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  • The Absurd Workplace

    How Absurdity is Normalized in Contemporary Society and the Workplace

    by Matthijs Bal, Andy Brookes, Dieu Hack-Polay, Maria Kordowicz, John Mendy ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The current world is absurd. Faced with climate change, health pandemics, and ever-growing inequality, it is striking how globally, governments and organizations are malingering to find effective responses to these crises, leading to absurd situations where we are facing the destruction of the planet, while humankind is not making the necessary transformation towards truly sustainable societies ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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  • When the State Meets the Street

    Public Service and Moral Agency

    by Bernardo Zacka ...
    When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Professionalism

    The Third Logic

    by Eliot Freidson ...
    Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Critical Perspectives On Educational Leadership

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    This book is an edited collection of original papers which challenge in a very direct manner the dominant behviourist and functionalist views that have come to entrap those who live, work and conduct research in the areas of educational leadership, and focusing instead on the structures and processes within schools as organisations that frustrate, distort and ultimately stifle educative ... Read more

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  • What’s Happened To The University?

    A sociological exploration of its infantilisation

    by Frank Furedi ...
    The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s. However today, when almost 50 per cent of young people participate in higher education, what occurs in universities matters directly to the whole of society.On both sides of the Atlantic curious and disturbing events on campuses has become a matter of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Adaptation of Western Economics by Russian Universities

    Intercultural Travel of an Academic Field

    by Tatiana Suspitsyna ...
    This book examines an intercultural translation of economics as an academic field from Western to post-Soviet university settings. ... Read more

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  • Out of the Ruins

    The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces

    Edited by Robert H. Haworth, John M. Elmore ...
    Contemporary educational practices are heeding the calls of Wall Street for more corporate control, privatisation and standardised accountability. In many cases, educational policies are created to uphold and serve particular social, political and economic ends. Schools, in a sense, have been tools to reproduce hierarchical, authoritarian and hyper-individualistic models of social order. The ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • International Relations Theory

    by Oliver Daddow ...
    With chapters on all the major theories of international relations, accompanied by contemporary examples from popular culture, film and literature, this Third Edition is the ideal introduction to the key perspectives in the field.Key features:30% new content, with all chapters revised and updatedUseful learning features including further reading, ′questions to ponder′, ′common pitfalls′ and ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • The Tyranny of the Ideal

    Justice in a Diverse Society

    by Gerald Gaus ...
    In his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. He argues that if we are to take diversity seriously and if moral inquiry is sincere about ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Education

    Introductory Readings

    by William Hare, John P. Portelli ...
    Revised and updated with 25 new essays, the fourth edition of this bestselling collection brings together more than 30 leaders in the field of educational theory. An engaging exploration of the ideas and trends shaping education in today’s classrooms, Philosophy of Education includes topics on high-stakes testing, consumerism in education, and social justice issues in the classroom. How can we ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A Sanctuary of Their Own

    Intellectual Refugees in the Academy

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    What is at stake in compromising the Enlightenment ideals of a liberal education with new educational policies engendered by a neo-liberalized, global marketplace? Richly grounding his arguments in the social philosophy of European and American intellectuals, Raphael Sassower explores Western culture's long-standing ambivalence toward 'the life of the mind.' He shows how and why this historical ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Education and Equality

    by Danielle Allen, Tommie Shelby, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Michael Rebell, Quiara Alegría Hudes ...
    American education as we know it today—guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country—is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these Tanner Lectures, Danielle Allen brings us much closer, examining the ideological impasse between vocational and humanistic approaches that has plagued ... Read more

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