Education: Middle School Education

Edited by Lisa Harrison, Ellis Hurd, Kathleen Brinegar

Originally published as a special issue of the Middle School Journal, this book presents integrative curriculum as a foundational element of the middle school. By addressing the current gap in literature on curriculum integration in the middle grades, this text explores how learning can be…

Hardback – 2020-03-06 
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Routledge Research in Education

By Susan McCullough

Focusing on issues relating to gender, gender relations, and discrimination, this book provides nuanced insight into the experiences of young Latina women and their teachers in a North American middle school. Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools details how students navigate questions of…

Hardback – 2019-12-05
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Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education

Edited by Javier Calvo de Mora, Kerry J. Kennedy

This book has two purposes: To open up the debate on the role of informal education in schooling systems and to suggest the kind of school organizational environment that can best facilitate the recognition of informal learning. Successive chapters explore what is often seen as a duality between…

Hardback – 2019-09-26
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Asia-Europe Education Dialogue

Edited by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi

Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet what are perceived to be the needs of globalization. This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational system is…

Hardback – 2017-09-18
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Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

By Nancy L. Cecil, Joan P. Gipe, Marcy Merrill

Comprehensive yet succinct and readable, Literacy in Grades 4-8, Third Edition offers a wealth of practical ideas to help preservice and practicing teachers create a balanced and comprehensive literacy program while exploring the core topics and issues of literacy in grades 4 through 8. It…

Hardback – 2017-04-20
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By Amina Chaudhri

Racially mixed children make up the fastest growing youth demographic in the U.S., and teachers of diverse populations need to be mindful in selecting literature that their students can identify with. This volume explores how books for elementary school students depict and reflect multiracial…

Hardback – 2017-02-10
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Routledge Research in Education

Edited by Peter Blatchford, Kam Wing Chan, Maurice Galton, Kwok Chan Lai, John Chi-Kin Lee

Much debate, research and commentary about class sizes in schools is limited because of an exclusive concern with class size and pupil academic attainment, and a neglect of classroom processes, which might help explain class size effects (or lack of them). Very little is known about the central…

Paperback – 2016-11-11
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Asia-Europe Education Dialogue

Edited by Sandra L. Stacki, Supriya Baily

While many initial education benchmarks are being met, new and continuing challenges exist for adolescent girls in the developing world. Discrimination, violence, marginalization, and health-related issues prevail, making proper education at the middle school level crucial during this unique…

Hardback – 2015-04-10
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Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

Edited by Divya Jindal-Snape

Despite variations of educational systems, when transitions in education occur, the pedagogical challenges that teachers and pupils undergo are quite similar across the globe. Transitions are phases in which pupils, peer groups and teachers have to renegotiate and rebuild their learning environment…

Paperback – 2012-07-11
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Routledge Research in Education

By Mark Baildon, James S. Damico

This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "new times" – prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared to…

Hardback – 2010-08-25
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Routledge Research in Education

By Niall Mcelwee

What assistance can be provided to disadvantaged youngsters to help them conquer the many challenges they face while growing up? At-Risk Children & Youth: Resiliency Explored analyzes the results from accumulated research on the risk and resiliency of children and youth in Ireland. Author Niall…

Hardback – 2007-11-05
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