Schools & Schooling Books

New and Published Books

1. The Politics of Structural Education Reform

   By Keith A. Nitta

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Education policymaking is traditionally seen as a domestic political process. The job of deciding where students will be educated, what they will be taught, who will teach them, and how it will be paid for clearly rests with some mix of district, state, and national policymakers. This book seeks to...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Politics and the Primary Teacher

   By Peter Cunningham

   Series: Understanding Primary Education Series

   Why is primary education so high on the political agenda, and so contentious? Why is the performance of primary schools so often in the media spotlight? Why should primary teachers trouble themselves with the politics of their work? Politics and the Primary Teacher is an accessible introduction...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences

   Edited by Dave Hill, Ravi Kumar

   Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

   In this groundbreaking critique of neoliberalism in schooling and education, an international cast of education policy analysts, educational activists and scholars deftly analyze the ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of schooling and education. &...

   Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
4. Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries

   Edited by Carlo Raffo, Alan Dyson, Helen Gunter, Dave Hall, Lisa Jones, Afroditi Kalambouka

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   For the first time, researchers, policymakers and practitioners across the world will have access to a comprehensive mapping of research evidence and policy strategies about education and poverty in affluent countries. Although there is widespread agreement that poverty and poor educational...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
5. Globalizing Education, Educating the Local

   How Method Made us Mad

   By Ian Stronach

   This book offers a critical and deconstructive account of global discourses on education, arguing that these overblown ‘hypernarratives’ are neither economically, technically nor philosophically defensible. Nor even sane. Their ‘mythic economic instrumentalism’ mimic rather than meet the economic...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. Political Approaches to Educational Administration and Leadership

   Edited by Eugenie A. Samier, with Adam G. Stanley

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This collection explores the political philosophy and theory foundations for educational administration and leadership as they influence our understanding, analysis and practice in the field. The first section, "Political Philosophy: The Foundations," discusses the work of such writers as...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. Changing Schools in an Era of Globalization

   By John Chi-Kin Lee, Brian J. Caldwell

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Much has been written about globalization and the challenge of preparing young people for the new world of work and life in times of complexity and continuous change. However, few works have examined how globalization has and will continue to shape education in the East. This volume discusses...

   Published April 4th 2011 by Routledge
8. Failure-Free Education?

   The Past, Present and Future of School Effectiveness and School Improvement

   By David Reynolds

   Series: Contexts of Learning

   David Reynolds is recognised internationally as one of the leaders of the school effectiveness and school improvement movement, and Failure Free Education? brings together for the first time many of his most influential and provocative pieces. Drawing on the author’s work from over three decades,...

   Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
9. Education Policy, Space and the City

   Markets and the (In)visibility of Race

   By Kalervo N. Gulson

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city. Gulson uses an innovative and critical spatial approach to explore how the processes and practices of neoliberal education...

   Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
10. Developing Research in Teacher Education

    Edited by Ian Menter, Jean Murray

    Good teacher education, informed by relevant research, is judged by policy makers and practitioners alike to be central to increasing the quality of schooling in many countries of the world. Yet, in the UK, research on teacher education is often acknowledged to be less well developed than other...

    Published September 27th 2010 by Routledge