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Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics


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The Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics series aims to enhance our understanding of key challenges and facilitate on-going academic debate within the influential and growing field of Education Policy and Politics.

 

Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:

AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

Alice Salt: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America

Vilija Stephens: [email protected] – Editor, Australia & New Zealand

Katie Peace: [email protected] – Publisher, Asia

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Education Policy and the Political Right The Burning Fuse beneath Schooling in the US, UK and Australia

Education Policy and the Political Right: The Burning Fuse beneath Schooling in the US, UK and Australia

1st Edition

By Grant Rodwell
January 29, 2024

This work attempts a comparative description and analysis, focusing on the US, the UK, and Australia on the topic of the Right, educational policy, and schooling. It adopts as its underlying theme the burning fuse in tracing the topic back to Joseph de Maistre a Rightist who fled revolutionary ...

School Resources, the Achievement Gap, and the Law Reconsidering School Finance, Policies, and Resources in US Education Policy

School Resources, the Achievement Gap, and the Law: Reconsidering School Finance, Policies, and Resources in US Education Policy

1st Edition

By David J. Armor, John R. Munich, Aron Malatinszky
January 12, 2024

This book offers a novel and up-to-date exploration of the common belief that increasing conventional school resources will increase academic achievement and help close gaps between various advantaged and disadvantaged students. Taking the scholarship around this question, such as James S. Coleman’...

Perspectives on the Place of Creativity in Education, Policy and Practice Limitations and Open Spaces

Perspectives on the Place of Creativity in Education, Policy and Practice: Limitations and Open Spaces

1st Edition

By Kevin Gormley
October 04, 2023

This book critically analyses how cultural and educational policies construct creativity through a range of concepts and compares this against the open and expansive idea of creativity as experienced by individuals in society more broadly. The book draws on empirical data, case-study examples, and...

Taming Chance in Education Control, Prediction and Comparison

Taming Chance in Education: Control, Prediction and Comparison

1st Edition

By Daniel Pettersson, Andreas Nordin
October 02, 2023

This volume centres the notion of "chance" in education as a key concept in contemporary education – relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments – and discusses the impact that the historical desire to "tame" this notion has had on present-day ...

Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global Governance Risks, Limitations, and Humanistic Alternatives

Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global Governance: Risks, Limitations, and Humanistic Alternatives

1st Edition

Edited By António Teodoro
September 25, 2023

This volume offers a critical examination of the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), focusing on its origins and implementation, relationship to other international large-scale assessments, and its impacts on educational policy and reform at national and cross-national levels. ...

Educating the Neoliberal Whole Child A Genealogical Approach

Educating the Neoliberal Whole Child: A Genealogical Approach

1st Edition

By Bronwen MA Jones
September 25, 2023

This book questions what ‘educating the whole child’ means in the context of our current neoliberal education system. In analysing the impact of how education policy is enacted and understood, it examines how this ‘neoliberalisation’ has shaped the personal and ethical relations of education. The ...

The Path to Successful Community School Policy Adoption A Comparative Analysis of District-Level Policy Reform Processes

The Path to Successful Community School Policy Adoption: A Comparative Analysis of District-Level Policy Reform Processes

1st Edition

By Emily Lubin Woods
September 25, 2023

Drawing on rich case studies of Baltimore City and Boston, this volume identifies policy factors and processes critical to the successful district-wide adoption of community schools. By applying the Multiple Streams Model (Kingdon) to comparative analysis of policy determination and the ...

Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research The Practice of Methods

Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research: The Practice of Methods

1st Edition

Edited By Camilla Addey, Nelli Piattoeva
May 31, 2023

What do we actually do when we research education policy and governance? Why do we tame the messy hinterland of research into smooth accounts and what do we lose in the process? In this volume, distinguished scholars in education policy and governance research discuss how the practice of methods is...

Working in a Survival School Exploring Policy Tensions, Marketisation and Performativities

Working in a Survival School: Exploring Policy Tensions, Marketisation and Performativities

1st Edition

By Lee Del Col, Garth Stahl
May 31, 2023

Working in a Survival School documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders. The research traces the everyday work and experience of educators within an all-boys Catholic college suffering an unprecedented ...

Nancy Fraser and Participatory Parity Reframing Social Justice in South African Higher Education

Nancy Fraser and Participatory Parity: Reframing Social Justice in South African Higher Education

1st Edition

Edited By Vivienne Bozalek, Dorothee Hölscher, Michalinos Zembylas
February 01, 2022

Nancy Fraser and Participatory Parity provides a philosophical framework based on the work of Nancy Fraser, examining how her ideas can be used to analyse contemporary issues in higher education and reimagine higher education practices. Providing a forum for considering Fraser’s work in relation to...

Education for Democracy in England in World War II

Education for Democracy in England in World War II

1st Edition

By Hsiao-Yuh Ku
April 28, 2020

Education for Democracy in England in World War II examines the educational discourse and involvement in wartime educational reforms of five important figures: Fred Clarke, R. H. Tawney, Shena Simon, H. C. Dent and Ernest Simon. These figures campaigned for educational reforms through their books, ...

Pedagogy in Poverty Lessons from Twenty Years of Curriculum Reform in South Africa

Pedagogy in Poverty: Lessons from Twenty Years of Curriculum Reform in South Africa

1st Edition

By Ursula Hoadley
April 09, 2020

As South Africa transitioned from apartheid to democracy, changes in the political landscape, as well as educational agendas and discourse on both a national and international level, shaped successive waves of curriculum reform over a relatively short period of time. Using South Africa as a germane...

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