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  • Faith, Mission and Challenge in Catholic Education

    The selected works of Gerald Grace

    by Gerald Grace ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key article, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Teachers, Ideology and Control (RLE Edu N)

    by Gerald Grace ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Teachers of the urban working class, especially in inner city areas, have always been regarded as strategic agents in processes of social and cultural formation. In the Victorian era, seen as ‘The Teachers of the People’, ‘Pioneers of Civilization’ and ‘Preachers of Culture’, their role in gentling and controlling the urban masses was crucial. They have always been at the centre of confrontation ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Catholic Schools

    Mission, Markets, and Morality

    by Gerald Grace ...
    In this ground-breaking book, Gerald Grace addresses the dilemmas facing Catholic education in an increasingly secular and consumer-driven culture. The book combines an original theoretical framework with research drawn from interviews with sixty Catholic secondary head teachers from deprived urban areas. Issues discussed include:*Catholic meanings of academic success*tensions between market ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Role Conflict and the Teacher (RLE Edu N)

    by Gerald Grace ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Gerald Grace here explores the concept of role conflict and the current theorizing about the problems of the teacher’s role. He investigates four potential problem areas – role diffuseness, role vulnerability, role commitment versus career orientation, and value conflict – in a sample of one hundred and fifty secondary school teachers in a Midland town. The analysis shows how a teacher’s ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • School Leadership

    Beyond Education Management

    This text provides a study of the education policy scholarship of leadership. It examines the ways in which concepts of educational leadership and management have evolved historically and culturally, reviewing contemporary debates about the nature of school leadership.; The question of what school leadership could and should be is at the centre of political, ideological and educational debate in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Education and the City

    Theory, History and Contemporary Practice

    Edited by Gerald Grace ...
    City schools, especially those attended by working class and ethnic minority pupils are teh catalysts of many significant issues in educational debate and policy making. They bring into sharp focus questions to do with class, gender and race relations in education; concepts of equality of opportunity and of social justice; and controversies about the wider political economic and social context of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Teachers: The Culture and Politics of Work (RLE Edu N)

    Edited by Martin Lawn, Gerald Grace ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book examines the experience and politics of teachers’ work, questions of teacher appraisal, and the struggles of the teachers’ action of 1984-86. A major section of the book charts the changing power relations between organized teachers and the State in Britain from 1900 to the late 1980s. The contributors to this volume write from a variety of perspectives, including conflict theory, socio ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Beyond My Wildest Imagination

    This project was a father-daughter collaboration in every sense of the word. Gerald Ebenezer wants to help you see the world in a way that tells a story that fuels you. An introvert by design, Gerald seeks to reinvent himself many times over in this journey of life, and is still learning. Grace Ebenezer is an extrovert, 15 year old who has big dreams and lives life to the fullest. Beyond my ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    The Heroes Or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children (Unabridged)

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    4 hours 18 min

    This is Kingsley's masterful retelling of the Greek stories about their Heroes and in a manner suitable for children. "why have I called this book ‘The Heroes’? Because that was the name which the Hellens gave to men who were brave and skilful, and dare do more than other men. At first, I think, that was all it meant: but after a time it came to mean something more; it came to mean men who helped ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Rescuing the university project?

    by John Furlong ...
    Education – An Anatomy of the Discipline focuses on the development of the discipline of education, how it is understood and practised in contemporary universities, and the potential threats to its future. As the author, John Furlong argues, disciplines are not only intellectually coherent fields of study; they also have a political life, they are argued for, supported, challenged and debated. ... Read more

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    Every serious student of journalism should read this book... Denis McQuail has succeeded in producing a work of scholarship that shows what journalists do and what they should do.- Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds"For a half century we have spoken earnestly of journalism′s responsibility to society instead of to business and government. Now this concept is given sophistication unmatched, by ... Read more

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