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Postdigital play and global education: reconfiguring research (2024)
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Dixon, K., Murris, K., Peers, J., Giorza, T., & Lawrence, C. (in press). Postdigital play and global education: reconfiguring research. Routledge

Postdigital Play and Global Education: Reconfiguring Research is a re-turn to a large-scale, international project on children’s digital play. Adopting postqualitative and posthumanist theories, research practices are reconfigured, all the way down f... Read More about Postdigital play and global education: reconfiguring research.

Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts: Towards Education Justice (2023)
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Zapata, G. C., Kalantzis, M., & Cope, B. (Eds.). (2023). Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts: Towards Education Justice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003349662

Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts: Towards Education Justice examines how multiliteracies and Learning by Design have been taken up across international second-language instructional contexts, with a focus on inclusive practices a... Read More about Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts: Towards Education Justice.

Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education: Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts (2023)
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Bhana, D., Xu, Y., & Adriany, V. (Eds.). (2023). Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education: Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003211600

This volume examines gendered and heteronormative norms embedded within early childhood education (ECE) in the Global South, including Brazil, China, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam. In this book, the contributors explore how gender, culture, rel... Read More about Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education: Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts.

Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age – ‘To Open the Immortal Eye' (2023)
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Clancy, S. (2023). Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age – ‘To Open the Immortal Eye'. (1). Palgrave Macmillan

This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948-1976) and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan i... Read More about Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age – ‘To Open the Immortal Eye'.

Teacher Professionalism During the Pandemic: Courage, Care and Resilience (2023)
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Day, C., Smith, H. V., Graham, R., & Athanasiadou, D. (2023). Teacher Professionalism During the Pandemic: Courage, Care and Resilience. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003391661

This insightful book uniquely charts the events, experiences and challenges faced by teachers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic including periods of national lockdowns and school closures. Research-based and evidence informed, this key title... Read More about Teacher Professionalism During the Pandemic: Courage, Care and Resilience.

Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci: The Organising of Ideas (2023)
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Stevenson, H. (2023). Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci: The Organising of Ideas. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429505102

This insightful book explores the life and ideas of Italian Marxist theoretician Antonio Gramsci, and argues his work has considerable contemporary relevance when re-considering educational leadership in today’s age of crises. Gramsci’s theory of... Read More about Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci: The Organising of Ideas.

Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe (2023)
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Holford, J., Boyadjieva, P., Clancy, S., Hefler, G., & Studená, I. (Eds.). (2023). Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14109-6

Presents the results of a trans-European research project. Provides innovative insights into EU policy processes and their outcomes. Includes contributions from leading scholars in the field.

Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers (2023)
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Little, G., Sharp, E., Stevenson, H., & Wilson, D. (2023). Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers. Pluto Press

The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organising in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the 'turn to organising' in the union movement today. This... Read More about Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers.

Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (2023)
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Thomson, P., & Hall, C. (2023). Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life. Routledge

‘Why study the arts at school?’ This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed by rigorous research, the book argues that the arts help young people to develop key skills, knowledge and practices that support them to become both crit... Read More about Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life.

Language Narratives and Shifting Multilingual Pedagogies: English teaching from the South (2022)
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Mendelowitz, B., Ferreira, A., & Dixon, K. (2023). Language Narratives and Shifting Multilingual Pedagogies: English teaching from the South. Bloomsbury Publishing

This book challenges monoglossic ideologies, traditional language pedagogies and dominant forms of knowledge construction by foregrounding multilingual and multicultural students' language narratives, repertoires, and identities. The research is base... Read More about Language Narratives and Shifting Multilingual Pedagogies: English teaching from the South.

Classroom Talk in Practice: Teachers' Experiences of Oracy in Action (2022)
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Knight, R. (2022). Classroom Talk in Practice: Teachers' Experiences of Oracy in Action. Open University Press

Purposeful classroom talk, or oracy, is increasingly recognised as fundamental for supporting both personal and academic development and for enhancing genuine participation in learning. Based on classroom observations and interviews, this book offers... Read More about Classroom Talk in Practice: Teachers' Experiences of Oracy in Action.

Leading Educational Networks: Theory, Policy and Practice (2022)
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Greany, T., & Kamp, A. (2022). Leading Educational Networks: Theory, Policy and Practice. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

This book offers a global perspective on educational networks, reviewing theory and practice before setting out four lenses: educational effectiveness and improvement; governance theory; complexity theory; and Actor-Network Theory. Using these lenses... Read More about Leading Educational Networks: Theory, Policy and Practice.

Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice (2022)
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Zapata, G. C. (2022). Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003106258

Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching establishes theoretical, research, and practice connections between the multiliteracies framework Learning by Design and L2 teaching and learning.   A comprehensive introductory chapter presents th... Read More about Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice.

Local Literacies in Early Childhood: Inequalities in place, policy and pedagogy (2021)
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Smith, H. V. (2021). Local Literacies in Early Childhood: Inequalities in place, policy and pedagogy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032052

This book contributes to current debates about the importance of early literacy and the different ways that literacy resources offer support to parents with young children. It sheds light on the impact of policy discourse and austerity measures on co... Read More about Local Literacies in Early Childhood: Inequalities in place, policy and pedagogy.

Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Empowerment, Gender and Development in an African Movement (2021)
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Chingarande, S. D., Thondhlana, J., Madziva, R., & Anderson, A. H. (Eds.). (2021). Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Empowerment, Gender and Development in an African Movement. The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers

In Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism, the fourteen contributors to this multidisciplinary collection reflect on how Pentecostalism contributes to the empowerment of marginalised societies, how it empowers women in particular through the... Read More about Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Empowerment, Gender and Development in an African Movement.

The Bloomsbury handbook of the internationalization of higher education in the Global South (2021)
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Thondhlana, J., Chiyevo Garwe, E., de Wit, H., Gacel-Ávila, J., Huang, F., & Tamrat, W. (Eds.). (2021). The Bloomsbury handbook of the internationalization of higher education in the Global South. Bloomsbury Publishing

This Handbook covers a wide range of historical perspectives, realities, research and practice of internationalization of higher education (IHE) in the global south and makes comparisons to IHE issues in the global north. Drawing on the expertise of... Read More about The Bloomsbury handbook of the internationalization of higher education in the Global South.