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  • Education in a New Society

    Renewing the Sociology of Education

    Edición de Jal Mehta, Scott Davies ...
    In recent decades, sociology of education has been dominated by quantitative analyses of race, class, and gender gaps in educational achievement. And while there's no question that such work is important, it leaves a lot of other fruitful areas of inquiry unstudied. This book takes that problem seriously, considering the way the field has developed since the 1960s and arguing powerfully for its ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Out of the Shadows

    The Global Intensification of Supplementary Education

    Edición de Janice Aurini, Julian Dierkes, Scott Davies ...
    Series Libro 22 - International Perspectives on Education and Society
    Supplementary education consists of private instruction that complements and sometimes 'shadows' formal school content. Providers range from informal and part-time tutors to highly institutionalized, multi-national corporate franchises. This phenomenon is growing worldwide and has many potential impacts on formal education systems. This volume is the first multi-national examination of this topic ... Leer más

    $136.99 USD

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  • The Seductions of Quantification

    Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking

    de Sally Engle Merry ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Canadian Public Policy

    Selected Studies in Process and Style

    de Michael Howlett ...
    Studies of public policy in Canada are traditionally narrow, focusing on a particular policy area or jurisdiction without giving consideration to the significant procedural commonalities that can be identified across the public policy spectrum. Canadian Public Policy provides the first comprehensive, theoretically informed, empirical evaluation of the development of public policy in Canada. It ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • The Dynamics of Marginalized Youth

    Not in Education, Employment, or Training Around the World

    Edición de Mark Levels, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Craig Holmes, Janine Jongbloed, Hirofumi Taki ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
    This book studies young people who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET); a prime concern among policymakers. Moving past common interpretations of NEETs as a homogeneous group, it asks why some youth become NEET, whereas other do not. The authors analyse diverse school-to-work patterns of young NEETs in five typical countries and investigate the role of individual characteristics, ... Leer más

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  • The Public School Advantage

    Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    de Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski ...
    Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance

    Edición de Benjamin van Rooij, D. Daniel Sokol ...
    Series series Cambridge Law Handbooks
    Compliance has become key to our contemporary markets, societies, and modes of governance across a variety of public and private domains. While this has stimulated a rich body of empirical and practical expertise on compliance, thus far, there has been no comprehensive understanding of what compliance is or how it influences various fields and sectors. The academic knowledge of compliance has ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • In Praise of Skepticism

    Trust but Verify

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

    Edición de Rense Nieuwenhuis, Wim Van Lancker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such ... Leer más

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  • Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education

    International Perspectives on Policy, Institutional Culture, and Individual Choice

    Edición de Hyun Kyoung Ro, Frank Fernandez, Elizabeth Ramon ...
    Series series Routledge Research in STEM Education
    This timely volume brings together a range of international scholars to analyse cultural, political, and individual factors which contribute to the continued global issue of female underrepresentation in STEM study and careers.Offering a comparative approach to examining gender equity in STEM fields across countries including the UK, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Africa, and ... Leer más

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  • Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion

    Culture, Economy, and Colonial Legacies

    Edición de Michael Windzio, Ivo Mossig, Fabian Besche-Truthe, Helen Seitzer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade*,* colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several ... Leer más

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  • Closing the Gap for Immigrant Students

    Policies, Practice and Performance

    de Collective ...
    OECD has conducted policy reviews of migrant education in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden and has examined the migrant education experience in many countries. This book offers comparative data on access, participation and performance of immigrant students and their native peers and identifies a set of policy options based on solid evidence of what works. ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD