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
Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education
1st Edition
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By Patrick Alan Danaher, Máirín Kenny, Judith Remy Leder
July 27, 2012
Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education presents international accounts of approaches to educating mobile communities such as circus and fairground people, herders, hunters, Roma and Travellers. The chapters focus on three key dimensions of educational change: the client group moving from school ...
Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Fumiyo Kagawa, David Selby
July 11, 2012
There is widespread consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is happening and that abrupt and irreversible impacts are already set in motion. What part does education have to play in helping alleviate rampant climate change and in mitigating its worst effects?&...
Educational Transitions: Moving Stories from Around the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Divya Jindal-Snape
July 11, 2012
Despite variations of educational systems, when transitions in education occur, the pedagogical challenges that teachers and pupils undergo are quite similar across the globe. Transitions are phases in which pupils, peer groups and teachers have to renegotiate and rebuild their learning environment...
Manufacturing Citizenship: Education and Nationalism in Europe, South Asia and China
1st Edition
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By Veronique Benei
July 11, 2012
In recent years citizenship has emerged as a very important topic in the sciences, mainly as a result of the effects of migration, population displacements and cultural heterogeneity. This book focuses on educational enterprise and how it affects national ambitions, cultural preferences and ...
Emergent Computer Literacy: A Developmental Perspective
1st Edition
By Helen Mele Robinson
March 13, 2012
The United States is currently grappling with how to prepare our students to be computer literate citizens in the competitive technological world we live in. Understanding how children develop computer knowledge, and the ways that adults are able to guide their computer learning experiences, is a ...
The Politics of Structural Education Reform
1st Edition
By Keith A. Nitta
February 24, 2012
Education policymaking is traditionally seen as a domestic political process. The job of deciding where students will be educated, what they will be taught, who will teach them, and how it will be paid for clearly rests with some mix of district, state, and national policymakers. This book seeks to...
Participatory Learning in the Early Years: Research and Pedagogy
1st Edition
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By Donna Berthelsen, Jo Brownlee, Eva Johansson
February 23, 2012
The early years are an important period for learning, but the questions surrounding participatory learning amongst toddlers remain under-examined. This book presents the latest theoretical and research perspectives about how ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) contexts promote democracy and ...
Postmodern Picturebooks: Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality
1st Edition
By Lawrence R. Sipe, Sylvia Pantaleo
February 23, 2012
Over the past 15 years, there has been a pronounced trend toward a particular type of picturebook that many would label "postmodern." Postmodern picturebooks have stretched our conventional notion of what constitutes a picturebook, as well as what it means to be an engaged reader of these texts. ...
Education and Neoliberal Globalization
1st Edition
By Carlos Alberto Torres
February 21, 2012
This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world. The...
Improving Teacher Education through Action Research
1st Edition
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By Ming-Fai Hui, David L. Grossman
November 14, 2011
There has been a dearth of studies on teacher educators using action research to improve their own practice. This book is the first systematic study of a group of teachers examining and enhancing their own practice through the inquiry process of action research. This book presents a broad overview ...
Science, Society and Sustainability: Education and Empowerment for an Uncertain World
1st Edition
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By Donald Gray, Laura Colucci-Gray, Elena Camino
October 06, 2011
Recent work in science and technological studies has provided a clearer understanding of the way in which science functions in society and the interconnectedness among different strands of science, policy, economy and environment. It is well acknowledged that a different way of thinking is required...
Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures
1st Edition
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By Rebekah Willett, Muriel Robinson, Jackie Marsh
August 15, 2011
Recent work on children's digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through children's engagement with new media technologies. This edited collection focuses on children's digital cultures, specifically examining the role of play and creativity in learning with these new ...