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
Professional Ethics in Welfare Work and Education: Nordic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Bjørn Ribers, Niels Warring
August 19, 2025
Fundamentally concerning the relationship and dynamics between education, professionalism and ethical awareness, this interdisciplinary, edited volume showcases novel research perspectives on professional ethics in education, practice, and the work life of welfare professionals in the Nordic ...
On the Theory of Content Transformation in Education: The 3A Methodology for Analysing and Improving Teaching and Learning
1st Edition
By Tomáš Janík, Jan Slavík, Petr Najvar, Tereza Češková
July 31, 2025
This volume presents a novel, theoretical, micro-analytical model – the 3A Methodology – for assessing the quality of school education. Drawing on philosophers as well as theoretical and pedagogical traditions from European and American contexts, the authors construct a model that is relevant to ...
Reimagining Boredom in Classrooms through Digital Game Spaces: Sociomaterial Perspectives
1st Edition
By Noreen Dunnett
July 31, 2025
This book challenges common understandings of boredom and disengagement in classrooms, taking a relational approach to boredom which looks beyond the usual distinctions between in-school and out-of-school practices. The book explores how a sociomaterial perspective can provide an alternative ...
Social Work Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Insights toward Innovation and Creativity
1st Edition
Edited
By Yael Latzer, Liat Shklarski
May 26, 2025
This book examines how the shift to remote teaching in March 2020 due to the global pandemic created new opportunities for innovation and creativity and shaped how social work classes were taught, with many temporary changes now part of permanent, standard practice. Drawing on narratives from 20 ...
Commercialising Public Schooling: Practices of Profit-Making
1st Edition
By Anna Hogan
May 10, 2025
This book delves into the pervasive commercialisation of public schooling, tracing its roots and examining its current manifestations. From the evolution of textbook publishing to the digital transformation led by global edu-businesses, it sheds light on how commercial interests have reshaped ...
Developing a Didactic Framework Across and Beyond School Subjects: Cross- and Transcurricular Teaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Søren Harnow Klausen, Nina Mård
May 06, 2025
Centered around a contemporary conception of Bildung, this book effectively demonstrates how the aims of cross- and transcurricular teaching can be reconciled, resulting in a didactic framework for teaching and learning in secondary schools that can be applied internationally. Chapters present a ...
Space, Education, and Inclusion: Interdisciplinary Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Georg Rißler, Andreas Köpfer, Tobias Buchner
May 06, 2025
This timely, edited volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on space and spatiality in inclusive education discourses. With research from an international range of scholars, the book explores the intersections, boundaries, and intermediary spaces of inclusion and exclusion within ...
State of Primary Education in Bhutan: Culture, Development and Innovation
1st Edition
Edited
By Gembo Tshering
April 30, 2025
Discover how Bhutan's unique cultural values and aspirations shape its education system in this edited volume. This comprehensive book explores the multifaceted nature of Bhutan's primary education, examining critical areas such as purpose and values, curriculum design, assessment strategies, and ...
Quiet Classrooms, Educational Soundscapes, and the Power of Silence: Towards an Acoustic History of Education
1st Edition
By Pieter Verstraete
April 29, 2025
This highly novel book provides an exploration of the role of silence in the school setting and interrogates the value of silence and quiet in contemporary educational practices, looking at pedagogies and classroom practice to guide this increasingly popular subdiscipline of the history of ...
Research-Practice Partnerships in Education: Practitioner-Researcher Collaboration in the Israeli Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Linor L. Hadar, Hadar Baharav
April 17, 2025
This edited volume broadens the discussion on Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs) in education by extending the focus beyond the US context, providing an in-depth exploration of an RPP designed to enable partnering schools to evaluate and understand pedagogical processes or practices through ...
The Eclipse of Reason: Reclaiming Western Education for Today
1st Edition
By Wilfred Carr
April 17, 2025
This concise, digestible book shows how the cultivation of reason became the defining aim of western education, and critiques how this aim has been eclipsed in recent decades by the neoliberal system of mass schooling imposed by the state. Chapters outline succinctly the history of western ...
Theorising Public Pedagogy: The Educative Agent in the Public Realm
1st Edition
By Karen Charman, Mary Dixon
April 14, 2025
Drawing on the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, this book extends the theoretical understanding of public pedagogy and brings into sharp focus the elements that constitute the public realm; the site of public pedagogy. Karen Charman and Mary Dixon offer a new theorisation of the public, ...