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Does Religious
Education Work?
A Multi-dimensional Investigation
James C. Conroy,
Vivienne
Baumfield, L.
Philip Barnes,
Nicole Bourque,
Robert A. Davis,
Tony Gallagher,
Kevin Lowden,
David Lundie and
Karen J. Wenell
• Provides new insights into the life and
workings of the religious education
classroom. Offering new methods for
exploring complex educational realities
• Draws on the ethnographic data of an
AHRC/ESRC-funded research project
JAMES C. CONROy is Professor of Religious and
Philosophical Education at the University of
Glasgow, UK, where VIVIENNE BAUMFIELD is
Professor of Pedagogy, Policy and Innovation,
NICOLE BOURqUE is Senior Lecturer in Social
Anthropology, ROBERT A. DAVIS is Professor of
Religious and Cultural Education and KEVIN
LOWDEN is a Research Fellow.
L. PHILIP BARNES is Reader in Religious and
Theological Education at King’s College London,
UK.
TONy GALLAGHER is Professor of Education
and Pro-Vice Chancellor at queen’s University
Belfast, UK.
DAVID LUNDIE is a Postdoctoral Associate at
Cornell University, USA.
KAREN J. WENELL is Lecturer in New Testament
and Theology at the University of Birmingham, UK.
UK December 2012 US February 2013
208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441127990 - £75.00 / $140.00
Continuum
Geography in
Secondary Schools
Researching Pupils’ Classroom
Experiences
Nick Hopwood
• Offers a rich
understanding
of pupils’
experiences of
school geography
• Presents pupils’
ideas in context
• Provides an
understanding of
the nature of pupils’ conceptions
NICK HOPWOOD is Chancellor’s Post Doctoral
Research Fellow at the University of Technology,
Sydney, Australia, and Research Fellow at the
Department of Education at the University of
Oxford, UK.
UK June 2012 US August 2012
224 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441199089 - £70.00 / $130.00
Continuum
England’s Citizenship
Education Experiment
State, School and Student
Perspectives
Lee Jerome
• Analyses
England’s
citizenship
education policy
within the wider
context of New
Labour’s domestic
policy programme
• Explores the
policy from
different perspectives, including policy
makers, policy implementers and policy
subjects
• Student voice is reflected in the
methodology to ensure that students’
experiences are included
LEE JEROME is Programme Director of
Secondary Initial Teacher Education at London
Metropolitan University, UK.
UK October 2012 US December 2012
208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441122247 - £75.00 / $140.00
Continuum
Children’s Literature
in Second Language
Education
Edited by Janice
Bland and
Christiane Lütge
• Surveys the uses
of children’s
literature in
language teaching
for children and
young adults
• Includes chapters
written by leading international
scholars and teacher educators
• Comprehensive coverage includes
extensive reading, picturebooks,
graphic novels, creative writing and
intercultural learning
Leading international scholars and
teacher educators explore the latest
research into the effective uses of
children’s literature in language teaching
for children and young adults.
JANICE BLAND is Senior Lecturer at Hildesheim
University, Germany.
CHRISTIANE LüTGE is Professor of English
at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz,
Germany.
UK November 2012 US January 2013
224 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441183521 - £75.00 / $140.00
Continuum
EDUCATION
Mapping Multiple
Literacies
An Introduction to Deleuzian
Literacy Studies
Diana Masny and David R. Cole
• Offers a Deleuzian framework for
understanding and researching literacy
• Combines theoretical and empirical
approaches to offer new perspectives
on the sociology of literacy
• Concludes with recommendations
and implications for curriculum and
government policy
Research based new approach to
understanding literacy as a process and a
social practice, drawing on the philosophy
of Gilles Deleuze.
DIANA MASNy is Professor of Education and the
Director of the Multiple Literacies Research Unit
in the Faculty of Education at the University of
Ottawa, Canada.
DAVID R. COLE is Senior Lecturer in Literacy,
English Education and Professional Studies at
the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
UK May 2012 US July 2012
176 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441149206 - £70.00 / $130.00
Continuum
Aspirations, Education
and Social Justice
Applying Sen and Bourdieu
Caroline Sarojini
Hart
• Introduces
the Capability
Approach as a
new paradigm for
thinking about
education
• Explores
understandings of
aspiration, widening participation and
well-being
• Considers opportunities for developing
practices in relation to personal
development, social justice and
economic development
Aspirations, Education and Social Justice
highlights and explores key challenges
for society in the light of new findings on
the nature of aspirations and personal
development.
CAROLINE SAROJINI HART is Politics,
Development and Democratic Education Course
Co-ordinator in the Faculty of Education at the
University of Cambridge, UK.
UK October 2012 US December 2012
208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441185747 - £75.00 / $140.00
Continuum
EDUCATION
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