Educational Research Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Reviewing Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences

   Edited by Audrey A. Trainor, Elizabeth Graue

   Foundational characteristics of qualitative research include flexibility, variation in application, critique, and innovation all of which derive from its subjective roots in interpretivism and constructivism. While the scholars who design qualitative research projects envision these qualities as...

   Published December 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Interpersonal Regulation of Learning and Motivation

   Methodological Advances

   Edited by Simone Volet, Marja Vauras

   Series: New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction

   Interpersonal Regulation of Learning and Motivation is the first book in the field to focus on major methodological advances in research on interpersonal regulation of learning and motivation. Interest in developing ways of capturing the dynamics of interpersonal regulation in real-life learning...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Basil Bernstein

   The thinker and the field

   By Rob Moore

   Basil Bernstein: The Thinker and the Field provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Basil Bernstein, demonstrating his distinctive contribution to social theory by locating it within the historical context of the development of the sociology of education and Sociology in Britain....

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research

   Edited by Kitty te Riele, Rachel Brooks

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research brings together contributors from across the world to explore real-life ethical dilemmas faced by researchers working with young people in a range of social science disciplines. Unlike literature that tends to discuss youth research at an abstracted...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Early Childhood and Compulsory Education

   Reconceptualising the relationship

   Edited by Peter Moss

   Series: Contesting Early Childhood

   What should be the relationship between early childhood and compulsory education? What can they learn from one another and by working together? The rapid expansion of early childhood education and care means that most children in affluent countries now have several years at pre-school before...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. Popular Literacies, Childhood and Schooling

    By Jackie Marsh, Elaine Millard

    This bold, forward-thinking text offers a clear rationale for the development of curricula and pedagogy that will reflect young people’s in-school and out-of-school popular culture practices. By providing a sound theoretical framework and addressing popular culture and new technologies in the...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge