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
Teacher Education through Active Engagement: Raising the professional voice
1st Edition
Edited
By Lori Beckett
January 09, 2017
Teacher Education through Active Engagement identifies and addresses a contemporary issue: the ways in which teaching and teacher education are articulated by politicians, civil servants, business leaders and educational entrepreneurs intent on profit-making in the current global neoliberal policy ...
Educational Binds of Poverty: The lives of school children
1st Edition
By Ceri Brown
December 05, 2016
Shortlisted for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed's second Ethnography Awards in partnership with the British Sociological Association! Educational Binds of Poverty tackles the assumptions made by many recent social and educational policy initiatives suggesting that the best way to improve educational...
Demythologizing Educational Reforms: Responses to the Political and Corporate Takeover of Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Arthur T. Costigan, Leslee Grey
November 18, 2016
There are dozens of myths surrounding educational reform today, maintaining the school’s role in economic competitiveness, the deficiency of teachers, the benefits of increased testing, and the worthiness of privatization. In this volume, the editors argue that this discussion has been co-opted to ...
Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Native American Students: Paying the Educational Debt
1st Edition
Edited
By Peggy McCardle, Virginia Berninger
November 18, 2016
There has been much talk and effort focused on the educational achievement gap between white versus black, Hispanic and American Indian students. While there has been some movement the gap has not appreciably narrowed, and it has narrowed the least for Native American students. This volume ...
Pedagogy, Praxis and Purpose in Education
1st Edition
By C.M. Mulcahy, D.E. Mulcahy, D.G. Mulcahy
November 18, 2016
Recent years have shown the growth of federal legislation and programs having a profound impact on educational policy and practice, and a decline in reliance on broadly based educational justifications. Paralleling this development has been the emergence of well-endowed and influential private ...
Social Context Reform: A Pedagogy of Equity and Opportunity
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Thomas, Brad J. Porfilio, Julie Gorlewski, Paul R. Carr
November 18, 2016
Currently, both the status quo of public education and the "No Excuses" Reform policies are identical. The reform offers a popular and compelling narrative based on the meritocracy and rugged individualism myths that are supposed to define American idealism. This volume will refute this ideology by...
US Education in a World of Migration: Implications for Policy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Jill Koyama, Mathangi Subramanian
November 18, 2016
Given the protracted, varied, and geographically expansive changes in migration over time, it is difficult to establish an overarching theory that adequately analyzes the school experiences of immigrant youth in the United States. This volume extends the scholarly work on these experiences by ...
Student Voices on Inequalities in European Higher Education: Challenges for theory, policy and practice in a time of change
1st Edition
Edited
By Fergal Finnegan, Barbara Merrill, Camilla Thunborg
November 07, 2016
This book focuses on the voices and experiences of non-traditional students in European higher education. It examines the impact that access to higher education is having on these students’ lives and discusses what this tells us about European education and society. In particular, it explores the ...
The Politics of Compulsive Education: Racism and learner-citizenship
1st Edition
By Karl Kitching
November 07, 2016
The marketised and securitised shaping of formal education sites in terms of risk prevention strategies have transformed what it means to be a learner and a citizen. In this book, Karl Kitching explores racialised dimensions to suggest how individuals and collectives are increasingly made ...
Health Education: Critical perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie Fitzpatrick, Richard Tinning
January 20, 2016
Health Education: Critical perspectives provides a socio-cultural and critical approach to health education. The book draws together international experts in the fields of health and education who deconstruct contemporary discourses and practices, and re-imagine a health education that both ...