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:
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
The Hidden Role of Software in Educational Research: Policy to Practice
1st Edition
By Tom Liam Lynch
May 18, 2017
Educational research often discounts the uniqueness and ubiquity of software and the hidden political, economic and epistemological ways it impacts teaching and learning in K-12 settings. Drawing on theories and methodologies from English education, critical discourse analysis, multimodal semiotics...
Theorizing Pedagogical Interaction: Insights from Conversation Analysis
1st Edition
By Hansun Zhang Waring
May 18, 2017
Pedagogical interaction can be observed through many different landscapes, such as the graduate seminar, the writing skills center, the after-school literacy program, adult ESL classrooms, and post-observation conferences. By viewing these settings through the lens of conversation analysis, this ...
Transatlantic Reflections on the Practice-Based PhD in Fine Art
1st Edition
By Jessica Schwarzenbach, Paul Hackett
May 18, 2017
Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists, however the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures established the MFA as the terminal degree for visual artists. Subsequently, the PhD in fine art emerged in the UK and is now offered by approximately 40 ...
Refugee Women, Representation and Education: Creating a discourse of self-authorship and potential
1st Edition
By Melinda McPherson
February 27, 2017
Even with increased attention to refugee women’s issues in the late 20th century, post-colonial discourses have nurtured limiting representations of refugee women, predominantly as subjects of charity and as victims. Adding to a growing body of work in the field, the author challenges this ...
Aristotelian Character Education
1st Edition
By Kristján Kristjánsson
February 15, 2017
This book provides a reconstruction of Aristotelian character education, shedding new light on what moral character really is, and how it can be highlighted, measured, nurtured and taught in current schooling. Arguing that many recent approaches to character education understand character in ...
Professional Uncertainty, Knowledge and Relationship in the Classroom: A psychosocial perspective
1st Edition
By Joseph Mintz
January 19, 2017
The extent to which teachers should make use of theoretical and expert knowledge as opposed to tacit experiential knowledge, and how these might be combined, is a perennial issue in discussions on pedagogy. This book addresses these debates through a creative development of the concept of ...
Biotechnology, Education and Life Politics: Debating genetic futures from school to society
1st Edition
By Pádraig Murphy
January 09, 2017
What should individuals and society do when genetic screening becomes widely available and with its impact on current and future generations still uncertain? How can our education systems around the world respond to these developments? Reproductive and genetic technologies (RGTs) are increasingly ...
Towards Methodologically Inclusive Research Syntheses: Expanding possibilities
1st Edition
By Harsh Suri
January 04, 2017
Primary research in education and social sciences is marked by a diversity of methods and perspectives. How can we accommodate and reflect such diversity at the level of synthesizing research? What are the critical methodological decisions in the process of a research synthesis, and how do these ...
Chinese Students’ Writing in English: Implications from a corpus-driven study
1st Edition
By Maria Leedham
December 05, 2016
Chinese students are the largest international student group in UK universities today, yet little is known about their undergraduate writing and the challenges they face. Drawing on the British Academic Written English corpus - a large corpus of proficient undergraduate student writing collected in...
Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change: A transdisciplinary approach to researching lives
1st Edition
Edited
By Hazel L. Reid, Linden West
December 05, 2016
In this volume, academics and researchers across disciplines including education, psychology and health studies come together to discuss personal, political and professional narratives of struggle, resilience and hope. Contributors draw from a rich body of auto/biographical research to examine the ...
Education, Philosophy and Well-being: New perspectives on the work of John White
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Suissa, Carrie Winstanley, Roger Marples
December 05, 2016
John White is one of the leading philosophers of education currently working in the Anglophone world. Since first joining the London Institute of Education in 1965, he has made significant contributions to the landscape of the discipline through his teaching, research and numerous publications. His...
Liberty and Education: A civic republican approach
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Hinchliffe
December 05, 2016
This book takes the thinking of Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit and J.G.A. Pocock on republican liberty and explores the way in which this idea of liberty can be used to illuminate educational practice. It argues that republican liberty is distinct from both positive and negative liberty, and its ...