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
Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and Human Development: Exploring Time, Mediation and Collectivity in Contemporary Schools
1st Edition
By Michalis Kontopodis
March 27, 2014
In most Western developed countries, adult life is increasingly organized on the basis of short-term work contracts and reduced social security funds. In this context it seems that producing efficient job-seekers and employees becomes the main aim of educational programs for the next generation. ...
Resourcing Early Learners: New Networks, New Actors
1st Edition
By Sue Nichols, Jennifer Rowsell, Helen Nixon, Sophia Rainbird
March 27, 2014
The landscape of early childhood education and care is changing. Governments world-wide are assuming increasing authority in relation to child-rearing in the years before school entry, beyond the traditional role in assisting parents to do the best they can by their children. As part of a social ...
Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Alister Cumming
March 19, 2014
This book presents results from a four-year project addressing the central question: What factors, challenges, and contexts contribute to and constrain literacy achievement among at-risk adolescent learners with culturally diverse backgrounds? Researchers consider the importance of several, ...
Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza
March 19, 2014
This volume bridges the gap between contemporary theoretical debates and educational policies and practices. It applies postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis that attempts to engage with and go beyond essentialism, ethno- and euro-centrisms through a critical examination of contemporary ...
Educating for Diversity and Social Justice
1st Edition
By Amanda Keddie
March 07, 2014
Educating for Diversity and Social Justice foregrounds the personal stories of educators who are engaging the space of schooling as a site of possibility for realizing the goals of social justice. It is a book inspired by a vision of education as a practice of freedom where young people – ...
Changing Schools in an Era of Globalization
1st Edition
By John Chi-Kin Lee, Brian J. Caldwell
February 14, 2014
Much has been written about globalization and the challenge of preparing young people for the new world of work and life in times of complexity and continuous change. However, few works have examined how globalization has and will continue to shape education in the East. This volume discusses ...
Education Policy, Space and the City: Markets and the (In)visibility of Race
1st Edition
By Kalervo N. Gulson
February 14, 2014
Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city. Gulson uses an innovative and critical spatial approach to explore how the processes and practices of neoliberal education ...
Intersectionality and Race in Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Kalwant Bhopal, John Preston
February 14, 2014
Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequalities and have diverse identifications that cannot necessarily be captured by one theoretical perspective alone. This edited collection draws on ...
Islamic Education and Indoctrination: The Case in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Charlene Tan
February 14, 2014
Islamic schools, especially madrasahs, have been viewed as sites of indoctrination for Muslim students and militants. Some educators and parents in the United States have also regarded introductory courses on Islam in some public schools as indoctrinatory. But what do we mean by "indoctrination"? ...
Systemization in Foreign Language Teaching: Monitoring Content Progression
1st Edition
By Wilfried Decoo
February 14, 2014
Foreign language learning is a progressive endeavor. Whatever the method, the learner should advance from one point to another, constantly improving. Growing proficiency entails growing language content. Content is complex, displaying many dimensions. Syllabus designers, textbook authors, and ...
The Politics of Education: Challenging Multiculturalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Christos Kassimeris, Marios Vryonides
February 14, 2014
Education is a thoroughly political enterprise. The process of determining the purpose of education has always been highly controversial. It has resulted in disputes that have not only divided people philosophically, but also on the basis of religion, region, class, race, and ethnicity. As a result...
Boys and Their Schooling: The Experience of Becoming Someone Else
1st Edition
By John Whelen
January 15, 2014
This book presents an ethnographic study of the experiences of teenage boys in an Australian high school. It follows a group of thirteen to fifteen year olds over a period of more than two years, and seeks to understand why so many boys say they hate school yet enjoy being with ...