Teachers & Teacher Education Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Teacher Education, the University and the Schools

   Papers for Harry Judge

   Edited by David Phillips

   Using the highly successful Oxford model of teacher training and the widely respected work in teacher education of Harry Judge, a number of prominent educationists from around the world contribute chapters on a range of topics relating to the interface between the university and the schools in the...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Inhabiting the Borders

   Foreign Language Faculty in American Colleges and Universities

   By Robin Matross Helms

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession

   Faculty Culture at For-Profit Colleges and Universities

   By Vicente M. Lechuga

   The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expansion of the proprietary higher education sector has lead to fundamental questions regarding the purpose and function of FPCUs. As new technologies...

   Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge
6. Developing Research in Teacher Education

   Edited by Ian Menter, Jean Murray

   Good teacher education, informed by relevant research, is judged by policy makers and practitioners alike to be central to increasing the quality of schooling in many countries of the world. Yet, in the UK, research on teacher education is often acknowledged to be less well developed than other...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. The Professional Development of Teacher Educators

   Edited by Tony Bates, Anja Swennen, Ken Jones

   This book makes a significant contribution to a hitherto much neglected area. The book brings together a wide range of papers on a scale rarely seen with a geographic spread that enhances our understanding of the complex journey undertaken by those who aspire to become teachers of teachers. The...

   Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Learning in School-University Partnership

   Sociocultural Perspectives

   By Amy B.M. Tsui, Gwyn Edwards, Fran Lopez-Real, Tammy Kwan, Doris Law, Philip Stimpson, Rosina Tang, Albert Wong

   This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes – school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning – have both...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. What’s So Important About Music Education?

    By J. Scott Goble

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    What’s So Important About Music Education? presents a new philosophy of music education for the United States, rooted in history and current perspectives from ethnomusicology. J. Scott Goble explores the societal effects of the nation's foundations in democracy and capitalism, the constitutional...

    Published January 3rd 2012 by Routledge