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
Biotechnology, Education and Life Politics: Debating genetic futures from school to society
1st Edition
By Pádraig Murphy
January 09, 2017
What should individuals and society do when genetic screening becomes widely available and with its impact on current and future generations still uncertain? How can our education systems around the world respond to these developments? Reproductive and genetic technologies (RGTs) are increasingly ...
Towards Methodologically Inclusive Research Syntheses: Expanding possibilities
1st Edition
By Harsh Suri
January 04, 2017
Primary research in education and social sciences is marked by a diversity of methods and perspectives. How can we accommodate and reflect such diversity at the level of synthesizing research? What are the critical methodological decisions in the process of a research synthesis, and how do these ...
Chinese Students’ Writing in English: Implications from a corpus-driven study
1st Edition
By Maria Leedham
December 05, 2016
Chinese students are the largest international student group in UK universities today, yet little is known about their undergraduate writing and the challenges they face. Drawing on the British Academic Written English corpus - a large corpus of proficient undergraduate student writing collected in...
Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change: A transdisciplinary approach to researching lives
1st Edition
Edited
By Hazel Reid, Linden West
December 05, 2016
In this volume, academics and researchers across disciplines including education, psychology and health studies come together to discuss personal, political and professional narratives of struggle, resilience and hope. Contributors draw from a rich body of auto/biographical research to examine the ...
Education, Philosophy and Well-being: New perspectives on the work of John White
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Suissa, Carrie Winstanley, Roger Marples
December 05, 2016
John White is one of the leading philosophers of education currently working in the Anglophone world. Since first joining the London Institute of Education in 1965, he has made significant contributions to the landscape of the discipline through his teaching, research and numerous publications. His...
Liberty and Education: A civic republican approach
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Hinchliffe
December 05, 2016
This book takes the thinking of Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit and J.G.A. Pocock on republican liberty and explores the way in which this idea of liberty can be used to illuminate educational practice. It argues that republican liberty is distinct from both positive and negative liberty, and its ...
Teachers and the State: Towards a Directed Profession
1st Edition
By Mike Bottery, Nigel Wright
November 24, 2016
This book examines the status of training and continuing professional development of teachers on a national and international level. The authors argue that teachers need to feel that they are part of an empowering professionalism, in which their work has an effect on the abilities of students, and ...
9/11 and Collective Memory in US Classrooms: Teaching About Terror
1st Edition
By Cheryl Lynn Duckworth
November 18, 2016
While current literature stresses the importance of teaching about the 9/11 attacks on the US, many questions remain as to what teachers are actually teaching in their own classrooms. Few studies address how teachers are using of all of this advice and curriculum, what sorts of activities they are ...
Affirming Language Diversity in Schools and Society: Beyond Linguistic Apartheid
1st Edition
Edited
By Pierre Orelus
November 18, 2016
Language is perhaps the most common issue that surfaces in debates over school reform, and plays a vital role in virtually everything we are involved. This edited volume explores linguistic apartheid, or the disappearance of certain languages through cultural genocide by dominant European ...
African Americans and Homeschooling: Motivations, Opportunities and Challenges
1st Edition
By Ama Mazama, Garvey Musumunu
November 18, 2016
Despite greater access to formal education, both disadvantaged and middle-class black students continue to struggle academically, causing a growing number of black parents to turn to homeschooling. This book is an in-depth exploration of the motivations behind black parents’ decision to educate ...
Arts-based and Contemplative Practices in Research and Teaching: Honoring Presence
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Walsh, Barbara Bickel, Carl Leggo
November 18, 2016
This volume presents a scholarly investigation of the ways educators engage in artistic and contemplative practices – and why this matters in education. Arts-based learning and inquiry can function as a powerful catalyst for change by allowing spiritual practices to be present within educational ...
Education, Nature, and Society
1st Edition
By Stephen Gough
November 18, 2016
Environmental issues continue to divide opinion, sometimes in extreme ways. Almost everyone agrees that education has a role to play in ensuring the future of humanity on Earth. Some think we should all learn to leave a minimal environmental footprint; others argue that education should promote ...