Routledge Research in Literacy Education
About the Book Series
This series is home to cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections covering Literacy Education. Providing coverage of a broad range of emergent concepts, theories, and issues from around the world, texts address topics including pedagogy, curriculum, policy, teacher education, and language learning. Titles offer dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
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
Literacy Practices in Sports and Coaching: Developing Literacy Competencies in Interdisciplinary Environments
1st Edition
By Rebecca G. Harper
July 30, 2025
This book addresses the ways in which literacy skills, including both reading and writing instruction, are introduced, reinforced, reviewed, and refined in a sports or physical education setting. While there has been significant research that highlights the academic benefits of sports participation...
Lyricism as Educational Transformation: The Writing Identity of a Hip Hop Lyricist and Educator
1st Edition
By Lamont Pretrell Muhammad
July 17, 2025
This volume explores the pedagogical and transformative potential of writing lyrics. Based on an autoethnographic study and inspired by Ivanič’s notion of writer identity, it explores how writing can nurture different aspects of students’ identity, allowing them to connect with and engage...
Creative Readings of Multilingual Picturebooks: International and Transdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Esa Christine Hartmann, Áine McGillicuddy
March 31, 2025
This edited volume offers fresh perspectives on linguistic and cultural diversity in multilingual picturebooks, examining their potential to support multilingual learning in different educational contexts. Drawing on international, transdisciplinary perspectives from over fifteen countries, ...
Qualitative Research in Malaysia: Bringing Voices from the Margins to the Mainstream
1st Edition
Edited
By Su Li Chong
March 11, 2025
This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm. It showcases how researchers in Malaysia, who are often expected to acquiesce to mainstream ways of designing, conducting and disseminating research, rise above methodological hegemony to ...
Teaching with Dystopian Text: Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience
1st Edition
By Michael Arthur Soares
January 30, 2025
Teaching with Dystopian Text propounds an exchange of spatial to pedagogical practices centered around “Orwellian Spaces,” signaling a new utility for teaching with dystopian texts in secondary education. The volume details the urgency of dystopian texts for secondary students, providing ...
Family Storytelling as Authentic Pedagogy: Teacher Candidates, Storytelling Coaches, and Diverse Student Voices
1st Edition
By Frances Vitali, PhD
October 09, 2024
Family Storytelling as Authentic Pedagogy explores the use of family storytelling as a culturally responsible pedagogy for teacher candidates. Drawing on insights from a 10-year storytelling project utilizing the Chautauqua form of storytelling, it documents and describes a writing workshop process...
Critical Perspectives on Global Literacies: Bridging Research and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Shea N. Kerkhoff, Hiller A. Spires
October 08, 2024
This book offers critical perspectives on global literacies, connecting research, theory, and practice. An emerging concept in the literacy field, many scholars agree on the need for students to develop global literacies, yet few agree on a widely accepted definition. Based on a synthesis of the ...
Amplifying Youth Voices through Critical Literacy and Positive Youth Development: The Potential of University-Community Partnerships
1st Edition
By Crystal Chen Lee, Jose Picart, Jennifer C. Mann
July 17, 2024
This book explores the transformative power of critical literacy in fostering youth engagement through university-community partnerships. It is based on a six-year study by The Literacy and Community Initiative (LCI) at North Carolina State University. This book examines the potential, ...
Digital Literacies and Interactive Media: A Framework for Multimodal Analysis
1st Edition
By Earl Aguilera
May 27, 2024
This text responds to changing literacy practices in the digital age by developing an interdisciplinary framework for analysis of digital content created by students. Drawing on scholarship that expands traditional understandings of literacy to account for new ways in which students engage with ...
Argument Writing as a Supplemental Literacy Intervention for At-Risk Youth: Using Design Based Research to Develop a Knowledge Building Literacy Course
1st Edition
By Margaret Sheehy, Donna M. Scanlon
September 25, 2023
This volume details the development and initial evaluation of a supplemental literacy course intended to support at-risk high school students in the US. Developed using design based research (DBR), the course combines argument writing and knowledge building literacy routines to support academic ...
Boys, Early Literacy and Children’s Rights in a Postcolonial Context: A Case Study from Malta
1st Edition
By Charmaine Bonello
September 25, 2023
This book explores boys’ underachievement in literacy in early years education in Malta, using the dual lens of children’s rights and postcolonial theory. The author confronts issues in literacy attainment, early literacy learning and transitions to formal schooling with a case study from Malta. ...
Reconceptualizing the Writing Practices of Multilingual Youth: Towards a Symbiotic Approach to In- and Out-of-School Writing
1st Edition
By Youngjoo Yi
January 09, 2023
Focusing on adolescent multilingual writing, this text problematizes the traditional boundaries between academic writing in school contexts and self-initiated writing outside of the formal learning environment. By reconceptualizing the nature of adolescent multilingual writing, the author ...