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
Thinking with Stephen J. Ball: Lines of Flight in Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Tamboukou
January 29, 2024
This edited volume explores how Stephen Ball’s work has shaped the field of the sociology of education worldwide. Written by internationally based researchers who are Ball’s former PhD students, it draws on different strands of his work to show what it means to think, write, and do research ...
A Retrospective Study of a Dialogic Elementary Classroom: Understanding Long-Term Impacts of Discursive Pedagogies
1st Edition
By Lynn Astarita Gatto
September 25, 2023
This book uniquely combines data from a study focused on the use of dialogic instruction in an elementary classroom, with analysis of students’ retrospective beliefs about the classroom environment, interactions, and authority. Through this retrospective methodology, the text offers valuable ...
Equity, Teaching Practice and the Curriculum: Exploring Differences in Access to Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Ninni Wahlström
September 25, 2023
This book explores how different classroom discourses and concepts of knowledge permeate teaching in high- and low-performance classrooms. Drawing on empirical research from classrooms in Sweden, it presents a theory-based framework for classroom research. The book examines the central concepts of...
Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation: A Proposal for an Expanded Curriculum
1st Edition
Edited
By Herner Saeverot
September 25, 2023
Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation is the first book of its kind to provide an educational and systematic analysis of problems and solutions regarding the most pressing threats that humankind is facing. The book makes a case for the importance of ...
Multimodal Signs of Learning: Tracking Semiosis in the Classroom
1st Edition
By Shirley Palframan
September 25, 2023
Multimodal Signs of Learning proposes a methodology to uncover evidence of learning in students’ multimodal compositions. Informed by social semiotic theory, the book tracks representation of subject content from physical and embodied teaching resources to students’ handmade artefacts and physical ...
International Perspectives on Drama and Citizenship Education: Acting Globally
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas McGuinn, Norio Ikeno, Ian Davies, Edda Sant
May 31, 2023
WINNER of the Children’s Identity and Citizenship European Association’s (CiCea) award for Best Book 2021, this book brings together respected international academics and practitioners from citizenship and drama to debate, share their experiences and plan a way forward for academic and professional...
Lived Democracy in Education: Young Citizens’ Democratic Lives in Kindergarten, School and Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Rune Herheim, Tobias Werler, Kjellrun Hiis Hauge
May 31, 2023
This book outlines the notion of ‘lived democracy in education’, bringing together interdisciplinary educational research on young citizens’ democratic practices in kindergartens, schools, and teacher education. Presenting both theoretical and empirical studies, and drawing on a variety of ...
New Thinking, New Scholarship and New Research in Catholic Education: Responses to the Work of Professor Gerald Grace
1st Edition
Edited
By Sean Whittle
May 31, 2023
New Thinking, New Scholarship and New Research in Catholic Education gives a forum to many established and leading scholars to review and critically appraise the research contribution of Gerald Grace to Catholic education. The book demonstrates the way in which the field of Catholic Education ...
Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education: International Perspectives on Language and Literature Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Gunnar Haaland, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer Kümmerling-Meibauer, Åse Ommundsen
January 09, 2023
What should children and students read? This volume explores challenging picturebooks as learning materials in early childhood education, primary and secondary school, and even universities. It addresses a wide range of thematic, cognitive, and aesthetic challenges and educational affordances of ...
Interculturality and the Political within Education
1st Edition
By Fred Dervin, Ashley Simpson
January 09, 2023
This innovative book problematises the internal relationships within and between the intercultural and the political in education. It engages in a critical dialogue with current practices and discourses, and the focus on ‘the political’ offers an alternative trajectory to explore interculturality ...
Lessons from the Transition to Pandemic Education in the US: Analyses of Parent, Student, and Educator Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Marni Fisher, Kimiya Maghzi, Charlotte Achieng-Evensen, Meredith Dorner, Holly Pearson, Mina Chun
January 09, 2023
This volume narrates and shares the often-unheard voices of students, parents, and educators during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through close analysis of their lived experiences, the book identifies key patterns, pitfalls, and lessons learnt from pandemic education. Drawing on contributions from all ...
The Nature of Educational Theories: Goal-Directed, Equivalence and Interlevel Theories
1st Edition
By Tone Kvernbekk
January 09, 2023
This important book offers a meta-theoretical account of educational theories and how they work. It offers a classification scheme of distinct types of educational theory in which the account developed can inform the work of educational theorists and practitioners. Kvernbekk observes throughout ...