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Non-State Actors in Education in the Global South
Av Prachi Srivastava, Geoffrey Walford
Häftad, 2020
460 kr
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Fuelled by social equity concerns, there have been vigorous debates on the appropriateness of certain non-state actors, particularly those with commercial and entrepreneurial motives, to meet universal education goals. There are further questions on the relative effectiveness of government and …
Private Schools in Ten Countries
Policy and Practice
Häftad, 2023
488 kr
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First published in 1989, Private Schools in Ten Countries provides a much needed comparative study, examining private schooling in England and Wales, Scotland, the USA, Canada, Australia, France, West Germany, the Netherlands and Japan. The authors, all experts in their field, describe the nature …
Private Schools in Ten Countries
Policy and Practice
Inbunden, 2021
1776 kr
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First published in 1989, Private Schools in Ten Countries provides a much needed comparative study, examining private schooling in England and Wales, Scotland, the USA, Canada, Australia, France, West Germany, the Netherlands and Japan. The authors, all experts in their field, describe the nature …
Doing Educational Research
Häftad, 1991
715 kr
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Thirteen major educationalists offer semi-autobiographical accounts of their own influential research work, focusing on the practical and personal realities of the research process. Authors such as Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes, Stephen J. Ball, David Reynolds and Peter Mortimore discuss their …
Durkheim and Modern Education
Av W.S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford
Inbunden, 1998
2439 kr
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This volume explores Durkheim's place in modern educational thought at three different levels:* Durkheim's ideas on education are analyzed and placed in the context of modern society* current educational issues are explored using a Durkheimian framework* Durkheim's thought is related to that of …
Durkheim's Suicide
A Century of Research and Debate
Av W.S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford
Inbunden, 2000
2510 kr
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Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's methodology. The wide-ranging chapters cover such issues as …
Education and the Labour Government
An Evaluation of Two Terms
Inbunden, 2006
2439 kr
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This book presents a valuable and authoritative evaluation of the real impact Labour’s two terms have had on the British education system.On the 1st May 1997 the British electorate witnessed a watershed moment. After an eighteen year Conservative rule, a New Labour government took office. When …
Tracing Education Policy
Selections from the Oxford Review of Education
Av David Phillips, Geoffrey Walford
Inbunden, 2006
1775 kr
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This book brings together key articles that trace the development of British education policy since 1975 and provides a valuable route map to developments within education policy during this period. It includes twenty-six seminal articles from the Oxford Review of Education written by many of the …
Education and the Labour Government
An Evaluation of Two Terms
Häftad, 2007
701 kr
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This book presents a valuable and authoritative evaluation of the real impact Labour’s two terms have had on the British education system.On the 1st May 1997 the British electorate witnessed a watershed moment. After an eighteen year Conservative rule, a New Labour government took office. When …
Blair's Educational Legacy?
Inbunden, 2009
2439 kr
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The United Kingdom General Election on 1st May 1997 gave a landslide victory to a re-vitalised Labour Party. Tony Blair became Prime Minister with a huge Commons majority of 179 over all other parties. Such a majority meant that extensive changes of policy could be implemented with little effective …
Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
Inbunden, 2011
2977 kr
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This collection of specially commissioned articles exposes the practical and personal influences on the process of doing sociology of education. All of the authors have been involved in conducting well know major research projects, and discuss here the pitfalls and problems, conflicts and …
Life in Public Schools (RLE Edu L)
Inbunden, 2011
2439 kr
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Britain’s public (that is, its major independent) schools have a conspicuous role in the country’s social system, and as a result are the subject of a long-standing political debate. The discussion is generally founded on a stereotyped image of what these school may have been like in the 1950s – …
Privatization and Privilege in Education (RLE Edu L)
Inbunden, 2011
1478 kr
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Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector schools, …
Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
Häftad, 2014
800 kr
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This collection of specially commissioned articles exposes the practical and personal influences on the process of doing sociology of education. All of the authors have been involved in conducting well know major research projects, and discuss here the pitfalls and problems, conflicts and …
Life in Public Schools (RLE Edu L)
Häftad, 2014
800 kr
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Britain’s public (that is, its major independent) schools have a conspicuous role in the country’s social system, and as a result are the subject of a long-standing political debate. The discussion is generally founded on a stereotyped image of what these school may have been like in the 1950s – …
Privatization and Privilege in Education (RLE Edu L)
