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  • Theory of Change

    Debates and Applications to Access and Participation in Higher Education

    Edited by Samuel Dent, Anna Mountford-Zimdars, Ciaran Burke ...
    Series series Great Debates in Higher Education
    Theory of Change speaks to those looking for an academically rigorous discussion of the origins and debates around this approach in Higher Education. Melding together robust academic research with examples of practice, the book provides specific applications of using a Theory of Change across key stages of the student life cycle.The Theory of Change underpinning this book is that national and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education

    Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research

    Edited by Dr Mark Murphy, Dr Ciaran Burke, Cristina Costa, Rille Raaper ...
    Series series Social Theory and Methodology in Education Research
    Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education brings together an international group of scholars who shine a theoretical light on the politics of academic life and higher education. The book covers three key areas:Institutional governance, with a specific focus on issues such as measurement, surveillance, accountability, regulation, performance and institutional reputation.Academic work, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Social Research and Disability

    Developing Inclusive Research Spaces for Disabled Researchers

    Edited by Ciaran Burke, Bronagh Byrne ...
    Series series Sociological Futures
    Social Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech. In short, the disabled researcher is not considered when outlining the requirements of particular methods. Drawing upon these considerations, the volume emphasizes ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • An Equitable Framework for Humanitarian Intervention

    by Ciarán Burke ...
    Series series Studies in International Law
    This book aims to resolve the dilemma regarding whether armed intervention as a response to gross human rights violations is ever legally justified without Security Council authorisation. Thus far, international lawyers have been caught between giving a negative answer on the basis of the UN Charter's rules ('positivists'), and a 'turn to ethics', declaring intervention legitimate on moral grounds ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Culture, Capitals and Graduate Futures

    Degrees of class

    by Ciaran Burke ...
    Series series Research into Higher Education
    In a time of too many graduates for too few jobs, and in a context where applicants have similar levels of educational capital, what other factors influence graduate career trajectories? Based on the life history interviews of graduates and framed through a Bourdieusian sociological lens, Culture, Capitals and Graduate Futures explores the continuing role that social class as well as cultural and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • International Perspectives on Theorizing Aspirations

    Applying Bourdieu’s Tools

    Edited by Dr Garth Stahl, Dr Derron Wallace, Dr Ciaran Burke, Dr Steven Threadgold ...
    Series series Social Theory and Methodology in Education Research
    International Perspectives on Theorizing Aspirations offers new insights and guidance for those looking to use Bourdieu's tools in an educational context, with a focus on how the tools can be applied to issues of aspiration. Written by contributors from the UK, USA, Australia, Nigeria, Jamaica and Spain, the book explores how Bourdieu's tools have been applied in recent cutting-edge educational ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Bourdieu: The Next Generation

    The Development of Bourdieu's Intellectual Heritage in Contemporary UK Sociology

    Edited by Jenny Thatcher, Nicola Ingram, Ciaran Burke, Jessie Abrahams ...
    Series series Sociological Futures
    This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues. It will provide a discussion of the working mechanisms of thinking through and/or with Bourdieu when analysing data. In each chapter, individual authors discuss and reflect upon their own research and the ways in which they put Bourdieu to work. The aim of this book is ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Graduate Careers in Context

    Research, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Fiona Christie, Ciaran Burke ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    In a world where there are increasing concerns about graduate underemployment and likely career trajectories, it is not surprising that there is a significant body of literature examining graduate careers in post-industrial societies. However, it has become increasingly evident in recent years that there is a stark disconnect between academics who research employment and education, and careers and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society

    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

  • Why Voice Matters

    Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism

    by Nick Couldry ...
    One of the best books I have read in years about what it means to engage neoliberalism through a critical framework that highlights those narratives and stories that affirm both our humanity and our longing for justice. It should be read by everyone concerned with what it might mean to not only dream about democracy but to engage it as a lived experience and political possibility.- Henry Giroux, ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • 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

  • Ethnography in Education

    by David Mills, Missy Morton ...
    Series series BERA/SAGE Research Methods in Education
    ′Written in a clear, accessible style, this inspirational book is both a practical guide and a survey of the different ways of doing ethnography. Drawing on wide-ranging examples and using classic and contemporary ethnographies, the authors demonstrate the importance of developing an ethnographic sensibility. A most valuable resource′- Cris Shore, University of AucklandEthnography in Education is ... Read more

    $62.99 USD