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
Global Perspectives on Spirituality and Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacqueline Watson, Marian de Souza, Ann Trousdale
November 18, 2016
In recent decades, and around the world, much attention has been given to the role of spirituality in the education of children and young people. While educationalists share many common goals and values in nurturing the spiritual lives of children and young people, national and regional cultures, ...
Interrogating Critical Pedagogy: The Voices of Educators of Color in the Movement
1st Edition
Edited
By Pierre Wilbert Orelus, Rochelle Brock
November 18, 2016
Educators, teacher practitioners, and social activists have successfully used critical pedagogy as a tool to help marginalized students develop awareness and seek alternative solutions to their poor educational and socioeconomic situations. However, this theory is often criticized as being mostly ...
Learning Technologies and the Body: Integration and Implementation In Formal and Informal Learning Environments
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor R. Lee
November 18, 2016
This volume explores how technology-supported learning environments can incorporate physical activity and interactive experiences in formal education. It presents cutting-edge research and design work on a new generation of "body-centric" technologies such as wearable body sensors, GPS tracking ...
Literacy, Play and Globalization: Converging Imaginaries in Children's Critical and Cultural Performances
1st Edition
By Carmen L. Medina, Karen E. Wohlwend
November 18, 2016
This book takes on current perspectives on children’s relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children’s media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared ...
Negotiating Privilege and Identity in Educational Contexts
1st Edition
By Adam Howard, Brianne Wheeler, Aimee Polimeno
November 18, 2016
Recent efforts emphasize the roles that privilege and elite education play in shaping affluent youths’ identities. Despite various backgrounds, the common qualities shared among the eight adolescents showcased in this book lead them to form particular understandings of self, others, and the world ...
Neo-liberal Educational Reforms: A Critical Analysis
1st Edition
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By David Turner, Hüseyin Yolcu
November 18, 2016
This volume gathers a cast of eminent scholars for a critical and comparitive analysis of how neoliberal education policies have functioned in a range of countries in different stages of economic development. Treating case studies from Europe, Asia, the Americas and ...
Teacher Training and the Education of Black Children: Bringing Color into Difference
1st Edition
By Uvanney Maylor
November 18, 2016
This book is designed to challenge dominant educational discourses on the underachievement of Black children and to engender new understandings in initial teacher education (ITE) about Black children's education and achievement. Based in empirical case study work and theoretical insights drawn from...
Test Fraud: Statistical Detection and Methodology
1st Edition
Edited
By Neal Kingston, Amy Clark
November 18, 2016
There has been an increase in awareness (and perhaps occurrence) of individual and organized cheating on tests. Recent reports of widespread problems with state student accountability tests and teacher certification testing have raised questions about the very validity of assessment programs. While...
The Politics of Pleasure in Sexuality Education: Pleasure Bound
1st Edition
Edited
By Louisa Allen, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Kathleen Quinlivan
November 18, 2016
Pleasure and desire have been important components of the vision for sexuality education for over 20 years. This book argues that there has been a lack of scrutiny over the political motivations that underpin research supportive of pleasure and desire within comprehensive sexuality education. In ...
Vernaculars in the Classroom: Paradoxes, Pedagogy, Possibilities
1st Edition
By Shondel Nero, Dohra Ahmad
November 18, 2016
This book draws on applied linguistics and literary studies to offer concrete means of engaging with vernacular language and literature in secondary and college classrooms. The authors embrace a language-as-resource orientation, countering the popular narrative of vernaculars as problems in schools...
Raising Literacy Achievement in High-Poverty Schools: An Evidence-Based Approach
1st Edition
By Eithne Kennedy
November 16, 2016
This book shares lessons gleaned from a two-year intervention in a high-poverty school, which was highly successful in significantly narrowing the literacy achievement gap and in raising children’s motivation and engagement in literacy both inside and outside school. Kennedy argues that there is ...
Landscapes of Specific Literacies in Contemporary Society: Exploring a social model of literacy
1st Edition
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By Vicky Duckworth, Gordon Ade-Ojo
November 10, 2016
This volume makes a timely contribution to our understanding of literacy as a multi-faceted, complexly situated activity. Each chapter provides the reader with a fresh perspective into a different site for literate behaviour, approaches, design and relationships, and offers an exploration into the ...