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  • Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice

    by John Smyth ...
    Series series Critical Pedagogy Today
    We live in a time when those who wield unrestrained power believe they have the inalienable right to determine the destiny, nature and shape of social institutions like schools. Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice challenges this arrogance by showing how teachers, students, parents, communities, and researchers can develop narratives that amount to working with and for those who are increasingly ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Toxic University

    Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology

    by John Smyth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to the institution of the university, as a result of the withdrawal of state funding and the imposition of neoliberal market reforms on higher education. It argues that universities have lost their way, and are currently drowning in an impenetrable mush of economic babble, spurious spin-offs of zombie economics, management-speak and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The CEO: Chief Engagement Officer

    Turning Hierarchy Upside Down to Drive Performance

    by John Smythe ...
    You may be a senior executive wondering how to engage hundreds or thousands of employees in your vision, strategy or the transformation of the business; or a specialist in HR, communication and change, tasked with the challenge of 'aligning and mobilising' your people. In either case, you no longer want compliant people, you want individuals who will engage their creativity at work. For their part ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • OPO The Peace Monster

    by John Smythe ...
    What if 'Jaws' had been a dolphin?A story of war, peace, fear, love and tourism.A decade after the Second World War, the simple life of a small community in New Zealand's far north is radically changed by the arrival in its harbour of a 'wild' dolphin. First she befriends the locals then she becomes the greatest tourist attraction New Zealand has ever known.Thousands make the pilgrimage over rough ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Velvet Revolution at Work

    The Rise of Employee Engagement, the Fall of Command and Control

    by John Smythe ...
    What drives or delivers engaged people? Employers need to focus on creating the right conditions. Employers can't impose engagement: people need to choose to engage themselves. In The Velvet Revolution at Work, the follow-up to his best-selling The CEO: Chief Engagement Officer, John Smythe explains that the essential ingredient of the right conditions is a culture of distributed leadership which ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Living on the Edge

    Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition

    by John Smyth, Terry Wrigley, Peter McInerney ...
    Series Book 70 - Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society
    Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education—the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Becoming Educated

    Young People’s Narratives of Disadvantage, Class, Place and Identity

    by John Smyth, Peter McInerney ...
    Series Book 67 - Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society
    Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ‘disadvantaged’ contexts. The book argues that because the focus has been obdurately and willfully on the wrong things – blaming students; measuring, testing and comparing them; and treating families and communities in demeaning ways that convert them into mere ‘consumers’ – that the resulting misdiagnoses ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Doing Critical Educational Research

    A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth

    by John Smyth, Barry Down, Peter McInerney, Robert Hattam ...
    Series Book 7 - Teaching Contemporary Scholars
    John Smyth’s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from it. Possibly the single most unique aspect to Smyth’s version of critical research is his passion for ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Corporate Elites and the Reform of Public Education

    by John Smyth, Rob Higham, Ruth McGinity, Steven Courtney, Andrew Wilkins, Helen M Gunter, James Duggan, Leonel Lim, Howard Prosser, Katy Swalwell, Kristin Sinclair, Nurdiana Gaus, Tanya Fitzgerald, Eleni Schirmer, Kenneth J. Saltman, Jahni M. A. Smith, Andrew L. LaFave, Patricia E. Burch ...
    Just what is the role and impact of corporate elites in contemporary reforms of public sector universities and schools?Providing fresh perspectives on matters of governance and vibrant case studies on the particular types of provision including curriculum, teaching and professional practices, Gunter, Hall and Apple bring together contributions from Argentina, Australia, England, Indonesia, ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Female Entrepreneurs

    The Secrets of Their Success

    by John Smythe, Ruth Saunders ...
    The comparative numbers between male- and female-led start-ups are stark. Ninety-one per cent of venture capital money continues to fund businesses founded solely by men, with only one per cent of venture capital money invested in businesses founded solely by women. Yet being a female entrepreneur is not the preserve of Wonder Woman. It’s for every woman who wants to make it happen.Female ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Socially Just School

    Making Space for Youth to Speak Back

    by John Smyth, Barry Down, Peter McInerney ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most marginalized and at an educational disadvantage. Social justice is a key theme as the book examines the needs of youth, the concept of school culture, school/community relations, socially critical pedagogy, curriculum ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Re-Making Teaching

    Ideology, Policy and Practice

    by Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth ...
    Dramatic, profound and far-reaching changes are being visited on schools worldwide that have their genesis a long way from the classroom but which impact heavily on teachers and their work. Most of this reform has been achieved with little or no involvement of teachers themselves. This book sets out to survey the contemporary context of what is happening to the work of teaching, and focuses on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD