International & Comparative Education Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols

   European Bans on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Education

   By Erica Howard

   Written in accessible language, Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols is a comprehensive analysis of a topical subject that is being widely debated across Europe. The book provides an overview of emerging case law from the European Court of Human Rights as well as from national courts and...

   Published May 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Higher Education in Southeast Asia

   Blurring Borders, Changing Balance

   By Anthony Welch

   Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia

   This is the first book to systematically chart and comparatively assess the trend towards private higher education in South East Asia. Caught between conflicting imperatives of spiralling demand, and limited resources, the balance between public and private higher education systems in South East,...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Designing History in East Asian Textbooks

   Identity Politics and Transnational Aspirations

   Edited by Gotelind Müller

   Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia

   This book analyses the efforts throughout East Asia to deploy education for purposes of political socialization, and in particular in order to shape notions of identity. The chapters also examine the trend of ‘common textbook initiatives’, which have recently emerged in East Asia with the aim of...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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 March 27th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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 March 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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 March 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning

   A Critical Perspective

   Edited by Harry Daniels, Hugh Lauder, Jill Porter

   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 March 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. Education and Development

   Edited by Roger M. Garrett

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1984, this collection represents the combined contributions to an international conference held at the University of Bristol in April 1983. In assessing the complex relationship between education and development, it covers a wide range of countries in its appraisal and presents...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. Education and development in Latin America

   By Laurence Gale

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1969, this volume presents a survey of the contemporary national education system in Latin American countries. Laurence Gale describes the uneven provision of schools for different sections of the community and the problems which arise with the racial, cultural and geographical...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Engaged University

    International Perspectives on Civic Engagement

    By David Watson, Robert Hollister, Susan E. Stroud, Elizabeth Babcock

    Series: International Studies in Higher Education

    The Engaged University is a comprehensive empirical account of the global civic engagement movement in higher education. In universities around the world, something extraordinary is underway. Mobilizing their human and intellectual resources, institutions of higher education are directly tackling...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge