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  • Justice, Education, and the World of Today

    Philosophical Investigations

    Edited by Inga Bostad, Marianna Papastephanou, Torill Strand ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    This edited book challenges the limits of current educational philosophical discourse and argues for a restored normativisation of education through a powerful notion of justice.Moving beyond conventional paradigms of how justice and education relate, the book rethinks the promotion of justice in, for, and through education in its current state. Chapters combine international and diverse ... Read more

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  • The Nordic Education Model in Context

    Historical Developments and Current Renegotiations

    Edited by Daniel Tröhler, Bernadette Hörmann, Sverre Tveit, Inga Bostad ...
    Series series
    Tracing historical and cultural factors which gave rise to the Nordic Education Model, this volume explores why Northern European education policy has become an international benchmark for schooling.The text explains the historical connection between a Nordic ideal of democracy and schooling, and indicates how values of equality, welfare, justice, and individualism might be successfully integrated ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Care and Empathy

    by Michael Slote ...
    Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality. Taking inspiration from British moral sentimentalism and drawing on recent psychological literature on empathy, he shows that the use of that notion ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

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  • Linguistic Imperialism Continued

    by Robert Phillipson ...
    This volume brings together key writings since the 1992 publication of Linguistic Imperialism – Robert Phillipson’s controversial benchmark volume, which triggered a major re-thinking of the English teaching profession by connecting the field to wider political and economic forces. Analyzing how the global dominance of English in all domains of power is maintained, legitimized and persists in the ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Words, Objects and Events in Economics

    The Making of Economic Theory

    Edited by Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume ... Read more

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  • Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship

    Edited by Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of African citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating for one particular framework, the authors demonstrate the continuously contested nature of the concept of citizenship as both theoretically discussed by philosophers and ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Sociological Theory

    Edited by Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, Indermohan Virk ...
    The new edition of the definitive undergraduate guide to contemporary sociological theory, with updated reading selections throughoutThe fourth edition of Contemporary Sociological Theory offers a thorough introduction to current perspectives and approaches in sociology and social science. Covering a broad range of essential topics, this comprehensive volume provides students with the foundation ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology

    Edited by George Ritzer, J. Michael Ryan ...
    This concise encyclopedia is the most complete international survey of sociology ever created in one volume.Contains over 800 entries from the whole breadth of the disciplineDistilled from the highly regarded Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, with entries completely revised and updated to provide succinct and up-to-date coverage of the fundamental topicsGlobal in scope, both in terms of topics ... Read more

    $51.00 USD

  • In Defence of Sociology

    Essays, Interpretations and Rejoinders

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of history. Yet today the idea of progress has more or less collapsed; with its demise, some say, sociological thought has moved to the margins of contemporary ... Read more

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  • Resilience

    The Governance of Complexity

    by David Chandler ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Global Politics
    Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy ‘buzzword’ of choice, alleged to be the solution to a wide and ever-growing range of policy issues. This book analyses the key aspects of resilience-thinking and highlights how resilience impacts upon traditional ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Argumentative Turn Revisited

    Public Policy as Communicative Practice

    Edited by Frank Fischer, Herbert Gottweis ...
    Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes into account the ways that policy is affected by other factors, including culture, discourse, and emotion. The contributors to this new collection consider how far argumentative policy analysis has come during the past two decades and how its theories continue to be refined ... Read more

    $28.99 USD