• Arnold, Matthew
• Assimilation
• Associationism
• At-Risk Children
• Augustine
• Autonomy
• Bacon, Francis
• Beauvoir, Simone de
• Behavioral Objectives and Operational Definitions
• Behaviorism
• Bell Curve
• Bildung
• Bilingual Education
• Bruner, Jerome
• Buber, Martin
• Capability Approach: Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen
• Capital: Cultural, Symbolic, and Social
• Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
• Case Studies
• Castoriadis, Cornelius
• Causation
• Cavell, Stanley
• Century of the Child, The: Ellen Key
• Character Development
• Charter Schools
• Childhood, Concept of
• Children's Rights
• Chomsky, Noam
• Church and State
• Cicero
• Citizenship and Civic Education
• Code Theory: Basil Bernstein
• Cognitive Load Theory and Learning
• Cognitive Revolution and Information Processing Perspectives
• Coleman Report
• Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
• Comenius, Johann Amos
• Common Curriculum
• Communitarianism
• Communities of Learners
• Competence
• Complexity Theory
• Conceptual Change
• Confucius
• Connoisseurship and Educational Criticism
• Continental/Analytic Divide in Philosophy of Education
• Cosmopolitanism
• Cost–Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analyses
• Creative and Lateral Thinking: Edward de Bono
• Creativity
• Critical Race Theory
• Critical Theory
• Critical Thinking
• Cultural Literacy and Core Knowledge/Skills
• Curriculum, Construction and Evaluation of
• Dalton Plan
• Daoism
• Deconstruction
• Deliberative Democracy
• Democratic Theory of Education
• Deschooling Society: Ivan Illich
• Design Experiments
• Dewey, John
• Dialogue
• Disciplinarity
• Discourse Analysis
• Discovery Learning: Pros and Cons
• Distributed Cognition
• Diversity
• Dropouts
• Du Bois, W. E. B.
• Economic Development and Education
• Edinburgh School of Sociology of Knowledge
• Education, Concept of
• Education, Transcendental Justification of
• Education Production Functions
• Educational Research, Critiques of
• Educational Science
• Educational Theory, Nature of
• Embodiment
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• Epistemologies, Teacher and Student
• Epistemology, Multicultural
• Equality of Educational Opportunity
• Erasmus
• Essentialism, Perennialism, and the “Isms” Approach
• Ethics in Research
• Ethics in Teaching
• Ethnicity and Race
• Evaluation of Educational and Social Programs: Models
• Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
• Evolution and Educational Psychology
• Experiential Learning
• Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research: Campbell and Stanley
• Faculty Psychology and Mental Discipline
• Feminist Epistemology
• Feminist Ethics
• Feminist Standpoint Theory
• Foucault, Michel
• Freire, Paulo: Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Critical Pedagogy
• Freud, Sigmund
• Froebel, Friedrich
• Gandhi, Mahatma
• Gender and Education
• Globalization and World Society
• Goodman, Paul
• Greene, Maxine
• Habits
• Happiness
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
• Heidegger, Martin
• Herbart, Johann F.
• Hermeneutics
• Hidden Curriculum
• Higher Education: Contemporary Controversies
• High-Stakes Testing
• Homeschooling
• House of Intellect, The
• Human Capital Theory and Education
• Identity and Identity Politics
• Ideology
• Immigrants, Education of
• Indian Religious and Philosophical Traditions and Education
• Individual Psychology: Alfred Adler
• Indoctrination
• Insight Learning
• Intelligence: History and Controversies
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• International Student Assessment (PISA)
• Isocrates
• James, William
• Jewish Educational Philosophy
• Kant, Immanuel
• Knowledge, Analysis of
• Knowledge, Structure of: From Aristotle to Bruner and Hirst
• Kuhn, Thomas S.
• Laboratory School, University of Chicago
• Lakatos, Imre
• Language Acquisition, Theories of
• Learning, Theories of
• Legal Decisions Affecting Education
• Liberal Education: Overview
• Liberalism
• Lifelong Education
• Linguistic Diversity
• Literacy and the New Literacy Studies
• Little Commonwealth: Homer Lane
• Locke, John
• Loose Coupling
• Lyotard, Jean-François
• MacIntyre, Alasdair
• Makiguchi, Tsunesaburo
• Managerialism
• Maritain, Jacques
• Martin, Jane Roland
• Marx, Karl
• Mead, George Herbert
• Mencius
• Metacognition
• Mill, John Stuart
• Modernization Theory
• Montaigne, Michel de
• Montessori Education
• Moral Development: Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan
• Moral Education
• Motivation
• Multicultural Citizenship
• Multiculturalism
• Multiple Intelligences: Howard Gardner
• Multiversity
• Murdoch, Iris
• Muslim Educational Traditions
• Narrative Research
• Neill, A. S., and Summerhill
• Neoliberalism
• Neurosciences and Learning
• Newman, John Henry (Cardinal)
• Nietzsche, Friedrich
• Noddings, Nel
• Oakeshott, Michael
• Open Schools
• Paideia
• Patriotism
• Peace Education
• Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Lee Shulman
• Pestalozzi, Johann H.
• Peters, R. S.
• Phenomenological Pedagogy
• Phenomenology
• Philosophical Issues in Educational Research: An Overview
• Phronesis (Practical Reason)
• Piaget, Jean
• Plato
• Play
• Popper, Karl
• Positive Psychology and Education
• Positivism
• Postmodernism
• Postpositivism
• Privatization
• Probability and Significance Testing
• Problem-Based Learning
• Productive Labor and Occupations: From Dewey to Makarenko
• Progressive Education and Its Critics
• Project Method
• Psychoanalytically Oriented Theories of Child Development
• Pure and Applied Research and Pasteur's Quadrant
• Qualitative Versus Quantitative Methods and Beyond
• Quality of Education
• Quintilian
• Racism and Multicultural Antiracist Education
• Radical Constructivism: Ernst von Glasersfeld
• Rationality and Its Cultivation
• Rawls, John
• Recapitulation, Theory of
• Reflective Practice: Donald Schön
• Religious Education and Spirituality
• Religious Symbols and Clothing
• Reproduction Theories
• Rhetorical Canons
• Right to an Education
• Rights: Children, Parents, and Community
• Rogers, Carl: Freedom to Learn
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
• Russell, Bertrand
• Sartre, Jean-Paul
• Scheffler, Israel
• Schleiermacher, Friedrich
• School and Classroom Climate
• School Choice
• Schooling in the United States: Historical Analyses
• Schwab, Joseph: The Practical
• Self-Regulated Learning
• Semiotics
• Service-Learning
• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
• Single- and Double-Loop Learning
• Social Class
• Social Cognitive Theory
• Social Constructionism
• Social Darwinism
• Social Reconstruction
• Social Systems Theory: Talcott Parsons and Niklas Luhmann
• Socialization
• Socrates and Socratic Dialogue
• Sophists
• Spectator Theory of Knowledge
• Spencer, Herbert
• Stereotype Effects and Attributions: Inside and Out
• Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
• Teaching, Concept and Models of
• Teaching Machines: From Thorndike, Pressey, and Skinner to CAI
• Technology and Education
• Technology and Society, Critiques of
• Theories of Action
• Theory of Mind
• Toleration
• Topophilia (Love of Place)
• Transfer of Learning
• Utilitarianism
• Utopias
• Validity, Types of
• Value-Free Ideal for Research: Controversies
• Values Clarification
• Values Education
• Virtue Ethics
• Vocational Education
• Vygotsky, Lev
• Waldorf Education: Rudolf Steiner
• Whitehead, Alfred N.
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig
• Wollstonecraft, Mary
• Young, Iris Marion
• Youth Culture, Theories of