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
Geography and Social Justice in the Classroom
1st Edition
Edited
By Todd W. Kenreich
May 24, 2017
The rise of critical discourses in the discipline of geography has opened up new avenues for social justice. Geography and Social Justice in the Classroom brings together contemporary research in geography and fresh thinking about geography’s place in the social studies curriculum. The book’s main ...
Mainstreams, Margins and the Spaces In-between: New possibilities for education research
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Trimmer, Ali Black, Stewart Riddle
May 24, 2017
This book explores the complexities of investigating minorities, majorities, boundaries and borders, and the experiences of researchers who choose to work in these spaces. It engages with issues of ethics, disclosure and representation, and contends with and seeks to contribute to emerging debates ...
The Role of Participants in Education Research: Ethics, Epistemologies, and Methods
1st Edition
Edited
By Warren Midgley, Patrick Alan Danaher, Margaret Baguley
May 24, 2017
This book explores different perspectives on the role, influence and importance of participants in education research. Drawing on a variety of philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches, the book examines how researchers relate to and with their participants before, during, and after ...
Collaboration and the Future of Education: Preserving the Right to Think and Teach Historically
1st Edition
By Gordon Andrews, Wilson J. Warren, James Cousins
May 18, 2017
Current educational reforms have given rise to various types of "educational Taylorism," which encourage the creation of efficiency models in pursuit of a unified way to teach. In history education curricula, this has been introduced through scripted textbook-based programs such as Teacher ...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Distance Teaching: Connecting Classrooms in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Blackstock, Nathan Straight
May 18, 2017
Synchronous technologies, particularly interactive video conferencing (IVC), are becoming common modes of teaching and delivering college courses. The increasing popularity of IVC in the U.S. and abroad calls for more pedagogically effective practices for instructors using this technology. This ...
Navigating Model Minority Stereotypes: Asian Indian Youth in South Asian Diaspora
1st Edition
By Rupam Saran
May 18, 2017
Though Asian Indians are typically thought of as a "model minority", not much is known about the school experiences of their children. Positive stereotyping of these immigrants and their children often masks educational needs and issues, creates class divides within the Indian-American community, ...
Performing Kamishibai: An Emerging New Literacy for a Global Audience
1st Edition
By Tara McGowan
May 18, 2017
Kamishibai (paper-theater), a Japanese picture-storytelling medium, is gaining global interest as we move from a text-based culture to one that emphasizes multiple semiotic systems and performance. This is the first volume to explore the potential of kamishibai as a dynamic "new" interactive medium...
Progressive Sexuality Education: The Conceits of Secularism
1st Edition
By Mary Lou Rasmussen
May 18, 2017
This book engages contemporary debates about the notion of secularism outside of the field of education in order to consider how secularism shapes the formation of progressive sexuality education. Focusing on the US, Canada, Ireland, Aotearoa-New Zealand and Australia, this text considers the ...
The Hidden Role of Software in Educational Research: Policy to Practice
1st Edition
By Tom Liam Lynch
May 18, 2017
Educational research often discounts the uniqueness and ubiquity of software and the hidden political, economic and epistemological ways it impacts teaching and learning in K-12 settings. Drawing on theories and methodologies from English education, critical discourse analysis, multimodal semiotics...
Theorizing Pedagogical Interaction: Insights from Conversation Analysis
1st Edition
By Hansun Zhang Waring
May 18, 2017
Pedagogical interaction can be observed through many different landscapes, such as the graduate seminar, the writing skills center, the after-school literacy program, adult ESL classrooms, and post-observation conferences. By viewing these settings through the lens of conversation analysis, this ...
Transatlantic Reflections on the Practice-Based PhD in Fine Art
1st Edition
By Jessica Schwarzenbach, Paul M. W. Hackett
May 18, 2017
Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists, however the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures established the MFA as the terminal degree for visual artists. Subsequently, the PhD in fine art emerged in the UK and is now offered by approximately 40 ...
Refugee Women, Representation and Education: Creating a discourse of self-authorship and potential
1st Edition
By Melinda McPherson
February 27, 2017
Even with increased attention to refugee women’s issues in the late 20th century, post-colonial discourses have nurtured limiting representations of refugee women, predominantly as subjects of charity and as victims. Adding to a growing body of work in the field, the author challenges this ...