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
Considering Trilingual Education
1st Edition
By Kathryn Henn-Reinke
January 03, 2014
Based in case studies conducted in the US, Europe, and Latin America, this book explores the feasibility and benefits of trilingual/ multilingual education in the United States. Currently, there are few programs in the country of this nature, as educators tend to conclude that English-language ...
Critical Issues in Peace and Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Pericles Trifonas, Bryan Wright
January 03, 2014
This collection asks theorists and educational practitioners from around the world influenced by the schools of feminist pedagogy, critical pedagogy, anti-racist or postcolonial pedagogy, and gay and lesbian pedagogy to reflect upon the possibilities of articulating a "curriculum of difference" ...
Citizenship, Education and Social Conflict: Israeli Political Education in Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanan A. Alexander, Halleli Pinson, Yossi Yonah
November 08, 2013
This volume provides new perspectives into the challenges of citizenship education in the age of globalization and in the context of multicultural and conflict-ridden societies. It calls on us to rethink the accepted liberal and national discourses that have long dominated the ...
Emerging Teachers and Globalisation
1st Edition
By Gerry Czerniawski
November 08, 2013
While globalization has had tremendous influence on the world of teaching, national cultural traditions continue to influence systems of schooling, national curricula, and teachers’ values and classroom practices. This book explores the effects of globalisation on teachers through an examination of...
Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling: The Influence of Male Teachers
1st Edition
By Wayne Martino, Goli Rezai-Rashti
November 08, 2013
This book provides an illuminating account of teachers’ own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns about male teacher shortage and offers a critique of the call for more male role models in ...
Trust and Betrayal in Educational Administration and Leadership
1st Edition
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By Eugenie A. Samier, Michèle Schmidt
November 08, 2013
This collection explores critical and foundational theory for trust in educational administration and leadership as it influences a broad range of topics, such as ethics, governance, diversity, policy, management, and power. It demonstrates the relevance of this foundation to practical issues and ...
Education and Sustainability: Learning Across the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Divide
1st Edition
By Seonaigh MacPherson
October 14, 2013
This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity. Derived from findings from a comparative eco-linguistic study of intergenerational language, culture, and education change in the Tibetan ...
Equity and Excellence in Education: Towards Maximal Learning Opportunities for All Students
1st Edition
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By Kris Van den Branden, Piet Van Avermaet, Mieke Van Houtte
October 14, 2013
Throughout the world, equity and excellence in education is a major issue of concern. International comparative studies such as those carried out by OECD (PISA) have launched a worldwide debate on the effectiveness of educational systems (macro level), schools (meso level) and teachers (micro level...
Collaboration in Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith J. Slater, Ruth Ravid
August 06, 2013
Collaboration in Education establishes a needed framework for school/university collaborations that will be critical for others wishing to reproduce and participate in these partnerships. The contributors explore the elements necessary for sustainable collaboration in order to provide a frame ...
Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War: Are Schools Part of the Solution or the Problem?
1st Edition
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By Paul R. Carr, Brad J. Porfilio
July 08, 2013
What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international ...
The Politics of Knowledge in Education
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Rata
June 05, 2013
This book explores the decline of the teaching of epistemic, conceptual knowledge in schools, its replacement with everyday social knowledge, and its relation to changes in the division of labor within the global economy. It argues that the emphasis on social knowledge in postmodern and social ...
Memory and Pedagogy
1st Edition
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By Claudia Mitchell, Teresa Strong-Wilson, Kathleen Pithouse, Susann Allnutt
May 23, 2013
Memory work – the conscious remembering and study of individual and shared memories – is increasingly being acknowledged as a key pedagogical tool in working with children. Giving students opportunities and support to remember and study their selves as individuals and as communities allows them to ...