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
Gender Inclusive Engineering Education
1st Edition
By Julie Mills, Mary Elizabeth Ayre, Judith Gill
March 21, 2013
Women continue to comprise a small minority of students in engineering education and subsequent employment, despite the numerous initiatives over the past 25 years to attract and retain more women in engineering. This book demonstrates the ways in which traditional engineering education has not ...
Global Pathways to Abolishing Physical Punishment: Realizing Children’s Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Joan E. Durrant, Anne B. Smith
March 21, 2013
This book describes the unfolding of a global phenomenon: the legal prohibition of physical punishment of children. Until thirty years ago, this near-universal practice was considered appropriate, necessary and a parental right. But a paradigm shift in conceptions of childhood has led to a ...
Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen: Dilemmas and Directions for Civics and Citizenship Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Reid, Judith Gill, Alan Sears
March 21, 2013
The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in civics and citizenship education. There have been unprecedented developments in citizenship education taking place in schools, adult education centers, or in the less formally structured spaces of media images and commentary around the world. ...
Beyond Binaries in Education Research
1st Edition
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By Warren Midgley, Mark A. Tyler, Patrick Alan Danaher, Alison Mander
March 11, 2013
Beyond Binaries in Education Research explores the ethical, methodological, and social justice issues relating to conceptualizations of binary opposites in education research, particularly where one side of the dualism is perceived to be positive and the other negative. In education research these ...
Children’s Drawing and Writing: The Remarkable in the Unremarkable
1st Edition
By Diane Mavers
March 11, 2013
Children’s everyday drawing and writing are paradoxical: charmingly engaging, yet seemingly unremarkable in their ordinariness. This book takes a very close look at what passes by largely unnoticed at home and in school: copying, texts fleetingly present then gone, a picture drawn after the valued ...
Intercultural and Multicultural Education: Enhancing Global Interconnectedness
1st Edition
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By Carl A. Grant, Agostino Portera
February 14, 2013
By addressing intercultural and multicultural education in a global context, this volume brings together the dynamic discussions and lively debate of intercultural and multicultural education taking place across the world. Not content with discussion of theory or practice at the expense of the ...
Picturebooks, Pedagogy and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Joanna Haynes, Karin Murris
November 13, 2012
Contemporary picturebooks open up spaces for philosophical dialogues between people of all ages. As works of art, picturebooks offer unique opportunities to explore ideas and to create meaning collaboratively. This book considers censorship of certain well-known picturebooks, challenging the ...
Migration, Education and Change
1st Edition
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By Sigrid Luchtenberg
September 25, 2012
The diverse contributions in this book discuss both the classical and the more recent forms of migration. Illustrating the developments in various European countries and Australia as a 'classical immigration state', they tackle these different forms of migration and investigate their divergent...
The Journey for Inclusive Education in the Indian Sub-Continent
1st Edition
By Mithu Alur, Michael Bach
September 25, 2012
Despite national and international commitments to Education for All, and the Millennium Development Goals to assure universal primary education by 2015, over 90% of children with disabilities remain excluded from regular education in countries of the south. This book describes a three decade-long ...
Education, Religion and Society: Essays in Honour of John M. Hull
1st Edition
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By Dennis Bates, Gloria Durka, Friedrich Schweitzer
September 18, 2012
Education, Religion and Society celebrates the career of Professor John Hull, a leading figure in the transformation of religious education in English and Welsh schools, and co-founder of the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values. He has also made major contributions to ...
International Case Studies of Dyslexia
1st Edition
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By Peggy L. Anderson, Regine Meier-Hedde
September 05, 2012
Dyslexia is a disability that exists in all countries that have high expectations for literacy. The inability to read in spite of normal intellectual potential represents one of the most puzzling educational challenges for literate societies, regardless of the culture or language. This book ...
Social Studies as New Literacies in a Global Society: Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom
1st Edition
By Mark Baildon, James S. Damico
September 05, 2012
This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "new times" – prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared to ...