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  • From Labouring to Learning

    Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization

    by Michael R.M. Ward ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
    Highly Commended in the Society of Educational Studies Book PrizeThis book explores how economic changes and the growing importance of educational qualifications in a shrinking labour market, particularly effects marginalized young men. It follows a group of young working-class men in a de-industrial community and challenges commonly held representations that often appear in the media and in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Young, Female and Black

    by Heidi Safia Mirza ...
    Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good efficient workers yet, as a group they consistently fail to secure the economic status and occupational prestige they deserve.This book presents a serious challenge to the widely held myth that young black women consistently underachieve both at school and in the ... Read more

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  • Media, Gender and Identity

    An Introduction

    by David Gauntlett ...
    Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities?The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Media/Theory

    Thinking about Media and Communications

    by Shaun Moores ...
    Series series Comedia
    From an established author with a growing international profile in media studies, Media/Theory is an accessible yet challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life.Shaun Moores draws on ideas from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and expertly connects the analysis of media and communications with key themes in contemporary social ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Happiest Days?

    How Pupils Cope With Schools

    by Peter Woods ...
    This book examines pupils' experience of school from their own perspectives, showing a range of responses involving both pain and pleasure. It brings together a wide range of material to evoke pupil realities, to describe pupil cultures, and to consider the meanings of activities. ... Read more

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  • Geography

    Teaching School Subjects 11-19

    by John Morgan, David Lambert ...
    Series series Teaching School Subjects 11-19
    When Geography specialists decide they want to teach, it can be a daunting prospect to enter a real classroom, no matter how much subject knowledge they already possess. Geography: Teaching School Subjects 11-19 puts the subject into perspective and shows new teachers and student teachers how to make Geography accessible and interesting for their pupils. Divided into three sections the book ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Feminism and 'The Schooling Scandal'

    by Christine Skelton, Becky Francis ...
    Feminism and ‘The Schooling Scandal’ brings together feminist contributions from two generations of educational researchers, evaluating and celebrating the field of gender and education. The focus throughout is on the years of compulsory schooling, examining key concepts in gender and education identified and developed by international thinkers in educational feminism. Topics covered include ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • From entertainment to citizenship

    Politics and popular culture

    by John Street, Sanna Inthorn, Martin Scott ...
    From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars – like Bono and Bob Geldof – who claim to represent them. It explores how young people connect the pleasures of popular culture to the world at large. For them, popular culture is not simply a matter of escapism and entertainment, but of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Same Sex Intimacies

    Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments

    by Catherine Donovan, Brian Heaphy, Jeffrey Weeks ...
    Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time. This is particularly true of the non-heterosexual world, where the last ten years have seen a popular acceptance of same sex partnerships and, to a lesser extent, of same sex parenting.Based on extensive interviews with people in a variety of non-traditional relationships, this fascinating new book argues ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Children and Young People’s Cultural Worlds

    Edited by Sarah Bragg, Mary Jane Kehily ...
    Series Book 2 - Open University Childhood
    Children and young people in the early twenty-first century encounter, and creatively adapt to, a range of cultural phenomena in an increasingly mediated, commercialised and globalised world. Children and young people's cultural worlds offers a critical introduction to childhood in the digital age. Childhood innocence is a concept that often underpins the way adults think about children and new ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Education and Society

    25 Years of the British Journal of Sociology of Education

    Edited by Len Barton ...
    Series series Education Heritage
    The British Journal of Sociology of Education has established itself as the leading discipline-based publication. This collection of selected articles published since the first issue provides the reader with an informed insight and understanding of the nature, range and value of sociological thinking, its development over the last twenty-five years as well as the analysis of the relationship ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Questioning Identity

    Gender, Class, Nation

    Edited by Kath Woodward ...
    Series series Understanding Social Change
    Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines and focusing on the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, it shows how these ... Read more

    $52.99 USD