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  • Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education

    Lessons from Sweden

    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education provides a wide perspective on the dramatic transformation of education policy in Sweden that has taken place during the last 30 years, with a specific focus on marketization. The marketization of education in Sweden is set in the wider international context of changes in education systems.With contributions from researchers across a wide range of ... Read more

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  • The Confessing Society

    Foucault, Confession and Practices of Lifelong Learning

    "I highly appreciate the quality of Fejes’ and Dahlstedt’s research and writing. They manage to present in a comprehensible way some essential concepts of Foucault that help us to understand better what practices of lifelong learning, in a broad sense, are emerging nowadays in advanced liberal societies. In doing so, they contribute to the renewal of critical thinking in education. They convince ... Read more

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  • Foucault and a Politics of Confession in Education

    In liberal, democratic and capitalist societies today, we are increasingly invited to disclose our innermost thoughts to others. We are asked to turn our gaze inwards, scrutinizing ourselves, our behaviours and beliefs, while talking and writing about ourselves in these terms. This form of disclosure of the self resonates with older forms of church confession, and is now widely seen in practices ... Read more

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  • Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens

    A Critical Interrogation

    Series series Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education
    Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens turns attention towards normative claims about who adults should become through education, and what capacities and skills adults need to develop to become included in society as ‘full’ citizens. Through these debates, adults are construed as not yet citizens, despite already being citizens in a formal sense; this book problematises such regimes of ... Read more

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  • Recognition of Prior Learning

    Research from around the globe

    Recognition of prior learning (RPL) has emerged in recent decades as an important policy area and policy concept. It is a phenomenon with a certain variation in practices as well as contexts, concepts and conceptions. However, there is a basic idea about giving recognition to prior learning wherever and whenever learning has taken place. Such ideas can be ‘materialised’ in formal assessment ... Read more

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  • Mapping out the Research Field of Adult Education and Learning

    Edited by Andreas Fejes, Erik Nylander ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses the current state of the art in research on the education and learning of adults, and how such research has been transformed through contemporary policy and research practices. Gathering contributions from leading experts in the field, the book draws on previous research, as well as new findings in order to provide a map of this research field and its contemporary history.The ... Read more

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  • Foucault and Lifelong Learning

    Governing the Subject

    Over the last twenty years there has been increasing interest in the work of Michel Foucault in the social sciences and in particular with relation to education. This, the first book to draw on his work to consider lifelong learning, explores the significance of policies and practices of lifelong learning to the wider societies of which they are a part.With a breadth of international contributors ... Read more

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  • Anthropology

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    Stanley R. Barrett's Anthropology has long been a premiere sourcebook for students, providing a comprehensive overview of both theory and method in the discipline. In this updated second edition, Barrett's discussion of the origins and evolution of anthropology remains, augmented by sections addressing recent changes and ongoing questions in the field.The second edition of Anthropology adds ... Read more

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  • Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy

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    Series series Critical Perspectives on Education
    Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy focuses on what schools are for and what should be taught in them, how learning is possible across boundaries, and issues of diversity and equity. Policies and practices relating to schools are also considered.Within this volume, internationally renowned contributors address a number of fundamental questions designed to take the reader to the heart of ... Read more

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    Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first time a social theory and cultural studies approach to the understanding of globalization.The book starts with an analysis of the relationship between the globalization process and contemporary culture change and goes on to relate this to ... Read more

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  • Theory Revision Notes for A Level Sociology

    by Karl Thompson ...
    These revision notes have been designed to cover the theory aspect of the AQA's sociology A-Level syllabus, the new 2015 Specification onward. The content should also be suitable for other exam boards.Contents:Topic 0 - Sociological theories – an overviewTopic 1 – Positivism and InterpretivismTopic 2 – Is sociology a science?Topic 3 – FunctionalismTopic 4 – MarxismTopic 5 – FeminismTopic 6 – ... Read more

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