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  • Young People and the Struggle for Participation

    Contested Practices, Power and Pedagogies in Public Spaces

    Edited by Andreas Walther, Janet Batsleer, Patricia Loncle, Axel Pohl ...
    Young People and the Struggle for Participation rethinks dominant concepts and meanings of participation by exploring what young people do in public spaces and what these spaces mean to them, individually and collectively. This book discusses how different spaces and places structure and are in turn structured by young peoples’ activities.Drawing on findings from a comparative study in eight ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Communities of Youth

    Cultural Practice and Informal Learning

    by Steven Miles, Axel Pohl, Barbara Stauber, Andreas Walther, Rui Manuel Bargiela Banha, Maria do Carmo Gomes ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002.Communities of Youth critically evaluates what it means to be a young person at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the problems, opportunities and dilemmas that emerge from the experience. The book is concerned with putting key conceptual debates to do with youth in a comparative cutting-edge empirical context. In particular, it endeavours to ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Good work

    the ethics of craftsmanship

    Edited by Harry Kunneman ...
    Building on Richard Sennetts recent work this books tries to clarify the ethical significance of craftsmanship. According to Sennett, `learning to work well is a deep source of personal meaning and of fruitful cooperation. Moreover provides the foundation of citizenship. Learning to master a craft is learning to be curious and patient, to focus on relationships and learn the skills of anticipation ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Social Pedagogy and Working with Children and Young People

    Where Care and Education Meet

    by Inge Bryderup, Stefan Kleipoedszus, Jytte Juul Jensen, Gabriel Eichsteller, Pat Petrie, Janet Boddy, Sylvia Holthoff, Anna Kathrine Frorup, Michael Fielding, Michel Vandenbroeck ...
    Social pedagogy is an innovative discipline that supports children's upbringing and overall development by focusing on the child as a whole person. It has been described as where education and care meet or as 'education in its broadest sense'.This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory, principles and practice of social pedagogy and the profession of social pedagogue. With chapters ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Facilitating Practitioner Research

    Developing Transformational Partnerships

    by Susan Groundwater-Smith, Jane Mitchell, Nicole Mockler, Petra Ponte, Karin Ronnerman ...
    Facilitating Practitioner Research: Developing transformational partnerships addresses the complex dilemmas and issues that arise in practitioner inquiry. It recognises that facilitating practitioner research is far more than providing advice about method adoption, important as that contribution is; or even modelling research practices and drawing ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Connecting Policy and Practice

    Challenges for Teaching and Learning in Schools and Universities

    Edited by Michael Kompf, Pam Denicolo ...
    Written by members of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching, the papers in this volume were presented at an international teaching conference on the issues of theory and practice. Using these contributions from experienced researchers, most of whom are practising teachers, this single volume is international in scope and context, demonstrating differences and similarities ... Read more

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  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Entrepreneurial Self

    Fabricating a New Type of Subject

    by Ulrich Bröckling ...
    "This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed on us to become more than we are, to become entrepreneurs of our selves, to maximise and optimise our capacities in ways that align personal identity and political ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The quiet revolution

    aggrandising people power by family group conferences

    Edited by Rene Clarijs, Thijs Malmberg ...
    The all-encompassing welfare state that often suffocates citizens is having its final drink in the last-chance saloon. The introduction of the open market as a possible alternative has not been successful either. People are suppressed by the expanding 'system world', damaging their 'life world'. For that reason the welfare state does not need to be reformed, but replaced. The 'participation state' ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Connecting Leadership and Learning

    Principles for Practice

    Edited by John MacBeath, Neil Dempster ...
    Leading schools is becoming almost daily a more complex and demanding job. Connecting Leadership and Learning reassesses the purpose of schools, the nature of learning and the qualities of leadership that make schools authentic places of learning.Starting with a review of what we can claim to know – and not know – about learning, leadership and their inter-relationship, this book explores what it ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Communities of Practice

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Jason Hughes, Nick Jewson, Lorna Unwin ...
    This benchmark text provides an accessible yet critical introduction to the theory and application of communities of practice and their use in a diverse range of managerial and professional contexts, from education to human resource development.This book charts the development of the idea of communities of practice and explores the key relationship between learning and identity among:newcomers and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Complexity and Social Work

    by Hans Van Ewijk ...
    Being socially competent is essential in late modern society. We expect people to find their own accommodation, partner, job, community and lifestyle and struggle to find answers for those who are not able or do not have the opportunity to achieve these things. By placing social complexity, social vulnerability and social efficacy within a framework of social policy and social practice, Complexity ... Read more

    $55.99 USD