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
Teacher Training and the Education of Black Children: Bringing Color into Difference
1st Edition
By Uvanney Maylor
November 18, 2016
This book is designed to challenge dominant educational discourses on the underachievement of Black children and to engender new understandings in initial teacher education (ITE) about Black children's education and achievement. Based in empirical case study work and theoretical insights drawn from...
Test Fraud: Statistical Detection and Methodology
1st Edition
Edited
By Neal Kingston, Amy Clark
November 18, 2016
There has been an increase in awareness (and perhaps occurrence) of individual and organized cheating on tests. Recent reports of widespread problems with state student accountability tests and teacher certification testing have raised questions about the very validity of assessment programs. While...
The Politics of Pleasure in Sexuality Education: Pleasure Bound
1st Edition
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By Louisa Allen, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Kathleen Quinlivan
November 18, 2016
Pleasure and desire have been important components of the vision for sexuality education for over 20 years. This book argues that there has been a lack of scrutiny over the political motivations that underpin research supportive of pleasure and desire within comprehensive sexuality education. In ...
Vernaculars in the Classroom: Paradoxes, Pedagogy, Possibilities
1st Edition
By Shondel Nero, Dohra Ahmad
November 18, 2016
This book draws on applied linguistics and literary studies to offer concrete means of engaging with vernacular language and literature in secondary and college classrooms. The authors embrace a language-as-resource orientation, countering the popular narrative of vernaculars as problems in schools...
Raising Literacy Achievement in High-Poverty Schools: An Evidence-Based Approach
1st Edition
By Eithne Kennedy
November 16, 2016
This book shares lessons gleaned from a two-year intervention in a high-poverty school, which was highly successful in significantly narrowing the literacy achievement gap and in raising children’s motivation and engagement in literacy both inside and outside school. Kennedy argues that there is ...
Landscapes of Specific Literacies in Contemporary Society: Exploring a social model of literacy
1st Edition
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By Vicky Duckworth, Gordon Ade-Ojo
November 10, 2016
This volume makes a timely contribution to our understanding of literacy as a multi-faceted, complexly situated activity. Each chapter provides the reader with a fresh perspective into a different site for literate behaviour, approaches, design and relationships, and offers an exploration into the ...
Secrecy and Tradecraft in Educational Administration: The covert side of educational life
1st Edition
By Eugenie A. Samier
November 07, 2016
During the last couple of decades, there has been an expansion in a number of related and overlapping fields producing evidence of covert activities: toxic cultures, destructive leadership styles, micropolitics, ethical problems in organisations and administration, abusive power and authority, and ...
The Social Construction of Meaning: Reading literature in urban English classrooms
1st Edition
By John Yandell
November 07, 2016
This book takes a fresh look at secondary urban English classrooms and at what happens when students and their teachers explore literature collaboratively. By closely examining what happens in English lessons, minute by minute, it reveals how literary texts function not as a valorised heritage to ...
Lesson Study: Professional learning for our time
1st Edition
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By Peter Dudley
August 03, 2016
This book introduces readers to the development of Lesson Study (LS) in the UK, making historical connections to the growth of Lesson Study in Japan, East Asia, the US and Europe. It explains how to conduct LS in schools and educational institutions, providing examples of compelling, externally ...
The Resegregation of Schools: Education and Race in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
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By Jamel K. Donnor, Adrienne Dixson
August 03, 2016
Access to a quality education remains the primary mechanism for improving one’s life chances in the United States, and for children of color, a “good education” is particularly linked to their individual and collective well-being. Despite the popular perception that America is in a “post-racial” ...
Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education: International perspectives
1st Edition
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By Phil Benson, Alice Chik
May 31, 2016
The integration of popular culture into education is a pervasive theme at all educational levels and in all subject areas. Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education explores how ‘popular culture’ and ‘education’ come together and interact in research and practice from an interdisciplinary ...
The Age of STEM: Educational policy and practice across the world in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
1st Edition
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By Brigid Freeman, Simon Marginson, Russell Tytler
May 31, 2016
Across the world STEM (learning and work in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) has taken central importance in education and the economy in a way that few other disciplines have. STEM competence has become seen as key to higher productivity, technological adaptation and ...