Education Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Liberalising the Accounting Curriculum in University Education

   Edited by Alan Sangster, Richard M.S. Wilson

   This book presents the views of accounting educators, accounting education policy-makers, and accounting practitioners from across the world on the challenging topic of liberalising the accounting curriculum within university education. Accounting is a relatively new subject within universities and...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Education for Fullness

   A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

   By H. B. Mukherjee

   Rabindranath Tagore is remembered today chiefly as a poet, and his fame as a poet has often eclipsed his great contributions to other fields of literature and life — especially education. Tagore pondered deeply on the fundamental problems of education — aims, curriculum, method, discipline, values...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Teacher Education for Critical Consumption of Mass Media and Popular Culture

   By Stephanie A. Flores-Koulish

   Series: RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education

   The study develops a baseline of knowledge to encourage the inclusion of media literacy education in teacher education....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. The Future of Learning Design

   Edited by Shirley Agostinho, Sue Bennett, Lori Lockyer, Barry Harper

   Learning Design refers to research and development work that equips teachers with tools and strategies to aid their design thinking. Its origin stems from two lines of inquiry: (i) how to represent teaching practice from a technical perspective in the development and delivery of online learning...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Sociology of Higher Education

   Reproduction, Transformation and Change in a Global Era

   Edited by Miriam David, Rajani Naidoo

   The Sociology of Higher Education: Reproduction, Transformation and Change in a Global Era provides an exciting and conceptually rich approach to the sociology of higher education. It offers innovative perspectives on the future of universities within the new and emerging research sub-field of the...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
8. Youth Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging

   Edited by Sharlene Swartz, Madeleine Arnot

   Around the world today, young people are being called upon to develop civic competence and carry the burden of forging a political future in the midst of impoverishment, exclusion and inequality. In societies that have experienced civil war, military occupation, mass immigration of displaced people...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
9. Thinking About The Curriculum (Routledge Revivals)

   The nature and treatment of curriculum problems

   By William Reid

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1978, this book looks at the ‘curriculum crisis’ of the 1970s, examining the effect it has had for Curriculum Studies and curriculum policy making. It focuses on a time when long-established structures and procedures were challenged and schools were accused of having lost touch...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
10. Education, Work and Leisure (Routledge Revivals)

    By Harold Entwistle

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1970, this book considers the alleged distinction between ‘education for life’ and ‘education for work’ and exposes the fallacies on which this and other similar distinctions are based. It shows that ideas on this subject are inextricably intertwined with wider views on the...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge