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RR 2015/206 A Dictionary of Education (2nd edition) Edited by Susan Wallace Oxford University Press Oxford 2015 xvi + 344 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 967939 3 £12.99 $25.95 Oxford Paperback Reference Also available online through Oxford Quick Reference
Keywords Education, Dictionaries
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-04-2015-0102
A Dictionary of Education is part of the Oxford Paperback Reference series, also available online as Oxford Quick Reference, a collection of 120 subject dictionaries providing concise and authoritative resources for students, researchers, professionals and the general reader. The editor of this Dictionary is Susan Wallace, Emeritus Professor of Education at Nottingham Trent University, who is the author of a number of books for teachers, including Teaching, Tutoring and Training in the Lifelong Learning Sector (Wallace, 2011) and The A-Z Guide to Working in Further Education (Gravells and Wallace, 2013).
This reference work, now in its second edition and previously reviewed in these columns in its first edition (RR 2009/214), covers pre-school, primary, secondary, further and higher education, special needs, adult and continuing education and work-based learning. The Dictionary begins with a helpful list of abbreviations relevant to the field. The main body of the work comprises 1,100 entries in the usual A-Z format on a wide range of topics, from terminology and qualifications to statutes and biographies of...