Educational Foundations

Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum

Perspectives of Developing and Transitional Countries

Edited by Patti McGill Peterson

Comparative research on higher education in developing and transitional countries is often focused on such issues as access, finance, student mobility and the impact of globalization, but there has been little attention to curriculum and the forces that shape it. Confronting Challenges to the...

Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge

Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries

Edited by Carlo Raffo, Alan Dyson, Helen Gunter, Dave Hall, Lisa Jones, Afroditi Kalambouka

Series: Routledge Research in Education

For the first time, researchers, policymakers and practitioners across the world will have access to a comprehensive mapping of research evidence and policy strategies about education and poverty in affluent countries. Although there is widespread agreement that poverty and poor educational...

Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge

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 16th 2012 by Routledge

International Education and Development

A narrative approach

By David Stephens

International Education and Development provides an innovative and comprehensive critique of developments to improve schooling in the global South. Drawing on a wide range of international contexts, the book is divided into two parts: the first part offers a theoretical critique of the field; the...

To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge

Paying the Professoriate

A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts

Edited by Philip Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Maria Yudkevich, Gregory Androushchak, Iván Pacheco

How are professors paid? Can the "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? Paying the Professoriate examines these questions and provides key...

Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge

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

Nomads, Development and the Challenges of Education

By Caroline Dyer

Series: Education, Poverty and International Development

Current paradigms of ‘development’ generally serve nomadic groups poorly: their visibility in policy processes is minimal, and their mobility is usually constructed by the powerful as a ‘problem’, rather than as a rational livelihood strategy. Increasingly damaged eco-systems, shrinkage of natural...

To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

Education Outcomes and Poverty

A Reassessment

Edited by Christopher Colclough

Series: Education, Poverty and International Development

What do we know about the outcomes of education in developing countries? Where are the gaps in our knowledge, and why are they important to fill? What are the policy challenges that underlie these knowledge gaps, and how can education best contribute to eliminating the problem of widespread poverty...

Published June 10th 2012 by Routledge

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

Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development

A Global Analysis

Edited by Bob Moon

Series: Education, Poverty and International Development

In developing countries across the world, qualified teachers are a rarity, with thousands of untrained adults taking over the role and millions of children having no access to schooling at all. The supply of high-quality teachers is falling behind: poor status, low salaries and inadequate working...

Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge

The Developing World and State Education

Neoliberal Depredation and Egalitarian Alternatives

Edited by Dave Hill, Ellen Rosskam

Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World, with social repercussions that have affected the salaries of teachers, the number and type of potential students, the availability of education, the cost of education, and more. This edited collection argues...

Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge

Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education

Edited by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza

Series: Routledge Research in Education

This volume bridges the gap between contemporary theoretical debates and educational policies and practices. It applies postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis that attempts to engage with and go beyond essentialism, ethno- and euro-centrisms through a critical examination of contemporary...

Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge

Poverty and Literacy

Edited by Nathalis Wamba

There is a mutual dependence between poverty and academic achievement, creative pedagogies for low-income pupils, school models that ‘beat the odds’, and the resiliency of low-income families dedicated to the academic success of their children. This book examines the connection between poverty and...

Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge

The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education

Diminishing Democracy, Equity and Workers' Rights

Edited by Dave Hill

Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

Advancing a powerful critique of neoliberalized education in many of the rich countries of the world (USA, Canada, Finland, Greece, Israel, Japan, England and Wales, and others), the chapters in this book, written by an international array of acclaimed and emerging radical educators and policy...

Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge