Education & Development Books

New and Published Books

1. Disability, Poverty and Education

   Edited by Nidhi Singal

   This book is a succinct and distinctive presentation of current research addressing educational issues in relation to children and young people with disabilities in Southern contexts. Even though people with disabilities are disproportionately over-represented in the majority world, there is a lack...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Roma Education in Europe

   Practices, policies and politics

   Edited by Maja Miskovic

   For the last three decades, the international response to the adverse conditions of Roma has been intensive, producing a plethora of educational policies, reforms, and strategies that have been developed and implemented. This edited volume gathers together prominent international scholars,...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
3. Youth Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging

   Edited by Sharlene Swartz, Madeleine Arnot

   Around the world today, young people are being called upon to develop civic competence and carry the burden of forging a political future in the midst of impoverishment, exclusion and inequality. In societies that have experienced civil war, military occupation, mass immigration of displaced people...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
4. Learner-centred Education in International Perspective

   Whose pedagogy for whose development?

   By Michele Schweisfurth

   Series: Education, Poverty and International Development

   Is learner-centred education appropriate for all societies and classrooms? Learner-centred education (LCE) is a travelling policy, widely promoted by international agencies and national governments. Arguments in favour of this pedagogical tradition refer to theories and evidence from cognitive...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Understanding the Te Whariki Approach

   Early years education in practice

   By Wendy Lee, Margaret Carr, Brenda Soutar, Linda Mitchell

   Series: Understanding the… Approach

   Understanding the Te Whariki Approach is a much–needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Te Whariki approach, introducing the reader to an innovative bicultural curriculum developed for early childhood services in New Zealand. It will...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
7. Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South

   Challenges for policy, practice and research

   Edited by Leon Tikly, Angeline M. Barrett

   Series: Education, Poverty and International Development

   How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice. Questions of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education are increasingly contested, most especially in the global South, and improving the quality of education, particularly for the most...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Early Child Care and Education in Finland

   Edited by Kaarina Määttä, Satu Uusiautti

   What is childhood like in Finland? What kind of practical solutions have been created and evaluated that aim at both providing good childhood experiences and supporting children’s positive development? What practices aim to prevent child exclusion from regular education and social experiences and...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. Education and the Nation State

   The selected works of S. Gopinathan

   By S. Gopinathan

   Series: World Library of Educationalists

   In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South

    Contesting Knowledges for a Sustainable Future

    By Anders Breidlid

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies. Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western...

    Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge