Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education
About the Book Series
The series provides a platform for both established and emerging scholars to present their latest research and discuss key issues in the sociology of education. The series welcomes books on all areas of the sociology of education, including but not limited to urban education, gender and sexuality in education, equality and human and rights, disability studies, teaching and learning, theories of learning, and more.
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
Primary Homework, Mothering and Maternal Agency: Portraits of Relationality, Agency and Care in Educational Support
1st Edition
By Rachel Lehner-Mear
November 17, 2025
Constructed around powerful stories of maternal agency, care and emotion, this novel volume conceptualises the primary homework experience as a social and relational practice and act of mothering, thereby raising wider questions about parental involvement in education, families’ agency in school ...
The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Inertia in Higher Education: Exploring Complex Resistance to Technological Change
1st Edition
By James Hutson
October 01, 2025
This research monograph explores the complex resistance to integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) within higher education institutions. Despite the significant potential of AI to enhance education, faculty adoption remains inconsistent and is often met with skepticism. This book investigates key ...
The Diversity Paradox in International Education: A Critical Examination of Discourses of Difference
1st Edition
By Lucy Bailey
September 25, 2025
This volume presents the first-known investigation of the so-called diversity paradox, positing that diversity has become a tool for distinguishing and legitimating the concept of educated Western elites, and arguing for a major reconceptualisation of diversity in different social and cultural ...
Inequality, Education, and Social Exclusion in the Welfare State: Pedagogical Responses from the Nordic Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsten Elisa Petersen, Niels Rosendal Jensen
August 08, 2025
Focusing specifically on educational contexts, this volume sheds light on how the increasing inequalities and issues of social exclusion found in the processes and systems of Nordic welfare states have a detrimental impact on the well-being and development opportunities of children and young people...
Social Justice Dispositions in Schools: Thinking with Bourdieu, Reading Dispositions in Practice
1st Edition
By Russell Cross, Carmen Mills, Trevor Gale
August 07, 2025
Against the backdrop of equity-sensitive approaches within education policy and practice, inequalities in student attainment remain a persistent problem. In response, this book advances the concept of social justice dispositions (SJDs), offering a new perspective by shifting the focus to what ...
Education, Parenting, and Mental Health Care in Europe: The Contradictions of Building Autonomous Individuals
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicolas Marquis
June 27, 2025
This edited collection investigates, from a sociological perspective, what it means to create an autonomous individual through a novel exploration of three central fields of sociology: education, mental health care, and parenting. By linking these three aspects through their contribution to the ...
Rethinking Sociological Critique in Contemporary Education: Reflexive Dialogue and Prospective Inquiry
1st Edition
Edited
By Radhika Gorur, Paolo Landri, Romuald Normand
May 06, 2025
This book explores a new repertoire for critique in the sociology of contemporary education, focusing on emerging social theories that respond to contemporary challenges in education, education policy and governance. Presenting a variety of approaches in the sociology of education including ...
Reframing Learning: Changing Practices, Sites, Histories, Lives
1st Edition
By Stephen Kemmis, Christine Edwards-Groves, Peter Grootenboer
December 30, 2024
Disrupting the individualism of much conventional psychological research into learning, this book presents a situated, practice-based understanding of learning, based on the theories of situated learning and practice architectures, conceptualising learning as ontological transformation. While ...
The (Dis)Order of U.S. Schooling: Zygmunt Bauman and Education for an Ambivalent World
1st Edition
By Eric Ferris
November 29, 2024
This book critically interrogates the function of schooling in the United States of America using the writings of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Asking whether the function is to produce citizens, workers, a combination of the two, or something altogether different, it argues that the designs of ...
Emerging Perspectives from Social Realism on Knowledge and Education: Curricula, Pedagogy, Identity, and Equity
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham McPhail, Richard Pountney, Leesa Wheelahan
October 28, 2024
This book brings the key ideas and concepts of social realism to bear on current debates in the fields of knowledge and curriculum. The key concern of this collection is to highlight matters related to knowledge and the influence these dimensions have on the formation of curricula, pedagogy, ...