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  • Promoting Equity in Schools

    Collaboration, Inquiry and Ethical Leadership

    by Jess Harris, Suzanne Carrington, Mel Ainscow ...
    Around the world, countries are searching for ways of making their schools more effective for all children and young people. This book offers a new way of thinking about how to address this challenge. It sees improvement as requiring a collective effort that involves contributions from all members of a school community. Crucial to this is the idea of ethical leadership.Promoting Equity in Schools ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Casualisation, the Gig Economy, and Piece Work in Education

    Dilemmas for Leaders in Times of Increasing Precarity

    Edited by Jess Harris, Nerida Spina, Kathleen Smithers, Jill Blackmore, Sarah K. Gurr ...
    This book examines a range of ethical complexities associated with precarious work across educational sectors internationally.Our aim is to examine the experiences of the increasing reliance on casual and temporary employment in education settings for all educators. This volume brings together academic chapters, focused on the affective, ethical, and practical challenges faced by all educators ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Alternatives in Grammar and Cognition

    Edited by Nicole Gotzner, Jesse A. Harris, Richard Breheny, Yael Sharvit ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited book brings together research investigating foundational issues relating to the generation and restriction of alternative sets from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It includes contributions from noted scholars in the field to provide theoretical arguments, opinionated perspectives synthesizing existing positions, and empirical evidence from experimentation and fieldwork in ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Community Matters

    The Complex Links Between Community and Young People's Aspirations for Higher Education

    by Jennifer Gore, Sally Patfield, Leanne Fray, Jess Harris ...
    Series series Local/Global Issues in Education
    Working towards equity of access to higher education remains a fundamental issue of social justice. Despite substantial efforts to redress historical exclusions via a wealth of government and institutional policies, longstanding enrolment patterns persist and new forms of inequality have emerged in a deeply stratified system.Community Matters: The Complex Links Between Community and Young People’s ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • 'Making It' as a Contract Researcher

    A Pragmatic Look at Precarious Work

    by Nerida Spina, Jess Harris, Simon Bailey, Mhorag Goff ...
    Series series Insider Guides to Success in Academia
    ‘Making It’ as a Contract Researcher examines the contemporary experience of research employment in universities from the perspective of a significant yet often invisible group: temporary or contract researchers, who make up a substantial, and ever-growing, proportion of the academic research workforce. A critical, pragmatic and international account of the contemporary research career, this book ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Mysticism and Experience

    Twenty-First-Century Approaches

    by Alex S. Kohav, Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, Jess Hollenback, Harry T. Hunt, Richard H. Jones, Leonid I. Perlovsky, Ori Z. Soltes, Rick Strassman, Reuven Tsur, Sivan Wagshal Te'eni0, Laura E. Weed1 ...
    Mysticism and Experience: Twenty-First-Century Approaches embarks on an investigation of the concept of mysticism from the standpoint of academic fields, including philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, mysticism studies, literary studies, art criticism, cognitive poetics, cognitive science, psychology, medical research, and even mathematics. Scholars across disciplines observe that, ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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    Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges

    by Brian W. Head ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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  • Language, Cognition, and Human Nature

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    by Steven Pinker ...
    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature. This eclectic collection spans Pinker's thirty ... Read more

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  • Community Development in an Uncertain World

    Vision, Analysis and Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and postcolonial theory. Students will ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Ethical Evidence and Policymaking

    Interdisciplinary and International Research

    Edited by Ron Iphofen, Dónal O’Mathúna ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. First, it builds a case for ethics and global values in research and knowledge exchange, and second, it examines specific policy areas and how evidence can guide practice.The book covers important policy areas including ... Read more

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  • Hard Choices

    Challenging the Singapore Consensus

    Edited by Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh, Donald Low ...
    Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a ... Read more

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  • Co-Production and Co-Creation

    Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Trui Steen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more ... Read more

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