Sociology of Education Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Memory and Pedagogy

   Edited by Claudia Mitchell, Teresa Strong-Wilson, Kathleen Pithouse, Susann Allnutt

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Memory work – the conscious remembering and study of individual and shared memories – is increasingly being acknowledged as a key pedagogical tool in working with children. Giving students opportunities and support to remember and study their selves as individuals and as communities allows them to...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Popular Education and Socialization in the Nineteenth Century

   Edited by W P McCann

   Originally published in 1977, this volume analyzes aspects of elementary schooling in the nineteenth century and the ways in which it prepared working-class children for life in industrial Britain. The book examines: The procedures and practices of different types of schools. The ideologies...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Education in Renaissance England

   Covering both formal and informal education, this volume examines Renaissance education in England and Italy, set within the relevant social, political and historical context....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. International Perspectives on Veteran Teachers

   Edited by Miriam Ben-Peretz, Gary McCulloch

   What is a veteran teacher, and how do veteran teachers contribute to schools and education? This international volume contributes to our understanding of veteran teachers with new conceptual studies and empirical research from different countries around the world. It is explores what we mean by a ‘...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. Balancing Dilemmas in Assessment and Learning in Contemporary Education

   Edited by Anton Havnes, Liz McDowell

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context. New forms of assessment are being introduced in all sectors of education and training, and the culture of assessment is shifting. The authors in this volume discuss the practice of assessment,...

   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. 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 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Class in Education

   Knowledge, Pedagogy, Subjectivity

   Edited by Deborah Kelsh, Dave Hill, Sheila Macrine

   In contemporary pedagogy, "class" has become one nomadic sign among others: it has no referent but only contingent allusions to similarly traveling signs. Class, that is, no longer explains social conflicts and antagonisms rooted in social divisions of labor, but instead portrays a cultural...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. Beyond Binaries in Education Research

   Edited by Warren Midgley, Mark A. Tyler, Patrick Alan Danaher, Alison Mander

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Beyond Binaries in Education Research explores the ethical, methodological, and social justice issues relating to conceptualizations of binary opposites in education research, particularly where one side of the dualism is perceived to be positive and the other negative. In education research these...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Educational Thought and Influence of Matthew Arnold

    By W.F. Connell

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Drawing on the great wealth of knowledge and experience of education practitioners and theorists, these volumes explore the very important relationship between education and society. These book became standard texts for actual and intending teachers. Drawing upon comparative material from Israel...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge