The Routledge Education Studies Series
Social Pedagogy in Education: Re-establishing Relationships and Enriching Learner Experience
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By Carla Solvason, Nicola Stobbs, Geoffrey Elliott
October 13, 2025
This book, written by educators with a wealth of expertise across all age phases, provides an accessible, informative and thought-provoking exploration of how practitioners might place the human-centred values of social pedagogy at the heart of their own education and care practice to enrich and ...
Learner Voices, Perspectives, and Positionings: Providing Agency to Empower Learning
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By Simon Taylor, Seán Bracken
July 10, 2025
This book explores the multifaceted concept of learner voice in education, emphasising its significance across various contexts and historical periods. It brings together diverse perspectives from multiple authors, addressing how learner agency can shape educational practices and policies, ...
Critical Histories in Care and Education: Understanding the Connections Between the English Care and Education Systems from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
1st Edition
By Kate Brooks
February 07, 2025
This groundbreaking and thought-provoking book puts the care experience at the centre of education history. Engaging and accessible, Critical Histories in Care and Education provides historical insight to the growing field of care studies and reveals how nineteenth-century assumptions and ...
Understanding the Further Education Sector: History, Challenges, and Achievements
1st Edition
By Jim Crawley
September 03, 2024
Focusing on a less well-known area of education, the Further Education (FE) sector, this book provides education studies students a chance to provoke reflection, analysis, and understanding, as well as personal and professional development in the area. Jim Crawley brings over 40 years’ experience ...
New Studies in the History of Education: Connecting the Past to the Present in an Evolving Discipline
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By Nicholas Joseph
September 12, 2023
Providing a wide-ranging, critical and up-to-date introduction to the history of education, this book explores its true meaning and value for education studies. With no assumption of prior knowledge, it considers key themes, individuals and situations in depth, highlighting the specific ways in ...
Leadership and Management for Education Studies: Introducing Key Concepts of Theory and Practice
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By Deborah Outhwaite, Catherine A. Simon
June 20, 2023
This book introduces theories of educational leadership and management and provides examples of their translation into practice. Many students studying education no longer go directly into teaching, but instead follow a diverse range of careers associated with the education sector more widely: ...
Understanding Education Studies: Critical Issues and New Directions
1st Edition
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By Mark Pulsford, Rebecca Morris, Ross Purves
May 31, 2023
This book explores undergraduate education programmes in a new way. Written by those at the forefront of teaching and learning, it encourages students to delve beneath the surface of their degree subject and reveals important insights about the how, why and where next for education studies. With ...
Pedagogies for the Future: A Critical Reimagining of Education
1st Edition
By Gary Beauchamp, Dylan Adams, Kevin Smith
October 27, 2022
This text is a go-to resource for those wanting to broaden their knowledge and critical understanding of how international education can be transformed in the future based on theory and research. The core focus of the book is to enable the reader to critically reflect on the role of education in a...
Education in Europe: Contemporary Approaches across the Continent
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By Tom Feldges
October 12, 2022
This key text offers a detailed exploration of the wide range of theoretical approaches to theory, practice and research in Europe and how these can illuminate our understanding of contemporary education systems. Contributors working or living in countries across the continent offer their insights ...
Understanding Contemporary Issues in Higher Education: Contradictions, Complexities and Challenges
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By Brendan Bartram
October 30, 2020
This insightful book offers a wide-ranging collection of lively discussions on contemporary issues, policies and practices in higher education. Bartram integrates contributions from experienced academics, teachers and students in a unique approach and structure, designed to enable students with ...
Understanding Education and Economics: Key Debates and Critical Perspectives
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By Jessie Bustillos Morales, Sandra Abegglen
March 17, 2020
Understanding Education and Economics explores the multiple ways in which the field of education and schooling has become closely aligned with economic imperatives and interests, and the impact of this on learning and teaching. In particular, the increasing influence of economic arguments, economic...
Sociology for Education Studies: Connecting Theory, Settings and Everyday Experiences
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By Catherine A. Simon, Graham Downes
February 17, 2020
Sociology for Education Studies provides a fresh look at the sociology of education, focusing on themes such as habitus, hegemony and intersectionality. It supports students in applying sociological theory to their own educational experiences and developing an understanding of why social orders ...