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
Language, Race, and Power in Schools: A Critical Discourse Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Pierre Orelus
June 07, 2019
In this edited collection, authors from various academic, cultural, racial, linguistic, and personal backgrounds use critical discourse analysis as a conceptual framework and method to examine social inequities, identity issues, and linguistic discrimination faced by historically oppressed groups ...
Spirituality, Community, and Race Consciousness in Adult Higher Education: Breaking the Cycle of Racialization
1st Edition
By Timothy Westbrook
June 07, 2019
Drawing on the lived experiences of Black students in adult degree completion programs at predominantly White, Christian institutions in the southern United States, this book presents a model for reimagining adult higher education. Westbrook explores the reasons students enrolled in degree programs...
Teaching Young Learners in a Superdiverse World: Multimodal Approaches and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Lotherington, Cheryl Paige
June 07, 2019
This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms. Following chronologically from Lotherington’s Pedagogy of Multiliteracies (...
Youth Voices, Public Spaces, and Civic Engagement
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart Greene, Kevin Burke, Maria McKenna
June 07, 2019
This collection of original research explores ways that educators can create participatory spaces that foster civic engagement, critical thinking, and authentic literacy practices for adolescent youth in urban contexts. Casting youth as vital social actors, contributors shed light on the ways in ...
African American English and the Achievement Gap: The Role of Dialectal Code Switching
1st Edition
By Holly Craig
June 04, 2019
Many African American children make use of African American English (AAE) in their everyday lives, and face academic barriers when introduced to Standard American English (SAE) in the classroom. Research has shown that students who can adapt and use SAE for academic purposes demonstrate ...
Contemplative and Artful Openings: Researching Women and Teaching
1st Edition
By Susan Walsh
May 21, 2019
Highlighting an arts-based inquiry process that involves contemplation, mindful awareness, and artful writing, this book explores women’s difficult experiences in teaching. It weaves a strong autobiographical thread with artifacts from several research projects with female teachers. By linking ...
Governing Literate Populations: The Political Uses of Literacy in Securing Civil Society
1st Edition
By Stephen Kelly
January 31, 2019
Securing the hearts and minds of ‘dangerous’ populations is a major concern for governments across the world. Governing Literate Populations shows how ‘governmentalities’ have deployed education and literacy in different ways in order to protect their national, social, economic and geopolitical ...
Transformative Learning and Teaching in Physical Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Malcolm Thorburn
September 27, 2018
Transformative Learning and Teaching in Physical Education explores how learning and teaching in physical education might be improved and how it might become a meaningful component of young people’s lives. With its in-depth focus on physical education within contemporary schooling, the book ...
Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Parental Engagement with Children’s Learning
1st Edition
By Janet Goodall
August 23, 2018
Narrowing the Achievement Gap proposes a radical change to our conception of learning, education and schooling, arguing that parental engagement is the best lever we have for school improvement and closing the achievement gap. Unique in its focus on original research linking underachievement and ...
Whiteness and Teacher Education
1st Edition
By Edie White
August 23, 2018
Due to the rise of internet use and a move toward globalization, it may be assumed that white millennial college students are more accepting of cultural diversity and are more likely to be advocates for social justice than generations that have come before them. This project shows that while many ...
Online Learning and Community Cohesion: Linking Schools
1st Edition
By Roger Austin, Bill Hunter
August 09, 2018
National governments and multi-national institutions are spending unprecedented amounts of money on ICT on improving the overall quality of school learning, and schools are increasingly expected to prepare young people for a global economy in which inter-cultural understanding will be a ...
Transnationalism, Education and Empowerment: The Latent Legacies of Empire
1st Edition
By Niranjan Casinader
July 24, 2018
Transnationalism, Education and Empowerment challenges the prevailing notion that transnationalism is concerned fundamentally with the process of enhanced global population movement that has been allied with modern globalisation. Instead, it argues that transnationalism is a state of mind, ...