Education Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. Using Critical Research for Educational and Social Change

   Edited by Tricia Kress

   This volume features the works of scholar-practitioners who embrace critical pedagogy and critical research as praxis in qualitative research about education. The authors take an explicit stance toward social justice through education, and they use critical research as a vehicle toward that end.&...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. Promoting and Delivering School-to-School Support for Special Educational Needs

   A practical guide for SENCOs

   By Rita Cheminais

   Series: David Fulton / Nasen

   Recent changes to education policy have brought about a new emphasis on promoting school-to-school support and school-led improvement, in order to ensure that all pupils, including those with SEN, achieve their optimum potential. SENCOs, often in the role of Specialist Leaders of Education (SLE),...

   Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Higher Education in Southeast Asia

   Blurring Borders, Changing Balance

   By Anthony Welch

   Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia

   This is the first book to systematically chart and comparatively assess the trend towards private higher education in South East Asia. Caught between conflicting imperatives of spiralling demand, and limited resources, the balance between public and private higher education systems in South East,...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Multimodality and Social Semiosis

   Communication, Meaning-Making, and Learning in the Work of Gunther Kress

   Edited by Margit Böck, Norbert Pachler

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   Gunther Kress, one of the founders of social semiotics and multimodality, has made lasting contributions to these fields through his work in semiotics and meaning-making; power and identity; agency, design, production; and pedagogy and learning; in varied sites of transformation. This book brings...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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