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Education Research On Trial
Policy Reform and the Call for Scientific Rigor
It is not an exaggeration to say that the field of education has been under attack. Many, particularly in Washington, D.C., have proclaimed the research…
read moreNovember 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-98989-3 (Routledge)

Race, Gender and Educational Desire
Why black women succeed and fail
'This book is a great genealogy of black women's unrecognised contributions within both education and the wide social context. I think it constitutes an important…
read moreNovember 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44876-5 (Routledge)

Education and Neoliberal Globalization
This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of…
read moreNovember 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99118-6 (Routledge)
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Sexual Identities in English Language Education
Classroom Conversations
What pedagogic challenges and opportunities arise as gay, lesbian, and queer themes and perspectives become an increasingly visible part of English language classes within a…
read moreOctober 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-6368-0 (Routledge)
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Educating the Gendered Citizen
sociological engagements with national and global agendas
Globalisation and global human rights are the two major forces in the twenty first century which are likely to shape the sort of learner citizen…
read moreSeptember 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40806-6 (Routledge)

The Routledge International Companion to Gifted Education
The Routledge International Companion to Gifted Education is a ground-breaking collection of fully-referenced chapters written by many of the most highly-respected authorities on the subject…
read moreSeptember 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46137-5 (Routledge)
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Activist Educators
Breaking Past Limits
Taking an active stand in today's conservative educational climate can be a risky business. Given both the expectations of the profession and the challenge of…
read moreAugust 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95667-3 (Routledge)

Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University
This volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education (HE) institutions and subjects in a number of Northern nations, as well…
read moreJuly 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95672-7 (Routledge)
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Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education
In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education…
read moreJuly 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99589-4 (Routledge)
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The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
The silent ascendancy of a therapeutic ethos across the education system and into the workplace demands a book that serves as a wake up call…
read moreJune 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39701-8 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
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
To be published December 10th 2008
Handbook of Social Justice in Education
Edited by William Ayers, Therese Quinn, David Stovall
To be published December 11th 2008
Capitalist Education:: Globalisation and the Politics of Inequality
Edited by Dave Hill, Sheila Macrine, David Gabbard
To be published December 15th 2008
Feminism and 'The Schooling Scandal'
By Christine Skelton, Becky Francis
To be published December 17th 2008
Hidden Markets: The New Education Privatization
By Patricia Burch
To be published January 12th 2009
