Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Liquid Learning and Educational Work

Boundary politics in global transitions

By Terri Seddon

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

A History of Higher Education Exchange

China and America

By Teresa Bevis

Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

Weakened by two Opium Wars and a succession of internal rebellions in the mid-1800s, China’s imperial leaders made a historic decision—to break a tradition of isolation and seek education outside the homeland’s borders. In time, an acquisition of science and technology from the...

To Be Published September 1st 2013 by Routledge

Life and Learning of Korean Artists and Craftsmen

Rhizoactivity

By Dae Joong Kang

Series: Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

This book brings out the need for lifelong learning theory and explores how it is possible from a postmodern perspective. The book uses life history that has gained its popularity in social science research to overcome the dichotomy between individual and society or between agency and structure....

To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge

Women, War, Violence and Learning

Edited by Shahrzad Mojab

This anthology provides fresh theorization of gendered dimensions of learning, war, and violence, with a view to offering new insights on the impact of violence on women’s learning and well being. The collection is an important contribution to emerging interdisciplinary approaches to the role and...

Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge

Changing Spaces of Education

New Perspectives on the Nature of Learning

Edited by Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller, Johanna Waters

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

Developing Narrative Theory

Life Histories and Personal Representation

By Ivor F. Goodson

We live in an age of narrative: life stories are a crucial ingredient in what makes us human and, in turn, what kind of human they make us. In recent years, narrative analysis has grown and is used across many areas of research. Interest in this rapidly developing approach now requires the firm...

Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge

Reviewing Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences

Edited by Audrey A. Trainor, Elizabeth Graue

Foundational characteristics of qualitative research include flexibility, variation in application, critique, and innovation all of which derive from its subjective roots in interpretivism and constructivism. While the scholars who design qualitative research projects envision these qualities as...

Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge

Emerging Approaches to Educational Research

Tracing the Socio-Material

By Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards, Peter Sawchuk

The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either...

Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge

Learning Futures

Education, Technology and Social Change

By Keri Facer

In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable,...

Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge

Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research

Politics, languages and responsibilities

Edited by Tara Fenwick, Lesley Farrell

How can educational research have more impact? What processes of knowledge exchange are most effective for increasing the uses of research results? How can research-produced knowledge be better ‘mobilized’ among users such as practicing educators, policy makers, and the public communities? These...

Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge

Transnational Education

Issues and Trends in Offshore Higher Education

By Grant McBurnie, Christopher Ziguras

While the international mobility of students is a well-established feature of higher education, the international mobility of institutions and courses on a large scale is a more novel phenomenon. Transnational education is at the leading-edge of the most fundamental changes taking place in higher...

Published May 16th 2011 by Routledge

Collaboration in Education

Edited by Judith J. Slater, Ruth Ravid

Series: Routledge Research in Education

Collaboration in Education establishes a needed framework for school/university collaborations that will be critical for others wishing to reproduce and participate in these partnerships. The contributors explore the elements necessary for sustainable collaboration in order to provide a frame...

Published February 2nd 2010 by Routledge

Gender Inclusive Engineering Education

By Julie Mills, Mary Elizabeth Ayre, Judith Gill

Series: Routledge Research in Education

Women continue to comprise a small minority of students in engineering education and subsequent employment, despite the numerous initiatives over the past 25 years to attract and retain more women in engineering. This book demonstrates the ways in which traditional engineering education has not...

Published March 17th 2010 by Routledge

Knowledge Power

Interdisciplinary Education for a Complex World

By Alan Wilson

Success in the twenty-first century demands knowledge power – for individuals, organisations, cities, regions and countries. This book offers a map showing the structure of the knowledge space in a contemporary context. The routes beyond traditional disciplines are charted, in part based on the...

Published February 9th 2010 by Routledge

The Marketisation of Higher Education and the Student as Consumer

Edited by Mike Molesworth, Richard Scullion, Elizabeth Nixon

Until recently government policy in the UK has encouraged an expansion of Higher Education to increase participation and with an express aim of creating a more educated workforce. This expansion has led to competition between Higher Education institutions, with students increasingly positioned as...

Published September 27th 2010 by Routledge

The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Edited by Gregory R. Hancock, Ralph O. Mueller

The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences is designed for evaluators of research manuscripts and proposals in the social and behavioral sciences, and beyond. Its thirty-one uniquely structured chapters cover both traditional and emerging methods of quantitative data...

Published February 11th 2010 by Routledge

An Introduction to Career Learning & Development 11-19

Perspectives, Practice and Possibilities

By Anthony Barnes, Barbara Bassot, Anne Chant

An Introduction to Career Learning and Development 11-19 is an indispensible source of support and guidance for all those who need to know why and how career learning and development should be planned, developed and delivered effectively to meet the needs of young people. It is a comprehensive...

Published October 28th 2010 by Routledge