Education Policy & Politics Books

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11. Redefining Teacher Development

    By Jonathan Neufeld

    Has any occupational group been the subject of as much research as elementary or primary school teachers? Written by a former elementary school teacher, this intensive study considers how the foundations of the ongoing teacher reform movement have appealed to researchers through its successive...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
12. Developing and Validating Test Items

    By Thomas M. Haladyna, Michael C. Rodriguez

    Since test items are the building blocks of any test, learning how to develop and validate test items has always been critical to the teaching-learning process. As they grow in importance and use, testing programs increasingly supplement the use of selected-response (multiple-choice) items with...

    Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
13. Towards a Theory of Schooling (Routledge Revivals)

    By David Hamilton

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1989, Towards a Theory of Schooling explores and debates the relationship between school and society. It examines the form and function of one of humankind’s most important social institutions, following the cutting edge of pedagogic innovation from mainland Europe through the...

    Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
14. Human Development and Capabilities

    Re-imagining the university of the twenty-first century

    Edited by Alejandra Boni, Melanie Walker

    Globally, universities are the subject of public debate and disagreement about their private benefits or public good, and the key policy vehicle for driving human capital development for competitive knowledge economies. Yet what is increasingly lost in the disagreements about who should pay for...

    Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
15. Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education

    Edited by Marvin Lynn, Adrienne D. Dixson

    This handbook illustrates how education scholars employ Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework to bring attention to issues of race and racism in education. It is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive description and analysis of the topic, from the defining...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
16. The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education

    Edited by Larisa V. Shavinina

    The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education is the international reference work on innovation education and potentially opens an entirely new direction in education. The overall goal of the handbook is to address the question of how to develop innovators in general and how to...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
17. Educating Activist Allies

    Social Justice Pedagogy with the Suburban and Urban Elite

    By Katy Swalwell

    Series: Critical Social Thought

    Educating Activist Allies offers a fresh take on critical education studies through an analysis of social justice pedagogy in schools serving communities privileged by race and class. By documenting the practices of socially committed teachers at an urban private academy and a suburban public...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
18. Education in Political Science

    Discovering a neglected field

    Edited by Anja P. Jakobi, Kerstin Martens, Klaus Dieter Wolf

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline’s analytical perspectives and methodological tools. The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a variety...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
19. Social Theory and Education Research

    Understanding Foucault, Habermas,Bourdieu and Derrida

    Edited by Mark Murphy

    Although education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists, a number of these have been of particular significance to education. While the likes of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, John Dewey and Paulo Freire influenced previous generations of educational theorists, much of...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
20. Merit Aid and the Politics of Education

    By Erik C. Ness

    Series: Studies in Higher Education

    While a substantial number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration of how states determine eligibility criteria for these scholarships. The selectivity of merit aid eligibility criteria can be as important as...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge