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  • Just Enough

    Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life

    by Laura Nash, Howard Stevenson ...
    In Just Enough, top Harvard professors offer a revealing, research-based look at the true nature of professional success, helping people everywhere live more rewarding and satisfying lives. True professional and personal satisfaction seems more elusive every day, despite a proliferation of gurus and special methods that promise to make it easy. They conclude that many of the problems of success ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Lessons in Organising

    What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers

    by Gawain Little, Ellie Sharp, Howard Stevenson, David Wilson ...
    A vital work on labour movement strategy by experienced union activists'An excellent review of the attack on teachers and their unions, by authors well placed to point to ways to improve the fight back and resistance' - Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary NEUThe heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organizing in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools

    Differences That Make a Difference

    by Howard Stevenson ...
    Based on extensive research, this provocative volume explores how schools are places where racial conflicts often remain hidden at the expense of a healthy school climate and the well-being of students of color. Most schools fail to act on racial microaggressions because the stress of negotiating such conflicts is extremely high due to fears of incompetence, public exposure, and accusation. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci

    The Organising of Ideas

    by Howard Stevenson ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration
    This insightful book explores the life and ideas of Italian Marxist theoretician Antonio Gramsci, and argues his work has considerable contemporary relevance when re-considering educational leadership in today’s age of crises.Gramsci’s theory of hegemony has provided an invaluable intellectual resource for those seeking to bring about radical change in the complex context of contemporary ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Resisting Neoliberalism in Education

    Local, National and Transnational Perspectives

    by Carlos Vargas-Tamez, Lesley Hagger-Vaughan, Emily Winchip, Alison Milner, Howard Stevenson, Pamela Osmond, Keiko Yasukawa, Pia Cort, Anne Larson, Francesca Rapanà0, Marcella Milana1, Fergal Finnegan2, Jo Bates3, Katherine Quinn4, Annmarie Sheahan5, Mia Angelica Sosa-Provencio6, Shawn Secatero7, Shiv Desai8, Bob Lingard9, Zhe Chen0, David Hursh1, Christine Hall2, Pat Thomson3, Elisabeth Davies4, Rachel Heydon5, Lori Mckee6, Lyn Tett7, Rob Smith9, Gwyneth Allatt0, Vicky Duckworth1, Virginie Thériault2 ...
    Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors and be detrimental to wider social and ethical goals.Drawing on a range of international contexts across ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Education Policy

    Process, Themes and Impact

    by Les Bell, Howard Stevenson ...
    Series series Leadership for Learning Series
    The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, and with what effect. Based on the premise that learning is at the heart of leadership and that leaders themselves should be learners, the Leadership for Learning series explores the connections between educational leadership, policy, curriculum, human ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Industrial Relations in Education

    Transforming the School Workforce

    by Bob Carter, Howard Stevenson, Rowena Passy ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    All phases of education from pre-school to post-compulsory, in virtually all parts of the world, have experienced unprecedented reform and restructuring in recent years. Restructuring has largely been driven by a global agenda that has promoted the development of human capital as the key to economic competitiveness in the global market.This book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach drawing not ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Does Education Matter?

    Myths About Education and Economic Growth

    by Alison Wolf ...
    "Education, education, education" has become an obsession for politicians and the public alike. It is seen as an economic panacea: an engine for growth and prosperity. But is there a link between increased spending on higher eductaion and economicgrowth? Professor Alison Wolf takes a critical look at successive governments' education policy and challenges many of the tenets of received wisdom: ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Wasted

    How Misunderstanding Young Britain Threatens Our Future

    by Georgia Gould ...
    Young people growing up in Britain today face a narrowing job market, high housing costs and the prospect of a lifetime of hard work with less reward. The ideas of social responsibility that arose after the Second World War are straining under the demands of a globalised world.Too often public debate divides Britain's youth into the 'feral rats' of the London riots and the 'posh boys' of Eton. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Irish Business and Society

    Governing, Participating and Transforming in the 21st Century

    Edited by John Hogan, Paul F. Donnelly, Brendan K. O'Rourke ...
    A collection of stimulating essays exploring the wide-ranging debates surrounding the relationship between business and society in 21st century Ireland.Wide-ranging, diverse and thought-provoking contributions from leading business researchers, economists, sociologists and political scientists from Ireland and abroad probe five central themes: the making and unmaking of the Celtic Tiger; ... Read more

    $20.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antonio Gramsci

    by Steven Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    For readers encountering Gramsci for the first time, Steve Jones covers key elements of his thought through detailed discussion and studies the historical context of the theorist's thought, offers examples of putting Gramsci's ideas into practice in the analysis of contemporary culture and evaluates responses to his work.Including British, European and American examples, key topics covered here ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Arise

    Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence

    by Jane Holgate ...
    Series series Wildcat
    'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAleveyIn Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organising experience, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today’s unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice, leadership and union democracy to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus