Primary/Elementary Education Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Lifelong Engagement in Sport and Physical Activity

   Participation and Performance across the Lifespan

   Edited by Nicholas Holt, Margaret Talbot

   Series: ICSSPE Perspectives

   Sport and physical activity should now be understood as lifelong activity, beginning in childhood, and accessible to participants of all levels of ability. This book offers an overview of some of the core concerns underlying lifelong engagement in sport and physical activity, encompassing...

   Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys

   Edited by Robin Alexander, Christine Doddington, John Gray, Linda Hargreaves, Ruth Kershner

   The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is the outcome of the Cambridge Primary Review – England’s biggest enquiry into primary education for over forty years. Fully independent of government, it was launched in 2006 to investigate the condition and future of primary education...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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 March 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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 November 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Summer Learning

   Research, Policies, and Programs

   Edited by Geoffrey D. Borman, Matthew Boulay

   This book brings together up-to-date, research-based evidence concerning summer learning and provides descriptions and analyses of a range of summer school programs. The chapters present theory and data that explain both the phenomenon of summer learning loss and the potential for effective summer...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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 July 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education

   Edited by Joel E. Cohen, Martin B. Malin

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Although universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations, bilateral aid agencies, national governments, and non-profit organizations, little sustained international attention has been devoted to the purposes or goals of universal education. What is universal primary...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Educational Transitions

   Moving Stories from Around the World

   Edited by Divya Jindal-Snape

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Despite variations of educational systems, when transitions in education occur, the pedagogical challenges that teachers and pupils undergo are quite similar across the globe. Transitions are phases in which pupils, peer groups and teachers have to renegotiate and rebuild their learning environment...

   Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
9. Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday

   Edited by Jan Wright, Doune Macdonald

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Despite society’s current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children’s health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical activity in young people’s lives. In this important...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
10. Researching Primary Education: Methods and Issues

    Edited by Rosemary Webb

    This book increases understanding of, and provides inspiration for, the conduct of research in primary/elementary education. It discusses and evaluates the selection and development of research methods used for their own innovatory projects. They explore the relationship between their choice of...

    Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge