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  • Paulo Freire and Transformative Education

    Changing Lives and Transforming Communities

    Edited by Alethea Melling, Ruth Pilkington ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book brings together a range of global and local themes inspired by the work of Paulo Freire. Freire believed in the possibility of change, rejecting the neoliberal discourse that presents poverty as inevitable: his core principle emphasised the prerogative of transforming the world, rather than adapting to an unethical world order. This responsibility to intervene in reality as educators is ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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    by Madeleine Leonard ...
    Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives.Examining children’s involvement in areas such as the ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Gender and Lifelong Learning

    Critical Feminist Engagements

    Edited by Carole Leathwood, Becky Francis ...
    This insightful book is ideal for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning. Asking pertinent questions relating to discourses on policy, the authors offer the reader a rare view of lifelong learning from a gender-focused perspective, filling a gap in the literature and moving current debate on into new areas. Questions ... Read more

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  • Learning Outside the Academy

    International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher, Susan Whittaker ...
    This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other.The contributions to this book are based on material ... Read more

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  • Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy

    by Alistair Dow, Robert Hattam, Alan Reid, Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth ...
    Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to their work, as well as responding in ways that actively shape these processes. For teachers and researchers, this book shows what processes are at work in the global economy which impact on, and sometimes control, the ... Read more

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  • Critical Issues in Youth Work Management

    Edited by Jon Ord ...
    This valuable textbook communicates the complexities and controversies at the heart of youth work management, exploring key issues in a critical fashion. Written by a team of experienced youth work lecturers, the chapters cover topics such as planning, evaluation and supervision, whilst acknowledging the changing structures of integrated services and the impact of public service reform.Divided ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Participation in Community Work

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Karin Larsen, Vishanthie Sewpaul, Grete Oline Hole ...
    Participation is a key community work method and this text, written by an international selection of authors, covers innovative approaches in community based education and practice. Including real-life case studies of participatory practice, it offers new definitions of community work, organisation and development and will challenge and inspire all those involved in community work practice and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Future of Educational Change

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Ciaran Sugrue ...
    This timely book provides a systematic overview and critique of contemporary approaches to educational change from some of the best-known writers and scholars in the field, including Andy Hargreaves, Larry Cuban, Ivor Goodson, Jeannie Oakes, Milbrey McLaughlin, Judyth Sachs and Ann Liebermann.Divided into four sections, the book addresses the key themes:What has been the impact of educational ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Changing Teacher Professionalism

    International trends, challenges and ways forward

    Edited by Sharon Gewirtz, Pat Mahony, Ian Hextall, Alan Cribb ...
    Significant changes in the policy and social context of teaching over the last 30 years have had substantial implications for teacher professionalism. As the influence of central regulation and marketisation has increased, so the scope for professional influence on policy and practice has in many cases diminished. Instead, teachers have had to respond to a range of other demands stemming from ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Innovations in Lifelong Learning

    Critical Perspectives on Diversity, Participation and Vocational Learning

    Edited by Sue Jackson ...
    This book opens up ways to engage critically with what counts as innovatory practice in lifelong learning today, locating its discussion of innovations in lifelong learning within an international and comparative framework.Innovations in Lifelong Learning engages first hand with issues and concerns from around the globe, offering an international perspective on current trends through its range of ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Freedom to Learn

    The threat to student academic freedom and why it needs to be reclaimed

    by Bruce Macfarlane ...
    Series series Research into Higher Education
    The freedom of students to learn at university is being eroded by a performative culture that fails to respect their rights to engage and develop as autonomous adults. Instead, students are being restricted in how they learn, when they learn and what they learn by the so-called student engagement movement. Compulsory attendance registers, class contribution grading, group project work and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Youth Work Practice

    Edited by Kathy Edwards, Dana Fusco, Pam Alldred, Fin Cullen ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Youth Work Practice showcases the value of professional work with young people as it is practiced in diverse forms in locations around the world. The editors have brought together an international team of contributors who reflect the wide range of approaches that identify as youth work, and the even wider range of approaches that identify variously as community work or ... Read more

    $118.99 USD