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
Teachers and the State: Towards a Directed Profession
1st Edition
By Mike Bottery, Nigel Wright
November 24, 2016
This book examines the status of training and continuing professional development of teachers on a national and international level. The authors argue that teachers need to feel that they are part of an empowering professionalism, in which their work has an effect on the abilities of students, and ...
9/11 and Collective Memory in US Classrooms: Teaching About Terror
1st Edition
By Cheryl Lynn Duckworth
November 18, 2016
While current literature stresses the importance of teaching about the 9/11 attacks on the US, many questions remain as to what teachers are actually teaching in their own classrooms. Few studies address how teachers are using of all of this advice and curriculum, what sorts of activities they are ...
Affirming Language Diversity in Schools and Society: Beyond Linguistic Apartheid
1st Edition
Edited
By Pierre Wilbert Orelus
November 18, 2016
Language is perhaps the most common issue that surfaces in debates over school reform, and plays a vital role in virtually everything we are involved. This edited volume explores linguistic apartheid, or the disappearance of certain languages through cultural genocide by dominant European ...
African Americans and Homeschooling: Motivations, Opportunities and Challenges
1st Edition
By Ama Mazama, Garvey Musumunu
November 18, 2016
Despite greater access to formal education, both disadvantaged and middle-class black students continue to struggle academically, causing a growing number of black parents to turn to homeschooling. This book is an in-depth exploration of the motivations behind black parents’ decision to educate ...
Arts-based and Contemplative Practices in Research and Teaching: Honoring Presence
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Walsh, Barbara Bickel, Carl Leggo
November 18, 2016
This volume presents a scholarly investigation of the ways educators engage in artistic and contemplative practices – and why this matters in education. Arts-based learning and inquiry can function as a powerful catalyst for change by allowing spiritual practices to be present within educational ...
Education, Nature, and Society
1st Edition
By Stephen Gough
November 18, 2016
Environmental issues continue to divide opinion, sometimes in extreme ways. Almost everyone agrees that education has a role to play in ensuring the future of humanity on Earth. Some think we should all learn to leave a minimal environmental footprint; others argue that education should promote ...
Global Perspectives on Spirituality and Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacqueline Watson, Marian de Souza, Ann Trousdale
November 18, 2016
In recent decades, and around the world, much attention has been given to the role of spirituality in the education of children and young people. While educationalists share many common goals and values in nurturing the spiritual lives of children and young people, national and regional cultures, ...
Interrogating Critical Pedagogy: The Voices of Educators of Color in the Movement
1st Edition
Edited
By Pierre Wilbert Orelus, Rochelle Brock
November 18, 2016
Educators, teacher practitioners, and social activists have successfully used critical pedagogy as a tool to help marginalized students develop awareness and seek alternative solutions to their poor educational and socioeconomic situations. However, this theory is often criticized as being mostly ...
Learning Technologies and the Body: Integration and Implementation In Formal and Informal Learning Environments
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor R. Lee
November 18, 2016
This volume explores how technology-supported learning environments can incorporate physical activity and interactive experiences in formal education. It presents cutting-edge research and design work on a new generation of "body-centric" technologies such as wearable body sensors, GPS tracking ...
Literacy, Play and Globalization: Converging Imaginaries in Children's Critical and Cultural Performances
1st Edition
By Carmen L. Medina, Karen E. Wohlwend
November 18, 2016
This book takes on current perspectives on children’s relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children’s media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared ...
Negotiating Privilege and Identity in Educational Contexts
1st Edition
By Adam Howard, Brianne Wheeler, Aimee Polimeno
November 18, 2016
Recent efforts emphasize the roles that privilege and elite education play in shaping affluent youths’ identities. Despite various backgrounds, the common qualities shared among the eight adolescents showcased in this book lead them to form particular understandings of self, others, and the world ...
Neo-liberal Educational Reforms: A Critical Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By David Turner, Hüseyin Yolcu
November 18, 2016
This volume gathers a cast of eminent scholars for a critical and comparitive analysis of how neoliberal education policies have functioned in a range of countries in different stages of economic development. Treating case studies from Europe, Asia, the Americas and ...