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1. Resourcing Early Learners

   New Networks, New Actors

   By Sue Nichols, Jennifer Rowsell, Helen Nixon, Sophia Rainbird

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The landscape of early childhood education and care is changing. Governments world-wide are assuming increasing authority in relation to child-rearing in the years before school entry, beyond the traditional role in assisting parents to do the best they can by their children. As part of a social...

   Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Commitment, Character, and Citizenship

   Religious Education in Liberal Democracy

   Edited by Hanan A. Alexander, Ayman K. Agbaria

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   As liberal democracies include increasingly diverse and multifaceted populations, the longstanding debate about the role of the state in religious education and the place of religion in public life seems imperative now more than ever. The maintenance of religious schools and the planning of...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War

   Are Schools Part of the Solution or the Problem?

   Edited by Paul R. Carr, Brad J. Porfilio

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Politics of Teacher Professional Development

   Policy, Research and Practice

   By Ian Hardy

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The Politics of Teacher Professional Development: Policy, Research and Practice provides innovative insights into teachers’ continuing development and learning in contemporary western contexts. Rather than providing a list of "how-tos" and "must dos," this volume is premised on the understanding...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Politics of Knowledge in Education

   By Elizabeth Rata

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book explores the decline of the teaching of epistemic, conceptual knowledge in schools, its replacement with everyday social knowledge, and its relation to changes in the division of labor within the global economy. It argues that the emphasis on social knowledge in postmodern and social...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Participation, Facilitation, and Mediation

   Children and Young People in Their Social Contexts

   Edited by Claudio Baraldi, Vittorio Iervese

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Traditionally, children have been considered from a primarily developmental perspective, in need of education in order to achieve autonomy, growth, and eventually adulthood. Childhood studies have recently underlined an alternate way to look at children, starting from the consideration that...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context

   Edited by Alister Cumming

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book presents results from a four-year project addressing the central question: What factors, challenges, and contexts contribute to and constrain literacy achievement among at-risk adolescent learners with culturally diverse backgrounds? Researchers consider the importance of several,...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
9. Emergent Computer Literacy

   A Developmental Perspective

   By Helen Mele Robinson

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The United States is currently grappling with how to prepare our students to be computer literate citizens in the competitive technological world we live in. Understanding how children develop computer knowledge, and the ways that adults are able to guide their computer learning experiences, is a...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Considering Trilingual Education

    By Kathryn Henn-Reinke

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Based in case studies conducted in the US, Europe, and Latin America, this book explores the feasibility and benefits of trilingual/ multilingual education in the United States. Currently, there are few programs in the country of this nature, as educators tend to conclude that English-language...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge