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
Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Rewriting Goldilocks
1st Edition
By Heather Lotherington
May 23, 2013
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2012! Based on case studies from public schools in Toronto, Canada, this book chronicles an inspiring five-year journey to develop thinking about and teaching literacy for the 21st century. The research, which was classroom-based and developed by public school ...
Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Jo Brownlee, Gregory Schraw, Donna Berthelsen
May 23, 2013
Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education, edited by Joanne Brownlee, Gregg Schraw and Donna Berthelsen, provides an international perspective on teachers’ personal epistemology, or beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. Research from The Netherlands, Cyprus, Australia, United States,...
Teacher Learning That Matters: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Kooy, Klaas van Veen
May 23, 2013
In the continuing global call for educational reforms and change, the contributors in this edited collection address the critical issue of teacher learning from diverse national contexts and perspectives. They define "teacher learning that matters" as it shapes and directs pedagogical practices ...
Teaching and Learning with Technology: Beyond Constructivism
1st Edition
Edited
By Concetta M. Stewart, Catherine C. Schifter, Melissa E. Markaridian Selverian
May 23, 2013
Today, new media is both augmenting and extending the traditional classroom with a variety of technology-based tools available to both students and faculty, and has created "new" virtual classrooms for anywhere, anytime availability to education. Despite the enormous potential for technology to ...
Universities and Global Diversity: Preparing Educators for Tomorrow
1st Edition
Edited
By Beverly Lindsay, Wanda J. Blanchett
March 28, 2013
This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have ...
Balancing Dilemmas in Assessment and Learning in Contemporary Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Anton Havnes, Liz McDowell
March 21, 2013
This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context. New forms of assessment are being introduced in all sectors of education and training, and the culture of assessment is shifting. The authors in this volume discuss the practice of assessment, ...
Gender Inclusive Engineering Education
1st Edition
By Julie Mills, Mary Elizabeth Ayre, Judith Gill
March 21, 2013
Women continue to comprise a small minority of students in engineering education and subsequent employment, despite the numerous initiatives over the past 25 years to attract and retain more women in engineering. This book demonstrates the ways in which traditional engineering education has not ...
Global Pathways to Abolishing Physical Punishment: Realizing Children’s Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Joan E. Durrant, Anne B. Smith
March 21, 2013
This book describes the unfolding of a global phenomenon: the legal prohibition of physical punishment of children. Until thirty years ago, this near-universal practice was considered appropriate, necessary and a parental right. But a paradigm shift in conceptions of childhood has led to a ...
Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen: Dilemmas and Directions for Civics and Citizenship Education
1st Edition
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By Alan Reid, Judith Gill, Alan Sears
March 21, 2013
The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in civics and citizenship education. There have been unprecedented developments in citizenship education taking place in schools, adult education centers, or in the less formally structured spaces of media images and commentary around the world. ...
Beyond Binaries in Education Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Warren Midgley, Mark A. Tyler, Patrick Alan Danaher, Alison Mander
March 11, 2013
Beyond Binaries in Education Research explores the ethical, methodological, and social justice issues relating to conceptualizations of binary opposites in education research, particularly where one side of the dualism is perceived to be positive and the other negative. In education research these ...
Children’s Drawing and Writing: The Remarkable in the Unremarkable
1st Edition
By Diane Mavers
March 11, 2013
Children’s everyday drawing and writing are paradoxical: charmingly engaging, yet seemingly unremarkable in their ordinariness. This book takes a very close look at what passes by largely unnoticed at home and in school: copying, texts fleetingly present then gone, a picture drawn after the valued ...
Intercultural and Multicultural Education: Enhancing Global Interconnectedness
1st Edition
Edited
By Carl A. Grant, Agostino Portera
February 14, 2013
By addressing intercultural and multicultural education in a global context, this volume brings together the dynamic discussions and lively debate of intercultural and multicultural education taking place across the world. Not content with discussion of theory or practice at the expense of the ...