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
The Charter School Solution: Distinguishing Fact from Rhetoric
1st Edition
Edited
By Tara Affolter, Jamel K. Donnor
April 27, 2018
Challenging the popular perception that the free market can objectively ameliorate inequality and markedly improve student academic achievement, this book examines the overly positivistic rhetoric surrounding charter schools. Taking a multifocal approach, this book examines how charter schools ...
Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Schools: Examining the impact and opportunities within educational systems
1st Edition
By Anit Somech, Izhar Oplatka
April 25, 2018
This book extends our understanding of the attitudes and behaviors of teachers who improve their schools consistently and considerably. It sets out to critically analyze and examine organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) in schools from a contextual perspective and to display the uniqueness of ...
Teacher Leadership: New conceptions for autonomous student learning in the age of the Internet
1st Edition
By Kokila Roy Katyal, Colin William Evers
March 14, 2018
In recent years teacher leadership has undergone one major revolution and is in the process of undergoing another. The first came about as schools turned out to be far too complex for the responsibility of formulating and achieving their goals to be vested entirely in principals and head teachers. ...
Children's Creative Music-Making with Reflexive Interactive Technology: Adventures in improvising and composing
1st Edition
By Victoria Rowe, Angeliki Triantafyllaki, Francois Pachet
March 12, 2018
Children's Creative Music-Making with Reflexive Interactive Technology discusses pioneering experiments conducted with young children using a new generation of music software for improvising and composing. Using artificial intelligence techniques, this software captures the children’s musical style...
Community-based Media Pedagogies: Relational Practices of Listening in the Commons
1st Edition
By Bronwen Low, Paula Salvio, Chloe Brushwood Rose
February 12, 2018
Participatory media is a tool for individual and community education and development, allowing students to express and share their ideas and opinions, and to contribute to the production of the commons. Vital to the storytelling in these community spaces is listening—the listening of project ...
Vocationalism in Further and Higher Education: Policy, Programmes and Pedagogy
1st Edition
Edited
By Sai Loo, Jill Jameson
February 12, 2018
Vocationalism in Further and Higher Education presents a collection of research-based papers on the ‘English model’ of vocationalism and higher education. It argues that negative societal and political perceptions have hindered the debate about the significance and relevance of vocational education...
Education in Computer Generated Environments
1st Edition
By Sara de Freitas
January 22, 2018
This book examines the implications of computer-generated learning for curriculum design, epistemology, and pedagogy, exploring the ways these technologies transform the relationship between knowledge and learning, and between teachers and students. It argues that these technologies and practices ...
The Development of the Mechanics’ Institute Movement in Britain and Beyond: Supporting further education for the adult working classes
1st Edition
By Martyn Walker
January 22, 2018
The Development of the Mechanics’ Institute Movement in Britain and Beyond questions the prevailing view that mechanics’ institutes made little contribution to adult working-class education from their foundation in the 1820s to 1890. The book traces the historical development of several mechanics’ ...
Research for Educational Change: Transforming researchers' insights into improvement in mathematics teaching and learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Jill Adler, Anna Sfard
January 10, 2018
Research for Educational Change presents ways in which educational research can fulfil its commitments to educational practice. Focussing its discussion within the context of mathematics education, it argues that while research-generated insights can have beneficial effects on learning and teaching...
Decoding Technology Acceptance in Education: A Cultural Studies Contribution
1st Edition
By Caroline Stockman
January 08, 2019
The process of integrating technology into education often overlooks that technology is a sign; it is not a neutral message conveyor, but rather a material artefact placed into a context inevitably subject to culture. In an original and novel combination, Decoding Technology Acceptance in Education...
Diverse Pedagogies of Place: Educating Students in and for Local and Global Environments
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Renshaw, Ron Tooth
January 08, 2019
Diverse Pedagogies of Place presents eight original place-responsive pedagogies that address a question of paramount importance in today’s world: how do we educate the next generation of students to confront the challenges of global climate change and the on-going degradation of natural ...
Transforming Education in the Gulf Region: Emerging Learning Technologies and Innovative Pedagogy for the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Khalid Alshahrani, Mohamed Ally
January 03, 2018
Countries in the Arab Gulf are currently experiencing some of the fastest rates of growth and progress in the world. Transforming Education in the Gulf Region argues that education systems in these countries need to use innovative pedagogies and best practices in teaching and learning to educate ...