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  • My Life: A True Study of Murphy's Law

    by John A Smyth ...
    I know what you are going to say – this could not really happen to one man. But I swear my story is true, although there are many out there who wish to change it or conceal it. I am nearly at the end now and all I really want is for my story to be told. No more lies, no more bearing the blame for things that others have done. My story is a story of resilience – every time I fell down, I picked ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communicating with Cancer Patients

    by John F. Smyth ...
    Published in association with the European Society of Medical Oncology, this book is designed for trainee oncologists, oncology nurses, and those working with cancer patients on a day-to-day basis. Using an accessible writing style suitable for a wide audience of caregivers, the book focuses on the soft skills required in communicating with patients.Topics include the aetiology of cancer, ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

  • Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice

    by John Smyth ...
    Series series Critical Pedagogy Today
    We live in a time when those who wield unrestrained power believe they have the inalienable right to determine the destiny, nature and shape of social institutions like schools. Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice challenges this arrogance by showing how teachers, students, parents, communities, and researchers can develop narratives that amount to working with and for those who are increasingly ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Toxic University

    Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology

    by John Smyth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to the institution of the university, as a result of the withdrawal of state funding and the imposition of neoliberal market reforms on higher education. It argues that universities have lost their way, and are currently drowning in an impenetrable mush of economic babble, spurious spin-offs of zombie economics, management-speak and ... Read more

    $42.29 CAD

  • Living on the Edge

    Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition

    by John Smyth, Terry Wrigley, Peter McInerney ...
    Series Book 70 - Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society
    Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education—the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Corporate Elites and the Reform of Public Education

    by John Smyth, Rob Higham, Ruth McGinity, Steven Courtney, Andrew Wilkins, Helen M Gunter, James Duggan, Leonel Lim, Howard Prosser, Katy Swalwell, Kristin Sinclair, Nurdiana Gaus, Tanya Fitzgerald, Eleni Schirmer, Kenneth J. Saltman, Jahni M. A. Smith, Andrew L. LaFave, Patricia E. Burch ...
    Just what is the role and impact of corporate elites in contemporary reforms of public sector universities and schools?Providing fresh perspectives on matters of governance and vibrant case studies on the particular types of provision including curriculum, teaching and professional practices, Gunter, Hall and Apple bring together contributions from Argentina, Australia, England, Indonesia, ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Socially Just School

    Making Space for Youth to Speak Back

    by John Smyth, Barry Down, Peter McInerney ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most marginalized and at an educational disadvantage. Social justice is a key theme as the book examines the needs of youth, the concept of school culture, school/community relations, socially critical pedagogy, curriculum ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Critical Perspectives On Educational Leadership

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    This book is an edited collection of original papers which challenge in a very direct manner the dominant behviourist and functionalist views that have come to entrap those who live, work and conduct research in the areas of educational leadership, and focusing instead on the structures and processes within schools as organisations that frustrate, distort and ultimately stifle educative ... Read more

    Free

  • Becoming Educated

    Young People’s Narratives of Disadvantage, Class, Place and Identity

    by John Smyth, Peter McInerney ...
    Series Book 67 - Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society
    Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ‘disadvantaged’ contexts. The book argues that because the focus has been obdurately and willfully on the wrong things – blaming students; measuring, testing and comparing them; and treating families and communities in demeaning ways that convert them into mere ‘consumers’ – that the resulting misdiagnoses ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Doing Critical Educational Research

    A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth

    by John Smyth, Barry Down, Peter McInerney, Robert Hattam ...
    Series Book 7 - Teaching Contemporary Scholars
    John Smyth’s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from it. Possibly the single most unique aspect to Smyth’s version of critical research is his passion for ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • A Socially Critical View Of The Self-Managing School

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    The shift from the model of central government educational control to school- based management has been widely adopted and acclaimed and has created the general impression of increased democracy and participation.; The international contributors to this book tackle this important policy issue and look behind the scenes of the moves towards school self- management. They investigate the phenomenon ... Read more

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  • Critical Research and Theorizing

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    This two volume collection consists of a number of essays originally published in Critical Pedagogy Networker between 1988-2002 in an Australian context that drew in a number of significant international as well as local scholars.The purpose in bringing this collection into existence is to make available what amount to a number of quite remarkable ideas that have hitherto had only limited ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD