Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education
About the Book Series
The series provides a platform for both established and emerging scholars to present their latest research and discuss key issues in the sociology of education. The series welcomes books on all areas of the sociology of education, including but not limited to urban education, gender and sexuality in education, equality and human and rights, disability studies, teaching and learning, theories of learning, and more.
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
Locally Emergent Organic Literacies: A Post-Institutional Sociology of Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Amir Kalan
January 14, 2027
This edited collection explores how people and communities create, share, and sustain meaning beyond the boundaries of formal institutions. Challenging conventional approaches that center schools, states, and standardized forms of literacy, this volume investigates writing and reading practices ...
Governing Migrant Education: Perspectives on Immigration, Education and Public Policy
1st Edition
By Thomas Douniès
January 11, 2027
This book offers an unprecedented insight into migrants’ schooling that fills a major social, political and scientific blind spot in the ways we contemplate the challenges of immigration in the contemporary world. Working at the intersection of the sociologies of education, immigration and public ...
Education and the Swedish Gangster Rap Generation: Crime, Culture, and the Pedagogical Challenges of Contemporary Music
1st Edition
By Alexandra Söderman, Johan Söderman
October 28, 2026
Acknowledging the increasing cultural significance of gangster rap on youth culture internationally since the 2010s, this book explores how gangster rap is understood, interpreted, and negotiated in media reports, by young people and educators in different educational environments. The book ...
Historical Sociologies of Knowledge, Science, and Modernity: Two Volume Set
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas S. Popkewitz, Elin Sundström Sjödin, Ji Hyun Hwang, Chushan Wu
October 19, 2026
This two-volume edited collection offers an exploration and critical reassessment of the sciences in educational research, foregrounding its agential and material qualities rather than treating it as a neutral instrument of knowledge. Addressing the enduring allure of research as expertise and of ...
Historical Sociologies of Knowledge, Science, and Modernity, Volume 1: Infrastructures, Differences, and Space of Action in Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas S. Popkewitz, Elin Sundström Sjödin, Ji Hyun Hwang, Chushan Wu
October 19, 2026
This edited collection offers an exploration and critical reassessment of the sciences in educational research, foregrounding its agential and material qualities rather than treating it as a neutral instrument of knowledge. Addressing the enduring allure of research as expertise and of science as ...
Historical Sociologies of Knowledge, Science, and Modernity, Volume 2: Visual Cultures and Affective Economies in Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas S. Popkewitz, Elin Sundström Sjödin, Chushan Wu, Ji Hyun Hwang
October 19, 2026
This edited collection offers an exploration and critical reassessment of the sciences in educational research, foregrounding their agential and material qualities rather than treating them as a neutral instrument of knowledge. Addressing the enduring allure of research as expertise and of science ...
Neoliberal Boys: Class, Masculinity and the Crisis in Education
1st Edition
By Dane Morace-Court
June 29, 2026
This eminently timely volume offers a critical examination of the educational experiences of white working-class boys, interrogating the impact of neoliberal education policies, hegemonic masculinity and the increasing influence of digital culture on how they engage, or disengage, with schooling. ...
Emerging Perspectives from Social Realism on Knowledge and Education: Curricula, Pedagogy, Identity, and Equity
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham McPhail, Richard Pountney, Leesa Wheelahan
May 22, 2026
This book brings the key ideas and concepts of social realism to bear on current debates in the fields of knowledge and curriculum. The key concern of this collection is to highlight matters related to knowledge and the influence these dimensions have on the formation of curricula, pedagogy, ...
Reframing Learning: Changing Practices, Sites, Histories, Lives
1st Edition
By Stephen Kemmis, Christine Edwards-Groves, Peter Grootenboer
May 22, 2026
Disrupting the individualism of much conventional psychological research into learning, this book presents a situated, practice-based understanding of learning, based on the theories of situated learning and practice architectures, conceptualising learning as ontological transformation. While ...
Knowledge Production, Policy and Practice in Education: Social Realist Explorations of Curriculum, Teaching and Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Grace Healy, Di Swift, Brian Barrett
March 31, 2026
Knowledge Production, Policy and Practice in Education: Social Realist Explorations of Curriculum, Teaching and Research brings together theoretical and empirical enquiries into curricula, pedagogy and assessment, informed by the influential traditions of social realism and Basil Bernstein’s ...
Exploring Elite Schools and Inclusive Child-Centred Sex and Relationships Education: Bourdieu and Heteronormative Power Structures
1st Edition
By Matthew Round
January 23, 2026
Contributing to the body of literature that applies Bourdieu to the study of educational institutions, this novel volume considers how elite schools could successfully incorporate inclusive equitable sex and relationship education (RSE) within the existing mechanisms of continuing professional ...
Primary Homework, Mothering and Maternal Agency: Portraits of Relationality, Agency and Care in Educational Support
1st Edition
By Rachel Lehner-Mear
December 01, 2025
Constructed around powerful stories of maternal agency, care and emotion, this novel volume conceptualises the primary homework experience as a social and relational practice and act of mothering, thereby raising wider questions about parental involvement in education, families’ agency in school ...