Education Policy & Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Human Development and Capabilities

   Re-imagining the university of the twenty-first century

   Edited by Alejandra Boni, Melanie Walker

   Globally, universities are the subject of public debate and disagreement about their private benefits or public good, and the key policy vehicle for driving human capital development for competitive knowledge economies. Yet what is increasingly lost in the disagreements about who should pay for...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education

   Edited by Marvin Lynn, Adrienne D. Dixson

   This handbook illustrates how education scholars employ Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework to bring attention to issues of race and racism in education. It is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive description and analysis of the topic, from the defining...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education

   Edited by Larisa V. Shavinina

   The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education is the international reference work on innovation education and potentially opens an entirely new direction in education. The overall goal of the handbook is to address the question of how to develop innovators in general and how to...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Educating Activist Allies

   Social Justice Pedagogy with the Suburban and Urban Elite

   By Katy Swalwell

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Educating Activist Allies offers a fresh take on critical education studies through an analysis of social justice pedagogy in schools serving communities privileged by race and class. By documenting the practices of socially committed teachers at an urban private academy and a suburban public...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia

   By Ka-ho Mok

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Education in Political Science

   Discovering a neglected field

   Edited by Anja P. Jakobi, Kerstin Martens, Klaus Dieter Wolf

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline’s analytical perspectives and methodological tools. The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a variety...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Social Theory and Education Research

   Understanding Foucault, Habermas,Bourdieu and Derrida

   Edited by Mark Murphy

   Although education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists, a number of these have been of particular significance to education. While the likes of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, John Dewey and Paulo Freire influenced previous generations of educational theorists, much of...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Merit Aid and the Politics of Education

   By Erik C. Ness

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   While a substantial number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration of how states determine eligibility criteria for these scholarships. The selectivity of merit aid eligibility criteria can be as important as...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. 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
10. 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