Sociology of Education Books

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1. Youth Studies: Keywords and Movements

   Edited by SUSAN TALBURT, NANCY LESKO

   Recent attention from the public, national governments, and international organizations to issues such as youth social exclusion, poverty, school underachievement, school violence, gang activity, sexuality, and youth’s interactions with media and the internet, have all contributed to Youth Studies...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-87412-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Widening Educational Participation: Challenging discourses of difference

   By Penny Burke

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-56824-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Postfeminist Education?: Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling

   By Jessica Ringrose

   What are the effects of post-feminist, neo-liberal politics and practices, and for which girls? Can we better understand the current gender and educational climate through making post-feminist discourses our object of critical inquiry? Contemporary post-feminist politics are grounded in...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-55749-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Teaching for Diversity, Democracy, and Sustainability: An Eco-Justice Approach

   By Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, John Lupinacci

   Designed for introductory social foundations or multicultural education courses, this text offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-87251-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Handbook of Adolescent Transition Education

   Edited by Michael L. Wehmeyer, Kristine W. Webb

   Transition from secondary education to adulthood represents a period during which adolescents with disabilities face multiple responsibilities and changing roles that include establishing independence, attending post-secondary education or training, developing social networks, choosing a career,...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-87279-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. The Politics of Education: Challenging Multiculturalism

   Edited by Christos Kassimeris, Marios Vryonides

   Education is a thoroughly political enterprise. The process of determining the purpose of education has always been highly controversial. It has resulted in disputes that have not only divided people philosophically, but also on the basis of religion, region, class, race, and ethnicity. As a result...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88514-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Routledge Companion to Education

   Edited by James Arthur, Andrew Peterson

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58347-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Globalization and Education

   By Fazal Rizvi

   Globalization and Education provides a critical introduction to various theories of globalization and the implications they are assumed to have for educational policy and practice. Using the current global financial crisis as a backdrop, internationally renowned author Fazal Razvi examine a series...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88163-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Youth, Arts and Education: Reassembling Subjectivity through Affect

   By Anna Hickey-Moody

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57264-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom: Critical Practices for Creating Least Restrictive Attitudes

    By Arthur Shapiro, Susan Baglieri

    This book’s mission is to integrate the fields of disability studies and inclusive education. Parts I and II focus on the broad, foundational topics that comprise disability studies (culture, language, history, etc.) and Part III moves into the more practical topics (curriculum, co-teaching,...

    June 2011 | 978-0-415-99372-2 | Paperback (Routledge)