Education Policy and Realist Social Theory

Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism

By Robert Wilmott

In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46433-8 (Routledge)

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Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology

Third Edition

Edited by J. Michael Spector, M. David Merrill, Jeroen van Merrienboer, Marcy P. Driscoll

Sponsored by the Association of Educational Communication and Technology (AECT), the third edition of this groundbreaking Handbook continues the mission of its predecessors: to provide...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96338-1 (Routledge)

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The Routledge Reader in Early Childhood Education

Edited by Elizabeth Wood

Early childhood education has always provoked passionate feelings amongst stakeholders at all levels, from practitioners working with children and families in pre-school and school settings,...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45152-9 (Routledge)

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The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies

Schools for the Knowledge Society

By Kerry J. Kennedy, John Chi-Kin Lee

Walk into a classroom in Tokyo, New York, London or Rotterdam, and the similarities in structure, activity, purpose and style will outweigh differences in language,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41200-1 (Routledge)

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Improving Learning through Consulting Pupils

By Jean Rudduck, Donald McIntyre

Pupil consultation can lead to a transformation of teacher-pupil relationships, to significant improvements in teachers' practices, and to pupils having a new sense of themselves...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41616-0 (Routledge)

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Working Together in Children's Services

By Damien Fitzgerald, Janet Kay

The importance of interagency cooperation within children’s services has been highlighted within recent government strategy, including the Every Child Matters agenda, the development of Children’s...

2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-467-2 (David Fulton Publis)

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Culturally Contested Literacies

America's "Rainbow Underclass" and Urban Schools

By Guofang Li

Culturally Contested Literacies is a vivid ethnographic account of the everyday cross-cultural living and schooling experiences of six culturally-diverse families in urban America. Documenting the...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95565-2 (Routledge)

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Multimodal Pedagogies in Diverse Classrooms

Representation, Rights and Resources

By Pippa Stein

Multimodal Pedagogies in Diverse Classrooms examines how the classroom can become a democratic space founded on the integration of different histories, modes of representation, feelings,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40165-4 (Routledge)

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At-Risk Children & Youth

Resiliency Explored

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...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-7890-3381-9 (Routledge)

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Knowledge Production

Research Work in Interesting Times

Edited by Bridget Somekh, Thomas A. Schwandt

This collection from a highly impressive international group of educational researchers explores epistemological, methodological, and ethical-political issues in the production of knowledge about educational phenomena...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44228-2 (Routledge)

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