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
Learning from Urban Immigrant Youth About Academic Literacies
1st Edition
By Jie Y. Park
June 30, 2020
This book reports on a two-year long, qualitative literacy case study of the academic literacies of first and second-generation immigrant youth in an afterschool tutoring program in South Bronx, New York. Through transcripts of tutoring sessions, interview data, and youths’ written work, each ...
Moral Thought in Educational Practice
1st Edition
By Hugh Sockett
June 30, 2020
This book demonstrates how pervasive moral thought can be in educational thought and practice. By analyzing research on the moral and intellectual qualities in curriculum, as well as the integration of personhood and citizenship development in classroom work, this book demonstrates the primacy of ...
Radical Educators Rearticulating Education and Social Change: Teacher Agency and Resistance, Early 20th Century to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Gale de Saxe, Tina Y. Gourd
June 30, 2020
This book is a collection of six case studies of teacher agency in action, centering on voices of educators who engaged in activist work throughout the history of education in the US. Through a lens of teacher agency and resistance, chapter authors explore the stories of individual educators to ...
Reconceptualizing Curriculum, Literacy, and Learning for School-Age Mothers
1st Edition
By Heidi Hallman, Abigail Kindelsperger
June 30, 2020
Reconceptualizing Curriculum, Literacy, and Learning for School-Age Mothers offers a portrait of classroom literacy practices and learning opportunities that are provided for school-age mothers in two different schools. Through a series of case studies of school sites, teachers, and students, this ...
Representations of Slavery in Children’s Picture Books: Teaching and Learning about Slavery in K-12 Classrooms
1st Edition
By Raphael E. Rogers
June 30, 2020
Drawing on critical race theory, critical race feminism, critical multicultural analysis, and intertextuality this book examines how slavery is represented in contemporary children’s picture books. Through analysis of recently published picture books about slavery, Rogers discusses how these books ...
Researching and Enacting Change in Postsecondary Education: Leveraging Instructors' Social Networks
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Henderson, Chris Rasmussen, Alexis Knaub, Naneh Apkarian, Alan James Daly, Kathleen Fisher
June 30, 2020
Calls to improve undergraduate STEM education have resulted in initiatives that seek to bolster student learning outcomes by promoting changes in teaching practices. Written by participants in a series of ground-breaking social network analysis (SNA) workshops, Researching and Enacting Change in ...
Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension: Inside an American Islamic School
1st Edition
By Melanie Brooks
February 25, 2020
Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension explores life inside an Islamic Center and school in present-day America. Melanie Brooks’ work draws on in-depth discussions with community and school leaders, teachers, parents and students to present thoughtful and contemporary perspectives ...
Learning Beyond the School: International Perspectives on the Schooled Society
1st Edition
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By Julian Sefton-Green, Ola Erstad
February 25, 2020
Whilst learning is central to most understandings of what it is to be human, we now live in a knowledge society where being educated defines life chances more than ever before. Learning Beyond the School brings together accounts of learning from around the world in organisations, spaces and places ...
Manufacturing the Mathematical Child: A Deconstruction of Dominant Spaces of Production and Governance
1st Edition
By Anna Llewellyn
February 25, 2020
Mathematics is a subject held in high esteem around the world, yet the teaching and learning of mathematics is rarely viewed as good enough and many find the subject difficult to comprehend, or engage with. In Manufacturing the Mathematical Child, Anna Llewellyn asks some difficult questions in ...
Questioning the Language of Improvement and Reform in Education: Reclaiming Meaning
1st Edition
By Nicole Mockler, Susan Groundwater-Smith
February 25, 2020
Questioning the Language of Improvement and Reform in Education challenges the language used in education by linking the language of both the public and professional domains with the changing intentions of the governance of education. Exploring various issues, which embody the many manifestations ...
Teachers and Teacher Unions in a Globalised World: History, theory and policy in Ireland
1st Edition
By John Carr, Lori Beckett
February 25, 2020
Teachers and Teacher Unions in a Globalised World asks a series of pressing questions of teacher educators, teachers and teacher unions worldwide in this era of global capitalism. As governments around the world support austerity politics in the face of financial meltdowns, social inequalities, ...
The Changing World of Outdoor Learning in Europe
1st Edition
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By Peter Becker, Barbara Humberstone, Chris Loynes, Jochem Schirp
February 25, 2020
The Changing World of Outdoor Learning in Europe sets out to provide a comprehensive analysis of the economical and political changes that have occurred in European outdoor culture in the preceding two decades, from a diverse range of perspectives including institutional, theoretical, national and ...