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
Reclaiming Discipline for Education: Knowledge, relationships and the birth of community
1st Edition
By James MacAllister
May 09, 2018
Discipline is of profound educational importance, both inside educational institutions and outside of them in personal and social life. Reclaiming Discipline for Education revisits neglected philosophical ideas about discipline in education and uses these ideas to re-think practices and discourses ...
Teacher Educators’ Professional Learning in Communities
1st Edition
By Linor Hadar, David Brody
May 09, 2018
Teacher Educators’ Professional Learning in Communities explores teacher educators' professional development in the communal model of learning. Learning in groups has proved to be a major avenue for supporting such development and change among teachers and other professions, but one which has ...
Empowering Black Youth of Promise: Education and Socialization in the Village-minded Black Church
1st Edition
By Sandra Barnes, Anne Streaty Wimberly
April 27, 2018
Informed by the experiences of 772 Black churches, this book relies on a multidisciplinary, mixed-methodological lens to examine how today’s Black churches address the religious and non-religious educational and broader socialization needs of youth. Drawing from a cultural and ecological framework ...
New Perspectives on Intercultural Language Research and Teaching: Exploring Learners’ Understandings of Texts from Other Cultures
1st Edition
By Melina Porto, Michael Byram
April 27, 2018
Illustrated by an empirical study of English as a Foreign Language reading in Argentina, this book argues for a different approach to the theoretical rationales and methodological designs typically used to investigate cultural understanding in reading, in particular foreign language reading. It ...
The Charter School Solution: Distinguishing Fact from Rhetoric
1st Edition
Edited
By Tara Affolter, Jamel Donnor
April 27, 2018
Challenging the popular perception that the free market can objectively ameliorate inequality and markedly improve student academic achievement, this book examines the overly positivistic rhetoric surrounding charter schools. Taking a multifocal approach, this book examines how charter schools ...
Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Schools: Examining the impact and opportunities within educational systems
1st Edition
By Anit Somech, Izhar Oplatka
April 25, 2018
This book extends our understanding of the attitudes and behaviors of teachers who improve their schools consistently and considerably. It sets out to critically analyze and examine organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) in schools from a contextual perspective and to display the uniqueness of ...
Children's Creative Music-Making with Reflexive Interactive Technology: Adventures in improvising and composing
1st Edition
By Victoria Rowe, Angeliki Triantafyllaki, Francois Pachet
March 12, 2018
Children's Creative Music-Making with Reflexive Interactive Technology discusses pioneering experiments conducted with young children using a new generation of music software for improvising and composing. Using artificial intelligence techniques, this software captures the children’s musical style...
Community-based Media Pedagogies: Relational Practices of Listening in the Commons
1st Edition
By Bronwen Low, Paula Salvio, Chloe Brushwood Rose
February 12, 2018
Participatory media is a tool for individual and community education and development, allowing students to express and share their ideas and opinions, and to contribute to the production of the commons. Vital to the storytelling in these community spaces is listening—the listening of project ...
Vocationalism in Further and Higher Education: Policy, Programmes and Pedagogy
1st Edition
Edited
By Sai Loo, Jill Jameson
February 12, 2018
Vocationalism in Further and Higher Education presents a collection of research-based papers on the ‘English model’ of vocationalism and higher education. It argues that negative societal and political perceptions have hindered the debate about the significance and relevance of vocational education...
Education in Computer Generated Environments
1st Edition
By Sara de Freitas
January 22, 2018
This book examines the implications of computer-generated learning for curriculum design, epistemology, and pedagogy, exploring the ways these technologies transform the relationship between knowledge and learning, and between teachers and students. It argues that these technologies and practices ...
The Development of the Mechanics’ Institute Movement in Britain and Beyond: Supporting further education for the adult working classes
1st Edition
By Martyn Walker
January 22, 2018
The Development of the Mechanics’ Institute Movement in Britain and Beyond questions the prevailing view that mechanics’ institutes made little contribution to adult working-class education from their foundation in the 1820s to 1890. The book traces the historical development of several mechanics’ ...
Research for Educational Change: Transforming researchers' insights into improvement in mathematics teaching and learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Jill Adler, Anna Sfard
January 10, 2018
Research for Educational Change presents ways in which educational research can fulfil its commitments to educational practice. Focussing its discussion within the context of mathematics education, it argues that while research-generated insights can have beneficial effects on learning and teaching...