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
Picturebooks, Pedagogy and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Joanna Haynes, Karin Murris
November 13, 2012
Contemporary picturebooks open up spaces for philosophical dialogues between people of all ages. As works of art, picturebooks offer unique opportunities to explore ideas and to create meaning collaboratively. This book considers censorship of certain well-known picturebooks, challenging the ...
Migration, Education and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Sigrid Luchtenberg
September 25, 2012
The diverse contributions in this book discuss both the classical and the more recent forms of migration. Illustrating the developments in various European countries and Australia as a 'classical immigration state', they tackle these different forms of migration and investigate their divergent...
The Journey for Inclusive Education in the Indian Sub-Continent
1st Edition
By Mithu Alur, Michael Bach
September 25, 2012
Despite national and international commitments to Education for All, and the Millennium Development Goals to assure universal primary education by 2015, over 90% of children with disabilities remain excluded from regular education in countries of the south. This book describes a three decade-long ...
Education, Religion and Society: Essays in Honour of John M. Hull
1st Edition
Edited
By Dennis Bates, Gloria Durka, Friedrich Schweitzer
September 18, 2012
Education, Religion and Society celebrates the career of Professor John Hull, a leading figure in the transformation of religious education in English and Welsh schools, and co-founder of the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values. He has also made major contributions to ...
International Case Studies of Dyslexia
1st Edition
Edited
By Peggy L. Anderson, Regine Meier-Hedde
September 05, 2012
Dyslexia is a disability that exists in all countries that have high expectations for literacy. The inability to read in spite of normal intellectual potential represents one of the most puzzling educational challenges for literate societies, regardless of the culture or language. This book ...
Social Studies as New Literacies in a Global Society: Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom
1st Edition
By Mark Baildon, James S. Damico
September 05, 2012
This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "new times" – prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared to ...
From Testing to Productive Student Learning: Implementing Formative Assessment in Confucian-Heritage Settings
1st Edition
By David Carless
September 04, 2012
Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to implement successfully, principally because what is tested through summative assessment has such a powerful influence on teacher and student actions. ...
Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South: Contesting Knowledges for a Sustainable Future
1st Edition
By Anders Breidlid
August 24, 2012
The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies. Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western ...
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Policy and Practice: Decolonizing Community Contexts
1st Edition
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By Jennifer Lavia, Michele Moore
July 27, 2012
This book provides a space in which struggles for indigenous knowledge within communities are articulated, valued, heard, and responded to. The volume takes change as its focus, yet acknowledges that the origins and significance of change are frequently found to be unsettling. Contributors explore ...
International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Joel E. Cohen, Martin B. Malin
July 27, 2012
Although universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations, bilateral aid agencies, national governments, and non-profit organizations, little sustained international attention has been devoted to the purposes or goals of universal education. What is universal primary ...
Mathematical Relationships in Education: Identities and Participation
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Black, Heather Mendick, Yvette Solomon
July 27, 2012
This book brings together scholars working in the field of mathematics education to examine the ways in which learners form particular relationships with mathematics in the context of formal schooling. While demand for the mathematically literate citizen increases, many learners continue to reject ...
Perspectives on Supported Collaborative Teacher Inquiry
1st Edition
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By David Slavit, Tamara Holmlund Nelson, Anne Kennedy
July 27, 2012
Supported collaborative teacher inquiry (SCTI) describes the process of professional development in which teacher teams build collaborative structures for the purpose of inquiring into aspects of their own instructional practice. Professional development performed collaboratively and grounded in "...