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
Co-Creating Educational Solutions through Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships: Building Mutually Beneficial Collaborations
1st Edition
Edited
By Yuri Uesaka, Emmanuel Manalo, Hsueh-Hua Chuang, Satomi Shiba
November 30, 2026
Written in the global context of urgent challenges such as educational inequality, teacher and learner well-being, as well as the need for more effective classroom practices, this timely volume argues that only through equal and mutually beneficial relationships between researchers and ...
Capacity Development of Education Reform in Emerging Economies: African Context and Guinean Perspectives
1st Edition
By Diallo Mamadou Saliou
November 25, 2026
Through an in-depth analysis of Guinea's Education for All (EFA) program, this book examines why education reform initiatives in emerging economies often fail despite significant international investment and political commitment. The book challenges conventional explanations and demonstrates that ...
Historical Understanding, Futures Literacy, and Curriculum as Public Matters: Throughline Questions for Preferable Futures
1st Edition
By Kent den Heyer
November 24, 2026
This book asks a deceptively simple question: What is education for? Drawing on curriculum theory, history and social studies research, education philosophy, Indigenous scholarship, and futures studies, it argues that schooling too often socializes students into inherited ways of knowing while ...
The Struggle for Respect in Urban Classrooms: Student and Teacher Perspectives
1st Edition
By Heidi Schneider
November 17, 2026
This book offers a nuanced investigation of how respect is co-produced in urban educational settings through a multi-year ethnographic study at a diverse US middle school. Drawing on over 400 hours of participant observation and 52 interviews with teachers and students, it reveals the contested and...
Educating for Human, Community, and Ecological Flourishing: Enabling Posthuman Bildung-Capabilities through Pedagogies of Inquiry
1st Edition
By Carolin Kreber
November 11, 2026
In a world of escalating social and ecological challenges, how can universities promote human, community, and ecological flourishing? This book sketches an answer to this question, calling for the institutional implementation of transformative “pedagogies of inquiry.” The author offers an ...
Action Scenarios in Intercultural Pedagogy and Education: Perspectives from Northern European Multicultural Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Bjørn Ribers, Vibeke Christensen, Søren Sindberg Jensen
November 09, 2026
This edited book provides novel, research-based perspectives on the conceptualization of action scenarios in multicultural education and in practice to shed light on the relationship between intercultural pedagogy, higher education, multilingual professionalism and ethical awareness on cultural ...
Challenging Picturebooks and Inclusion: Promoting Educational Equity Through Visual Literacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Åse Marie Ommundsen, Daniel Feldman, Björn Sundmark
November 04, 2026
This book examines how challenging picturebooks—characterised by visual complexity, thematic depth, and formal innovation—forge pathways to inclusive learning across diverse educational settings. It highlights their potential to foster visual literacy, emotional engagement, and critical thinking. ...
Genocide Education in American Classrooms: Curriculum and Content, Pedagogy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Gudgel
October 06, 2026
In the United States, Holocaust education is common practice in classrooms, thanks largely to concerted efforts by Holocaust survivors and the institutions they helped establish. This foundation has also expanded to genocides including the annihilation of American Indians, the Rwandan genocide, and...
Understanding Education as a Career Choice for Men: Critical Insights from a Study of North Carolina Research Triangle Youth
1st Edition
By Tryan L. McMickens, Jim C. Harper, II, Regina Gavin Williams, Jayla Moody Marshall
September 13, 2026
This book addresses a critical gap in our understanding of the factors that influence whether men pursue careers in education. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 15 participants from the North Carolina Research Triangle—four high school juniors and seniors, five undergraduates, and six P-12 ...
Commercialising Public Schooling: Practices of Profit-Making
1st Edition
By Anna Hogan
August 27, 2026
This book delves into the pervasive commercialisation of public schooling, tracing its roots and examining its current manifestations. From the evolution of textbook publishing to the digital transformation led by global edu-businesses, it sheds light on how commercial interests have reshaped ...
Quiet Classrooms, Educational Soundscapes, and the Power of Silence: Towards an Acoustic History of Education
1st Edition
By Pieter Verstraete
July 20, 2026
This highly novel book provides an exploration of the role of silence in the school setting and interrogates the value of silence and quiet in contemporary educational practices, looking at pedagogies and classroom practice to guide this increasingly popular subdiscipline of the history of ...
Research-Practice Partnerships in Education: Practitioner-Researcher Collaboration in the Israeli Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Linor L. Hadar, Hadar Baharav
July 20, 2026
This edited volume broadens the discussion on Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs) in education by extending the focus beyond the US context, providing an in-depth exploration of an RPP designed to enable partnering schools to evaluate and understand pedagogical processes or practices through ...