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Forthcoming Books

  1. Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory

    The "Fascinating Imaginative Realm" of William E. Doll, Jr.

    Edited by Donna Trueit

    Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

    The first collection of the key works of the major curriculum studies scholar William E. Doll, Jr., this volume provides an overview of his scholarship over his fifty-year career and documents the theoretical and practical contribution he has made to the field . The book is organized in five...

    To Be Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Universities and Human Development.

    Theoretical insights and a sustainable imaginary

    By Alejandra Boni, Melanie Walker

    Globally, universities are the subject of public debate and disagreement about their private benefits or public good, and the key policy vehicle for driving human capital development for competitive knowledge economies. Yet what is increasingly lost in the disagreements about who should pay for...

    To Be Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge

  3. Handbook of Leadership and Administration for Special Education

    Edited by Jean B. Crockett, Bonnie Billingsley, Mary Lynn Boscardin

    This book brings together for the first time research informing leadership practice in special education from preschool through transition into post-secondary settings. It provides comprehensive coverage of 1) disability policy 2) leadership knowledge, 3) school reform, and 4) effective educational...

    To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Social Inequalities (Re)formed

    Consulting Pupils about Learning

    By Madeleine Arnot, Diane Reay

    The increasing international interest in pupil consultation has been partly fuelled by the encouragement of personalised/individualised learning strategies and the involvement of pupils in their learning. Drawing on an in-depth study which consulted 8 to 14 year old pupils from a variety of...

    To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Rethinking Schools

    Improved Educational Outcomes for All?

    By Christopher Chapman

    Improving educational systems around the world remains at the core of governments’ agendas. However, despite vast investment of resources and sustained periods of interventions many systems have seen their rates of improvement plateau and in some systems the gap between different groups of...

    To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge

  6. On Holy Ground - The Theory and Practice of Religious Education

    By Liam Gearon

    For a diversity of reasons – the resurgence of religion in global governance, globalisation, concerns over social and community cohesion, the worldwide growth in religiously inspired extremism – religious education has in recent years, enjoyed an international renaissance. Many theorists and...

    To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Education and the Nation State

    The selected works of Saravanan Gopinathan

    By Saravanan Gopinathan

    Series: World Library of Educationalists

    In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in...

    To Be Published June 29th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era

    Teaching and Learning in an Age of Accountability, 3rd Edition

    By Patrick Slattery

    This landmark text was one of the first to introduce and analyze contemporary concepts of curriculum that emerged from the Reconceptualization of curriculum studies in the 1970s and 1980s. This new edition brings readers up to date on the major research themes (postmodernism,ecological,...

    To Be Published July 5th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Bourdieu and the Fields of Education Policy

    Understanding Globalization, Mediatization, Implementation

    By Bob Lingard, Shaun Rawolle

    The work of the late French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has had huge impact on the social sciences and the field of education studies. Within education, however, the main focus has been his early work on the reproduction of inequality through schooling which as made effective usage of his concepts...

    To Be Published July 14th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Language Policies in Education

    Critical Issues, 2nd Edition

    Edited by James W. Tollefson

    How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in education serve the interests of dominant groups within societies? How can linguistic minorities further their interests...

    To Be Published August 2nd 2012 by Routledge