Forthcoming Education Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Young Children, Pedagogy and the Arts

   Ways of Seeing

   Edited by Felicity McArdle, Gail Boldt

   Series: Changing Images of Early Childhood

   Young Children, Pedagogy and the Arts is an innovative text that describes practices and research that cross all five strands of the arts—visual, drama, music, dance, and media—and illuminates ways of understanding children and their arts practices that go beyond the common traditions. The book:...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Meaning-Centered Education

   International Perspectives and Explorations in Higher Education

   Edited by Olga Kovbasyuk, Patrick Blessinger

   In a time of globally changing environments and economic challenges, many institutions of higher education are attempting to reform by promoting standardization approaches. Meaning-Centered Education explores the counter-tide for an alternative vision of education, where students and instructors...

   To Be Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
3. Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age

   Designing for 21st Century Learning, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Helen Beetham, Rhona Sharpe

   Through a critical discussion of the issues surrounding the design, sharing and reuse of learning activities, the second edition of Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age examines a wide range of perspectives on effectively designing and delivering learning activities to ensure that future...

   To Be Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
4. Frontiers of Test Validity Theory

   Measurement, Causation, and Meaning

   By Keith A. Markus, Denny Borsboom

   Series: Multivariate Applications Series

   This book examines test validity in the behavioral, social, and educational sciences by exploring three fundamental problems: measurement, causation and meaning. Psychometric and philosophical perspectives receive attention along with unresolved issues. The authors explore how measurement is...

   To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge Academic
5. The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music

   Edited by Jonathan Savage

   The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music draws on extracts from the published work of some of the most influential education writers to provide insight, guidance and clarity about key issues affecting Music teachers. The book brings together key extracts from classic and contemporary...

   To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
6. Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts

   Edited by Kathleen Gallagher, Jonothan Neelands

   Urban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and its social limits and possibilities. At the heart of this text lies the question of how theatre can illuminate the urban and how theatre is illuminated by the urban. The city, like...

   To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Focal Press
7. Expanding the Donor Base in Higher Education

   Engaging Non-Traditional Donors

   Edited by Noah D. Drezner

   Traditionally, institutions have relied on wealthy White men to reach their fundraising goals. But as state investment in public higher education lessens and institutions look to philanthropy to move from excellence to eminence, advancement officers continually need to engage all populations,...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. Picturebooks

   Beyond the Borders of Art, Narrative and Culture

   Edited by Evelyn Arizpe, Maureen Farrell, Julie McAdam

   The picturebook is now recognized as a sophisticated art form that has provided a space for some of the most exciting innovations in the field of children’s literature. This book brings together the work of expert scholars from the UK, the USA and Europe to present original theoretical perspectives...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. A History of Popular Education

   Educating the People of the World

   Edited by Sjaak Braster, Frank Simon, Ian Grosvenor

   Popular Education is a concept with many meanings. With the rise of national systems of education at the beginning of the nineteenth-century, it was related to the socially inclusive concept of citizenship coined by privileged members with vested interests in the urban society that could only be...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Higher Education in Southeast Asia

    Blurring Borders, Changing Balance

    By Anthony Welch

    Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia

    This is the first book to systematically chart and comparatively assess the trend towards private higher education in South East Asia. Caught between conflicting imperatives of spiralling demand, and limited resources, the balance between public and private higher education systems in South East,...

    To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge