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:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Reflective Practice: Voices from the Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Barnard, Jonathon Ryan
August 14, 2018
The aim of the book is to explain a range of options for implementing the reflective practice cycle in educational settings in various international contexts. It presents a series of empirical case studies illustrating many different ways of implementing the reflective practice cycle, and how they ...
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, ...
The Politics of Differentiation in Schools
1st Edition
By Martin Mills, Amanda Keddie, Peter Renshaw, Sue Monk
May 11, 2018
In many English-speaking countries, teachers are encouraged to differentiate their classrooms, and in some cases, through various policy mechanisms. This encouragement is often accompanied by threats and sanctions for not making the grade. By exploring the ways in which one education system in ...
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 ...
Teacher Leadership: New conceptions for autonomous student learning in the age of the Internet
1st Edition
By Kokila Roy Katyal, Colin William Evers
March 14, 2018
In recent years teacher leadership has undergone one major revolution and is in the process of undergoing another. The first came about as schools turned out to be far too complex for the responsibility of formulating and achieving their goals to be vested entirely in principals and head teachers. ...
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...