New Research and Scholarly Titles: January 2013

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1. Large Scale School Reform and Social Capital Building

   Edited by Ian R. Haslam, Myint Swe Khine, Issa M. Saleh

   This book introduces and explores the nature of large scale reform, and offers a fresh insight into the importance of social capital and professional development leadership for teachers and school management. It synthesizes research on the role of the professional development leader and the...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Bullying

   Experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender

   Edited by Ian Rivers, Neil Duncan

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   Bullying: Experiences and Discourses of Sexuality and Gender provides a valuable insight into the experiences of young people and how bullying can impact upon them in the school environment. The book offers an introduction to the key issues associated with bullying on the grounds of sex and sexual...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Contextualising Narrative Inquiry

   Developing methodological approaches for local contexts

   Edited by Sheila Trahar

   Narrative inquiry is growing in popularity as a research methodology in the social sciences, medicine and the humanities. In narrative inquiry, the transparency of interactions between researcher and research participants, together with rich, contextual descriptions, help to shape and structure...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. Exceptionality in East Asia

   Explorations in the Actiotope Model of Giftedness

   Edited by Shane N. Phillipson, Heidrun Stoeger, Albert Ziegler

   The continual successes of students from East-Asia are confirmed in a variety of international tests of academic achievement and yet, despite this attainment, many scholars have realised that a substantial proportion of these students are also underachieving. Using the actiotope model of...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
5. Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty

   Edited by Geoff Munns, Wayne Sawyer, Bronwyn Cole

   Education and poverty exist in a highly contested relationship even in the developed world. On the one hand, educational outcomes seem solidly attached to socio-economic status, and on the other, education is often cited as a way out of poverty. Success at de-coupling poverty from educational...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
6. Diversity, Intercultural Encounters, and Education

   Edited by Susana Gonçalves, Markus A. Carpenter

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book concerns the challenges and tensions rising from mass migration flows, unbalanced north-south and east-west relations and the increasing multicultural nature of society. The scope of the book’s theme is global, addressing diversity and identity, intercultural encounters and conflict, and...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education

   Edited by Robert B. Stevenson, Michael Brody, Justin Dillon, Arjen E.J. Wals

   The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment,...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
8. Knowledge, Power, and Education

   The Selected Works of Michael W. Apple

   Edited by Michael W. Apple

   Series: World Library of Educationalists

   For more than three decades, Michael W. Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching, and power in education. His germinal Ideology and Curriculum was a watershed title in critical education studies, and has remained in print since its publication in 1979....

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Imagining the University

   By Ronald Barnett

   Series: New Studies in Critical Realism and Education

   Around the world, what it is to be a university is a matter of much debate. The range of ideas of the university in public circulation is, however, exceedingly narrow and is dominated by the idea of the entrepreneurial university. As a consequence, the debate is hopelessly impoverished. Lurking in...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
10. Foucault, Power, and Education

    By Stephen J. Ball

    Series: Routledge Key Ideas in Education

    Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about...

    Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
11. Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age

    By Rupert Wegerif

    Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age argues that despite rapid advances in communications technology, most teaching still relies on traditional approaches to education, built upon the logic of print, and dependent on the notion that there is a single true representation of reality. In practice,...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
12. Interpersonal Regulation of Learning and Motivation

    Methodological Advances

    Edited by Simone Volet, Marja Vauras

    Series: New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction

    Interpersonal Regulation of Learning and Motivation is the first book in the field to focus on major methodological advances in research on interpersonal regulation of learning and motivation. Interest in developing ways of capturing the dynamics of interpersonal regulation in real-life learning...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge