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Series: Foundations and Futures of Education
Across media, academy and popular culture in western societies there is much talk of an implosion of the modern gender order. Education is often presented as a key site in which a crisis of masculinity is played out, and schools have become a focus for practical attempts to reconcile social and...
To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
As the world seemingly gets smaller and smaller, schools around the globe are focusing their attention on expanding the consciousness and competencies of their students to prepare them for the conditions of globalization. Global citizenship education is rapidly growing in popularity because it...
To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
Research into teacher education is dominated by Anglophone literature, with the inevitable result that teacher education in non-English speaking regions of the world largely remains unexamined. This book fills the gap in the existing literature and comprises twelve invited contributions from an...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Education
This book explores the decline of the teaching of epistemic, conceptual knowledge in schools, its replacement with everyday social knowledge, and its relation to changes in the division of labor within the global economy. It argues that the emphasis on social knowledge in postmodern and social...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
This book presents a compelling range of international research on the issues of gender balance and gender bias in education. The chapters draw on cutting edge work from the US, Latin America, the UK, Ireland and Africa, presenting readers with new insights into how educators and students often...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
This book focuses on education in small states. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of different aspects of educational provision in political jurisdictions having a very small population – populations which encounter specific challenges, threats and opportunities. This book presents a balance...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Contexts of Learning
Research and practice in the vast field of school-family-community relations have evolved dramatically over the last thirty years. Schools throughout the world face enormous challenges due to demographic changes and societal problems, making partnerships among schools, families and community groups...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Contexts of Learning
This synthesis of the latest knowledge on homework presents unique findings by researchers from various countries and diverse professional backgrounds. It approaches the topic of homework from several perspectives, including its political and cultural contexts aspects of parental...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
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...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Wonderfully illuminated by children's essays, stories, poems, pictures and plans, this groundbreaking book offers a unique snapshot of the perceptions of today's school pupils’. [French bookstore Lavoisier www.lavoisier.fr] In 2001, The Guardian launched a ground-breaking competition called The...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
