Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education

Edited by James Albright, Allan Luke

In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education...

Published August 21st 2008 by Routledge.

Activist Educators

Breaking Past Limits

Edited by Catherine Marshall, Amy L. Anderson

Taking an active stand in today's conservative educational climate can be a risky business. Given both the expectations of the profession and the challenge of...

Published August 6th 2008 by Routledge.

Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University

Edited by Joyce E. Canaan, Wesley Shumar

This volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education (HE) institutions and subjects in a number of Northern nations, as well...

Published July 14th 2008 by Routledge.

The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education

By Kathryn Ecclestone, Dennis Hayes

The silent ascendancy of a therapeutic ethos across the education system and into the workplace demands a book that serves as a wake up call...

Published June 27th 2008 by Routledge.

Education and the Family

Passing Success Across the Generations

By Leon Feinstein, Kathryn Duckworth, Ricardo Sabates

Why it is that success, deprivation or disadvantage are so often passed down intergenerationally? What part does education play?

The educational achievement of parents is often...

Published June 25th 2008 by Routledge.

Telling Stories to Change the World

Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims

By Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox, Kayhan Irani

Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for...

Published May 19th 2008 by Routledge.

Using Social Theory in Educational Research

A Practical Guide

By Mark Dressman

Using Social Theory in Educational Research is organised to help practising educators and novice researchers who have little familiarity with social theory to:

• be introduced to...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

Racism and Education

Coincidence or Conspiracy?

By David Gillborn

Education policy is not designed to eliminate race inequality but to sustain it at manageable levels. This is the inescapable conclusion of the first major...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

Culture in School Learning

Revealing the Deep Meaning

By Etta R. Hollins

In this text Etta Hollins presents a powerful process for developing a teaching perspective that embraces the centrality of culture in school learning. The six-part...

Published February 15th 2008 by Routledge.

Rightist Multiculturalism

Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform

By Kristen L. Buras

For nearly two decades, E. D. Hirsch’s book Cultural Literacy has provoked debate over whose knowledge should be taught in schools, embodying the culture wars...

Published February 12th 2008 by Routledge.