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
Refugees, Immigrants, and Education in the Global South: Lives in Motion
1st Edition
Edited
By Lesley Bartlett, Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher
October 14, 2024
The unprecedented human mobility the world is now experiencing poses new and unparalleled challenges regarding the provision of social and educational services throughout the global South. This volume examines the role played by schooling in immigrant incorporation or exclusion, using case studies ...
Reconceptualising Reflection in Reflective Practice: Voices from Malaysian Educators
1st Edition
Edited
By Misrah Mohamed, Radzuwan Ab Rashid
October 09, 2024
This edited volume presents a model that embraces four components of reflective practice: planning, acting, reflecting and evaluating. The complexities of reflective practice are manifested through three aspects of reflection: problem-solving, action-orientedness and critical reflection. To provide...
Contemporary Global Perspectives on Cooperative Learning: Applications Across Educational Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Robyn M. Gillies, Barbara Millis, Neil Davidson
October 07, 2024
This volume captures contemporary global developments in cooperative learning (CL) across varied educational contexts, levels, and disciplines. Cooperative learning is widely recognized as a pedagogical practice that promotes socialization and learning among students, from kindergarten to tertiary ...
Dialogic Pedagogy: Discourse in Contexts from Pre-school to University
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Thwaite, Alyson Simpson, Pauline Jones
October 07, 2024
Taking a dialogic approach, this edited book engages in analysis and description of dialogic discourse in a number of different educational contexts, from early childhood to tertiary, with an international team of contributors from Australia, Finland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The ...
Theoretical and Historical Evolutions of Self-Directed Learning: The Case for Learner-Led Education
1st Edition
By Caleb Collier
October 07, 2024
This book analyzes the deep historical and theoretical roots of self-directed learning models in order to put forward a new conceptual understanding of self-directed learning. It utilizes philosophical methods to present arguments, both historical and contemporary, in favor of shifting education ...
The Role of Metaphor and Symbol in Motivating Primary School Children
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Ashton
August 26, 2024
This book provides a fresh approach to motivation in primary school children by exploring the role of metaphor and symbol in language and art as a means of expressing insights developed through learning. The book investigates and transcends Piaget’s dominant child developmental theories and ...
Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts: Reflection, Pedagogy, and Activism for Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Monkman, Ann Frkovich, Amira Proweller
May 27, 2024
This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity across an array of locations, exploring how it is understood, experienced, and acted upon by educators in schools, universities, and nonformal educational spaces. Precarity ...
Pragmatist Philosophy for Critical Knowledge, Learning and Consciousness: A New Epistemological Framework for Education
1st Edition
By Neil Hooley
May 27, 2024
Emerging from the confusion and chaos of neoliberal economic systems around the world, this book brings together a collection of major philosophical ideas from previous centuries and applies them to the practice of education. The book argues that pragmatist philosophy is the most appropriate to ...
The Improvising Teacher: Reconceptualising Pedagogy, Expertise and Professionalism
1st Edition
By Nick Sorensen
May 27, 2024
The Improvising Teacher offers a radical reconceptualization of improvisation as a fundamental element of teacher expertise. Drawing on theories of improvisation and expertise alongside empirical research, the book argues that teacher expertise is fundamentally improvisatory. The book provides a ...
A History of Inspiration through Metaphors of Learning: The Height of Teaching
1st Edition
By Robert Nelson
January 29, 2024
In this book, Robert Nelson reminds us that one of the most important elements of teaching and learning is to inspire and to be inspired. Given that inspiration itself has evolved through metaphor, the inquiry distinguishes inspirational learning by its peculiarly metaphoric character. We ...
Narratives of Qualitative PhD Research: Identities, Languages and Cultures in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Gurney, Yi Wang, Roger Barnard
January 29, 2024
The book provides a grounded, narrative exploration of contemporary qualitative PhD research in the fields of language education and applied linguistics. The chapters are authored by current and former PhD candidates studying in New Zealand, with commentaries from international experts in the field...
Relational Aspects of Parental Involvement to Support Educational Outcomes: Parental Communication, Expectations, and Participation for Student Success
1st Edition
Edited
By William Jeynes
January 29, 2024
Offering contributions from international leaders in the field, this volume builds on empirically informed meta-analyses to foreground relationship-based aspects of parental involvement in children’s education and learning. Chapters explore how factors including parent-child communication, ...