Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education
About the Book Series
The series provides a platform for both established and emerging scholars to present their latest research and discuss key issues in the sociology of education. The series welcomes books on all areas of the sociology of education, including but not limited to urban education, gender and sexuality in education, equality and human and rights, disability studies, teaching and learning, theories of learning, and more.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Historical Sociologies of Knowledge, Science, and Modernity, Volume 1: Infrastructures, Differences, and Spaces of Action in Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas S. Popkewitz, Elin Sundström Sjödin, Ji Hyun Hwang, Chushan Wu
October 23, 2026
This edited collection offers an exploration and critical reassessment of the sciences in educational research, foregrounding its agential and material qualities rather than treating it as a neutral instrument of knowledge. Addressing the enduring allure of research as expertise and of science as ...
Historical Sociologies of Knowledge, Science, and Modernity, Volume 2: Visual Cultures and Affective Economies in Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas S. Popkewitz, Elin Sundström Sjödin, Chushan Wu, Ji Hyun Hwang
October 23, 2026
This edited collection offers an exploration and critical reassessment of the sciences in educational research, foregrounding its agential and material qualities rather than treating it as a neutral instrument of knowledge. Addressing the enduring allure of research as expertise and of science as ...
Neoliberal Boys: Class, Masculinity and the Crisis in Education
1st Edition
By Dane Morace-Court
June 29, 2026
This eminently timely volume offers a critical examination of the educational experiences of white working-class boys, interrogating the impact of neoliberal education policies, hegemonic masculinity and the increasing influence of digital culture on how they engage, or disengage, with schooling. ...
Emerging Perspectives from Social Realism on Knowledge and Education: Curricula, Pedagogy, Identity, and Equity
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham McPhail, Richard Pountney, Leesa Wheelahan
May 22, 2026
This book brings the key ideas and concepts of social realism to bear on current debates in the fields of knowledge and curriculum. The key concern of this collection is to highlight matters related to knowledge and the influence these dimensions have on the formation of curricula, pedagogy, ...
Reframing Learning: Changing Practices, Sites, Histories, Lives
1st Edition
By Stephen Kemmis, Christine Edwards-Groves, Peter Grootenboer
May 22, 2026
Disrupting the individualism of much conventional psychological research into learning, this book presents a situated, practice-based understanding of learning, based on the theories of situated learning and practice architectures, conceptualising learning as ontological transformation. While ...
Knowledge Production, Policy and Practice in Education: Social Realist Explorations of Curriculum, Teaching and Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Grace Healy, Di Swift, Brian Barrett
March 31, 2026
Knowledge Production, Policy and Practice in Education: Social Realist Explorations of Curriculum, Teaching and Research brings together theoretical and empirical enquiries into curricula, pedagogy and assessment, informed by the influential traditions of social realism and Basil Bernstein’s ...
Exploring Elite Schools and Inclusive Child-Centred Sex and Relationships Education: Bourdieu and Heteronormative Power Structures
1st Edition
By Matthew Round
January 23, 2026
Contributing to the body of literature that applies Bourdieu to the study of educational institutions, this novel volume considers how elite schools could successfully incorporate inclusive equitable sex and relationship education (RSE) within the existing mechanisms of continuing professional ...
Primary Homework, Mothering and Maternal Agency: Portraits of Relationality, Agency and Care in Educational Support
1st Edition
By Rachel Lehner-Mear
December 01, 2025
Constructed around powerful stories of maternal agency, care and emotion, this novel volume conceptualises the primary homework experience as a social and relational practice and act of mothering, thereby raising wider questions about parental involvement in education, families’ agency in school ...
The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Inertia in Higher Education: Exploring Complex Resistance to Technological Change
1st Edition
By James Hutson
October 01, 2025
This research monograph explores the complex resistance to integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) within higher education institutions. Despite the significant potential of AI to enhance education, faculty adoption remains inconsistent and is often met with skepticism. This book investigates key ...
The Diversity Paradox in International Education: A Critical Examination of Discourses of Difference
1st Edition
By Lucy Bailey
September 25, 2025
This volume presents the first-known investigation of the so-called diversity paradox, positing that diversity has become a tool for distinguishing and legitimating the concept of educated Western elites, and arguing for a major reconceptualisation of diversity in different social and cultural ...
Inequality, Education, and Social Exclusion in the Welfare State: Pedagogical Responses from the Nordic Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsten Elisa Petersen, Niels Rosendal Jensen
August 08, 2025
Focusing specifically on educational contexts, this volume sheds light on how the increasing inequalities and issues of social exclusion found in the processes and systems of Nordic welfare states have a detrimental impact on the well-being and development opportunities of children and young people...
Social Justice Dispositions in Schools: Thinking with Bourdieu, Reading Dispositions in Practice
1st Edition
By Russell Cross, Carmen Mills, Trevor Gale
August 07, 2025
Against the backdrop of equity-sensitive approaches within education policy and practice, inequalities in student attainment remain a persistent problem. In response, this book advances the concept of social justice dispositions (SJDs), offering a new perspective by shifting the focus to what ...