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  • Schooling as Uncertainty

    An Ethnographic Memoir in Comparative Education

    by Frances Vavrus ...
    In today's uncertain world, few beliefs remain as firmly entrenched as the optimistic view that more schooling will lead to a better life. Though this may be true in the aggregate, how do we explain the circumstances when schooling fails to produce certainty or even does us harm? Schooling as Uncertainty addresses this question by combining ethnography and memoir as it guides readers on a 30-year ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Doing Comparative Case Studies

    New Designs and Directions

    Edited by Frances Vavrus, Lesley Bartlett ...
    Comparative Case Studies: New Designs and Directions extends the comparative case study methodology established by Bartlett and Vavrus and employed in many areas of social research, especially in education.This volume unites a diverse, international group of education scholars whose work exemplifies the affordances and constraints of the comparative case study (CCS) approach and offers new ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents

    Innovative Approaches to Research Across Space and Time

    Edited by Deborah Levison, Mary Jo Maynes, Frances Vavrus ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a wide range of contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjects, objects, and agents. The diverse contributions examine how children and youth are simultaneously constructed: as individual subjects through social ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD

  • Rethinking Case Study Research

    A Comparative Approach

    by Lesley Bartlett, Frances Vavrus ...
    Comparative case studies are an effective qualitative tool for researching the impact of policy and practice in various fields of social research, including education. Developed in response to the inadequacy of traditional case study approaches, comparative case studies are highly effective because of their ability to synthesize information across time and space. In Rethinking Case Study Research: ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

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    Perils and Potential of International Experiential Learning

    Edited by Rebecca Tiessen, Robert Huish ...
    Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? explores the broad range of international experiential learning options available to Canadian students, as well as the opportunities and the ethical dilemmas that come with them. Combining practical advice with critical examinations of international experiential learning, this essay collection is designed to help the reader to move beyond photo-ops and travel ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Immigrant and Refugee Students in Canada

    by Courtney Anne Brewer, Michael McCabe ...
    Recent immigrants and refugees — both children and their families — often struggle to adapt to Canadian education systems. For their part, educators also face challenges when developing effective strategies to help these students make smooth transitions to their new country.Immigrant and Refugee Students in Canada, researchers join educators and social workers to provide a thorough and wide ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Case Study Research

    Principles and Practices

    by John Gerring ...
    Series series Strategies for Social Inquiry
    Case Study Research: Principles and Practices provides a general understanding of the case study method as well as specific tools for its successful implementation. These tools are applicable in a variety of fields including anthropology, business and management, communications, economics, education, medicine, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology. Topics include: a survey of ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Public Policy Theory Primer

    by Kevin B. Smith, Christopher Larimer ...
    Public policy is a broad and interdisciplinary area of study and research in the field tends to reflect this. Yet for those teaching and studying public policy, the disjointed nature of the field can be confusing and cumbersome. This text provides a consistent and coherent framework for uniting the field of public policy. Authors Kevin B. Smith and Christopher W. Larimer offer an organized and ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Public Policy

    Edited by Eduardo Araral, Scott Fritzen, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh, Xun Wu ...
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. Written by an outstanding line up of distinguished scholars and practitioners, the Handbook covers all aspects of the policy process including:Theory – from rational choice to the new institutionalismFrameworks – network theory, advocacy coalition and development modelsKey stages in the process – Formulation, ... Read more

    $131.91 CAD

  • In Praise of Skepticism

    Trust but Verify

    by Pippa Norris ...
    A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating governments, and facilitating collective action. Any signs of its decline are, and should be, a matter of serious concern. Yet, In Praise of Skepticism recognizes that trust has two faces. Confidence in anti-vax theories has weakened herd immunity. Faith in Q-Anon ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

    Working towards Decolonization, Indigeneity and Interculturalism

    Edited by Fatima Pirbhai-Illich, Shauneen Pete, Fran Martin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book convincingly argues that effective culturally responsive pedagogies require teachers to firstly undertake a critical deconstruction of Self in relation to and with the Other; and secondly, to take into account how power affects the socio-political, cultural and historical contexts in which the education relation takes place. The contributing authors are from a range of diaspora, ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Comparative-Historical Methods

    by Matthew Lange ...
    This bright, engaging title provides a thorough and integrated review of comparative-historical methods. It sets out an intellectual history of comparative-historical analysis and presents the main methodological techniques employed by researchers, including:- comparative-historical analysis,- case-based methods,- comparative methods- data, case selection and theory.Matthew Lange has written a ... Read more

    $100.79 CAD