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
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, ...
Identity and Belonging among Chinese Canadian Youth: Racialized Habitus in School, Family, and Media
1st Edition
By Dan Cui
April 13, 2025
Identity and Belonging among Chinese Canadian Youth unveils how Chinese immigrant youth struggle as racialized minorities at school, in their family, and through their formative interactions with Canadian mainstream media. Utilizing rich interview data, the author explores how the contemporary ...
Troubling Notions of Global Citizenship and Diversity in Mathematics Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Chronaki, Ayşe Yolcu
March 06, 2025
This edited volume explores how mathematics education is re/configured in relation to its past, present, and future when the rhetoric of critical global citizenship education is being applied to diverse local settings. Drawing upon diverse theoretical and methodological traditions across the globe ...
Children’s Right to Silence and Non-Participation in Education: Redefining Student Voice
1st Edition
By Amy Hanna
January 30, 2025
This insightful book re-examines the concept of student voice through an exploration of children’s implicit rights to silence and non-participation. By considering what remains unspoken but is voiced through silence, this book theorises silence through the lens of power. Responding to calls for ...
New Perspectives on Educational Resources: Learning Materials Beyond the Traditional Classroom
1st Edition
Edited
By Karl Christian Alvestad, Kari H. Nordberg, Hege Roll-Hansen
January 30, 2025
Bringing new perspectives on educational resources together, this book considers how a range of learning materials can be used to effectively highlight creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking in learning. Covering a broad scope of educational resources, the book examines the use of ...
Global Perspectives on the Role of Dialogue in History Education: Socio-cultural, Psychological, and Digital Dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Mario Carretero, Everardo Perez-Manjarrez
December 23, 2024
Providing the first volume-length exploration of the role that dialogue can play in history education classrooms, this book explores the socio-cultural, psychological, and digital dimensions of dialogic practice to promote research into historical thinking, historical consciousness, and critical ...
International Students in Transnational Spaces: Chinese Youth’s Aspirations, Learning and Becoming
1st Edition
By Xi Wu
December 19, 2024
Xi Wu examines how national and transnational forces and discursive logic mediate international secondary school students’ educational routes and life trajectories. Drawing upon an ethnographic research program involving Chinese students in a Canadian international secondary school, Wu employs Ong...
Scrutinising Elites and Schooling in Post-Communist Poland: Globalisation, European Integration, Socialist Heritage, and Tradition
1st Edition
By Alexandra Margaret Dunwill
December 19, 2024
This book offers new insights and methodological tools to improve our understandings of how prestigious schools in Poland navigate the major political, social and cultural crosscurrents. The range of choice for elite schooling in Poland has expanded during its post-communist transformation. ...
Learning as Interactivity, Movement, Growth and Becoming, Volume 1: Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark E. King, Paul J. Thibault
November 29, 2024
The two inter-linked volumes in this series are dedicated to the development of analysis and theorisation of learning and teaching in higher education. The two volumes focus on the multi-scalar ecological inter-connectedness of learners with teachers, with artefacts, with cultural patterns and ...
New Directions in Rhizomatic Learning: From Poststructural Thinking to Nomadic Pedagogy
1st Edition
Edited
By Myint Swe Khine
November 29, 2024
Drawing on the theories and philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari, this edited collection explores the concept of rhizomatic learning and consolidates recent explorations in theory building and multidisciplinary research to identify new directions in the field. Knowledge transfer is no longer a ...
The New Publicness of Education: Democratic Possibilities After the Critique of Neo-Liberalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Carl Anders Säfström, Gert Biesta
November 29, 2024
This book explores democratic possibilities for education after the critique of the impact of neo-liberalism on educational policy and practice. Together, the authors investigate the contours of a ‘new publicness’ of education. This edited volume refers to well-established critiques that expose ...