Educational Research Products

Edited by Roger Firth, Maggie Smith

To integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning was the overarching goal of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). This, it was believed, would ‘save the planet’, encouraging behaviour changes to…

Paperback – 2019-07-17
Routledge

Edited by Irene Levin, Marit Haldar, Aurélie Picot

Discussing the relationship between social work and sociology, this book explores how the two have become more and more divided, moving from one single discipline, to two separate, but related, fields. Both sociology and social work focus on social problems, social structure, social integration and…

Paperback – 2019-06-12
Routledge

By Derek Birley

First published in 1972, this book explores the nature of the British education service up until the early 1970s, looking at its complex administration and financial and legislative constraints. Derek Birley, an experienced educational administrator himself, explores radical methods of approach to…

Paperback – 2019-06-10
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Sai Loo

Teachers and Teaching in Vocational and Professional Education introduces a critical understanding of how teachers deliver occupational or vocational courses at various academic levels. Including wider coverage of work-related programmes and based on empirical research, this book uses the term…

Paperback – 2019-06-10
Routledge
Routledge Research in Vocational Education

Edited by Heather Lotherington, Cheryl Paige

This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms. Following chronologically from Lotherington’s Pedagogy of Multiliteracies (…

Paperback – 2019-06-07
Routledge
Routledge Research in Education

By Derek Birley

First published in 1970, this book tackles the topic of education and its structure and administration processes at the time of the early 1970s. This book broke new ground at the time, giving insight into an unfamiliar world, as Birley examines the system from nursery class to Polytechnic. Birley…

Paperback – 2019-06-06
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Osman Z. Barnawi

Over the past two decades, the Arabian oil-rich Gulf countries have faced enormous social, political, economic, cultural, religious, ideological and epistemological upheaval. Through detailed, critical comparative investigation,　Neoliberalism and English Language Education Policies in the Arabian…

Paperback – 2019-06-06
Routledge
Routledge Research in Language Education

By Toby Thompson

Global corporations and the senior executives who oversee them have been subject to great criticism in recent times: not only do such corporations hold extreme concentrations of wealth, but they continue to sanction staggering pay inequalities between the haves and the have-nots. At the same time,…

Paperback – 2019-06-06
Routledge
New Directions in the Philosophy of Education

By Ibrar Bhatt

Approaching academic assignments as practical controversies, this book offers a novel approach to the study of digital literacy. Through in-depth accounts of assignment writing in college classrooms, Bhatt examines ways of understanding how students engage with digital media in curricular…

Paperback – 2019-06-04
Routledge
Routledge Research in Literacy

By David Kirk Dirlam

Summarizing a half century of work on the problem of identifying units of analysis for complex human behaviour, this book introduces modes of practice as a unit of analysis for the science and design of human activities, and shows how to record them and create field guides at scales from individual…

Paperback – 2019-06-04
Routledge
Explorations in Developmental Psychology

Edited by Steven F. Arvizu, Marietta Saravia-Shore

Originally published in 1992. This book advocates and demonstrates the benefits of an anthropological approach that recognizes the centrality of culture in the educational process. This approach encompasses knowledge and understanding of other cultures’ patterns of interaction, values, institutions…

Paperback – 2019-05-29
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Literacy

By Judith Davidson, David Koppenhaver

Originally published in 1988. Much has changed since then in schools. Mobile technologies, interactive whiteboards, digital texts, class websites, student-authored blogs, social networking and photo sharing sites found integrated into so many classrooms hadn’t even been imagined by most educators.…

Paperback – 2019-05-29
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Literacy