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    Practices of Profit-Making

    by Anna Hogan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book delves into the pervasive commercialisation of public schooling, tracing its roots and examining its current manifestations. From the evolution of textbook publishing to the digital transformation led by global edu-businesses, it sheds light on how commercial interests have reshaped education policy, curriculum design, and teaching practices worldwide.Through a series of in-depth case ... Read more

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  • Teaching and Time Poverty

    Understanding Workload and Work Intensification in Schools

    Edited by Greg Thompson, Anna Hogan ...
    As teacher shortages reach a global crisis point, this book explores how time poverty has become a critical factor in the working lives of teachers and school leaders. Arguing that we need to move away from framing the problem of teachers’ work as simply workload, this book suggests that understanding time poverty is the first step in moving toward more manageable working lives.The book brings ... Read more

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  • Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education

    How the Public Nature of Schooling is Changing

    Edited by Anna Hogan, Greg Thompson ...
    Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education asks how publicness is being redefined through the restructuring of nominally public school systems. Over the past few decades, governments have engineered a wave of reforms in their public systems opening them to privatisation and commercialisation. In public education systems competition, choice and autonomy have become entrenched vectors ... Read more

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  • Harnessing Complexity for Better Outcomes in Public and Non-profit Services

    ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.How can public services and social interventions create and sustain good outcomes for the populations they serve?Building on research in public health, social epidemiology and the social determinants of health, this book presents complexity theory as an alternative basis for an outcome-oriented public management praxis. It takes a ... Read more

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  • Teacher Learning and Leadership

    Of, By, and For Teachers

    Series series Teacher Quality and School Development
    Teacher Learning and Leadership asserts that teachers should be put at the center of creating, developing, organizing, implementing, and sharing their own ideas for school change rather than being passive recipients of knowledge from the outside. It argues that there is tremendous potential for the good of students and the professionalization of teaching, when teachers work collaboratively to ... Read more

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    A Critical Appreciation

    Edited by Stephen Swailes ...
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    Scholarly literature on talent management usually takes a mainstream approach to understanding how and why organizations pursue talent initiatives and to rationalizing their presumed benefits. Indeed, the basic logic of identifying and supporting an organization's most talented employees is, on the surface, quite seductive. Recent conceptual and empirical research, however, shows that talent ... Read more

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