Teachers & Teacher Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Workplace Learning in Physical Education

   By lisahunter, Richard Tinning, Tony Rossi, Erin Flanagan, Doune Macdonald

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional learning. Using stories and narratives from...

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Universities and Global Diversity

   Preparing Educators for Tomorrow

   Edited by Beverly Lindsay, Wanda J. Blanchett

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
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. Negotiating Critical Literacies with Teachers

   Theoretical Foundations and Pedagogical Resources for Pre-Service and In-Service Contexts

   By Vivian Maria Vasquez, Stacie L. Tate, Jerome C. Harste

   How can teacher educators engage pre-service and in-service teachers in learning about and framing their teaching from a critical literacy perspective? What does this mean? Why is it important? To address these questions, this book offers a theoretical framework and detailed examples, pedagogical...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
8. Readings for Diversity and Social Justice

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Maurianne Adams, Warren Blumenfeld, Carmelita Castaneda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, Ximena Zuniga

   For more than a decade, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice has been the trusted, leading anthology to cover the full range of social oppressions from a social justice standpoint. With full sections dedicated to racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and ableism, as well as transgender...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
9. Nature Education with Young Children

   Integrating Inquiry and Practice

   Edited by Daniel R. Meier, Stephanie Sisk-Hilton

   Nature Education with Young Children is a thoughtful, sophisticated teacher resource that blends theory and practice on nature education, children's inquiry-based learning, and reflective teaching. The book’s guiding conceptual framework is founded upon the integration of four key ideas for...

   Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Professional Identity of Teacher Educators

    Career on the cusp?

    By Ronnie Davey

    Series: Teacher Quality and School Development

    The Professional Identity of Teacher Educators offers a contemporary study of teacher education in a period of huge international, institutional and professional change. The book explores the experiences, understandings, and beliefs that guide the professional practices of teacher educators, and...

    Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge