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
The PISA Effect on Global Educational Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Louis Volante
December 10, 2019
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international achievement measure that assesses 15-year-old student performance in the areas of reading, mathematics, and science literacy in over 70 countries and economies triennially. By presenting an in-depth examination of PISA’s ...
Education and the Production of Space: Political Pedagogy, Geography, and Urban Revolution
1st Edition
By Derek Ford
June 04, 2019
Emerging from a radical pedagogical tradition, Education and the Production of Space deepens and extends Henri Lefebvre’s insights on revolutionary praxis by revealing the intimate relationship between education and the production of space. Synthesizing educational theory, Marxist theory, and ...
The Conservative Case for Education: Against the Current
1st Edition
By Nicholas Tate
December 19, 2018
The Conservative Case for Education argues that educational thinking in English-speaking countries over the last fifty years has been massively influenced by a dominant liberal ideology based on unchallenged assumptions. Conservative voices pushing against the current of this ideology have been few...
Local Citizenship in the Global Arena: Educating for community participation and change
1st Edition
By Sally Findlow
June 28, 2018
Local Citizenship in the Global Arena proposes a reconsideration of both citizenship and citizenship education, moving away equally from prevailing ‘global citizenship’ and ‘fundamental British values’ approaches towards a curriculum for education that is essentially about creating cosmopolitan, ...
Middle-class School Choice in Urban Spaces: The economics of public schooling and globalized education reform
1st Edition
By Emma Rowe
June 01, 2018
Middle-class School Choice in Urban Spaces examines government-funded public schools from a range of perspectives and scholarship in order to examine the historical, political and economic conditions of public schooling within a globalized, post-welfare context. In this book, Rowe argues that ...
Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore Education Policy Today: Neoliberalism through the lens of Renaissance humanism
1st Edition
By Sophie Ward
May 09, 2018
Shakespeare is revered as the greatest writer in the English language, yet education reform in the English-speaking world is informed primarily by the ‘market order’, rather than the kind of humanism we might associate with Shakespeare. By considering Shakespeare’s dramatisation of the principles ...
Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places: Emergences of norms and possibilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva Reimers, Lena Martinsson
May 04, 2018
Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places investigates the conditions and possibilities for political subjectivities to emerge in international educational contexts, where neoliberal norms are repeated, performed and transformed. Through demonstrating the possibility of ...
UNESCO Without Borders: Educational campaigns for international understanding
1st Edition
Edited
By Aigul Kulnazarova, Christian Ydesen
January 03, 2018
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was established in 1945 with twin aims: to rebuild various institutions of the world destroyed by war, and to promote international understanding and peaceful cooperation among nations. Based on empirical and historical ...
Modernising School Governance: Corporate planning and expert handling in state education
1st Edition
By Andrew Wilkins
December 21, 2017
Modernising School Governance examines the impact of recent market-based reforms on the role of governors in the English state education system. A focus of the book concerns how government and non-government demands for ‘strong governance’ have been translated to mean improved performance ...
Political and Social Influences on the Education of Children: Research from Bosnia and Herzegovina
1st Edition
By Gwyneth Owen-Jackson
December 21, 2017
This book investigates the effects of social and political change on the provision of primary education in post-communist and post-war contexts. Focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina, the author considers educational developments in post-communist countries of central and Eastern Europe, the effects ...
The Strong State and Curriculum Reform: Assessing the politics and possibilities of educational change in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Leonel Lim, Michael W. Apple
December 21, 2017
As Asian education systems increasingly take on a stronger presence on the global educational landscape, of special interest is an understanding of the ways in which many of these states direct their schools towards higher achievement. What is missing, however, are accounts that take seriously the ...
Creativity and Democracy in Education: Practices and politics of learning through the arts
1st Edition
By Jeff Adams, Allan Owens
June 14, 2017
The struggle to establish more democratic education pedagogies has a long history in the politics of mainstream education. This book argues for the significance of the creative arts in the establishment of social justice in education, using examples drawn from a selection of contemporary case ...