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  • Teacher Professionalism from the Margins

    The Policies and Politics of Education Governance in England and Sweden

    by Alison L. Milner ...
    Series series Transforming Education Through Critical Leadership, Policy and Practice
    Teachers have a vital role in ensuring a quality education for all. However, education systems across the globe face growing teacher shortages. Without urgent action, this teacher gap will have significant repercussions for the sustainability of the profession and education more broadly.Teacher policies designed to tackle recruitment and retention crises vary by country. Moreover, teacher unions’ ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Resisting Neoliberalism in Education

    Local, National and Transnational Perspectives

    by Carlos Vargas-Tamez, Lesley Hagger-Vaughan, Emily Winchip, Alison Milner, Howard Stevenson, Pamela Osmond, Keiko Yasukawa, Pia Cort, Anne Larson, Francesca Rapanà0, Marcella Milana1, Fergal Finnegan2, Jo Bates3, Katherine Quinn4, Annmarie Sheahan5, Mia Angelica Sosa-Provencio6, Shawn Secatero7, Shiv Desai8, Bob Lingard9, Zhe Chen0, David Hursh1, Christine Hall2, Pat Thomson3, Elisabeth Davies4, Rachel Heydon5, Lori Mckee6, Lyn Tett7, Rob Smith9, Gwyneth Allatt0, Vicky Duckworth1, Virginie Thériault2 ...
    Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors and be detrimental to wider social and ethical goals.Drawing on a range of international contexts across ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Educational Assessment and Inclusive Education

    Paradoxes, Perspectives and Potentialities

    by Christian Ydesen, Alison L. Milner, Tali Aderet-German, Ezequiel Gomez Caride, Youjin Ruan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book brings together policymaker and practitioner knowledge, experiences, and perspectives on the interaction between the assessment and inclusion agenda to the fore. The book’s analysis is built on comparative qualitative data from five different countries on four continents: Argentina, China, Denmark, England, and Israel. These countries have been chosen for their distinctive, and even ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    Comparative Case Studies

    Edited by Sebastiano Benasso, Dejana Bouillet, Tiago Neves, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop their life courses amidst diverse living conditions and are confronted with a variety of institutional and structural arrangements that impact on their opportunities in education ... Read more

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  • Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World

    Cases and Commentaries

    Edited by Sarah Banks, Kirsten Nøhr ...
    Ethics is an increasingly important theme in social work practice. Worldwide, social workers experience common ethical challenges (how to be fair, whether to break a rule, how to act in politically tense situations) in very different contexts – from disaster relief in China to child protection work in Palestine.This book takes as its starting point real life cases featuring ethical problems in the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Inclusive Education

    by Harry (Professor in Special Education and Educational Psychology Daniels, Philip (Professor of Special Education Needs Garner ...
    This volume provides overviews and approaches to inclusive education from around the world. It defines the philosophical, political, educational and social implications of "inclusion", and maps out the dilemmas facing its successful implementation. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Occupational Science

    Society, Inclusion, Participation

    Edited by Gail E. Whiteford, Clare Hocking ...
    Occupational Science: Society, Inclusion, Participation is the must have resource for occupational therapists, occupational scientists, students and researchers. The book begins with a comprehensive review of the current literature and the knowledge generated to date. Reasons for the field's limited impact are proposed, including its focus on individuals rather than groups and communities, its ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education

    Edited by Robert B. Stevenson, Michael Brody, Justin Dillon, Arjen E.J. Wals ...
    The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment, health, development, and education. The growth in scholarship makes this an opportune time to review ... Read more

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  • Culture and Public Relations

    Edited by Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Dejan Vercic ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Culture and Public Relations explores the impact of culture – societal and organizational – through the global lens of public relations. Structuring the volume around three themes -- culture as an environment for public relations; the culture of PR globally; and the impact of PR on culture -- the editors bring together compelling discussions on such questions as how spirituality, religion, and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Career Guidance for Social Justice

    Contesting Neoliberalism

    Edited by Tristram Hooley, Ronald Sultana, Rie Thomsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
    This edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. Contributors offer an original and global discussion of the role of career guidance in the struggle for social justice and evaluate the field from a diverse range of theoretical positions. Through a series of chapters that positions career guidance within a neoliberal context and presents ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Changing Teacher Professionalism

    International trends, challenges and ways forward

    Edited by Sharon Gewirtz, Pat Mahony, Ian Hextall, Alan Cribb ...
    Significant changes in the policy and social context of teaching over the last 30 years have had substantial implications for teacher professionalism. As the influence of central regulation and marketisation has increased, so the scope for professional influence on policy and practice has in many cases diminished. Instead, teachers have had to respond to a range of other demands stemming from ... Read more

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  • Intercultural Competence in Higher Education

    International Approaches, Assessment and Application

    Edited by Darla Deardorff, Lily Arasaratnam-Smith ...
    Series series Internationalization in Higher Education Series
    Intercultural Competence in Higher Education features the work of scholars and international education practitioners in understanding the learning outcomes of internationalization, moving beyond rhetoric to concrete practice around the world.Devoted exclusively to exploring the central learning outcomes of internationalization efforts, this edited volume contains a refreshing combination of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD