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  • Critical Research and Theorizing

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    This two volume collection consists of a number of essays originally published in Critical Pedagogy Networker between 1988-2002 in an Australian context that drew in a number of significant international as well as local scholars.The purpose in bringing this collection into existence is to make available what amount to a number of quite remarkable ideas that have hitherto had only limited ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $33.19 USD

  • Education and Working-Class Youth

    Reshaping the Politics of Inclusion

    Edited by Robin Simmons, John Smyth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides an inclusive and incisive analysis of the experiences of working-class young people in education. While there is an established literature on education and the working class stretching back decades, comparatively there has been something of a neglect of class-based inequality – with questions of gender, ‘race’ and other forms of identity attracting significant attention. However ... Read more

    $89.09 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

    $50.39 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

    $34.19 USD

  • Critical Voices in Teacher Education

    Teaching for Social Justice in Conservative Times

    Edited by Barry Down, John Smyth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    We live in dangerous times when educational policies and practices are debated largely in terms of how they fit with the needs of the free market. This volume is a collection of writing by teacher-educators that draws on their unique biographies, experiences and perspectives to denounce these misguided norms. It explores what it means—practically and intellectually—to teach for social justice in ... Read more

    $89.09 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

    $53.09 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

    $49.49 USD

  • Being Reflexive in Critical and Social Educational Research

    Edited by Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth ...
    This text is a collection of case studies and readings on the subject of doing research in education. It takes a personal view of the experience of doing research. Each author presents a reflexive account of the issues and dilemmas as they have lived through them during the undertaking of educational research. Coming from the researcher's own perspectives, their positions are revealed within a ... Read more

    $31.99 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

  • Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia

    Young People Have Something to Say

    by Barry Down, John Smyth, Janean Robinson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book draws on the stories of thirty-two young Australians to identify the barriers and obstacles they face in ‘getting a job’ in precarious times and from their vantage point. It maps the kinds of educational policies and practices that need to be created and more widely sustained to assist their career aspirations and life chances. It is timely in terms of contributing to an alternative set ... Read more

    $49.49 USD