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  • Educational Leadership through a Practice Lens

    Practice Matters

    by Jane Wilkinson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides the theoretical and analytical resources for an urgent rethinking of the social project of educating and educational leading. It examines what educational leadership is, namely the politics and power of leadership as a practice, and what it can and should be, offering a pedagogical and praxis-informed approach to educational practice.Drawing on research conducted at various ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict

    Exploring Challenges Across the Globe

    Edited by Khalid Arar, Deniz Örücü, Jane Wilkinson ...
    Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict: Exploring Challenges Across the Globe explores how neoliberal values are imprinted onto educational spaces and practices, and by consequence, fundamentally reshape how we come to understand the educational experience at the school or system level. Countries across the globe struggle with the residual effects of increased accountability, choice ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Travelling Languages

    Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World

    Edited by John O'Regan, Jane Wilkinson, Mike Robinson ...
    Based on the commonly held assumption that we now live in a world that is ‘on the move’, with growing opportunities for both real and virtual travel and the blurring of boundaries between previously defined places, societies and cultures, the theme of this book is firmly grounded in the interdisciplinary field of ‘Mobilities’. ‘Mobilities’ deals with the movement of people, objects, capital, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Relationality, Emotions and Affect in Education and Research

    Through a Theory of Practice Architectures Lens

    Edited by Jane Wilkinson, Katrina MacDonald, Fiona Longmuir, Mandy Cooke, Megan Adams, Fleur Diamond, Kristin Elaine Reimer ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the more intangible—relational, emotional and affective—aspects of educating and researching as conceptualised through the theory of practice architectures. It also extends the theory of practice architectures, and in particular, the ‘relatings’ aspect of practice, to more fully encompass the relational, affective and emotional aspects of educating and researching. This book ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity

    Edited by Amanda Heffernan, Jane Wilkinson ...
    This book brings critical perspectives towards questions of how precarity and precariousness affect the work of leaders and educators in schools and universities around the world. It theorises the effects of precarity, and the experiences of educators working in precarious environments.The work of school improvement takes time. Developing a highly-skilled and confident teaching workforce requires ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Psychological Therapies with Older People

    Developing Treatments for Effective Practice

    Edited by Jason Hepple, Jane Pearce, Philip Wilkinson ...
    Sigmund Freud believed that psychoanalysis (and other forms of therapy) was not suitable for people over 50 years of age. In Psychological Therapies with Older People, the authors demonstrate the value of a range of psychological interventions with older people, showing that it is 'not too late' to help.With an emphasis on practical application, and using a wide range of clinical examples, the ... Read more

    $53.58 CAD

  • Professional Development: Education for All as praxis

    Edited by Jane Wilkinson, Petra Ponte, Laurette Bristol ...
    This edited collection presents several research projects which examine issues concerning professional development, professional learning, and the ‘Education for All’ (EfA) ethos. The overall aim of the book is threefold: firstly, to explore the consequences for the education profession of EfA, and how professional development and professional learning may be made manifest as part of an EfA ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Challenges for Public Education

    Reconceptualising Educational Leadership, Policy and Social Justice as Resources for Hope

    Edited by Jane Wilkinson, Richard Niesche, Scott Eacott ...
    Series series Local/Global Issues in Education
    An accelerating pattern in Australia and internationally is the dismantling of public education systems as part of a long-standing trend towards the modernisation, marketisation and privatisation of educational provision. Responsibility for direct delivery of education services has been shifted to contracting and monitoring under the clarion call of school and leadership autonomy and parental ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Education in an Era of Schooling

    Critical perspectives of Educational Practice and Action Research. A Festschrift for Stephen Kemmis

    Edited by Christine Edwards-Groves, Peter Grootenboer, Jane Wilkinson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is a Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Stephen Kemmis, who has a long and eminent career as an educational researcher and academic spanning over 40 years. His work in curriculum, evaluation, critical practice, action research and practice theory has been influential across all continents of the world.The book examines critical perspectives on educational practice and the participatory ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Educational Leadership as a Culturally-Constructed Practice

    New Directions and Possibilities

    Edited by Jane Wilkinson, Laurette Bristol ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This edited book collection disrupts received notions of educational leadership, culture and diversity as currently portrayed in practice and theory. It draws on compelling studies of educational leadership from the global north and south, as well as from a range of ethnic, religious and gendered perspectives and critical research approaches. In so doing, the book powerfully challenges ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • School Autonomy Reform and Social Justice in Australian Public Education

    by Amanda Keddie, Katrina MacDonald, Brad Gobby, Jill Blackmore, Jane Wilkinson, Scott Eacott, Richard Niesche ...
    Series series Local/Global Issues in Education
    This book explores the social justice implications of school autonomy reform within the context of public education in Australia. It is situated within and framed by global concerns about how public schools are navigating their ‘autonomy’ within increasingly marketised education systems.Drawing on extensive interviews with stakeholders and five in-depth case study schools, the book calls attention ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Changing Practices, Changing Education

    by Stephen Kemmis, Jane Wilkinson, Christine Edwards-Groves, Ian Hardy, Peter Grootenboer, Laurette Bristol ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book aims to help teachers and those who support them to re-imagine the work of teaching, learning and leading. In particular, it shows how transformations of educational practice depend on complementary transformations in classroom-school- and system-level organisational cultures, resourcing and politics. It argues that transforming education requires more than professional development to ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD