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  • Creating Citizenship Communities

    Education, Young People and the Role of Schools

    Series series Education (R0)
    On the basis of a national research project undertaken in England, this volume explores how and why young people's engagement is so important globally in education and society, and looks at what teachers and students think about citizenship and community. The authors make recommendations to enhance understanding and the potential for engagement. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores what social justice looks like for rural schools in Australia. The author challenges the consensus that sees the distribution of resources as the panacea for the myriad challenges faced by rural schools and argues that the solution to inequality and injustice in rural settings has to take into account other important dimensions of social justice such as recognition and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The demise of state Socialisms caused radical social, cultural and economic changes in Eastern Europe. Since then, young people have been confronted with fundamental disruptions and transformations to their daily environment, while an unsettling, globalized world substantially reshapes local belongings and conventional values. In times of multiple instabilities and uncertainties, this volume ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Children, Film and Literacy

    by Becky Parry ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narrative play is closely connected to identity, literacy and textual practices. Family is key to the encouragement of this social play and, at school, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Childhood, Youth and Migration

    Connecting Global and Local Perspectives

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book shows the different ways in which migration matters in the context of global and local childhood and youth. Furthermore, it highlights that childhood, youth and migration as well as local and global perspectives need to be thought and analyzed together, to address the significant dimensions of social inequality in the context of growing up.Migration as a phenomenon is most often ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Socially Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice

    Re-Imagining Ways of Working with Young People

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Helping Young Refugees and Immigrants Succeed

    Public Policy, Aid, and Education

    by G. Holton ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives as well as reports by practitioners in major aid organizations about the concrete work that their organizations have been carrying out. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Educating Incarcerated Youth

    Exploring the Impact of Relationships, Expectations, Resources and Accountability

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the perceptions and role of juvenile justice educators. Through researching the support structures of educational facilities and analysing the positive features of these learning environments, Tannis evaluates how best to educate incarcerated young people and prepare them for their transition back into society. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Deconstructing Youth

    Youth Discourses at the Limits of Sense

    by F. Gabriel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Vocational Education and Training in Times of Economic Crisis

    Lessons from Around the World

    Edited by Matthias Pilz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET). Revealing how youth in transition is affected by economic crises, it provides essential insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the various systems and prospects of VET in contexts ranging from North America to Europe, (e.g. Spain, Germany or ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Children and Borders

    Edited by S. Spyrou, M. Christou ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Youth
    This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Children and Migration

    At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Providing a comprehensive analysis of the increasingly common phenomenon of child migration, this volume examines the experiences of children in a wide variety of migratory circumstances including economic child migrants, transnational students, trafficked, stateless, fostered, unaccompanied and undocumented children. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD