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  • School Autonomy Reform and Social Justice in Australian Public Education

    Series series Local/Global Issues in Education
    This book explores the social justice implications of school autonomy reform within the context of public education in Australia. It is situated within and framed by global concerns about how public schools are navigating their ‘autonomy’ within increasingly marketised education systems.Drawing on extensive interviews with stakeholders and five in-depth case study schools, the book calls attention ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Young Men’s Online Lives

    Cultivating Critical Digital Dispositions for Gender Justice

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot offers insight into the factors that influence, motivate and inform young men’s online experiences. In Australia and globally recent media and public discourse has expressed strong concerns about the gender-based harms arising from young men’s online behaviours – these concerns have prompted renewed scrutiny on boys and masculinity and produced a sense of urgency around ... Read more

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  • The Affective Intensities of Masculinity in Shaping Gendered Experience

    From Little Boys, Big Boys Grow

    by Amanda Keddie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book tells a story of masculinity through the experiences of one boy, ‘Adam’. From four different studies and time periods, it tracks moments of significance in his life over a period of 20 years. These moments highlight the ways in which Adam is both drawn towards and away from a hegemonic masculinity of physical toughness, domination, competition and an opposition to ‘the feminine’. The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Re-searching Margins

    Ethics, Social Justice, and Education

    Identity, power, and positionality play crucial roles in designing and implementing research critically and ethically across marginalized cultures and communities. Through four unique case studies, this book highlights the dilemmas faced by researchers in the field of education, demonstrating how they grapple with the ethics of research and with their role in the process.Re-searching Margins: ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Teaching Boys

    Developing classroom practices that work

    by Amanda Keddie ...
    Persistently cheeky, disruptive, even aggressive boys can be found in classrooms everywhere, as can the victims of bullying. These boys' behaviours often pose a problem to themselves as well as to others. As the hotly contested debates about boys' education swirl around them, what can teachers actually do to improve boys' performance in the classroom?Teaching Boys provides a practical framework ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Supporting and Educating Young Muslim Women

    Stories from Australia and the UK

    by Amanda Keddie ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
    This book draws on the stories of female educators and young Muslim women to explore issues of identity, justice and education. Situated against a backdrop of unprecedented Islamophobia and new articulations of ‘White-lash’, this book draws on case study research conducted over a ten-year period and provides insight into the diverse worlds of young Muslim women from education and community ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Autonomy, Accountability and Social Justice

    Stories of English Schooling

    Autonomy, Accountability and Social Justice provides an account of recent developments in English state education, with a particular focus on the ‘academisation’ of schooling. It examines how head teachers, teachers and others working in diverse education settings navigate the current policy environment. The authors provide readers with insight into the complex decision-making processes that shape ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Leadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice

    Issues of social justice and equity in the field of educational leadership have become more salient in recent years. The unprecedented diversity, uncertainty and rapid social change of the contemporary global era are generating new and unfamiliar equity questions and challenges for schools and their leaders. In order to understand the moral and ethical complexity of work undertaken in the name of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Politics of Differentiation in Schools

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    In many English-speaking countries, teachers are encouraged to differentiate their classrooms, and in some cases, through various policy mechanisms. This encouragement is often accompanied by threats and sanctions for not making the grade. By exploring the ways in which one education system in Australia has mandated differentiation through an audit of teacher practices, this book provides a timely ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Educating for Diversity and Social Justice

    by Amanda Keddie ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Educating for Diversity and Social Justice foregrounds the personal stories of educators who are engaging the space of schooling as a site of possibility for realizing the goals of social justice. It is a book inspired by a vision of education as a practice of freedom where young people – especially those who are marginalized – can learn that they have a voice and the power to change their world ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    Social Media and The Continuation of Capitalism

    Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be ... Read more

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  • A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Leadership

    Series series Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
    An engaging guide through the cacophony of competing perspectives and models of leadership, the new edition includes an expanded discussion of contemporary topics like followership, gender, ethics, authenticity, and leadership and the arts, set against the backdrop of the global financial crisis.Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly ... Read more

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