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
Secrecy and Tradecraft in Educational Administration: The covert side of educational life
1st Edition
By Eugenie A. Samier
November 07, 2016
During the last couple of decades, there has been an expansion in a number of related and overlapping fields producing evidence of covert activities: toxic cultures, destructive leadership styles, micropolitics, ethical problems in organisations and administration, abusive power and authority, and ...
The Social Construction of Meaning: Reading literature in urban English classrooms
1st Edition
By John Yandell
November 07, 2016
This book takes a fresh look at secondary urban English classrooms and at what happens when students and their teachers explore literature collaboratively. By closely examining what happens in English lessons, minute by minute, it reveals how literary texts function not as a valorised heritage to ...
Lesson Study: Professional learning for our time
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Dudley
August 03, 2016
This book introduces readers to the development of Lesson Study (LS) in the UK, making historical connections to the growth of Lesson Study in Japan, East Asia, the US and Europe. It explains how to conduct LS in schools and educational institutions, providing examples of compelling, externally ...
The Resegregation of Schools: Education and Race in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Jamel K. Donnor, Adrienne Dixson
August 03, 2016
Access to a quality education remains the primary mechanism for improving one’s life chances in the United States, and for children of color, a “good education” is particularly linked to their individual and collective well-being. Despite the popular perception that America is in a “post-racial” ...
Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education: International perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Phil Benson, Alice Chik
May 31, 2016
The integration of popular culture into education is a pervasive theme at all educational levels and in all subject areas. Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education explores how ‘popular culture’ and ‘education’ come together and interact in research and practice from an interdisciplinary ...
The Age of STEM: Educational policy and practice across the world in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
1st Edition
Edited
By Brigid Freeman, Simon Marginson, Russell Tytler
May 31, 2016
Across the world STEM (learning and work in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) has taken central importance in education and the economy in a way that few other disciplines have. STEM competence has become seen as key to higher productivity, technological adaptation and ...
The Future of Physical Education: Building a New Pedagogy
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Laker
February 29, 2016
Anthony Laker leads an outstanding international team of educational theorists in critically examining the theoretical underpinnings of physical education, and in challenging the rhetoric, the practices and the pedagogies that prevail in our schools. There has been a great deal of discussion ...
Markets for Schooling: An Economic Analysis
1st Edition
By Nick Adnett, Peter Davies
December 01, 2015
Nick Adnett and Peter Davies develop an economic analysis of schooling markets, emphasizing both the strengths and weaknesses of orthodox analyses. They explain the economic and social contexts that have generated the widespread desire to reform state schooling and develop a systematic analysis of ...
Schooling and the Making of Citizens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Comparative Visions
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Tröhler, Thomas A. Popkewitz, David F. Labaree
September 29, 2015
This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across four continents during the period ...
Learning and Collective Creativity: Activity-Theoretical and Sociocultural Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Annalisa Sannino, Viv Ellis
September 16, 2015
This book brings together leading representatives of activity-theoretically-oriented and socioculturally-oriented research around the world, to discuss creativity as a collective endeavour strongly related to learning to face the societal challenges of our world. As history shows, major ...
Education, Social Background and Cognitive Ability: The decline of the social
1st Edition
By Gary N. Marks
June 08, 2015
Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background becoming less important for people’s occupational class or status? How important is cognitive ability for education and later occupational outcomes? How do countries differ in the importance of socioeconomic ...
Inclusive Education in the Middle East
1st Edition
By Eman Gaad
April 23, 2015
The potential of adopting inclusive education to support learning for all is an international phenomenon that is finding its way to the Middle East and the Arabian region. Eman Gaad examines the current status of inclusive education in Arabia and the Middle East through an assessment of the latest ...