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  • A Sociology of Education for Africa

    by Kenneth Blakemore, Brian Cooksey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    This book, first published in 1980, provides a summary of the major research findings of previous studies of the sociology of education in Sub-Saharan Africa within an original and stimulating general framework whilst also devoting space to their own research findings. The major themes of the book are education and social inequality, the sociology of the school, the teacher and the curriculum, and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • To Teach

    The Journey, in Comics

    by William Ayers, Ryan Alexander-Tanner ...
    This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition. From Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten, readers follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” We meet fellow travelers from schools across the country and watch students grow across a year and a lifetime.To Teach is a vivid, honest ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Classroom Management

    A Guide for Urban School Teachers

    by Sean B. Yisrael ...
    Many teachers who work in urban schools find classroom management to be very problematic. Their university course work, and training, didn’t prepare them for the heavy demands of being an urban school teacher. Urban educators need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage adverse behaviors, and still deliver a quality education to all students.Classroom Management: ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice

    by Elaine Unterhalter ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and philosophical issues involved as well as exploring actions taken by governments, Inter-Government ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Futures Beyond Dystopia

    Creating Social Foresight

    by Richard A. Slaughter ...
    How can dystopian futures help provide the motivation to change the ways we operate day to day?Futures Beyond Dystopia takes the view that the dominant trends in the world suggest a long-term decline into unliveable Dystopian futures. The human prospect is therefore very challenging, yet the perception of dangers and dysfunctions is the first step towards dealing with them. The motivation to avoid ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Shaping the Futures of (Vocational) Education and Work

    Commitment of VET and VET Research

    Edited by Gabriele Molzberger, Manfred Wahle ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Vocational and Continuing Education
    Education and work are moving towards an open, but uncertain future. Research on vocational and continuing education constantly needs to reassure the conditions of educational systems, current concepts of VET and work, educational policies, and its own assumptions in ascertaining theory of VET. In this context, modernisation is a significant paradigm. It refers to new ideological, socio-economic, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Maximize Your School Marketing

    by Johanna M. Lockhart ...
    Maximize Your School Marketing offers school administrators effective ways to enhance their existing school marketing strategy using the essential elements of public relations, media relations, social media, community partnerships, and fundraising. Extensive examples and case studies serve to illustrate key information. Finally, three “real-life” school marketing success stories provide ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Origins of Mass Communications Research During the American Cold War

    Educational Effects and Contemporary Implications

    by Timothy Glander ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    In this critical examination of the beginnings of mass communications research in the United States, written from the perspective of an educational historian, Timothy Glander uses archival materials that have not been widely studied to document, contextualize, and interpret the dominant expressions of this field during the time in which it became rooted in American academic life, and tries to give ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Academic Capitalism

    Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence

    by Richard Münch ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the scientific community. The result is a sharpening institutional stratification of the field. This ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Exploring the Landscape of Scientific Literacy

    Edited by Cedric Linder, Leif Östman, Douglas A. Roberts, Per-Olof Wickman, Gaalen Ericksen, Allan MacKinnon ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Science Series
    Scientific literacy is part of national science education curricula worldwide. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars offer new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy in schools and higher education. The goal is to open up the debate on scientific literacy, particularly around the tension between theoretical and practical ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Education and Social Change

    Edited by Len Barton, Stephen Walker ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    This book, first published in 1985, argues that changes in the education system are closely bound up with wider social and political changes. It considers items within education such as developments in teacher assessment policy and changes in the control of education policy; and external items such as new directions in the management of the economy, of class relations and of the political system. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Critical Voices in School Reform

    Students Living through Change

    Edited by Beth Rubin, Elena Silva ...
    School reform of one kind or another is a priority for education systems the world over. Yet the voices of students - those most affected by, and most pivotal to, the success or failure of any program of school reform - are rarely heard on this topic. This is the first book to look at school reform from the perspective of the students. The studies included in this collection focus on reform ... Read more

    $70.99 USD