Educational Foundations

Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context

Edited by Alister Cumming

Series: Routledge Research in Education

This book presents results from a four-year project addressing the central question: What factors, challenges, and contexts contribute to and constrain literacy achievement among at-risk adolescent learners with culturally diverse backgrounds? Researchers consider the importance of several,...

Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge

Introducing Multilingualism

A Social Approach

By Jean-Jacques Weber, Kristine Horner

Introducing Multilingualism is a brand new, comprehensive and user-friendly introduction to the dynamic field of multilingualism. Adopting a compelling social and critical approach, Jean-Jacques Weber and Kristine Horner guide readers through the established theories about multilingualism. The...

Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge

Migration, Education and Socio-Economic Mobility

Edited by Nitya Rao

The primacy of education in development agendas is unquestioned. With the gradual acknowledgement of the potential benefits that migration can hold for development, the relationship between migration and education is a growing area of research. Migration, Education and Socio-Economic Mobility...

Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge

Teaching in Two Languages

Plural Identities and Classroom Practice

By Alexandra Jaffe

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

Teaching in Two Languages is an ethnographic study of linguistic and social practices in a bilingual Corsican school. Drawing on traditions of research in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistic studies of classroom discourse and power, the emphasis of this book is on the way the...

To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge

Understanding White Privilege

Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race, 2nd Edition

By Frances Kendall

Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

Knowingly and unknowingly we all grapple with race every day. Understanding White Privilege delves into the complex interplay between race, power, and privilege in both organizations and private life. It offers an unflinching look at how ignorance can perpetuate privilege, and offers practical and...

Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge

Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism

By Anita Harris

Series: Critical Youth Studies

Unlike as with previous generations, diversity and multiculturalism are engrained in the lives of today’s urban youth. Within their culturally diverse urban environments, young people from different backgrounds now routinely encounter one another in their everyday lives and negotiate and contest...

Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge

The Education of Black Males in a 'Post-Racial' World

Edited by Anthony L. Brown, Jamel K. Donnor

The Education of Black Males in a ‘Post-Racial’ World examines the varied structural and discursive contexts of race, masculinities and class that shape the educational and social lives of Black males. The contributing authors take direct aim at the current discourses that construct Black males as...

Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge

Education in the Black Diaspora

Perspectives, Challenges, and Prospects

Edited by Kassie Freeman, Ethan Johnson

Series: Routledge Research in Education

This volume gathers scholars from around the world in a comparative approach to the various educational struggles of people of African descent, advancing the search for solutions and bringing to light new facets of the experiences of black people in the era of globalization....

Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge

Education, Equality and Human Rights

Issues of gender, 'race', sexuality, disability and social class, 3rd Edition

Edited by Mike Cole

‘Addressing issues that include the challenge of disability discrimination in schooling, gender and equality, ‘race’ and racism, sexuality and social justice, and class analysis and knowledge formation, Education, Equality and Human Rights is an urgent and important contribution to the social...

Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge

Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality in Education

A Global Perspective

Edited by N. Ken Shimahara, Ivan Z. Holowinsky, Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke

Series: Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education Series

This volume explores contemporary issues of ethnic, cultural, and national identities and their influence on the social construction of identity. These issues are analyzed from the perspective of seven nations: China, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Ukraine, Wales, and the United States. While...

Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

Intersectionality and "Race" in Education

Edited by Kalwant Bhopal, John Preston

Series: Routledge Research in Education

Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequalities and have diverse identifications that cannot necessarily be captured by one theoretical perspective alone. This edited collection draws on...

Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education

Edited by Michael W. Apple, Wayne Au, Luis Armando Gandin

Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education is the first authoritative reference work to provide an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling. Rather than focusing solely on questions of how we teach efficiently and effectively,...

Published January 18th 2011 by Routledge