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  • Storying Pedagogy as Critical Praxis in the Neoliberal University

    Encounters and Disruptions

    Edited by Mark Vicars, Ligia Pelosi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines how teaching and learning and teacher and student identities are being reframed in higher education by neoliberal policies and practices. It shares how teachers perform teaching and learning duties in relation to prescribed institutional policies and how teachers insert dissonant pedagogies as a critical practice.The book explores narrative pedagogy as a disruptive presence and ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Affective Capitalism in Academia

    Revealing Public Secrets

    by Erika Andersson Cederholm, Carina Siöholm, Dianne Dredoe, Talia Esnard, Silvia Gherardi, Michela Cozza, Magnus Hoppe, Amir Hampel, Demetra Tzanaki, Juhana Venäläinen, Mark Vicars, Lewis Zipin, Marie Brennan, Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Paola Valero ...
    Drawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities. Moving through 11 international and comparative case studies, it explores diverse features of contemporary academic life, from the coloniality of academic capitalism to performance management and the experience of being performance-managed.Affect has emerged as a major ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Engaging the Disengaged

    Inclusive Approaches to Teaching the Least Advantaged

    by Tarquam McKenna, Marcelle Cacciattolo, Mark Vicars ...
    Engaging the Disengaged addresses strategies and models of immersive teaching and learning that lead to successful schooling outcomes. The new Australian Curriculum emphasises the importance of improved educational participation. This book will equip pre-service teachers with the tools and strategies they need to successfully implement these priorities. Drawing together a diverse range of experts, ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

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  • Tackling Wicked Problems

    Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

    Edited by John Harris, Valerie A Brown, Jacqueline Russell ...
    From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy

    by Alistair Dow, Robert Hattam, Alan Reid, Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth ...
    Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to their work, as well as responding in ways that actively shape these processes. For teachers and researchers, this book shows what processes are at work in the global economy which impact on, and sometimes control, the ... Read more

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  • Communities of Practice

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Jason Hughes, Nick Jewson, Lorna Unwin ...
    This benchmark text provides an accessible yet critical introduction to the theory and application of communities of practice and their use in a diverse range of managerial and professional contexts, from education to human resource development.This book charts the development of the idea of communities of practice and explores the key relationship between learning and identity among:newcomers and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Changing Teacher Professionalism

    International trends, challenges and ways forward

    Edited by Sharon Gewirtz, Pat Mahony, Ian Hextall, Alan Cribb ...
    Significant changes in the policy and social context of teaching over the last 30 years have had substantial implications for teacher professionalism. As the influence of central regulation and marketisation has increased, so the scope for professional influence on policy and practice has in many cases diminished. Instead, teachers have had to respond to a range of other demands stemming from ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Social Capital and Economics

    Social Values, Power, and Social Identity

    Edited by Asimina Christoforou, John Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Economics
    This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital. This book seeks to extend this theory into what have been largely under-investigated domains, and, at the same time, address long-standing, classic questions in the literature concerning the forms, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Social Work in a Corporate Era

    Practices of Power and Resistance

    by Linda Davies ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Work Studies
    A striking new feature of the welfare systems in many Western countries is the extent to which market relations have permeated social services. Conceptions of 'risk management' now dominate the way parents and children are responded to, while new technologies aim to 'measure' their relationship with state service providers. Bureaucratic control is increasing, while resources are reduced. These ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Discovering Sociology

    by Mark McCormack, Eric Anderson, Kimberly Jamie, Matthew David ...
    This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book's 12 chapters, students discover what sociology is, alongside its historical development and emergent new concerns. They will be led through ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Participatory Pedagogic Impact Research

    Co-production with Community Partners in Action

    by Mike Seal ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    Involvement of community partners in the structure and design of services is largely accepted in principle, but its practice is heavily contested. This book argues that the co-production of research is one of the best ways to involve community partners. As well as having intrinsic value in and of itself, research embeds a culture of learning, co-production and of valuing research within ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Radical Hope

    Education and Equality in Australia

    by Noel Pearson ...
    In Radical Hope, one of Australia's most original and provocative thinkers turns his attention to the question of education. Noel Pearson begins with two fundamental questions- How to ensure the survival of a people, their culture and way of life? And can education transform the lives of the disadvantaged many, or will it at best raise up a fortunate few?Pearson argues powerfully that underclass ... Read more

    $6.99 USD