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  • Schooling the Child

    The Making of Students in Classrooms

    by Helena Austin, Bronwyn Dwyer, Peter Freebody ...
    What is a child?How is the concept of childhood defined?This book aims to explore these perennial and complex questions by looking at the way in which society constructs and understands childhood. The authors focus in particular on the school, a key location within which social and cultural notions of childhood are defined and performed.The book is divided into three major parts:Part 1 frames the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Knowledge, Culture And Power

    International Perspectives On Literacy As Policy And Practice

    by Anthony R. Welch, Peter Freebody ...
    This work concerns the issues that comprise the broad field of literacy education, for example, discourses about childhood, socio-economic order and political and ideological contingencies. Analyses of literacy education from a number of different countries and cultures are included. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Controversies in Education

    Orthodoxy and Heresy in Policy and Practice

    Edited by Helen Proctor, Patrick Brownlee, Peter Freebody ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is the outcome of a colloquium series organized by The University of Sydney in which leading and emerging researchers were invited to name what they took to be the deep flaws at the heart of contemporary educational and policy and practice in Australia and globally — to voice their potentially ‘heretical’ views on what most urgently needs to be done. The chapters in this collection are ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Methodological Choice and Design

    Scholarship, Policy and Practice in Social and Educational Research

    Edited by Lina Markauskaite, Peter Freebody, Jude Irwin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Beginning and well-seasoned researchers alike face significant challenges in understanding the complexities of research designs arising from both within and across methodological paradigms, and in applying them in ways that maximise impact on knowledge, practice, and policy. This volume engages educational and social researchers in a scholarly debate offering some crucial re-interpretations of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Anthropology and Development

    Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

    by Emma Crewe, Richard Axelby ...
    In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Planning in Divided Cities

    by Frank Gaffikin, Mike Morrissey ...
    Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised ‘community planning’ approach.The book examines urban planning and policy in the context of deeply contested space, where place identity and cultural affinities are reshaping cities. Throughout ... Read more

    $144.50 USD

  • Cartographies of Diaspora

    Contesting Identities

    by Avtar Brah ...
    By addressing questions of culture, identity and politics, Cartographies of Diaspora throws new light on discussions about `difference' and `diversity', informed by feminism and post-structuralism. It examines these themes by exploring the intersections of `race', gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, generation and nationalism in different discourses, practices and political contexts.The first ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Transnationalism

    by Steven Vertovec ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states.This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the study of globalization before concentrating on migrant transnational practices. Each chapter demonstrates ways in which new and contemporary transnational practices of migrants are fundamentally ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology

    by Edwin Amenta, Kate Nash, Alan Scott ...
    Series Book 39 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
    The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality of the discipline, and highlighting emerging topics in the field.Global in focus, offering up-to-date topics from an interdisciplinary, international set of scholars addressing key issues concerning globalization, social movements, and citizenshipThe majority of chapters are new, ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Digital, Political, Radical

    by Natalie Fenton ...
    Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global challenges of gross inequality and ever-more impoverished democracies.Fenton makes an impassioned plea for re-invigorating critical research on digital media such that it ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Fractured Identities

    Changing Patterns of Inequality

    by Harriet Bradley ...
    The gap between rich and poor, included and excluded, advantaged and disadvantaged is steadily growing as inequality becomes one of the most pressing issues of our times. The new edition of this popular text explores current patterns of inequality in the context of increasing globalization, world recession and neoliberal policies of austerity. Within a framework of intersectionality, Bradley ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Development Theory

    by Jan Nederveen Pieterse ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies courses.- Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of ... Read more

    $100.79 USD