Educational Studies
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Digital Solidarity in Education
Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Academic Excellence through Innovative Instructional Programs
Digital Solidarity in Education is a book for educators, scholars, and students interested in better understanding both the role technology can play in schools and its potential for strengthening communities, optimizing the effects of globalization, and increasing educational access. The...
To Be Published September 10th 2013 by Routledge
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A People’s History of American Higher Education
Series: Core Concepts in Higher Education
This essential history of American higher education builds from the ground up, shedding light on the full, diverse of range of institutions—including small liberal arts schools, junior and community colleges, and state colleges—that have been instrumental in creating the higher education system we...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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American Education
A History, 5th Edition
American Education: A History, 5e is a comprehensive, highly-regarded history of American education from pre-colonial times to the present. Chronologically organized, it provides an objective overview of each major period in the development of American education, setting the discussion against the...
To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
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Can Education Change Society?
Despite the vast differences between the Right and the Left over the role of education in the production of inequality one common element both sides share is a sense that education can and should do something about society, to either restore what is being lost or radically alter what is there now....
Published October 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Education and Power
Series: Routledge Education Classic Edition
First published in 1982, Education and Power remains an important volume for those committed to critical education. In this text Michael Apple first articulated his theory on educational institutions and the reproduction of and resistance to unequal power relations, and provided a thorough...
Published October 20th 2011 by Routledge
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Education and Climate Change
Living and Learning in Interesting Times
Series: Routledge Research in Education
There is widespread consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is happening and that abrupt and irreversible impacts are already set in motion. What part does education have to play in helping alleviate rampant climate change and in mitigating its worst effects?&...
Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Education and Social Change
Contours in the History of American Schooling, 4th Edition
This brief, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predecessors, this new edition investigates the impact of social forces such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration and cultural conflict on the...
Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Exploring Education
An Introduction to the Foundations of Education, 4th Edition
This much-anticipated fourth edition of Exploring Education offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre- and in-service teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines -- history, philosophy,...
Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education
Bringing Life to Schools and Schools to Life
Offering a fresh approach to bringing life to schools and schools to life, this book goes beyond touting the benefits of learning gardens to survey them as a whole-systems design solution with potential to address myriad interrelated social, ecological, and educational issues. The theoretical...
Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Learning in School-University Partnership
Sociocultural Perspectives
This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes – school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning – have both...
Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Educating Activist Allies
Social Justice Pedagogy with the Suburban and Urban Elite
Series: Critical Social Thought
Educating Activist Allies offers a fresh take on critical education studies through an analysis of social justice pedagogy in schools serving communities privileged by race and class. By documenting the practices of socially committed teachers at an urban private academy and a suburban public...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Learning to Liberate
Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education
Series: Critical Social Thought
Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide range of remedies, dismal results persist. This is especially true for low-income youth of color, who drop out of school—and into incarceration—at extremely high rates. The dual...
Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
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Critical Curriculum Studies
Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing
Series: Critical Social Thought
Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students’ understanding of the world around them. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social...
Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Critical Pedagogy and Social Change
Critical Analysis on the Language of Possibility
Series: Critical Social Thought
At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple—to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious, it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification, privatization of schooling, and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than...
Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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The New Political Economy of Urban Education
Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
Series: Critical Social Thought
Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship...
Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
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The Political Classroom
Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education
Series: Critical Social Thought
Most people agree that schools should prepare young people for democratic life. Yet in the United States there has never been agreement on what types of skills, dispositions, and knowledge ought to be taught, nor even agreement on how they should be taught. Grounded in thick empirical description...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
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The Hidden History of Early Childhood Education
The Hidden History of Early Childhood Education provides an understandable and manageable exploration of the history of early childhood education in the United States. Covering historical, philosophical, and sociological underpinnings that reach from the 1800s to today, contributors explore groups...
Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
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The Great American Education-Industrial Complex
Ideology, Technology, and Profit
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
The Great American Education-Industrial Complex examines the structure and nature of national networks and enterprises that seek to influence public education policy in accord with their own goals and objectives. In the past twenty years, significant changes have taken place in the way various...
Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
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EcoJustice Education
Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
"Authentic hope is the gift Rebecca Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci offer readers of EcoJustice Education…. We learn what it means to recover the ancient arts and skills of cultivating commons, common sense, and community collaborations in our hard times." Madhu Suri Prakash,...
Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Education Networks
Power, Wealth, Cyberspace, and the Digital Mind
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools. Joel Spring documents and examines the economic and political interests and forces —including elite networks, the for-profit education industry...
Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Urban High Schools
Foundations and Possibilities
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
This multidisciplinary overview introduces readers to the historical, sociological, anthropological, and political foundations of urban public secondary schooling and to possibilities for reform. Focused on critical and problematic elements, the text provides a comprehensive description and...
Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge
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Beyond Learning by Doing
Theoretical Currents in Experiential Education
What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents. As an increasingly popular pedagogical...
Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Education Reconfigured
Culture, Encounter, and Change
As philosophers throughout the ages have asked: What is justice? What is truth? What is art? What is law? In Education Reconfigured, the internationally acclaimed philosopher of education, Jane Roland Martin, now asks: What is education? In answer, she puts forward a unified theory that casts...
Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning
A Critical Perspective
Series: Critical Perspectives on Education
Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education - learners and teachers....
Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
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Foucault, Power, and Education
Series: Routledge Key Ideas in Education
Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about...
Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
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L.S. Vygotsky and Education
Series: Routledge Key Ideas in Education
Vygotsky’s legacy in education is enduring and prolific, influencing educational research and scholarship in areas as far ranging child development, language and literacy development, bilingual education, and learning disabilities to name but a few. In this accessible, introductory volume, renowned...
To Be Published July 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Marx and Education
Series: Routledge Key Ideas in Education
There was only one Karl Marx, but there have been a multitude of Marxisms. This concise, introductory book by internationally renowned scholar Jean Anyon centers on the ideas of Marx that have been used in education studies as a guide to theory, analysis, research, and practice. Marx and...
Published March 6th 2011 by Routledge
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International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education
The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment,...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning
The Primacy of Dispositions
The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth. It offers...
Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Learning Futures
Education, Technology and Social Change
In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable,...
Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
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Science Education
Learning to construct a new world
Series: Foundations and Futures of Education
Science education as currently undertaken in schools is generally too narrow in its conceptualisation and this is a major reason why it fails to engage many young people. This book provides a unified framework for understanding the scope, the purpose and the pedagogies of science education in the...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
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The Struggle for the History of Education
Series: Foundations and Futures of Education
The history of education is a contested field of study, and has represented a site of struggle for the past century of its development. It is highly relevant to an understanding of broader issues in history, education and society, and yet has often been regarded as being merely peripheral rather...
Published February 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation
Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation
Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation builds on the legacy of social justice multicultural education, while recognizing the considerable challenges of reaching today’s college students. By drawing on breakthrough research in two fields – neuroscience and animal studies – Nadine...
Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
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The Teacher and the World
A Study of Cosmopolitanism as Education
Series: Teacher Quality and School Development
Teachers the world over are seeking creative ways to respond to the problems and possibilities generated by globalization. Many of them work with children and youth from increasingly varied backgrounds, with diverse needs and capabilities. Others work with homogeneous populations and yet are aware...
Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
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The Routledge Companion to Education
Who are the key thinkers in education? What are the hot topics in education? Where will education go from here? The Routledge Companion to Education presents the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide available to the key theories, themes and topics in education. Forty specially commissioned chapters...
Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Sourcebook of Experiential Education
Key Thinkers and Their Contributions
Experiential education is a philosophy and methodology for building knowledge, developing skills, and clarifying values by engaging learners in direct experience and focused reflection. To understand experiential education, what should one be reading? This sourcebook introduces philosophers,...
Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
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Sourcebook of Experiential Education
Key Thinkers and Their Contributions
Experiential education is a philosophy and methodology for building knowledge, developing skills, and clarifying values by engaging learners in direct experience and focused reflection. To understand experiential education, what should one be reading? This sourcebook introduces philosophers,...
Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
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Visible Learning
A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement
This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding. The research involves many...
Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
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Visible Learning
A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement
This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding. The research involves many...
Published November 17th 2008 by Routledge
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Visible Learning
A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement
This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding. The research involves many...
Published November 17th 2008 by Routledge