Theory of Education Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning

   A Critical Perspective

   Edited by Harry Daniels, Hugh Lauder, Jill Porter

   Series: Critical Perspectives on Education

   Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education - learners and teachers....

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Class in Education

   Knowledge, Pedagogy, Subjectivity

   Edited by Deborah Kelsh, Dave Hill, Sheila Macrine

   In contemporary pedagogy, "class" has become one nomadic sign among others: it has no referent but only contingent allusions to similarly traveling signs. Class, that is, no longer explains social conflicts and antagonisms rooted in social divisions of labor, but instead portrays a cultural...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Higher Education in Liquid Modernity

   By Marvin Oxenham

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   Based in sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, this volume describes and critiques key aspects and practices of liquid education--education as market-driven consumption, short life span of useful knowledge, overabundance of information--through a systematic comparison...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Learner-centred Education in International Perspective

   Whose pedagogy for whose development?

   By Michele Schweisfurth

   Series: Education, Poverty and International Development

   Is learner-centred education appropriate for all societies and classrooms? Learner-centred education (LCE) is a travelling policy, widely promoted by international agencies and national governments. Arguments in favour of this pedagogical tradition refer to theories and evidence from cognitive...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
9. Pedagogies, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods

   Edited by Laura Azzarito, David Kirk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education. However, despite the rapid development of visual-based knowledge, and despite the obvious links between human movement and visual forms of...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
10. Social Origins of Educational Systems

    By Margaret Archer

    Series: Classical Texts in Critical Realism

    First published in 1979, this now classic text presents a major study of the development of educational systems, focusing in detail on those of England, Denmark, France, and Russia - chosen because of their present educational differences and the historical diversity of their cultures and social...

    Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge