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1. Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education

   Edited by Jo Brownlee, Gregory Schraw, Donna Berthelsen

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education, edited by Joanne Brownlee, Gregg Schraw and Donna Berthelsen, provides an international perspective on teachers’ personal epistemology, or beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. Research from The Netherlands, Cyprus, Australia, United States,...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Teaching and Learning with Technology

   Beyond Constructivism

   Edited by Concetta M. Stewart, Catherine C. Schifter, Melissa E. Markaridian Selverian

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Today, new media is both augmenting and extending the traditional classroom with a variety of technology-based tools available to both students and faculty, and has created "new" virtual classrooms for anywhere, anytime availability to education. Despite the enormous potential for technology to...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Teacher Learning That Matters

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Mary Kooy, Klaas van Veen

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   In the continuing global call for educational reforms and change, the contributors in this edited collection address the critical issue of teacher learning from diverse national contexts and perspectives. They define "teacher learning that matters" as it shapes and directs pedagogical practices...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Pedagogy of Multiliteracies

   Rewriting Goldilocks

   By Heather Lotherington

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Based on case studies from public schools in Toronto, Canada, this book chronicles an inspiring five-year journey to develop thinking about and teaching literacy for the 21st century. The research, which was classroom-based and developed by public school teachers in collaboration with university...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
5. Memory and Pedagogy

   Edited by Claudia Mitchell, Teresa Strong-Wilson, Kathleen Pithouse, Susann Allnutt

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Memory work – the conscious remembering and study of individual and shared memories – is increasingly being acknowledged as a key pedagogical tool in working with children. Giving students opportunities and support to remember and study their selves as individuals and as communities allows them to...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
6. The Resegregation of Schools

   Education and Race in the Twenty-First Century

   Edited by Jamel K. Donnor, Adrienne Dixson

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Access to a quality education remains the primary mechanism for improving one’s life chances in the United States, and for children of color, a “good education” is particularly linked to their individual and collective well-being. Despite the popular perception that America is in a “post-racial”...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Universities and Global Diversity

   Preparing Educators for Tomorrow

   Edited by Beverly Lindsay, Wanda J. Blanchett

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
8. Balancing Dilemmas in Assessment and Learning in Contemporary Education

   Edited by Anton Havnes, Liz McDowell

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context. New forms of assessment are being introduced in all sectors of education and training, and the culture of assessment is shifting. The authors in this volume discuss the practice of assessment,...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen

   Dilemmas and Directions for Civics and Citizenship Education

   Edited by Alan Reid, Judith Gill, Alan Sears

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in civics and citizenship education. There have been unprecedented developments in citizenship education taking place in schools, adult education centers, or in the less formally structured spaces of media images and commentary around the world....

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
10. Global Pathways to Abolishing Physical Punishment

    Realizing Children’s Rights

    Edited by Joan E. Durrant, Anne B. Smith

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book describes the unfolding of a global phenomenon: the legal prohibition of physical punishment of children. Until thirty years ago, this near-universal practice was considered appropriate, necessary and a parental right. But a paradigm shift in conceptions of childhood has led to a...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge