Educational Research Books

New and Published Books

1. Narrative Ecologies: Teachers as Pedagogical Toolmakers

   By Keith Turvey

   In recent years there has been significant investment by policy makers in the potential of technological tools to transform learning and teaching across a range of professional practitioner groups; education, nursing and social care. There remain, however, outstanding issues concerning the ways...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys

   Edited by Robin Alexander, Christine Doddington, John Gray, Linda Hargreaves, Ruth Kershner

   The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is the outcome of the Cambridge Primary Review – England’s biggest enquiry into primary education for over forty years. Fully independent of government, it was launched in 2006 to investigate the condition and future of primary education...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Beyond Binaries in Education Research

   Edited by Warren Midgley, Mark A. Tyler, Patrick Alan Danaher, Alison Mander

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Beyond Binaries in Education Research explores the ethical, methodological, and social justice issues relating to conceptualizations of binary opposites in education research, particularly where one side of the dualism is perceived to be positive and the other negative. In education research these...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Applied Quantitative Analysis in Education and the Social Sciences

   Edited by Yaacov Petscher, Christopher Schatschneider, Donald L. Compton

   To say that complex data analyses are ubiquitous in the education and social sciences might be an understatement. Funding agencies and peer-review journals alike require that researchers use the most appropriate models and methods for explaining phenomena. Univariate and multivariate data...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Action Research

   Principles and practice, 3rd Edition

   By Jean McNiff

   Since its first publication, Action Research: Principles and Practice has become a key text in its field. This new updated edition clearly describes and explains the practices of action research and its underlying values, and introduces important new ideas, including: all professionals should be...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood

   By Affrica Taylor

   Series: Contesting Early Childhood

   In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and pedagogically deployed, and invites readers to critically reassess the naturalist childhood discourses that are rife within popular culture and early...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. Affective Learning Together

   Social and emotional dimensions of collaborative learning

   Edited by Michael Baker, Jerry Andriessen, Sanna Järvelä

   Series: New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction

   In the twenty-first century, being able to collaborate effectively is important at all ages, in everyday life, education and work, within and across diverse cultural settings. People are increasingly linked by networks that are not only means for working and learning together, but are also ways of...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
8. Stochastic Musings

   Perspectives From the Pioneers of the Late 20th Century

   Edited by John Panaretos

   This new edited volume features contributions from many of the leading scientists in probability and statistics from the latter part of the 20th century. It is the only book to assemble the views of these leading scientists--the pioneers in their respective fields. Stochastic Musings features...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
9. Introductory Statistics

   A Conceptual Approach Using R

   By William B. Ware, John M. Ferron, Barbara M. Miller

   This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education, psychology, and other social sciences. A conceptual approach, built around common issues and problems rather than statistical techniques, allows students to understand the...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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