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  • The Transformation of Initial Teacher Education

    The Changing Nature of Teacher Training

    by Ian Abbott, Mike Rathbone, Philip Whitehead ...
    Tracing the development of initial teacher education since the large-scale expansion of the teaching profession after the Second World War to the present day, The Transformation of Initial Teacher Education explores the changing nature of teacher training.Examining the growth of the ‘teaching industry’, this book addresses key issues including:the return to an apprentice modelthe growing ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Transforming Probation

    Social Theories and the Criminal Justice System

    by Philip Whitehead ...
    Written by an established author in the field, this book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of probation in the criminal justice system. It is unique in drawing upon innovative social theories and moral perspectives to analyse changes in the probation service by including data from quantitative and qualitative empirical research. This highlights the challenges to, but also ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Reconceptualising the Moral Economy of Criminal Justice

    A New Perspective

    by Philip Whitehead ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book reconceptualises the concept of moral economy in its relevance for, and application to, the criminal justice system in England and Wales. It advances the argument that criminal justice cannot be reduced to an instrumentally driven operation to achieve fiscal efficiencies or provide investment opportunities to the commercial sector. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Demonising the Other

    The Criminalisation of Morality

    by Philip Whitehead ...
    Throughout history there has always been an ‘other’, often based on culture, race, gender or class, that has been demonised by the majority. This attribution of negative features onto others affects everyone, but Whitehead challenges the idea that this is an inevitable fact of life.While looking at the historical criminalisation of the ‘other’ and the subsequent modernising transformations in ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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    Thinkers, Approaches and Contexts

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    What does the Frankfurt School have to say about the creative industries? Does the spread of Google prove we now live in an information society? How is Madonna an example of postmodernism? How new is new media? Does the power of Facebook mean we're all media makers now?This groundbreaking volume – part reader, part textbook - helps you to engage thoroughly with some of the major voices that have ... Read more

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  • Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society

    Active Citizenship in a Late Modern Age

    by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
    This is a book with a difference: it produces a completely new perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity itself. Five themes run through this book:Humankind has always been aware of the imperfections of human society: as a consequence, it has looked back to a mythological past and forward to a utopian future that might be religious, political, ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology

    by Steven Yearley, Steve Bruce ...
    "Undoubtedly the most accessible, readable and downright interesting - even amusing - dictionary of its type. In being all of those things - and more - the dictionary does not sacrifice on quality. There are many well-chosen entries and they are quite informative. A useful addition to any scholar′s library while at the same time being an excellent resource for both graduate and undergraduate ... Read more

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  • History, Policy and Public Purpose

    Historians and Historical Thinking in Government

    by Alix R. Green ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book takes a fresh look at the connection between history and policy, proposing that historians rediscover a sense of ‘public purpose’ that can embrace political decision-making – and also enhance historical practice. Making policy is a complex and messy affair, calling on many different forms of expertise and historians have often been reluctant to get involved in policy advice, with those ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Marxist Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

    by Maurice Levitas ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    The major theories explored are those concerned with social mobility and those which derive from a relativist position in Sociology, both of which see education as a selection mechanism for a stratified society. Social class, family, sociolinguistics and schools are among the topics discussed. In this analysis the author:defines key areas in the sociology of educationgives access to important ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • History, Sociology and Education

    by History of Education Society ...
    Originally published in 1971, this volume examines the relationship between the history and sociology of education.History does not stand in isolation, but has much to draw from and contribute to, other disciplines. The methods and concepts of sociology, in particular, are exerting increasing influence on historical studies, especially the history of education. Since education is considered to be ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Man and the Social Sciences (Routledge Revivals)

    Twelve lectures delivered at the London School of Economics and Political Science tracing the development of the social sciences during the present century

    Edited by William Alexander Robson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    One of the most significant movements in the world of learning in the twentieth century was the rise and development of the social sciences. However, few attempts have been made to see how far social scientists have travelled on the road to studying and understanding human society. First published in 1972, the lectures reprinted in this book aim to trace the development of the social sciences ... Read more

    $255.99 USD

  • Education Matters

    60 years of the British Journal of Educational Studies

    Edited by James Arthur, Jon Davison, Richard Pring ...
    Series series Education Heritage
    Education Matters draws together a selection of the most influential papers published in the British Journal of Educational Studies by many of the leading scholars in the field over the past sixty years. This unique collection of seminal articles published since the first issue of the Journal provides students and researchers in education with an informed insight and understanding of the nature ... Read more

    $63.99 USD