Education Policy & Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Urban Youth and School Pushout

   Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED

   By Eve Tuck

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   Recent efforts to reform urban high schools have been marked by the pursuit of ever-increasing accountability policies, most notably through the use of mayoral control and secondary school exit exams. This innovative and provocative volume excavates the unintended consequences of such policies on...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Moving Teacher Education into Urban Schools and Communities

   Prioritizing Community Strengths

   Edited by Jana Noel

   When teacher education is located on a university campus, set apart from urban schools and communities, it is easy to overlook the realities and challenges communities face as they struggle toward social, economic, cultural, and racial justice. This book describes how teacher education can become a...

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Bullying

   Experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender

   Edited by Ian Rivers, Neil Duncan

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   Bullying: Experiences and Discourses of Sexuality and Gender provides a valuable insight into the experiences of young people and how bullying can impact upon them in the school environment. The book offers an introduction to the key issues associated with bullying on the grounds of sex and sexual...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. Large Scale School Reform and Social Capital Building

   Edited by Ian R. Haslam, Myint Swe Khine, Issa M. Saleh

   This book introduces and explores the nature of large scale reform, and offers a fresh insight into the importance of social capital and professional development leadership for teachers and school management. It synthesizes research on the role of the professional development leader and the...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
5. Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty

   Edited by Geoff Munns, Wayne Sawyer, Bronwyn Cole

   Education and poverty exist in a highly contested relationship even in the developed world. On the one hand, educational outcomes seem solidly attached to socio-economic status, and on the other, education is often cited as a way out of poverty. Success at de-coupling poverty from educational...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies

   The Case of Black Academic Underachievement

   By Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. School Psychology and Social Justice

   Conceptual Foundations and Tools for Practice

   Edited by David Shriberg, Samuel Y. Song, Antoinette Halsell Miranda, Kisha Radliff

   School psychology practice does not exist in a vacuum and is not value-neutral. As the role and function of the school psychologist continues to evolve and expand, social justice provides a needed real-world framework for school psychology students, practitioners, supervisors, and professors to...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning

   Edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson, Ken Jones, Liora Bresler

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

   The concept of creative learning extends far beyond Arts-based learning or the development of individual creativity. It covers a range of processes and initiatives throughout the world that share common values, systems and practices aimed at making learning more creative. This applies at individual...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge