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  1. 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

  2. Considering Trilingual Education

    By Kathryn Henn-Reinke

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Based in case studies conducted in the US, Europe, and Latin America, this book explores the feasibility and benefits of trilingual/ multilingual education in the United States. Currently, there are few programs in the country of this nature, as educators tend to conclude that English-language...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Education for Civic and Political Participation

    A Critical Approach

    Edited by Reinhold Hedtke, Tatiana Zimenkova

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Learner Autonomy and CALL Environments

    By Klaus Schwienhorst

    Series: Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning

    This volume brings together two prominent strands in second language acquisition theory and research: the concept of learner autonomy and computer-assisted language learning (CALL). Learner autonomy supports learners in becoming more reflective and communicative and in experimenting with language...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Teacher Development in Higher Education

    Existing Programs, Program Impact, and Future Trends

    Edited by Eszter Simon, Gabriela Pleschová

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Concerns about the quality of teaching and learning in higher education have given rise to teacher development programs and centers around the world. This book investigates the challenges and complexities of creating instructional development programs for present and future academics. Using case...

    Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Teacher Training and the Education of Black Children

    Bringing Color into Difference

    By Uvanney Maylor

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book is designed to challenge dominant educational discourses on the underachievement of Black children and to engender new understandings in initial teacher education (ITE) about Black children's education and achievement. Based in empirical case study work and theoretical insights drawn from...

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge

  7. Virtual Literacies

    Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People

    Edited by Guy Merchant, Julia Gillen, Jackie Marsh, Julia Davies

    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

  8. Geography and Social Justice in the Classroom

    Edited by Todd W. Kenreich

    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

  9. Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms

    Mathematics in the Flesh

    By Wolff-Michael Roth

    Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

    This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they...

    Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge

  10. Participation, Facilitation, and Mediation

    Children and Young People in Their Social Contexts

    Edited by Claudio Baraldi, Vittorio Iervese

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Traditionally, children have been considered from a primarily developmental perspective, in need of education in order to achieve autonomy, growth, and eventually adulthood. Childhood studies have recently underlined an alternate way to look at children, starting from the consideration that...

    Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  11. Pedagogy of Multiliteracies

    Rewriting Goldilocks

    By Heather Lotherington

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Based on case studies from public schools in Toronto, Canada, this book chronicles an inspiring five-year journey to develop thinking about and teaching literacy for the 21st century. The research, which was classroom-based and developed by public school teachers in collaboration with university...

    Published July 12th 2011 by Routledge

  12. Picturebooks, Pedagogy and Philosophy

    By Joanna Haynes, Karin Murris

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Contemporary picturebooks open up spaces for philosophical dialogues between people of all ages. As works of art, picturebooks offer unique opportunities to explore ideas and to create meaning collaboratively. This book considers censorship of certain well-known picturebooks, challenging the...

    Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge

  13. Teacher Learning That Matters

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Mary Kooy, Klaas van Veen

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    In the continuing global call for educational reforms and change, the contributors in this edited collection address the critical issue of teacher learning from diverse national contexts and perspectives. They define "teacher learning that matters" as it shapes and directs pedagogical practices...

    Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge

  14. Children’s Drawing and Writing

    The Remarkable in the Unremarkable

    By Diane Mavers

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Children’s everyday drawing and writing are paradoxical: charmingly engaging, yet seemingly unremarkable in their ordinariness. This book takes a very close look at what passes by largely unnoticed at home and in school: copying, texts fleetingly present then gone, a picture drawn after the valued...

    Published November 29th 2010 by Routledge

  15. 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

  16. Teaching and Learning with Technology

    Beyond Constructivism

    Edited by Concetta M. Stewart, Catherine C. Schifter, Melissa E. Markaridian Selverian

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Today, new media is both augmenting and extending the traditional classroom with a variety of technology-based tools available to both students and faculty, and has created "new" virtual classrooms for anywhere, anytime availability to education. Despite the enormous potential for technology to...

    Published June 7th 2010 by Routledge

  17. The Social Psychology of the Classroom

    By Elisha Babad

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Teachers often find that their training has not provided them with sufficient knowledge and understanding about underlying social forces and processes in their classrooms. This new book addresses this gap by focusing on the social psychology of the classroom, providing the relevant social...

    Published March 17th 2010 by Routledge

  18. WorldCALL

    International Perspectives on Computer-Assisted Language Learning

    Edited by Mike Levy, Françoise Blin, Claire Bradin Siskin, Osamu Takeuchi

    Series: Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning

    As technological innovation continues to affect language pedagogy, there is an increasing demand for information, exemplars, analysis and guidance. This edited volume focuses on international perspectives in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in all of its forms, including Technology...

    Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge

  19. Changing Language Education Through CALL

    Edited by Randall P. Donaldson, Margaret A. Haggstrom

    Series: Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning

    The last twenty years has seen a huge evolution in approaches to language-learning, due to new technology as well changing theories on how to best teach languages. Recognising the key relationship between research, practice and program development, Changing Language Education Through CALL is an...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge

  20. Perspectives on Supported Collaborative Teacher Inquiry

    Edited by David Slavit, Tamara Holmlund Nelson, Anne Kennedy

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Supported collaborative teacher inquiry (SCTI) describes the process of professional development in which teacher teams build collaborative structures for the purpose of inquiring into aspects of their own instructional practice. Professional development performed collaboratively and grounded in "...

    Published February 10th 2009 by Routledge

  21. The Social Psychology of the Classroom

    By Elisha Babad

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Teachers often find that their training has not provided them with sufficient knowledge and understanding about underlying social forces and processes in their classrooms. This new book addresses this gap by focusing on the social psychology of the classroom, providing the relevant social...

    Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge