Routledge Research in Education
About the Book Series
This series aims to present the latest research from right across the field of education. It is not confined to any particular area or school of thought and seeks to provide coverage of a broad range of topics, theories and issues from around the world.
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
Critical Cosmopolitanism in Diverse Students’ Lives: Universal and Restricted Expressions
1st Edition
By Eleni M. Oikonomidoy
June 30, 2020
Based on a qualitative meta-analysis of data from five studies conducted with secondary and college students, this book explores the multiple ways in which sources of cosmopolitan agency exist in their lives. Grounded in a framework of critical cosmopolitanism, this book examines how students’ ...
Democratic Education and the Teacher-As-Prophet: Exploring the Religious Work of Schools
1st Edition
By Jeffery Dunn
June 30, 2020
This volume aims to reveal how Dewey’s notion of the religious—understood as faith in the human relational condition—offers a way to think differently about the aims and purposes of education. After exploring the effects of neoliberal conceptions of schooling against broader democratic forms of ...
Educating Young Children in WPA Nursery Schools: Federally-Funded Early Childhood Education from 1933-1943
1st Edition
By Molly Arboleda
June 30, 2020
Educating Young Children in WPA Nursery Schools, the first full-length national study of the WPA nursery school program, helps to explain why universal preschool remains an elusive goal. This book argues that program success in operating nursery schools throughout the United States during the Great...
Learning from Urban Immigrant Youth About Academic Literacies
1st Edition
By Jie Park
June 30, 2020
This book reports on a two-year long, qualitative literacy case study of the academic literacies of first and second-generation immigrant youth in an afterschool tutoring program in South Bronx, New York. Through transcripts of tutoring sessions, interview data, and youths’ written work, each ...
Moral Thought in Educational Practice
1st Edition
By Hugh Sockett
June 30, 2020
This book demonstrates how pervasive moral thought can be in educational thought and practice. By analyzing research on the moral and intellectual qualities in curriculum, as well as the integration of personhood and citizenship development in classroom work, this book demonstrates the primacy of ...
Radical Educators Rearticulating Education and Social Change: Teacher Agency and Resistance, Early 20th Century to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Gale de Saxe, Tina Y. Gourd
June 30, 2020
This book is a collection of six case studies of teacher agency in action, centering on voices of educators who engaged in activist work throughout the history of education in the US. Through a lens of teacher agency and resistance, chapter authors explore the stories of individual educators to ...
Reconceptualizing Curriculum, Literacy, and Learning for School-Age Mothers
1st Edition
By Heidi Hallman, Abigail Kindelsperger
June 30, 2020
Reconceptualizing Curriculum, Literacy, and Learning for School-Age Mothers offers a portrait of classroom literacy practices and learning opportunities that are provided for school-age mothers in two different schools. Through a series of case studies of school sites, teachers, and students, this ...
Representations of Slavery in Children’s Picture Books: Teaching and Learning about Slavery in K-12 Classrooms
1st Edition
By Raphael Rogers
June 30, 2020
Drawing on critical race theory, critical race feminism, critical multicultural analysis, and intertextuality this book examines how slavery is represented in contemporary children’s picture books. Through analysis of recently published picture books about slavery, Rogers discusses how these books ...
Researching and Enacting Change in Postsecondary Education: Leveraging Instructors' Social Networks
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Henderson, Chris Rasmussen, Alexis Knaub, Naneh Apkarian, Alan James Daly, Kathleen Fisher
June 30, 2020
Calls to improve undergraduate STEM education have resulted in initiatives that seek to bolster student learning outcomes by promoting changes in teaching practices. Written by participants in a series of ground-breaking social network analysis (SNA) workshops, Researching and Enacting Change in ...
Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension: Inside an American Islamic School
1st Edition
By Melanie Brooks
February 25, 2020
Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension explores life inside an Islamic Center and school in present-day America. Melanie Brooks’ work draws on in-depth discussions with community and school leaders, teachers, parents and students to present thoughtful and contemporary perspectives ...
Learning Beyond the School: International Perspectives on the Schooled Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Dr Julian Sefton-Green, Ola Erstad
February 25, 2020
Whilst learning is central to most understandings of what it is to be human, we now live in a knowledge society where being educated defines life chances more than ever before. Learning Beyond the School brings together accounts of learning from around the world in organisations, spaces and places ...
Manufacturing the Mathematical Child: A Deconstruction of Dominant Spaces of Production and Governance
1st Edition
By Anna Llewellyn
February 25, 2020
Mathematics is a subject held in high esteem around the world, yet the teaching and learning of mathematics is rarely viewed as good enough and many find the subject difficult to comprehend, or engage with. In Manufacturing the Mathematical Child, Anna Llewellyn asks some difficult questions in ...