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  • Educating for Radical Social Transformation in the Climate Crisis

    by Stuart Tannock ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book asks how education can be developed to facilitate the radical social, cultural and economic transformations needed to deal with the ongoing climate emergency. The author illuminates important links between the work currently being done in climate change and education and the broader and older theories of radical education: an area of education theory and practice that has long grappled ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Educational Equality and International Students

    Justice Across Borders?

    by Stuart Tannock ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In an increasingly globalised educational landscape, this book examines whether the principle of educational equality can be applied across nation state borders. Exploring the tension between the theory of educational equality and the reality that most educational institutions are rooted in local communities and national frameworks, the author thus probes the consequences for institutions, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Youth Rising?

    The Politics of Youth in the Global Economy

    by Mayssoun Sukarieh, Stuart Tannock ...
    Series series Critical Youth Studies
    Over the last decade, "youth" has become increasingly central to policy, development, media and public debates and conflicts across the world – whether as an ideological symbol, social category or political actor. Set against a backdrop of contemporary political economy, Youth Rising? seeks to understand exactly how and why youth has become such a popular and productive social category and concept ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Education and Development

    by Simon McGrath ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    This title explores the place of education in development debates and provides a systematic as well as a theoretical overview of the main approaches to education and development. It emphasises the fact that education is profoundly shaped by national and local cultures even if many issues are shared across institutions in different locations.Education and Development discusses different theoretical ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Student Politics and Protest

    International perspectives

    Edited by Rachel Brooks ...
    Series series Research into Higher Education
    Despite allegations of political disengagement and apathy on the part of the young, the last ten years have witnessed a considerable degree of political activity by young people – much of it led by students or directed at changes to the higher education system. Such activity has been evident across the globe. Nevertheless, to date, no book has brought together contributions from a wide variety of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Warmth of the Welcome

    Is Atlantic Canada a Home Away from Home for Immigrants?

    Edited by Evangelia Tastsoglou, PhD, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, PhD ...
    Atlantic Canada is renowned for its lengthy coastlines, rural expanses, a reputedly slower pace and its welcoming, warm and friendly people. But for immigrants especially, how much of this is rhetoric, and how much is reality? Atlantic Canada is renowned for its lengthy coastlines, rural expanses, a reputedly slower pace and its welcoming, warm and friendly people. But for immigrants especially, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Habits of Inequality

    by Lorne Tepperman, Nina Gheihman ...
    British social reformer Robert Owen once declared that "man is the creature of circumstances." A century and a half later, his famous words still ring true. While many adopt a fatalist approach, believing that their lot in life is inevitable, in fact a number of highly complex social factors determine the outcome of our socioeconomic status and integration into society. It may seem unfair, but the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Peaceland

    Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention

    by Séverine Autesserre ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Social Work, Social Justice, and Human Rights

    A Structural Approach to Practice, Second Edition

    by Colleen Lundy ...
    Social workers take pride in their commitment to social and economic justice, peace, and human rights, and in their responses to related inequalities and social problems. At a time when economic globalization, armed conflict, and ecological devastation continue to undermine human rights and the possibilities for social justice, the need for linking a structural analysis to social work practice is ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Reclaiming economics for future generations

    by Lucy Ambler, Joe Earle, Nicola Scott, Julie Froud ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    Today’s economies fail to recognise that we are in a rapidly worsening crisis, reproducing and often worsening vast and harmful inequalities between people and countries. The current models are unsustainable, and at a time when global temperatures are rising and divides are deepening, humanity is left in a rapidly worsening situation of its own making, the destruction of the living world, which ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development eBook

    by Ian Scoones ...
    Series Book 4 - Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies
    The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between ... Read more

    $9.99 USD