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  • Decolonise Teacher Education – in global perspectives

    by Susanne Leitner, Nicanora Wächter, Zayd Waghid, Nidhi Gulati, Manish Jain, Samantha Kriger, Anselm Böhmer ...
    Series series Postkolonialität & Rassismus. Erziehungswissenschaftliche Perspektiven
    Did the colony end, or does it continue to exist in curricula, diagnostic tests, and the images, the imaginations and the lived realities of the ›teacher‹? Decolonise teacher education traces three colonial entanglements emerging from South Africa, Germany, and India to explore how decolonisation is perceived, internalised, challenged, and reinterpreted in teacher education. The text works across ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how - and how well - people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left ... Read more

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  • Community as Urban Practice

    by Talja Blokland ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme.Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social ... Read more

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  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

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  • In Defence of Sociology

    Essays, Interpretations and Rejoinders

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of history. Yet today the idea of progress has more or less collapsed; with its demise, some say, sociological thought has moved to the margins of contemporary ... Read more

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  • The Argumentative Turn Revisited

    Public Policy as Communicative Practice

    Edited by Frank Fischer, Herbert Gottweis ...
    Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes into account the ways that policy is affected by other factors, including culture, discourse, and emotion. The contributors to this new collection consider how far argumentative policy analysis has come during the past two decades and how its theories continue to be refined ... Read more

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  • Land of Strangers

    by Ash Amin ...
    The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal ties and strong community moorings. The constitutive pluralism and hybridity of modern living in the West is being rejected in an age of heightened anxiety over the future and drummed up aversion towards the stranger. Minorities, migrants and dissidents ... Read more

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  • Make Capitalism History

    A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society

    by Simon Sutterlütti, Stefan Meretz ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic and council-based planning approaches. It discusses the left’s need to explore non-capitalist modes of production, the inability of green or socialist market economies to produce ... Read more

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  • Framing Intersectionality

    Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies

    Edited by Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar, Linda Supik ...
    Series series The Feminist Imagination - Europe and Beyond
    Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as a tool for the analysis of the ways in which different forms of social inequality, oppression and discrimination interact and overlap in multidimensional ways, the concept of 'intersectionality' has attracted much attention in international feminist debates over the last decade. Framing Intersectionality brings together proponents and critics of ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Social Geography

    Edited by Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., Paul Cloke, Ruth Panelli, Mary Thomas ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    This volume traces the complexity of social geography in both its historical and present contexts, whilst challenging readers to reflect critically on the tensions that run through social geographic thought.Organized to provide a new set of conceptual lenses through which social geographies can be discussedPresents an original intervention into the debates about social geographyHighlights the ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse

    Investigating the Politics of Knowledge and Meaning-making.

    Edited by Reiner Keller, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Wolf Schünemann ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has reoriented research into social forms, structuration and processes of meaning construction and reality formation; doing so by linking social constructivist and pragmatist approaches with post-structuralist thinking in order to study discourses and create epistemological space for analysing processes of world-making in culturally diverse ... Read more

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  • Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood

    New perspectives in Childhood Studies

    Edited by Florian Esser, Meike S. Baader, Tanja Betz, Beatrice Hungerland ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children’s agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This has made agency one of the key concepts of Childhood Studies, with articles on the subject featured in handbooks and encyclopaedias.Reconceptualising Agency and Childhoodis the first collection devoted to ... Read more

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