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:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
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...
Education for Democracy in England in World War II
1st Edition
By Hsiao-Yuh Ku
December 13, 2021
Education for Democracy in England in World War II examines the educational discourse and involvement in wartime educational reforms of five important figures: Fred Clarke, R. H. Tawney, Shena Simon, H. C. Dent and Ernest Simon. These figures campaigned for educational reforms through their books, ...
Governing the School under Three Decades of Neoliberal Reform: From Educracy to the Education-Industrial Complex
1st Edition
By Richard Münch
December 13, 2021
This book provides a critical analysis of the neoliberal reform agenda of the economic governance of schools. Focusing on the role of the United States in this process, it explores the transformation of schools in this agenda from educational establishments to enterprises in a competitive education...
Education, Liberal Democracy and Populism: Arguments from Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill
1st Edition
By David Sullivan
June 30, 2021
Education, Liberal Democracy and Populism: Arguments from Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill provides a lucid and critical guide shedding light on the continuing relevance of earlier thinkers to the debates between populists and liberals about the nature of education in democratic societies. The book ...
Teaching History in a Neoliberal Age: Policy, Agency and Teacher Voice
1st Edition
By Mary Woolley
June 30, 2021
This book explores changing practice in history classrooms from the autonomy of the 1980s through the introduction of GCSEs and the National Curriculum to the prescription of the National Strategies and the pervasive influence of league tables in the first decade of the twenty-first century. ...
Theresa May, The Hostile Environment and Public Pedagogies of Hate and Threat: The Case for a Future Without Borders
1st Edition
By Mike Cole
June 30, 2021
Theresa May, The Hostile Environment and Public Pedagogies of Hate and Threat analyses Theresa May’s involvement in the creation and promotion of public pedagogies of hate and threat around the issue of immigration, which are used to instil fear, stress and anxiety among large sections of the ...
Reforming Principal Preparation at the State Level: Perspectives on Policy Reform from Illinois
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Hunt, Lisa Hood, Alicia Haller, Maureen Kincaid
December 18, 2020
Providing an in-depth look at the processes, pitfalls, and successes that can emerge from major education reform efforts at the state level, this volume covers the full policy change cycle in the development and transformation of the Illinois principal preparation program. Offering perspectives ...
Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education: Lessons from Sweden
1st Edition
Edited
By Magnus Dahlstedt, Andreas Fejes
September 30, 2020
Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education provides a wide perspective on the dramatic transformation of education policy in Sweden that has taken place during the last 30 years, with a specific focus on marketization. The marketization of education in Sweden is set in the wider international ...
Moral Panics and School Educational Policy
1st Edition
By Grant Rodwell
August 14, 2020
How do the moral panics that have plagued school education since it’s nineteenth-century beginnings impact current school education policy? Research has shown young people to be particularly vulnerable to moral panics and, with the rise of social media, the impact of moral panics on school ...
Risk Society and School Educational Policy
1st Edition
By Grant Rodwell
June 30, 2020
Risk Society and School Educational Policy explores the impact of risk society on policy in the US, UK and Australia through both practical and theoretical perspectives. The book develops an in-depth understanding of risk society itself, and guides the reader in applying this knowledge to the ...
Pedagogy in Poverty: Lessons from Twenty Years of Curriculum Reform in South Africa
1st Edition
By Ursula Hoadley
April 09, 2020
As South Africa transitioned from apartheid to democracy, changes in the political landscape, as well as educational agendas and discourse on both a national and international level, shaped successive waves of curriculum reform over a relatively short period of time. Using South Africa as a germane...
Academies and Free Schools in England: A History and Philosophy of The Gove Act
1st Edition
By Adrian Hilton
February 25, 2020
Academies and Free Schools in England argues that there is a high degree of philosophical consensus and historical continuity on the policy of ‘academisation’ across the main political parties in England. It attempts to make sense of what are all essentially free schools by interviewing the ...