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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen

    Dilemmas and Directions for Civics and Citizenship Education

    Edited by Alan Reid, Judith Gill, Alan Sears

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in civics and citizenship education. There have been unprecedented developments in citizenship education taking place in schools, adult education centers, or in the less formally structured spaces of media images and commentary around the world....

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Language Teaching Through the Ages

    By Garon Wheeler

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Konrad Koerner, a leading historian of linguistics, has long said that an academic field cannot be considered to have matured until it has history as one of its subfields. The history of linguistics is a growing area, having come into its own in the 1960s, especially after Noam Chomsky looked for...

    Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Intercultural and Multicultural Education

    Enhancing Global Interconnectedness

    Edited by Carl A. Grant, Agostino Portera

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    By addressing intercultural and multicultural education in a global context, this volume brings together the dynamic discussions and lively debate of intercultural and multicultural education taking place across the world. Not content with discussion of theory or practice at the expense of the...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Education for Civic and Political Participation

    A Critical Approach

    Edited by Reinhold Hedtke, Tatiana Zimenkova

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge