Forthcoming Education Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Philosophy in Schools

   An Introduction for Philosophers and Teachers

   Edited by Sara Goering, Nicholas J. Shudak, Thomas E. Wartenberg

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   All of us ponder the big and enduring human questions—Who am I? Am I free? What should I do? What is good? Is there justice? Is life meaningful?—but this kind of philosophical interrogation is rarely carefully explored or even taken seriously in most primary and secondary school settings. However,...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
2. Focus Groups

   From structured interviews to collective conversations

   By George Kamberelis, Greg Dimitriadis

   Focus Groups: From Structured Interviews to Collective Conversations is a conceptual and practical introduction to focus group. As the title indicates, focus groups traditionally encompass a wide range of discursive practices. These span from formal structured interviews with particular people...

   To Be Published February 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Everything for Sale? The Marketisation of UK Higher Education

   By Roger Brown, Helen Carasso

   Series: Research into Higher Education

   The marketisation of higher education is a growing worldwide trend. Increasingly, market steering is replacing or supplementing government steering. Tuition fees are being introduced or increased, usually at the expense of state grants to institutions. Grants for student support are being replaced...

   To Be Published February 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations

   Using values-based education to promote positive learning

   By Gill Ellis, Nicola S. Morgan, Ken Reid

   How can we create effective partnerships between home, school and the community? How can the relationships and communication between families and school be strengthened? How can families help schools to improve behaviour in their children, both at home and at school? Using a tried and tested...

   To Be Published February 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. Pedagogies, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods

   Edited by Laura Azzarito, David Kirk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education. However, despite the rapid development of visual-based knowledge, and despite the obvious links between human movement and visual forms of...

   To Be Published February 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. The International Handbook of Collaborative Learning

   Edited by Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Clark Chinn, Carol Chan, Angela O'Donnell

   Series: Educational Psychology Handbook

   Collaborative learning has become an increasingly important part of education, but the research supporting it is distributed across a wide variety of fields including social, cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology, instructional design, the learning sciences, educational technology,...

   To Be Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
7. Language, Culture, and Identity among Minority Students in China

   The Case of the Hui

   By Yuxiang Wang

   Series: Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia

   This book explores Hui (one of the Muslim minority groups in China) students’ lived experiences in an elementary school in central P. R. China from the perspectives of philosophical foundations of education and the sociology of education, the impact of their experiences on their identity...

   To Be Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. Teaching in Primary Schools in China and India

   Contexts of learning

   By Nirmala Rao, Emma Pearson, Kai-ming Cheng, Margaret Taplin

   Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

   This book compares primary education in urban and rural China and India. It focuses on how the sociocultural context including educational policy, educators and parents’ beliefs, and the conditions under which teaching and learning occur shape classroom pedagogy and determine children’s attainment....

   To Be Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
9. Engaging Diverse College Alumni

   The Essential Guide to Fundraising

   By Marybeth Gasman, Nelson Bowman III

   Changing demographics are having a substantial impact on college and university student populations. In order to continue garnering funds and supporting their higher education institutions, development offices and individual fundraisers need to learn more about alumni of color. To help move...

   To Be Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times

    (Re) Solving Moral Dilemmas, 2nd Edition

    By Joan Poliner Shapiro, Steven Jay Gross

    Educational leaders not only face moral and ethical decisions regarding their classrooms, schools, districts, and education institutions, but they also must consider the complexities and threats that impact their communities. In this unstable era of war, terrorism, natural disasters, accountability...

    To Be Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge