Education: Learning and Schooling Worldwide
- LAST REVIEWED: 12 April 2019
- LAST MODIFIED: 23 March 2012
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199791231-0024
- LAST REVIEWED: 12 April 2019
- LAST MODIFIED: 23 March 2012
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199791231-0024
Introduction
Colloquially, “education” usually means “schooling,” and thus this bibliography focuses on schooling, although it will briefly consider education more broadly defined. It is limited to pre-primary, primary, and secondary education, excluding postsecondary even though some university students arguably fall on the border between childhood and adulthood. The interdisciplinary field of educational studies is largely an applied field and much of its literature is devoted to efforts to improve schooling; however, this bibliography identifies descriptive studies of actual practices and beliefs rather than prescriptions for reform. The main thrust of literature identified here is that schooling has recently become among the most important settings in which children live and develop, meaning that the current global form of schooling as well as variations in schooling “on the ground” have huge consequences for children’s lives and powerful meanings for all of us.
Reference Works
Dozens of encyclopedias and handbooks cover the broad range of education topics in English and in other languages (e.g., van Zanten 2008). Searching in a library catalogue or on the web using the key words “handbook,” “education,” and a broad research interest such as “sociology” or “philosophy” will probably call up more than one reference book containing overviews of the research literature. One comprehensive starting point is the International Encyclopedia of Education (Baker, et al. 2010). See also Apple, et al. 2010; Hallinan 2000; and Levinson and Pollack 2011. Meanwhile, several international organizations maintain online databases and reports that provide a statistical overview of schooling around the world. To track what percentage of the world’s children now attend school, see the EFA (Education for All) Global Monitoring Reports at United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Education; to answer such questions as how much time children in a given country spend in school or what percentage of them go on to secondary or tertiary education, consult statistics at sites or webpages such as Education at a Glance 2010: OECD Indicators. Data on the much publicized and influential international tests of student achievement can be found at the OECD site and at the TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center site.
Apple, Michael, Stephen J. Ball, and Luis Armando Gandin, eds. The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education. London: Routledge, 2010.
NNNCollection of articles edited by leading critical sociologists of education, with representation from India, Brazil, France, and other countries outside the English-speaking world.
Baker, Eva, Barry McGaw, and Penelope L. Peterson, eds. International Encyclopedia of Education. 3d ed. New York: Elsevier, 2010.
NNNThis eight-volume work replaces a very helpful second edition edited by Neville Postlethwaite in 1994.
Education at a Glance 2010: OECD Indicators.
NNNExplore this section of the OECD site for answers to such questions as “What proportion of national wealth is spent on education?” or “How much time do students spend in the classroom?” for sixty-four nations and territories. Preschool and School provides 2009 results from the international PISA examinations (Programme for International Student Assessment).
Hallinan, Maureen T., ed. Handbook of the Sociology of Education. New York: Kluwer, 2000.
NNNCollection of excellent articles, several from the world culture (neo-institutionalist) perspective.
Levinson, Bradley A. U., and Mica Pollack, eds. A Companion to the Anthropology of Education. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
NNNReviews of the literature on schooling, language, the state, and reform by leading anthropologists of education, many from the United States but with participation from Mexico and other countries.
TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center.
NNNAnalyses of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Studies (TIMSS), 1995 through 2011, which tests fourth and eighth graders in more than sixty countries, and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), which has assessed fourth graders in more than fifty countries since 2001. Along with the OECD’s PISA, these tests provoke soul-searching in nations worldwide.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Education.
NNNSee EFA Global Monitoring Report for updates on progress toward Education for All. See also Key Statistical Tables for country-by-country information on education systems (such as compulsory school-starting age), on students, and on teachers. See Tables 21–26 for data back to the 1970s.
van Zanten, Agnès, ed. Dictionnaire de l’éducation. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2008.
NNNA one-volume French-language resource for research in the educational sciences.
