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
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 ...
The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Inertia in Higher Education: Exploring Complex Resistance to Technological Change
1st Edition
By James Hutson
October 01, 2025
This research monograph explores the complex resistance to integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) within higher education institutions. Despite the significant potential of AI to enhance education, faculty adoption remains inconsistent and is often met with skepticism. This book investigates key ...
The Diversity Paradox in International Education: A Critical Examination of Discourses of Difference
1st Edition
By Lucy Bailey
September 25, 2025
This volume presents the first-known investigation of the so-called diversity paradox, positing that diversity has become a tool for distinguishing and legitimating the concept of educated Western elites, and arguing for a major reconceptualisation of diversity in different social and cultural ...
Education, Parenting, and Mental Health Care in Europe: The Contradictions of Building Autonomous Individuals
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicolas Marquis
June 27, 2025
This edited collection investigates, from a sociological perspective, what it means to create an autonomous individual through a novel exploration of three central fields of sociology: education, mental health care, and parenting. By linking these three aspects through their contribution to the ...
Rethinking Sociological Critique in Contemporary Education: Reflexive Dialogue and Prospective Inquiry
1st Edition
Edited
By Radhika Gorur, Paolo Landri, Romuald Normand
May 06, 2025
This book explores a new repertoire for critique in the sociology of contemporary education, focusing on emerging social theories that respond to contemporary challenges in education, education policy and governance. Presenting a variety of approaches in the sociology of education including ...
The (Dis)Order of U.S. Schooling: Zygmunt Bauman and Education for an Ambivalent World
1st Edition
By Eric Ferris
November 29, 2024
This book critically interrogates the function of schooling in the United States of America using the writings of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Asking whether the function is to produce citizens, workers, a combination of the two, or something altogether different, it argues that the designs of ...