Routledge Research in Education
About the Book Series
This series aims to present the latest research from right across the field of education. It is not confined to any particular area or school of thought and seeks to provide coverage of a broad range of topics, theories and issues from around the world.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Living Educational Theory Research as an Epistemology for Practice: The Role of Values in Practitioners’ Professional Development
1st Edition
By Jack Whitehead, Marie Huxtable
October 27, 2025
This book explores a value-based research methodology, Living Educational Theory Research (LETR), which aligns a values-based approach with key tenets of professional development to inform and inspire future educators’ practice. Written by world-leading scholars in the field of LETR, the chapters ...
Professional Ethics in Welfare Work and Education: Nordic Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Bjørn Ribers, Niels Warring
August 19, 2025
Fundamentally concerning the relationship and dynamics between education, professionalism and ethical awareness, this interdisciplinary, edited volume showcases novel research perspectives on professional ethics in education, practice, and the work life of welfare professionals in the Nordic ...
On the Theory of Content Transformation in Education: The 3A Methodology for Analysing and Improving Teaching and Learning
1st Edition
By Tomáš Janík, Jan Slavík, Petr Najvar, Tereza Češková
July 31, 2025
This volume presents a novel, theoretical, micro-analytical model – the 3A Methodology – for assessing the quality of school education. Drawing on philosophers as well as theoretical and pedagogical traditions from European and American contexts, the authors construct a model that is relevant to ...
Reimagining Boredom in Classrooms through Digital Game Spaces: Sociomaterial Perspectives
1st Edition
By Noreen Dunnett
July 31, 2025
This book challenges common understandings of boredom and disengagement in classrooms, taking a relational approach to boredom which looks beyond the usual distinctions between in-school and out-of-school practices. The book explores how a sociomaterial perspective can provide an alternative ...
Social Work Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Insights toward Innovation and Creativity
1st Edition
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By Yael Latzer, Liat Shklarski
May 26, 2025
This book examines how the shift to remote teaching in March 2020 due to the global pandemic created new opportunities for innovation and creativity and shaped how social work classes were taught, with many temporary changes now part of permanent, standard practice. Drawing on narratives from 20 ...
Developing a Didactic Framework Across and Beyond School Subjects: Cross- and Transcurricular Teaching
1st Edition
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By Søren Harnow Klausen, Nina Mård
May 06, 2025
Centered around a contemporary conception of Bildung, this book effectively demonstrates how the aims of cross- and transcurricular teaching can be reconciled, resulting in a didactic framework for teaching and learning in secondary schools that can be applied internationally. Chapters present a ...
Space, Education, and Inclusion: Interdisciplinary Approaches
1st Edition
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By Georg Rißler, Andreas Köpfer, Tobias Buchner
May 06, 2025
This timely, edited volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on space and spatiality in inclusive education discourses. With research from an international range of scholars, the book explores the intersections, boundaries, and intermediary spaces of inclusion and exclusion within ...
Theorising Public Pedagogy: The Educative Agent in the Public Realm
1st Edition
By Karen Charman, Mary Dixon
April 14, 2025
Drawing on the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, this book extends the theoretical understanding of public pedagogy and brings into sharp focus the elements that constitute the public realm; the site of public pedagogy. Karen Charman and Mary Dixon offer a new theorisation of the public, ...
Identity and Belonging among Chinese Canadian Youth: Racialized Habitus in School, Family, and Media
1st Edition
By Dan Cui
April 13, 2025
Identity and Belonging among Chinese Canadian Youth unveils how Chinese immigrant youth struggle as racialized minorities at school, in their family, and through their formative interactions with Canadian mainstream media. Utilizing rich interview data, the author explores how the contemporary ...
Children’s Right to Silence and Non-Participation in Education: Redefining Student Voice
1st Edition
By Amy Hanna
January 30, 2025
This insightful book re-examines the concept of student voice through an exploration of children’s implicit rights to silence and non-participation. By considering what remains unspoken but is voiced through silence, this book theorises silence through the lens of power. Responding to calls for ...
New Perspectives on Educational Resources: Learning Materials Beyond the Traditional Classroom
1st Edition
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By Karl Christian Alvestad, Kari H. Nordberg, Hege Roll-Hansen
January 30, 2025
Bringing new perspectives on educational resources together, this book considers how a range of learning materials can be used to effectively highlight creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking in learning. Covering a broad scope of educational resources, the book examines the use of ...
International Students in Transnational Spaces: Chinese Youth’s Aspirations, Learning and Becoming
1st Edition
By Xi Wu
December 19, 2024
Xi Wu examines how national and transnational forces and discursive logic mediate international secondary school students’ educational routes and life trajectories. Drawing upon an ethnographic research program involving Chinese students in a Canadian international secondary school, Wu employs Ong...