Sociology of Education Paperbacks

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11. Immigration, Diversity, and Education

    Edited by Elena L. Grigorenko, Ruby Takanishi

    This edited volume presents an overview of research and policy issues pertaining to children from birth to 10 who are first- and second-generation immigrants to the U.S., as well as native-born children of immigrants. The contributors offer interdisciplinary perspectives on recent developments and...

    Published October 1st 2012 by Routledge
12. Education, Religion and Society

    Essays in Honour of John M. Hull

    Edited by Dennis Bates, Gloria Durka, Friedrich Schweitzer

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Education, Religion and Society celebrates the career of Professor John Hull, a leading figure in the transformation of religious education in English and Welsh schools, and co-founder of the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values. He has also made major contributions to...

    Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
13. 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 23rd 2012 by Routledge
14. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Policy and Practice

    Decolonizing Community Contexts

    Edited by Jennifer Lavia, Michele Moore

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book provides a space in which struggles for indigenous knowledge within communities are articulated, valued, heard, and responded to. The volume takes change as its focus, yet acknowledges that the origins and significance of change are frequently found to be unsettling. Contributors explore...

    Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
15. 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 July 26th 2012 by Routledge
16. Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality in Education

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by N. Ken Shimahara, Ivan Z. Holowinsky, Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke

    Series: Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education Series

    This volume explores contemporary issues of ethnic, cultural, and national identities and their influence on the social construction of identity. These issues are analyzed from the perspective of seven nations: China, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Ukraine, Wales, and the United States. While...

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
17. 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 July 10th 2012 by Routledge
18. Dominant Beliefs and Alternative Voices

    Discourse, Belief, and Gender in American Study

    By Joan Elias Gore

    Series: RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education

    This book examines why study abroad is a marginal activity in American higher education and evaluates the role gender has played in the development and maintenance of this marginality....

    Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
19. World Yearbook of Education 2009

    Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization: Policies and Practices at Global and Local Levels

    Edited by Marilyn Fleer, Mariane Hedegaard, Jonathan Tudge

    Series: World Yearbook of Education

    The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization examines the concept of ‘childhood’ and ‘childhood development and learning’ from educational, sociological and psychological perspectives. This contributed volume seeks to explicitly provide a series of windows...

    Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
20. Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow’s Teachers

    By Hilton Kelly

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students,...

    Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge