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  • New Sociologies of Elite Schooling

    Edited by Jane Kenway, Aaron Koh ...
    Elite schools have an intriguing capacity to endure and adapt in the face of social, cultural and political change. They help both to reproduce power, privilege and status and also to regularly produce them afresh. The intricacies involved, over time and place, have attracted the abiding empirical, methodological and conceptual interest of sociologists and historians; recently, anthropologists and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Class Choreographies

    Elite Schools and Globalization

    by Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey, Debbie Epstein, Aaron Koh, Cameron McCarthy, Fazal Rizvi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIGAwarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book PrizeElite schools have always been social choreographers par excellence. The world over, they put together highly dexterous performances as they stage and restage changing relations of ruling. They are adept at aligning their social choreographies to shifting ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Elite Schools

    Multiple Geographies of Privilege

    Edited by Aaron Koh, Jane Kenway ...
    Series series Education in Global Context
    Geography matters to elite schools — to how they function and flourish, to how they locate themselves and their Others. Like their privileged clientele they use geography as a resource to elevate themselves. They mark, and market, place. This collection, as a whole, reads elite schools through a spatial lens. It offers fresh lines of inquiry to the ‘new sociology of elite schools.’ Collectively ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Education in the Global City

    The manufacturing of education in Singapore

    Edited by Aaron Koh, Terence Chong ...
    Education in the Global City examines education in Singapore through the critical lens of ‘manufacturing’. The book brings together two disparate fields which inform each other, education and the ‘global city’; and the book’s contributors analyse and critique the manufacturing of Singapore education and Singapore’s global city formation. The collection covers vocational education, language ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    Sociological Perspectives

    by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
    This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning with examples from around the globe. Divided into three clear parts the book:looks at the development of the knowledge economyprovides a critique of lifelong learning and the learning societyfocuses on the changing ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy

    by Alistair Dow, Robert Hattam, Alan Reid, Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth ...
    Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to their work, as well as responding in ways that actively shape these processes. For teachers and researchers, this book shows what processes are at work in the global economy which impact on, and sometimes control, the ... Read more

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  • Participation in Community Work

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Karin Larsen, Vishanthie Sewpaul, Grete Oline Hole ...
    Participation is a key community work method and this text, written by an international selection of authors, covers innovative approaches in community based education and practice. Including real-life case studies of participatory practice, it offers new definitions of community work, organisation and development and will challenge and inspire all those involved in community work practice and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Gendered Mobilities

    by Tim Cresswell ...
    Being socially and geographically mobile is generally seen as one of the central aspects of women's wellbeing. Alongside health, education and political participation, mobility is indispensable in order for women to reach goals such as agency and freedom. Building on new philosophical underpinnings of 'mobility', whereby society is seen to be framed by the convergence of various mobilities, this ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Globalisation, Policy and Comparative Research

    Discourses of Globalisation

    Edited by Joseph Zajda, Val Rust ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Globalisation, Policy and Comparative Research, which is the fifth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in comparative education research. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern in the field of globalisation, and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Real Social Science

    Applied Phronesis

    Edited by Bent Flyvbjerg, Todd Landman, Sanford Schram ...
    Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original perspective within the social sciences, and this volume gives readers for the first time a set of studies exemplifying what applied phronesis looks like in practice. The reflexive analysis of values and power ... Read more

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  • Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics

    by David Block, John Gray, Marnie Holborow ...
    This book explores neoliberalism – a view of the world that puts the market at its centre- from the perspective of applied linguistics.Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics argues that while applied linguistics has become more interdisciplinary in orientation, it has ignored or downplayed the role of political economy, namely the way in which social, political and economic factors relate to one ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Understanding Public Relations

    Theory, Culture and Society

    by Lee Edwards ...
    This book argues that public relations is not merely an organizational tool, but a powerful influence on social and political life. From carefully considered communication by multinational corporations, to government campaigns that manage public opinion, to the self-promotion of celebrities via social media, public relations is central to our individual and collective lives.Understanding Public ... Read more

    $70.19 USD