Education Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia

   Divided Memories

   Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel C. Sneider

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy. Still, the region cannot escape from the burden of history. This book examines the formation of historical memory in four Northeast Asian...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Stochastic Musings

   Perspectives From the Pioneers of the Late 20th Century

   Edited by John Panaretos

   This new edited volume features contributions from many of the leading scientists in probability and statistics from the latter part of the 20th century. It is the only book to assemble the views of these leading scientists--the pioneers in their respective fields. Stochastic Musings features...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
3. Multiple Intelligences and Leadership

   Edited by Ronald E. Riggio, Susan Elaine Murphy, Francis J. Pirozzolo

   Series: Series in Organization and Management

   This edited book presents cutting-edge research looking at the role of multiple intelligence--cognitive (IQ), emotional intelligence, social intelligence--in effective leadership, written by the most distinguished scholars in the two distinct fields of intelligence and leadership. The synergy of...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
4. The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning

   Edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson, Ken Jones, Liora Bresler

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

   The concept of creative learning extends far beyond Arts-based learning or the development of individual creativity. It covers a range of processes and initiatives throughout the world that share common values, systems and practices aimed at making learning more creative. This applies at individual...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. Acting Otherwise

   The Institutionalization of Women's / Gender Studies in Taiwan's Universities

   By Peiying Chen

   Series: RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education

   Acting Otherwise concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities....

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Adaptation of Western Economics by Russian Universities

   Intercultural Travel of an Academic Field

   By Tatiana Suspitsyna

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Aesthetic Experience in Science Education

   Learning and Meaning-Making as Situated Talk and Action

   By Per-Olof Wickman

   Series: Teaching and Learning in Science Series

   This book examines the role of aesthetic experience in learning science and in science education from the perspective of knowledge as action and language use. The theoretical underpinnings are based on the writings of John Dewey and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In their spirit aesthetics is examined as it...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Coming of Age

   Women's Colleges in the Philippines During the Post-Marcos Era

   By Francesca Purcell

   In view of the increasing number of Third World countries considering the establishment of women's colleges to meet the demand for the higher education of women, presenting a case study of two key women's colleges in the Philippines. Within the context of global, national and local changes since...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Contemporary Psychometrics

   Edited by Albert Maydeu-Olivares, John J. McArdle

   Series: Multivariate Applications Series

   Contemporary Psychometrics features cutting edge chapters organized in four sections: test theory, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and multivariate analysis. The section on test theory includes topics such as multidimensional item response theory (IRT), the relationship between IRT...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
10. Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia

    By Ka-ho Mok

    Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

    This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge