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  1. Educating for Diversity and Social Justice

    By Amanda Keddie

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Educating for Diversity and Social Justice foregrounds the personal stories of educators who are engaging the space of schooling as a site of possibility for realizing the goals of social justice. It is a book inspired by a vision of education as a practice of freedom where young people –...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge

  2. 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

  3. Education, Welfare, and the Knowledge Economy

    By Manuel Souto-Otero

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book throws new light on the evolving relationship between education and welfare in the context of the knowledge economy. It analyses complex political, economic and cultural processes to look at the role of public policy in shaping levels of access to education in advanced post-industrialised...

    To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge

  4. Family, Community, and Higher Education

    Edited by Toby S. Jenkins

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book explores social topics and experiences that illustrate the various ways in which the family unit influences and impacts college students. In the text, the authors not only explore family memories, but also challenge the traditional lack of inclusion and appreciation for “family” as...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and Human Development

    Exploring Time, Mediation and Collectivity in Contemporary Schools

    By Michalis Kontopodis

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    In most Western developed countries, adult life is increasingly organized on the basis of short-term work contracts and reduced social security funds. In this context it seems that producing efficient job-seekers and employees becomes the main aim of educational programs for the next generation....

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

  6. The Politics of Knowledge in Education

    By Elizabeth Rata

    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...

    Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge

  7. The Politics of Teacher Professional Development

    Policy, Research and Practice

    By Ian Hardy

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    The Politics of Teacher Professional Development: Policy, Research and Practice provides innovative insights into teachers’ continuing development and learning in contemporary western contexts. Rather than providing a list of "how-tos" and "must dos," this volume is premised on the understanding...

    Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy

    By Bronwyn Williams, Amy Zenger

    Series: Routledge Research in Literacy

    Movies are filled with scenes of people of all ages, sexes, races, and social classes reading and writing in widely varied contexts and purposes. Yet these scenes go largely unnoticed, despite the fact that these images recreate and reinforce pervasive concepts and perceptions of literacy. This...

    Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge

  9. The Resegregation of Schools

    Education and Race in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Jamel K. Donnor, Adrienne Dixson

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Access to a quality education remains the primary mechanism for improving one’s life chances in the United States, and for children of color, a “good education” is particularly linked to their individual and collective well-being. Despite the popular perception that America is in a “post-racial”...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Working-Class Minority Students' Routes to Higher Education

    By Roberta Espinoza

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    While stories of working-class and minority students overcoming obstacles to attend and graduate from college tend to emphasize the individualistic and meritocratic aspect, this book - based in extensive empirical study of American high school classrooms, and in theories of social and cultural...

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

  11. Boys and Their Schooling

    The Experience of Becoming Someone Else

    By John Whelen

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book presents an ethnographic study of the experiences of teenage boys in an Australian high school. It follows a group of thirteen to fifteen year olds over a period of more than two years, and seeks to understand why so many boys say they hate school yet enjoy being with...

    Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge

  12. Contesting Neoliberal Education

    Public Resistance and Collective Advance

    Edited by Dave Hill

    Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

    Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of new public managerialism, attacked the rights and conditions of education workers, and resulted in a loss of democracy, critique and...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge

  13. Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War

    Are Schools Part of the Solution or the Problem?

    Edited by Paul R. Carr, Brad J. Porfilio

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international...

    Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge

  14. Education and Sustainability

    Learning Across the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Divide

    By Seonaigh MacPherson

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity. Derived from findings from a comparative eco-linguistic study of intergenerational language, culture, and education change in the Tibetan...

    Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge

  15. 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

  16. Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling

    The Influence of Male Teachers

    By Wayne Martino, Goli Rezai-Rashti

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book provides an illuminating account of teachers’ own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns about male teacher shortage and offers a critique of the call for more male role models in...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge

  17. Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences

    Edited by Dave Hill, Ravi Kumar

    Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

    In this groundbreaking critique of neoliberalism in schooling and education, an international cast of education policy analysts, educational activists and scholars deftly analyze the ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of schooling and education. &...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge

  18. 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

  19. Islamic Education and Indoctrination

    The Case in Indonesia

    By Charlene Tan

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Islamic schools, especially madrasahs, have been viewed as sites of indoctrination for Muslim students and militants. Some educators and parents in the United States have also regarded introductory courses on Islam in some public schools as indoctrinatory. But what do we mean by "indoctrination"?...

    Published March 21st 2011 by Routledge

  20. Minority Students in East Asia

    Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses

    Edited by JoAnn Phillion, Ming Tak Hue, Yuxiang Wang

    Series: Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia

    In Minority Students in East Asia: Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses authors discuss their research on minority students’ schooling (elementary to higher education) in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Minority students’ educational issues are...

    Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge

  21. The Politics of Education

    Challenging Multiculturalism

    Edited by Christos Kassimeris, Marios Vryonides

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Education is a thoroughly political enterprise. The process of determining the purpose of education has always been highly controversial. It has resulted in disputes that have not only divided people philosophically, but also on the basis of religion, region, class, race, and ethnicity. As a result...

    Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. Schooling and the Making of Citizens in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Comparative Visions

    Edited by Daniel Tröhler, Thomas S. Popkewitz, David F. Labaree

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across four continents during the period...

    Published March 21st 2011 by Routledge

  25. Science, Society and Sustainability

    Education and Empowerment for an Uncertain World

    Edited by Donald Gray, Laura Colucci-Gray, Elena Camino

    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

  26. Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University

    Edited by Joyce E. Canaan, Wesley Shumar

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education (HE) institutions and subjects in a number of Northern nations, as well as how these transitions are indicative of the wider shift from the welfare to the market state. The university...

    Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge

  27. Universities and Global Diversity

    Preparing Educators for Tomorrow

    Edited by Beverly Lindsay, Wanda J. Blanchett

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have...

    Published February 15th 2011 by Routledge

  28. Whiteness and Teacher Education

    By Edie White

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Due to the rise of internet use and a move toward globalization, it may be assumed that white millennial college students are more accepting of cultural diversity and are more likely to be advocates for social justice than generations that have come before them. This project shows that while many...

    Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge

  29. Critical Issues in Peace and Education

    Edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas, Bryan Wright

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This collection asks theorists and educational practitioners from around the world influenced by the schools of feminist pedagogy, critical pedagogy, anti-racist or postcolonial pedagogy, and gay and lesbian pedagogy to reflect upon the possibilities of articulating a "curriculum of difference"...

    Published November 8th 2010 by Routledge

  30. Education Policy, Space and the City

    Markets and the (In)visibility of Race

    By Kalervo N. Gulson

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city. Gulson uses an innovative and critical spatial approach to explore how the processes and practices of neoliberal education...

    Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge

  31. Education, Professionalization and Social Representations

    On the Transformation of Social Knowledge

    Edited by Mohamed Chaib, Berth Danermark, Staffan Selander

    Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

    This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and professional formation. The chapters of this edited collection reflect different theoretical and empirical approaches to that form of common-sense...

    Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge

  32. Emerging Teachers and Globalisation

    By Gerry Czerniawski

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    While globalization has had tremendous influence on the world of teaching, national cultural traditions continue to influence systems of schooling, national curricula, and teachers’ values and classroom practices. This book explores the effects of globalisation on teachers through an examination of...

    Published July 19th 2010 by Routledge

  33. Equity and Excellence in Education

    Towards Maximal Learning Opportunities for All Students

    Edited by Kris Van den Branden, Piet Van Avermaet, Mieke Van Houtte

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Throughout the world, equity and excellence in education is a major issue of concern. International comparative studies such as those carried out by OECD (PISA) have launched a worldwide debate on the effectiveness of educational systems (macro level), schools (meso level) and teachers (micro level...

    Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge

  34. The Gates Foundation and the Future of US “Public” Schools

    Edited by Philip E. Kovacs

    Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

    There has been much public praise for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s efforts to reform public education. However, few scholars have engaged substantively and critically with the organization’s work. While the Gates Foundation is the single largest supporter by far of "choice" initiatives...

    Published October 20th 2010 by Routledge

  35. Global Pathways to Abolishing Physical Punishment

    Realizing Children’s Rights

    Edited by Joan E. Durrant, Anne B. Smith

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book describes the unfolding of a global phenomenon: the legal prohibition of physical punishment of children. Until thirty years ago, this near-universal practice was considered appropriate, necessary and a parental right. But a paradigm shift in conceptions of childhood has led to a...

    Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge

  36. Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen

    Dilemmas and Directions for Civics and Citizenship Education

    Edited by Alan Reid, Judith Gill, Alan Sears

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in civics and citizenship education. There have been unprecedented developments in citizenship education taking place in schools, adult education centers, or in the less formally structured spaces of media images and commentary around the world....

    Published February 2nd 2010 by Routledge

  37. Intercultural and Multicultural Education

    Enhancing Global Interconnectedness

    Edited by Carl A. Grant, Agostino Portera

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    By addressing intercultural and multicultural education in a global context, this volume brings together the dynamic discussions and lively debate of intercultural and multicultural education taking place across the world. Not content with discussion of theory or practice at the expense of the...

    Published July 18th 2010 by Routledge

  38. Social Studies as New Literacies in a Global Society

    Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom

    By Mark Baildon, James S. Damico

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "new times" – prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared to...

    Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge

  39. Education and Climate Change

    Living and Learning in Interesting Times

    Edited by Fumiyo Kagawa, David Selby

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    There is widespread consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is happening and that abrupt and irreversible impacts are already set in motion. What part does education have to play in helping alleviate rampant climate change and in mitigating its worst effects?&...

    Published October 6th 2009 by Routledge

  40. 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 November 23rd 2009 by Routledge

  41. Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education

    Edited by Patrick Alan Danaher, Máirín Kenny, Judith Remy Leder

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education presents international accounts of approaches to educating mobile communities such as circus and fairground people, herders, hunters, Roma and Travellers. The chapters focus on three key dimensions of educational change: the client group moving from school...

    Published March 31st 2009 by Routledge

  42. The WTO and the University

    Globalization, GATS, and American Higher Education

    By Roberta Malee Bassett

    Series: Studies in Higher Education

    By and large, the debate about the merits of including higher education services within free trade policies has occurred outside of the United States, even though the U.S. Office of the Trade Representative has specifically included higher education services in its March 2003 negotiating offer to...

    Published August 2nd 2009 by Routledge