Sociology of Education Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. Balancing Dilemmas in Assessment and Learning in Contemporary Education

   Edited by Anton Havnes, Liz McDowell

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context. New forms of assessment are being introduced in all sectors of education and training, and the culture of assessment is shifting. The authors in this volume discuss the practice of assessment,...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Gender Inclusive Engineering Education

   By Julie Mills, Mary Elizabeth Ayre, Judith Gill

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Women continue to comprise a small minority of students in engineering education and subsequent employment, despite the numerous initiatives over the past 25 years to attract and retain more women in engineering. This book demonstrates the ways in which traditional engineering education has not...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Religion in Education

   Innovation in International Research

   Edited by Joyce Miller, Kevin O'Grady, Ursula McKenna

   Series: Routledge Research in Religion and Education

   This volume explores numerous themes (including the influence of ethnography on religious education research and pedagogy, the interpretive approach to religious education, the relationship between research and classroom practice in religious education), providing a critique of contemporary...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. Understanding Early Years Inequality

   Policy, assessment and young children's identities

   By Alice Bradbury

   Understanding Early Years Inequality uses critical sociological perspectives to examine the impact of changing assessment policy on primary school classrooms, with a particular focus on issues of inequality. Drawing on accounts of life in early years classrooms, Alice Bradbury suggests that a...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
8. 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
9. 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
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