A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education

Compiled by Donald Gillies

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This dictionary has aimed at brevity so checking entries elsewhere should assist fuller understanding. There are numerous potential sources for this activity and the following is offered as a helpful introductory selection.
 
Books:

Advisory Council for Education. (1991). Education A-Z. London: ACE.

Audi, R. (1995). The Cambridge dictionary of philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University 

          Press.

Barrow, R., & Milburn, G. (1990). A critical dictionary of educational concepts (2nd ed.,).

          Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

Blackburn, S. (1994). The Oxford dictionary of philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Blake, D., & Hanley, V. (1995). The dictionary of educational terms. Aldershot: Arena,

          Ashgate Publishers Limited.

Inglis, F., & Aers, L. (2008). Key concepts in education. London: SAGE.

Raber, A. & Raber, E. (2001). The Penguin dictionary of psychology. London: Penguin Books.

Ruhmann, C. (2001). The dictionary of important ideas and thinkers. London: Arrow Books.

Shafritz, J., Koeppe, R., & Saper, E. (1998). The Facts on File dictionary of education. New

          York: Facts on File.

Wallace, S.(2008). Dictionary of education. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

A subversive guide for cynics and others:

Burgess, T. (2002). The devil’s dictionary of education. London: Continuum.

 
Weblinks:

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/misc/glossary.htm

This is a US site, mostly of acronyms, but some of the terms are in use in the UK and elsewhere.

 

http://www.crossroad.to/glossary/education.html

Another site from the USA with a brief list of educational terms.

 

http://www.schoolwisepress.com/smart/dict/dict.html

A useful glossary from a US educational publisher

 

http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/Images/tcm21-116101.doc

A brief guide particularly to acronyms in common use in one English region.

 

http://www.nationaleducationtrust.net/Glossary.php#P

Another guide to acronyms in the English system

 

http://www.tda.gov.uk/Recruit/Global/glossary.aspx?keywords=glossary

A glossary from an official government agency in England

 

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/search/index.asp

Numerous specialist educational glossaries are available on this Scottish site. Simply type ‘glossary’ into the search engine here to find them.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_education-related_terms_(A-C)

The Wikipedia glossary - which needs to be cross-referenced, like all such ‘wiki’ sites.

 

http://www.marxists.org/encyclopedia/index.htm

A specialist dictionary of Marxism which contains numerous terms relevant to education.

 

http://plato.stanford.edu/

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides a superb guide to philosophers and ideas related to education.

 

http://www.onelook.com/

A good site which provides definitions simultaneously from a range of online dictionaries, including this site.

 

http://infed.org/encyclopaedia_index.htm

A website devoted to informal education. The index has some helpul definitions, with lengthier entries on particular educational topics.

 

http://www.learningandteaching.info/

A good site, particularly in relation to theories of learning.