Pedagogy and Learning
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Assessment in Physical Education
A Sociocultural Perspective
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
Assessment has widely been acknowledged as a central element of institutional education, shaping curriculum and pedagogy in powerful ways and representing a critical reference point in political, professional and public debates about educational achievement and policy directions. Within physical...
Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Changing Spaces of Education
New Perspectives on the Nature of Learning
In today’s modern climate, education and learning take place in multiple and diverse spaces. Increasingly, these spaces are both physical and virtual in nature. Access to and use of information and communication technologies, and the emergence of knowledge-based economies necessitate an...
Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
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Liquid Learning and Educational Work
Boundary politics in global transitions
Over the last 30 years the effects of economic globalisation have transformed education and its relationship to work and everyday working lives. Market reform and the appropriation of ‘learning’ to fuel the knowledge economy produced a lifelong learning educational order, complemented by social...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology
Issues and Dilemmas A Reader in Science Communication
Science communication seeks to engage individuals and groups with evidence-based information about the nature, outcomes, and social consequences of science and technology. This text provides an overview of this burgeoning field - the issues with which it deals, important influences that affect it,...
Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Complexity Thinking in Physical Education
Reframing Curriculum, Pedagogy and Research
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
In the past two decades, complexity thinking has emerged as an important theoretical response to the limitations of orthodox ways of understanding educational phenomena. Complexity provides ways of understanding that embrace uncertainty, non-linearity and the inevitable ‘messiness’ that is...
Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Cooperative Learning in Physical Education
A research based approach
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
Cooperative Learning is a dynamic instructional model that can teach diverse content to students at different grade levels, with students working together in small, structured, heterogeneous groups to master subject content. It has a strong research tradition, is used frequently as a professional...
Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Debates in Art and Design Education
Series: Debates in Subject Teaching
Debates in Art and Design Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in learning and teaching. It introduces key issues, concepts and tensions in order to help art educators develop a critical approach to their practice in response to...
Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Debates in Geography Education
Series: Debates in Subject Teaching
Debates in Geography Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with and reflect on key issues, concepts and debates in their specialist subject teaching. It aims to enable geography teachers to reach their own informed judgements and argue their point of view with deeper...
Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Debates in Music Teaching
Series: Debates in Subject Teaching
Debates in Music Teaching encourages student and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in music education. It aims to introduce a critical approach to the central concepts and practices that have influenced major interventions and initiatives in music teaching, and...
Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age
Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age argues that despite rapid advances in communications technology, most teaching still relies on traditional approaches to education, built upon the logic of print, and dependent on the notion that there is a single true representation of reality. In practice,...
Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Drama, Disability and Education
A critical exploration for students and practitioners
What can society learn about disability through the way it is portrayed in TV, films and plays? This insightful and accessible text explores and analyses the way disability is portrayed in drama, and how that portrayal may be interpreted by young audiences. Investigating how disabilities have been...
Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Education in a Digital World
Global Perspectives on Technology and Education
Drawing on a wealth of theoretical and empirical work, Education in a Digital World tackles a number of pressing questions, such as, how are ‘global’ trends in educational technology refracted through national policies and processes? How exactly are educational technologies linked to issues of...
Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
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Education Matters
60 years of the British Journal of Educational Studies
Series: Education Heritage
Education Matters draws together a selection of the most influential papers published in the British Journal of Educational Studies by many of the leading scholars in the field over the past sixty years. This unique collection of seminal articles published since the first issue of the Journal...
Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning
A Critical Perspective
Series: Critical Perspectives on Education
Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education - learners and teachers....
Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
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Equity and Inclusion in Physical Education and Sport
An essential component of good practice in physical education is ensuring inclusivity for all pupils, regardless of need, ability or background. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, Equity and Inclusion in Physical Education fully explores the theoretical and practical issues faced by...
Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Geography and Social Justice in the Classroom
Series: Routledge Research in Education
The rise of critical discourses in the discipline of geography has opened up new avenues for social justice. Geography and Social Justice in the Classroom brings together contemporary research in geography and fresh thinking about geography’s place in the social studies curriculum. The book’s main...
Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Issues, Reflections, and Ways Forward
Series: Teaching and Learning in Science Series
How can curriculum integration of school science with the related disciplines of technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) enhance students’ skills and their ability to link what they learn in school with the world outside the classroom? Featuring actual case studies of teachers’ attempts to...
Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education
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
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Multimodal Pedagogies in Diverse Classrooms
Representation, Rights and Resources
Multimodal Pedagogies in Diverse Classrooms examines how the classroom can become a democratic space founded on the integration of different histories, modes of representation, feelings, languages and discourses, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the connection between multimodality...
Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
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The Routledge International Handbook of Religious Education
Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education
How and what to teach about religion is controversial in every country. The Routledge International Handbook of Religious Education is the first book to comprehensively address the range of ways that major countries around the world teach religion in public and private educational institutions. It...
Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Science Learning, Science Teaching
3rd Edition
Now fully updated in its third edition, Science Learning, Science Teaching offers an accessible, practical guide to creative classroom teaching and a comprehensive introduction to contemporary issues in science education. Aiming to encourage and assist professionals with the process of reflection...
Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
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Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age is for all those interested in considering the impact of emerging digital technologies on teaching and learning. It explores the concept of a digital age and perspectives of knowledge, pedagogy and practice within a digital context. By examining teaching...
Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Teaching and Learning
Pedagogy, Curriculum and Culture, 2nd Edition
Teaching and Learning: Pedagogy, Curriculum and Culture is designed to share important theory with readers in an accessible but sophisticated way. It offers an overview of the key issues and dominant theories of teaching and learning as they impact upon the practice of education professionals in...
Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Teaching as a Design Science
Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology
Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the twenty-first century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now a design science. Like other design...
Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Virtual Literacies
Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People
Series: Routledge Research in Education
The growth of interest in virtual worlds and other online spaces for children and young people raises important issues for literacy educators and researchers. This book is a timely and much-needed collection of current research in the area. It provides a synthesis of knowledge and understanding and...
Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Issues, Reflections, and Ways Forward
Series: Teaching and Learning in Science Series
How can curriculum integration of school science with the related disciplines of technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) enhance students’ skills and their ability to link what they learn in school with the world outside the classroom? Featuring actual case studies of teachers’ attempts to...
Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Problematizing Public Pedagogy
The term ‘public pedagogy’ is given a variety of definitions and meanings by those who employ it. It is often used without adequately explicating its meaning, its context, or its location within differing and contested articulations of the construct. Problematizing Public Pedagogy brings together...
To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge
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Transnational Migration and Lifelong Learning
Global Issues and Perspectives
Economic globalization, modern transportation, and advanced communication technologies have greatly enhanced the mobility of people across national boundaries. The resulting demographic, social, and cultural changes create new opportunities for development as well as new challenges for lifelong...
Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Beauty and Education
Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
Beauty is something we value instinctively. We find it in art and in nature, in words, images and ideas, seeking it through our senses and through our intellect, in others and in ourselves. This book seeks to re-awaken educators to the power of beauty as an educational concept, to its relevance for...
Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge
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Beyond Learning by Doing
Theoretical Currents in Experiential Education
What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents. As an increasingly popular pedagogical...
Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Debates in Citizenship Education
Series: Debates in Subject Teaching
What are the key issues in Citizenship Education today? Debates in Citizenship Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with and reflect on some of the key topics, concepts and debates that they will have to address throughout their career. It places the specialist field of...
Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
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EcoJustice Education
Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
"Authentic hope is the gift Rebecca Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci offer readers of EcoJustice Education…. We learn what it means to recover the ancient arts and skills of cultivating commons, common sense, and community collaborations in our hard times." Madhu Suri Prakash,...
Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Equity and Difference in Physical Education, Youth Sport and Health
A Narrative Approach
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
Issues of equity remain an essential theme throughout the study and practice of physical education (PE), youth sport and health. This important new book confronts and illuminates issues of equity and difference through the innovative use of narrative method, telling stories of difference that...
Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
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From ‘Science in the Making’ to Understanding the Nature of Science
An Overview for Science Educators
The Nature of Science is highly topical among science teacher educators and researchers. Increasingly, it is a mandated topic in state curriculum documents. This book draws together recent research on Nature of Science studies within a historical and philosophical framework suitable for...
Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Higher Education for Sustainability
Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum
Student and employer demand, high-level institutional commitment, and faculty interest are inspiring the integration of sustainability oriented themes into higher education curricula and research agendas. Moving toward sustainability calls for shifts in practice such as interdisciplinary...
Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Language and Learning in the Digital Age
In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by today’s digital media, forces that are transforming language and learning for good and ill. They argue that the role of oral language is almost always entirely...
Published January 27th 2011 by Routledge
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Learning in School-University Partnership
Sociocultural Perspectives
This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes – school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning – have both...
Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Learning Outside the Classroom
Theory and Guidelines for Practice
Learning Outside the Classroom outlines theory and practice that will enable and encourage teachers to systematically and progressively incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into their daily teaching activities in a wide variety of environments and with diverse populations of pupils...
Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
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Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend...
Published February 1st 2010 by Routledge
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Principles for Effective Pedagogy
International Responses to Evidence from the UK Teaching & Learning Research Programme
The UK Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) worked for ten years to improve outcomes for learners in schools and other sectors through high quality research. One outcome of individual projects and across-Programme thematic work was the development of ten ‘evidence-informed’ principles...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
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The Routledge Companion to Education
Who are the key thinkers in education? What are the hot topics in education? Where will education go from here? The Routledge Companion to Education presents the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide available to the key theories, themes and topics in education. Forty specially commissioned chapters...
Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
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The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning
Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education
The concept of creative learning extends far beyond Arts-based learning or the development of individual creativity. It covers a range of processes and initiatives throughout the world that share common values, systems and practices aimed at making learning more creative. This applies at individual...
Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge
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The Routledge International Handbook of Learning
Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education
As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Science, Society and Sustainability
Education and Empowerment for an Uncertain World
Series: Routledge Research in Education
Recent work in science and technological studies has provided a clearer understanding of the way in which science functions in society and the interconnectedness among different strands of science, policy, economy and environment. It is well acknowledged that a different way of thinking is required...
Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
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Teaching, Learning and Education in Late Modernity
The Selected Works of Peter Jarvis
Series: World Library of Educationalists
Professor Peter Jarvis has spent over 30 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. He has contributed well over 30 books and 200 papers and chapters in books on learning theory, adult education and learning, continuing professional education,...
Published October 2nd 2011 by Routledge
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The Textbook as Discourse
Sociocultural Dimensions of American Schoolbooks
The central assumption of The Textbook as Discourse is this: interpreted in the flow of history, textbooks can provide important insights into the nature and meaning of a culture and the social and political discourses in which it is engaged. This book is about the social, political and cultural...
Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
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Understanding Pedagogy
Developing a Critical Approach to Teaching and Learning
What is meant by pedagogy? How does our conception of pedagogy inform good teaching and learning? Pedagogy is a wide-ranging concept of which student and practising teachers need to have an understanding, yet there remain many ambiguities about what the term means, and how it informs learning in...
To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Routledge
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What’s So Important About Music Education?
Series: Routledge Research in Education
What’s So Important About Music Education? presents a new philosophy of music education for the United States, rooted in history and current perspectives from ethnomusicology. J. Scott Goble explores the societal effects of the nation's foundations in democracy and capitalism, the constitutional...
Published January 3rd 2012 by Routledge
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Workplace Learning in Physical Education
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional learning. Using stories and narratives from...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Writing Voices
Creating Communities of Writers
The perspectives of children, teachers and professional writers are often absent in the pedagogy of writing. Writing Voices: Creating Communities of Writers responds to such silent voices and offers a text which not only stretches across primary and secondary practice, but also gives expression to...
Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Children, their World, their Education
Final Report and Recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review
Children, their World, their Education is the definitive text for students, teachers, researchers, educational leaders and all who are interested in primary education. As the culmination of the Cambridge Primary Review, the most comprehensive enquiry into English primary education for half a...
Published October 13th 2009 by Routledge
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The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys
The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is the outcome of the Cambridge Primary Review – England’s biggest enquiry into primary education for over forty years. Fully independent of government, it was launched in 2006 to investigate the condition and future of primary education...
Published October 13th 2009 by Routledge