Alexander M. Sidorkin – författare

This book defines and galvanizes a new approach to education through refocusing it on human relations. Following on the heels of lackluster accountability- and choice-based reforms, this approach suggests that meaningful educational change depends on recognition that relations between students and teachers and among students are critically important. Stakeholders must create intentional policies and practices that allow the relational side of education to flourish. Focusing on the PK-12 educational system, Pedagogy of Relation provides support for the claim that relations are the basis for successful learning—that education is a profoundly social activity—and to push educational reform in a new direction.

This book defines and galvanizes a new approach to education through refocusing it on human relations. Following on the heels of lackluster accountability- and choice-based reforms, this approach suggests that meaningful educational change depends on recognition that relations between students and teachers and among students are critically important. Stakeholders must create intentional policies and practices that allow the relational side of education to flourish. Focusing on the PK-12 educational system, Pedagogy of Relation provides support for the claim that relations are the basis for successful learning—that education is a profoundly social activity—and to push educational reform in a new direction.

The Routledge International Handbook of Relational Pedagogy provides a vision that foregrounds dialogic, nurturing, inclusive relationships underpinning children and students'' wellbeing and growth, offering an alternative educational vision to the neoliberal discourse dominant in education worldwide.

With eminent contributors from across the globe, it provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of theoretical, conceptual, empirical and practice-based tensions and debates in the field. Its insights range across the educational continuum from early childhood education and care to elementary, secondary and higher-level education in formal and informal settings. The Handbook uniquely explores and maps the terrain of pedagogical relations with theoretical, philosophical, empirical and practical perspectives across 42 articles presented in four Parts: Foundations: Philosophical and Theoretical Architectures; Contexts of Relationality from Early Childhood to Higher Education; Leadership and Organisational Transformation; and Inclusion, Justice and Cultural Responsiveness. It provides space for "the not yet seen" and serves as a valuable bridge between the practical needs of educational institutions and the theories provided by research.

This Handbook will be of interest to scholars in education, teachers, undergraduate and advanced students in teacher education, academic researchers, and educational leaders seeking to understand relational pedagogy as a key response to global challenges in education.

The Routledge International Handbook of Relational Pedagogy provides a vision that foregrounds dialogic, nurturing, inclusive relationships underpinning children and students'' wellbeing and growth, offering an alternative educational vision to the neoliberal discourse dominant in education worldwide.

With eminent contributors from across the globe, it provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of theoretical, conceptual, empirical and practice-based tensions and debates in the field. Its insights range across the educational continuum from early childhood education and care to elementary, secondary and higher-level education in formal and informal settings. The Handbook uniquely explores and maps the terrain of pedagogical relations with theoretical, philosophical, empirical and practical perspectives across 42 articles presented in four Parts: Foundations: Philosophical and Theoretical Architectures; Contexts of Relationality from Early Childhood to Higher Education; Leadership and Organisational Transformation; and Inclusion, Justice and Cultural Responsiveness. It provides space for "the not yet seen" and serves as a valuable bridge between the practical needs of educational institutions and the theories provided by research.

This Handbook will be of interest to scholars in education, teachers, undergraduate and advanced students in teacher education, academic researchers, and educational leaders seeking to understand relational pedagogy as a key response to global challenges in education.

This book investigates the interrelationship between educational reforms and pedagogical and technological innovations, as well as the implications of this relationship for the quality of human capital. By analyzing recent educational reforms in Russia and the US, the authors shed new light on how these reforms may help or hinder innovations, such as the introduction of computer technologies into classrooms, new methods of teacher evaluation, constructivist teaching methods, and governance in public schools.

Taking labor economics as a useful lens for conceptualizing the diffusion of innovation, in the first part of the book the authors analyze book how certain power arrangements can block educational innovations in schools. In the second part they examine recent educational reforms in the US and Russia. The final part presents a vision of the next generation of educational reforms, which may enable innovation diffusion, rather than hamper it.