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
Teacher Professional Knowledge and Development for Reflective and Inclusive Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Ismail Amzat, Nena Padilla-Valdez
January 23, 2019
This book brings together the practice of reflective teaching and the knowledge of inclusive practices in the context of teacher education and continuing professional development. It is a call to leverage reflective teaching for inclusive practices. The first part of the book provides an overview ...
Transformative Learning and Teaching in Physical Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Malcolm Thorburn
September 27, 2018
Transformative Learning and Teaching in Physical Education explores how learning and teaching in physical education might be improved and how it might become a meaningful component of young people’s lives. With its in-depth focus on physical education within contemporary schooling, the book ...
Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Parental Engagement with Children’s Learning
1st Edition
By Janet Goodall
August 23, 2018
Narrowing the Achievement Gap proposes a radical change to our conception of learning, education and schooling, arguing that parental engagement is the best lever we have for school improvement and closing the achievement gap. Unique in its focus on original research linking underachievement and ...
Whiteness and Teacher Education
1st Edition
By Edie White
August 23, 2018
Due to the rise of internet use and a move toward globalization, it may be assumed that white millennial college students are more accepting of cultural diversity and are more likely to be advocates for social justice than generations that have come before them. This project shows that while many ...
Reflective Practice: Voices from the Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Barnard, Jonathon Ryan
August 14, 2018
The aim of the book is to explain a range of options for implementing the reflective practice cycle in educational settings in various international contexts. It presents a series of empirical case studies illustrating many different ways of implementing the reflective practice cycle, and how they ...
Online Learning and Community Cohesion: Linking Schools
1st Edition
By Roger Austin, Bill Hunter
August 09, 2018
National governments and multi-national institutions are spending unprecedented amounts of money on ICT on improving the overall quality of school learning, and schools are increasingly expected to prepare young people for a global economy in which inter-cultural understanding will be a ...
Transnationalism, Education and Empowerment: The Latent Legacies of Empire
1st Edition
By Niranjan Casinader
July 25, 2018
Transnationalism, Education and Empowerment challenges the prevailing notion that transnationalism is concerned fundamentally with the process of enhanced global population movement that has been allied with modern globalisation. Instead, it argues that transnationalism is a state of mind, ...
The Politics of Differentiation in Schools
1st Edition
By Martin Mills, Amanda Keddie, Peter Renshaw, Sue Monk
May 11, 2018
In many English-speaking countries, teachers are encouraged to differentiate their classrooms, and in some cases, through various policy mechanisms. This encouragement is often accompanied by threats and sanctions for not making the grade. By exploring the ways in which one education system in ...
Reclaiming Discipline for Education: Knowledge, relationships and the birth of community
1st Edition
By James MacAllister
May 09, 2018
Discipline is of profound educational importance, both inside educational institutions and outside of them in personal and social life. Reclaiming Discipline for Education revisits neglected philosophical ideas about discipline in education and uses these ideas to re-think practices and discourses ...
Teacher Educators’ Professional Learning in Communities
1st Edition
By Linor Hadar, David Brody
May 09, 2018
Teacher Educators’ Professional Learning in Communities explores teacher educators' professional development in the communal model of learning. Learning in groups has proved to be a major avenue for supporting such development and change among teachers and other professions, but one which has ...
Empowering Black Youth of Promise: Education and Socialization in the Village-minded Black Church
1st Edition
By Sandra Barnes, Anne Streaty Wimberly
April 27, 2018
Informed by the experiences of 772 Black churches, this book relies on a multidisciplinary, mixed-methodological lens to examine how today’s Black churches address the religious and non-religious educational and broader socialization needs of youth. Drawing from a cultural and ecological framework ...
New Perspectives on Intercultural Language Research and Teaching: Exploring Learners’ Understandings of Texts from Other Cultures
1st Edition
By Melina Porto, Michael Byram
April 27, 2018
Illustrated by an empirical study of English as a Foreign Language reading in Argentina, this book argues for a different approach to the theoretical rationales and methodological designs typically used to investigate cultural understanding in reading, in particular foreign language reading. It ...