Häftad, 2014
531 kr
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Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector schools, …
Durkheim and Modern Education
Av W.S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford
Häftad, 2014
870 kr
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This volume explores Durkheim's place in modern educational thought at three different levels:* Durkheim's ideas on education are analyzed and placed in the context of modern society* current educational issues are explored using a Durkheimian framework* Durkheim's thought is related to that of …
Restructuring Universities
Politics and Power in the Management of Change
E-bok, 2018
609 kr
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Originally published in 1987 Restructuring Universities uses Aston University as a case study of the internal restructuring taking place in universities. Aston lost one third of its funding in 1981 and was told to reduce its student numbers by one fifth within three years. The university has a …
Restructuring Universities
Politics and Power in the Management of Change
E-bok, 2018
623 kr
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Originally published in 1987 Restructuring Universities uses Aston University as a case study of the internal restructuring taking place in universities. Aston lost one third of its funding in 1981 and was told to reduce its student numbers by one fifth within three years. The university has a …
Private Schooling of Girls
Past and Present
Häftad, 1993
800 kr
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Hitherto only a small proportion of the research on private education has been on the schooling of girls. Debate on the subject, while often heated, even prejudiced, proceeds largely in ignorance of the historical development of private schooling, the currently changing nature of private schooling, …
British Private Schools
Research on Policy and Practice
Häftad, 2003
800 kr
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British private schools are a continuing topic of fascination for many. In particular, the leading so-called public schools have long been subjected both to criticism for their elitism and praise for their academic success. Traditionally, Conservative governments have strongly supported the private …
Affirming the Comprehensive Ideal
Av Richard Pring, Geoffrey Walford
Inbunden, 1997
743 kr
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Examines the ideals which lay behind the development of comprehensive schools. Written by 14 British educationalists, this text considers the evidence and suggests how further progress might be made within the moral framework of secondary education for all, irrespective of background or ability. …
Affirming the Comprehensive Ideal
Av Richard Pring, Geoffrey Walford
Häftad, 1997
361 kr
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Examines the ideals which lay behind the development of comprehensive schools. Written by 14 British educationalists, this text considers the evidence and suggests how further progress might be made within the moral framework of secondary education for all, irrespective of background or ability. …
Doing Research About Education
Häftad, 1998
743 kr
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This book brings together semi-autobiographical accounts from major educationalists about their influential research, focusing on the practical and personal aspects of the research process.The collection reflects the great changes that have occured within educational research since the 1980s and …
Doing Research About Education
Inbunden, 1998
2668 kr
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This book brings together semi-autobiographical accounts from major educationalists about their influential research, focusing on the practical and personal aspects of the research process.The collection reflects the great changes that have occured within educational research since the 1980s and …
Explorations in Methodology
Av Geoffrey Walford, Alexander Massey
Inbunden, 1999
1289 kr
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The series as a whole recognises that the nature of ethnography is contested, and takes this to be a sign of its strength and vitality. This second volume in the series focuses on debates and developments in methodology and the many ways in which ethnographic work interacts with education. The …
Genders and Sexualities in Educational Ethnography
Av Geoffrey Walford, Caroline Hudson
Inbunden, 2001
1956 kr
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Studies of gender and education have been at the forefront of much ethnographic research for several decades, but the interest in sexualities and education is more recent. Indeed, to study sexualities and schooling is, almost in itself, a challenge to many common assumptions about children and what …
Ethnography and Education Policy
Inbunden, 2001
2027 kr
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This book emphasises the central place that ethnographic work should have in the formulation and evaluation of education policy. Ethnographic studies contribute to a greater understanding of the process formulation, evaluation and critique. First, careful studies of policy initiatives at the local …
Critical Ethnography and Education
Av Phil Francis Carspecken, Geoffrey Walford
Inbunden, 2001
2027 kr
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Volume five of this expanding series of books draws together a collection of papers based on a particular form of critical ethnography developed by Phil Francis Carspecken and his colleagues at the University of Houston. Each chapter is based on a unique field project conducted in the Houston area …
Debates and Developments in Ethonographic Methodology
Inbunden, 2002
2086 kr
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What counts as ethnography and what counts as good ethnographic methodology are both highly contested. Volume 6 of this expanding series of books draws together a collection of chapters presenting a diversity of views on some of the debates and developments in ethnographic methodology. It does not …
