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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sharon clancy”
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  • Lived Experience, Lifelong Learning, Community Activism and Social Change

    Edited by Sharon Clancy, Iain Jones ...
    This book identifies and celebrates the learning adult educators can gain from the numerous sites of community activism, learning, and social change that are currently taking place across the globe.While the relentless push of neoliberalism has struck at the heart of adult education provision in many countries, including that provided by universities, institutions of further education, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age

    'To Open the Immortal Eye'

    by Sharon Clancy ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948-1976) and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan is acknowledged as the godfather of new-age spiritualism in the UK and is credited with the development of eclectic and esoteric learning opportunities ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe

    Edited by John Holford, Pepka Boyadjieva, Sharon Clancy, Günter Hefler, Ivana Studená ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society. Young adults, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, engage more in education and training, and learn more day-to-day at work, if provision is democratically organised and based on ... Read more

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  • Flip the System

    Changing Education from the Ground Up

    Edited by Jelmer Evers, René Kneyber ...
    Education is threatened on a global scale by forces of neoliberalism, through high stakes accountability, privatization and a destructive language of learning. In all respects, a GERM (Global Education Reform Movement) has erupted from international benchmark rankings such as PISA, TIMMS and PIRL, causing inequity, narrowing of the curriculum and teacher deprofessionalization on a truly global ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Ireland

    A Social and Cultural History 1922–2001

    by Dr. Terence Brown ...
    The seminal history of Ireland’s most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium.With its starting point the bloody creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History explores how Irish identity has shifted across eighty years of unprecedented change and violence. What was the legacy of De Valera and Sinn Fein – or of remaining neutral during the ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe

    Comparative Case Studies

    Edited by Sebastiano Benasso, Dejana Bouillet, Tiago Neves, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
    This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop their life courses amidst diverse living conditions and are confronted with a variety of institutional and structural arrangements that impact on their opportunities in education ... Read more

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  • Engines of Privilege

    Britain's Private School Problem

    by David Kynaston, Francis Green ...
    'Thoroughly researched and written with such calm authority, yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation' John O'Farrell'We can expect the manifesto-writers at the next general election to pass magpie-like over these chapters ... The appeal to act is heartfelt' Financial Times___________________Includes a new chapter, 'Moving Ahead?'Britain's private, fee-paying schools a... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Co-Production and Co-Creation

    Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Trui Steen ...
    Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more ... Read more

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  • The Georgians

    The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

    by Penelope J. Corfield ...
    A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes todayThe Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

    Edited by Mike Dent, Jean-Louis Denis, Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, Tracey Adams ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism is a state-of-the-art reference work which maps out the current developments and debates around the sociology of the professions, and how they relate to management and organizations.Supported by an international contributor team specializing in the disciplines of organizational studies and sociology, the collection provides extensive ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Imperial nostalgia

    How the British conquered themselves

    by Peter Mitchell ...
    A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland

    Edited by Eugenio F. Biagini, Mary E. Daly ...
    Covering three centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic changes, this textbook is an authoritative and comprehensive view of the shaping of Irish society, at home and abroad, from the famine of 1740 to the present day. The first major work on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective, it focuses on the experiences and agency of Irish men, women and children, ... Read more

    $36.09 USD