Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics series aims to enhance our understanding of key challenges and facilitate on-going academic debate within the influential and growing field of Education Policy and Politics.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Gaslighting School Educational Policy in a Post-Truth World: Systems, Schools and Society
1st Edition
By Grant Rodwell
July 22, 2025
Focusing on current educational systems in the US, UK, and Australia, Grant Rodwell examines the politics of gaslighting within school educational policy and how this links to political motives in a post-truth world. In recent years, gaslighting has become a major global issue due to various ...
School Resources, the Achievement Gap, and the Law: Reconsidering School Finance, Policies, and Resources in US Education Policy
1st Edition
By David J. Armor, John R. Munich, Aron Malatinszky
May 26, 2025
This book offers a novel and up-to-date exploration of the common belief that increasing conventional school resources will increase academic achievement and help close gaps between various advantaged and disadvantaged students. Taking the scholarship around this question, such as James S. Coleman’...
Perspectives on the Place of Creativity in Education, Policy and Practice: Limitations and Open Spaces
1st Edition
By Kevin Gormley
January 30, 2025
This book critically analyses how cultural and educational policies construct creativity through a range of concepts and compares this against the open and expansive idea of creativity as experienced by individuals in society more broadly. The book draws on empirical data, case-study examples, and...
Taming Chance in Education: Control, Prediction and Comparison
1st Edition
By Daniel Pettersson, Andreas Nordin
January 30, 2025
This volume centres the notion of "chance" in education as a key concept in contemporary education – relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments – and discusses the impact that the historical desire to "tame" this notion has had on present-day ...
International Student Mobility in Japan: Higher Education in the Era of the New Normal
1st Edition
Edited
By Sachihiko Kondo, Yu Sengoku, Ryoko Nakano, Akito Okada
October 24, 2024
In light of the COVID-19 crisis, this edited volume explores the changing landscape of International Student Education in Japanese universities and the impact on global student mobility. Through analysing a wide range of data, the book engages historical, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical ...
Working in a Survival School: Exploring Policy Tensions, Marketisation and Performativities
1st Edition
By Lee Del Col, Garth Stahl
October 09, 2024
Working in a Survival School documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders. The research traces the everyday work and experience of educators within an all-boys Catholic college suffering an unprecedented ...
Education Policy and the Political Right: The Burning Fuse beneath Schooling in the US, UK and Australia
1st Edition
By Grant Rodwell
January 29, 2024
This work attempts a comparative description and analysis, focusing on the US, the UK, and Australia on the topic of the Right, educational policy, and schooling. It adopts as its underlying theme the burning fuse in tracing the topic back to Joseph de Maistre a Rightist who fled revolutionary ...
Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global Governance: Risks, Limitations, and Humanistic Alternatives
1st Edition
Edited
By António Teodoro
September 25, 2023
This volume offers a critical examination of the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), focusing on its origins and implementation, relationship to other international large-scale assessments, and its impacts on educational policy and reform at national and cross-national levels. ...
Educating the Neoliberal Whole Child: A Genealogical Approach
1st Edition
By Bronwen MA Jones
September 25, 2023
This book questions what ‘educating the whole child’ means in the context of our current neoliberal education system. In analysing the impact of how education policy is enacted and understood, it examines how this ‘neoliberalisation’ has shaped the personal and ethical relations of education. The ...
The Path to Successful Community School Policy Adoption: A Comparative Analysis of District-Level Policy Reform Processes
1st Edition
By Emily Lubin Woods
September 25, 2023
Drawing on rich case studies of Baltimore City and Boston, this volume identifies policy factors and processes critical to the successful district-wide adoption of community schools. By applying the Multiple Streams Model (Kingdon) to comparative analysis of policy determination and the ...
Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research: The Practice of Methods
1st Edition
Edited
By Camilla Addey, Nelli Piattoeva
May 31, 2023
What do we actually do when we research education policy and governance? Why do we tame the messy hinterland of research into smooth accounts and what do we lose in the process? In this volume, distinguished scholars in education policy and governance research discuss how the practice of methods is...
Nancy Fraser and Participatory Parity: Reframing Social Justice in South African Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Vivienne Bozalek, Dorothee Hölscher, Michalinos Zembylas
February 01, 2022
Nancy Fraser and Participatory Parity provides a philosophical framework based on the work of Nancy Fraser, examining how her ideas can be used to analyse contemporary issues in higher education and reimagine higher education practices. Providing a forum for considering Fraser’s work in relation to...