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- Adolescent Consent to Medical Treatment
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- Adoption and Fostering, History of Cross-Country
- Advertising and Marketing, Psychological Approaches to
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- Africa, Children and Young People in
- African American Children and Childhood
- After-school Hours and Activities
- Ancient Near and Middle East, Child Sacrifice in the
- Animals, Children and
- Animations, Comic Books, and Manga
- Anthropology of Childhood
- Archaeology of Childhood
- Ariès, Philippe
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- Bioarchaeology of Childhood
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- Breastfeeding
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- Crying
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- Dolls
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- Eating disorders and obesity
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- Environment, Children and the
- Environmental Education and Children
- Ethics in Research with Children
- Eugenics
- Evolutionary Studies of Childhood
- Fairy Tales and Folktales
- Family Meals
- Fandom (Fan Studies)
- Fathers
- Female Genital Cutting
- Feral and "Wild" Children
- Fetuses and Embryos
- Filicide
- Films about Children
- Films for Children
- Folklore
- Food
- Foundlings and Abandoned Children
- Freud, Anna
- Freud, Sigmund
- Friends and Peers: Psychological Perspectives
- Froebel, Friedrich
- Gangs
- Gay and Lesbian Parents
- Gender and Childhood
- Generations, The Concept of
- Geographies, Children's
- Gifted and Talented Children
- Globalization
- Growing Up in the Digital Era
- Hall, G. Stanley
- Happiness in Children
- Hindu Views of Childhood and Child Rearing
- Hispanic Childhoods (U.S.)
- Historical Approaches to Child Witches
- History of Adoption and Fostering in Canada
- History of Childhood in America
- History of Childhood in Canada
- HIV/AIDS, Growing Up with
- Homeschooling
- Humor and Laughter
- Images of Childhood, Adulthood, and Old Age in Children’s ...
- Infancy and Ethnography
- Infant Mortality in a Global Context
- Innocence and Childhood
- Institutional Care
- Intercultural Learning and Teaching with Children
- Islamic Views of Childhood
- Japan, Childhood in
- Juvenile Detention in the US
- Key, Ellen
- Klein, Melanie
- Labor, Child
- Latin America
- Learning, Language
- Learning to Write
- Legends, Contemporary
- Literary Representations of Childhood
- Literature, Children's
- Love and Care in the Early Years
- Magazines for Teenagers
- Maltreatment, Child
- Maria Montessori
- Marxism and Childhood
- Masculinities/Boyhood
- Material Cultures of Western Childhoods
- Mead, Margaret
- Media, Children in the
- Media Culture, Children's
- Medieval and Anglo-Saxon Childhoods
- Menstruation
- Middle Childhood
- Middle East
- Migration
- Miscarriage
- Missionaries/Evangelism
- Moral Development
- Moral Panics
- Mothers
- Multi-culturalism and Education
- Music and Babies
- Native American and Aboriginal Canadian Childhood
- New Reproductive Technologies and Assisted Conception
- Nursery Rhymes
- Organizations, Nongovernmental
- Orphans
- Parental Gender Preferences, The Social Construction of
- Parenting
- Pediatrics, History of
- Peer Culture
- Peter Pan
- Philosophy and Childhood
- Piaget, Jean
- Play
- Politics, Children and
- Postcolonial Childhoods
- Post-Modernism
- Poverty, Rights, and Well-being, Child
- Pre-Colombian Mesoamerica Childhoods
- Prostitution and Pornography, Child
- Psychoanalysis
- Queer Theory and Childhood
- Race and Ethnicity
- Racism, Children and
- Radio, Children, and Young People
- Readers, Children as
- Refugee and Displaced Children
- Relational Ontologies
- Relational Pedagogies
- Rights, Children’s
- Risk and Resilience
- Russia
- School Shootings
- Sex Education in the United States
- Sexuality
- Siblings
- Social and Cultural Capital of Childhood
- Social Habitus in Childhood
- Social Movements, Children's
- Social Policy, Children and
- Socialization and Child Rearing
- Socio-cultural Perspectives on Children's Spirituality
- Sociology of Childhood
- South African Birth to Twenty Project
- South Asia
- Special Education
- Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
- Spock, Benjamin
- Sports and Organized Games
- Street Children
- Street Children And Brazil
- Subcultures
- Sure Start
- Teenage Fathers
- Teenage Pregnancy
- Television
- The Bible and Children
- The Harms and Prevention of Drugs and Alcohol on Children
- The Spaces of Childhood
- Theater for Children and Young People
- Theories, Pedagogic
- Tourism
- Toys
- Transgender Children
- Tweens
- Twins and Multiple Births
- Unaccompanied Migrant Children
- United Kingdom, History of Adoption and Fostering in the
- United States, Schooling in the
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- Visual Representations of Childhood
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- Well-Being, Child
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