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
Education for Civic and Political Participation: A Critical Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Reinhold Hedtke, Tatiana Zimenkova
October 14, 2024
Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and ...
Education in the Black Diaspora: Perspectives, Challenges, and Prospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Kassie Freeman, Ethan Johnson
October 14, 2024
This volume gathers scholars from around the world in a comparative approach to the various educational struggles of people of African descent, advancing the search for solutions and bringing to light new facets of the experiences of black people in the era of globalization....
Educational Inequalities: Difference and Diversity in Schools and Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Kalwant Bhopal, Uvanney Maylor
October 14, 2024
While there is considerable literature on social inequality and education, there is little recent work which explores notions of difference and diversity in relation to "race," class and gender. This edited text aims to bring together researchers in the field of education located across many ...
Language Teachers and Teaching: Global Perspectives, Local Initiatives
1st Edition
Edited
By Selim Ben Said, Lawrence Jun Zhang
October 14, 2024
This volume gathers contributions from a range of global experts in teacher education to address the topic of language teacher education. It shows how teacher education involves the agency of teachers, which forms part of their identity, and which they take on when integrating into the teaching ...
Language Teaching Through the Ages
1st Edition
By Garon Wheeler
October 14, 2024
Konrad Koerner, a leading historian of linguistics, has long said that an academic field cannot be considered to have matured until it has history as one of its subfields. The history of linguistics is a growing area, having come into its own in the 1960s, especially after Noam Chomsky looked for ...
Refugees, Immigrants, and Education in the Global South: Lives in Motion
1st Edition
Edited
By Lesley Bartlett, Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher
October 14, 2024
The unprecedented human mobility the world is now experiencing poses new and unparalleled challenges regarding the provision of social and educational services throughout the global South. This volume examines the role played by schooling in immigrant incorporation or exclusion, using case studies ...
Reconceptualising Reflection in Reflective Practice: Voices from Malaysian Educators
1st Edition
Edited
By Misrah Mohamed, Radzuwan Ab Rashid
October 09, 2024
This edited volume presents a model that embraces four components of reflective practice: planning, acting, reflecting and evaluating. The complexities of reflective practice are manifested through three aspects of reflection: problem-solving, action-orientedness and critical reflection. To provide...
Contemporary Global Perspectives on Cooperative Learning: Applications Across Educational Contexts
1st Edition
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By Robyn M. Gillies, Barbara Millis, Neil Davidson
October 07, 2024
This volume captures contemporary global developments in cooperative learning (CL) across varied educational contexts, levels, and disciplines. Cooperative learning is widely recognized as a pedagogical practice that promotes socialization and learning among students, from kindergarten to tertiary ...
Dialogic Pedagogy: Discourse in Contexts from Pre-school to University
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Thwaite, Alyson Simpson, Pauline Jones
October 07, 2024
Taking a dialogic approach, this edited book engages in analysis and description of dialogic discourse in a number of different educational contexts, from early childhood to tertiary, with an international team of contributors from Australia, Finland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The ...
Theoretical and Historical Evolutions of Self-Directed Learning: The Case for Learner-Led Education
1st Edition
By Caleb Collier
October 07, 2024
This book analyzes the deep historical and theoretical roots of self-directed learning models in order to put forward a new conceptual understanding of self-directed learning. It utilizes philosophical methods to present arguments, both historical and contemporary, in favor of shifting education ...
The Role of Metaphor and Symbol in Motivating Primary School Children
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Ashton
August 26, 2024
This book provides a fresh approach to motivation in primary school children by exploring the role of metaphor and symbol in language and art as a means of expressing insights developed through learning. The book investigates and transcends Piaget’s dominant child developmental theories and ...
Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts: Reflection, Pedagogy, and Activism for Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Monkman, Ann Frkovich, Amira Proweller
May 27, 2024
This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity across an array of locations, exploring how it is understood, experienced, and acted upon by educators in schools, universities, and nonformal educational spaces. Precarity ...