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Annette King

The Authorised Biography

by Brent Edwards, John Harvey ...

Annette King is New Zealand's longest-serving women MP — 1984-2017 less three years in the wilderness from 1990-1993. In her 30 years in Parliament, she spent 15 in government (10 as a cabinet minister) and 15 in opposition. She is a former deputy leader of the Labour Party, and held a number of senior cabinet portfolios. This book will take a dual approach to her life and political career. ... Read more

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Annette King is New Zealand's longest-serving women MP — 1984-2017 less three years in the wilderness from 1990-1993. In her 30 years in Parliament, she spent 15 in government (10 as a cabinet minister) and 15 in opposition. She is a former deputy leader of the Labour Party, and held a number of senior cabinet portfolios. This book will take a dual approach to her life and political career.
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The Global Education Policy Field

Theorization and Problematization

Edited by D. Brent Edwards Jr ...

This book challenges conventional approaches to global education policy (GEP) by exploring its often-overlooked onto-epistemic and religio-spiritual dimensions. Through eight thought-provoking chapters, leading scholars critically examine how fundamental questions of knowing, being, and worldview shape the field's theoretical foundations and practical implications.The contributors delve deep into ... Read more

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This book challenges conventional approaches to global education policy (GEP) by exploring its often-overlooked onto-epistemic and religio-spiritual dimensions. Through eight thought-provoking chapters, leading scholars critically examine how fundamental questions of knowing, being, and worldview shape the field's theoretical foundations and practical implications.The contributors delve deep into
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Researching Global Education Policy

Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement

by Mellisa Chin, Clara Fontdevila, Steven Lewis, Kalervo N. Gulson, Andrew Wilkins, Fabian Besche-Truthe, Kerstin Martens, Dennis Niemann, Michael Windzio, Yasin Tunc, Laura Engel, Jisun Jeong, Oshie Nishimura-Sahi, Gerard Ferrer-Esteban, Chenyu Wang, Nelli Piattoeva, Brad Gobby, Andreu Termes, Emiliano Grimaldi, Jordi Collet, Tomas Esper, Marcel Pagès, Oscar Valiente ...

Series series Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
The movement of policy is a core feature of contemporary education reform. Many different concepts, including policy transfer, borrowing and lending, travelling, diffusion and mobility, have been deployed to study how and why policy moves across jurisdictions, scales of governance, policy sectors or organisations. However, the underlying theoretical perspectives and the foundational assumptions of ... Read more

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The movement of policy is a core feature of contemporary education reform. Many different concepts, including policy transfer, borrowing and lending, travelling, diffusion and mobility, have been deployed to study how and why policy moves across jurisdictions, scales of governance, policy sectors or organisations. However, the underlying theoretical perspectives and the foundational assumptions of
... Read more
Rethinking World Bank Influence

Governance Reforms and the Ritual Aid Dance in Indonesia

by D. Brent Edwards Jr. ...

Series series Routledge Research on Asian Development
Why is it so hard for international development organizations—even ones as well-resourced and influential as the World Bank—to generate and sustain change in the way things are done in those countries where they work? Despite what, in many cases, is decades of investment and effort, why do partner governments continue to engage in those traditional patterns and styles of public service management ... Read more

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Why is it so hard for international development organizations—even ones as well-resourced and influential as the World Bank—to generate and sustain change in the way things are done in those countries where they work? Despite what, in many cases, is decades of investment and effort, why do partner governments continue to engage in those traditional patterns and styles of public service management
... Read more
Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean

Global Forces and Local Responses

by Vanessa Pietras, Tobias Roberts, Matthew Aruch, Nanette Archer Svenson, María Carolina Bodewig, Loida M. Martínez-Ramos, Kate Maloney Williams, Kristin Rosekrans, Katharine Summers, Celia Margarita Morán, Alejandro Caravaca, Wim Savenije, Felix Alvarado, Xavier Bonal, Mariana Leon, Rachel Dyl, Changha Lee, Shue-kei Joanna Mok, Michael Lisman ...

Series series Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education
Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC).The book covers all Spanish-speaking countries of the CALC region and examines the effects of macro-economic pressures, geopolitical intervention, neo-colonial ... Read more

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Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC).The book covers all Spanish-speaking countries of the CALC region and examines the effects of macro-economic pressures, geopolitical intervention, neo-colonial
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Globalization, Privatization, and the State

Contemporary Education Reform in Post-Colonial Contexts

by D. Brent Edwards Jr., Mauro C. Moschetti, Alejandro Caravaca ...

Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
This text explores how the dynamics of globalization and privatization have influenced State policy and impacted education reform in Honduras. It makes the argument that understanding education reform in post-colonial contexts requires that scholars go beyond a surface-level description of such trends as privatization to consider, in addition, the ways that the logics, practices, and relationships ... Read more

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This text explores how the dynamics of globalization and privatization have influenced State policy and impacted education reform in Honduras. It makes the argument that understanding education reform in post-colonial contexts requires that scholars go beyond a surface-level description of such trends as privatization to consider, in addition, the ways that the logics, practices, and relationships
... Read more
Global Education Policy, Impact Evaluations, and Alternatives

The Political Economy of Knowledge Production

by D. Brent Edwards Jr. ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This book contributes to how we conceptualize and investigate the role and influence of knowledge production by international organizations within the field of global education reform. After elaborating on what it means to approach the intersection of these issues from a political economy perspective, the book develops a focus on knowledge production broadly to examine specifically the production ... Read more

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This book contributes to how we conceptualize and investigate the role and influence of knowledge production by international organizations within the field of global education reform. After elaborating on what it means to approach the intersection of these issues from a political economy perspective, the book develops a focus on knowledge production broadly to examine specifically the production
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The Trajectory of Global Education Policy

Community-Based Management in El Salvador and the Global Reform Agenda

by D. Brent Edwards Jr. ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book provides new insights into the phenomena of global education policies and international policy transfer. While both of these issues have gained popularity in the field of international and comparative education, there remains much that we do not know. In particular, while numerous studies have been produced which examine how global education policies—such as vouchers, charter schools, ... Read more

$89.09 USD

This book provides new insights into the phenomena of global education policies and international policy transfer. While both of these issues have gained popularity in the field of international and comparative education, there remains much that we do not know. In particular, while numerous studies have been produced which examine how global education policies—such as vouchers, charter schools,
... Read more
New Technology in Sociology

Practical Applications in Research and Work

by Grant Blank, James L. McCartney, Edward Brent ...

When technology has been applied in business environments, its justification has usually been cast in terms of saving time or saving money. In the social sciences, the justification must be different; the viability of sociology as a profession, for example, will not be enhanced by cost reductions. The focus in this volume is on a different bottom l ... Read more

$65.99 USD

When technology has been applied in business environments, its justification has usually been cast in terms of saving time or saving money. In the social sciences, the justification must be different; the viability of sociology as a profession, for example, will not be enhanced by cost reductions. The focus in this volume is on a different bottom l
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Jupiter

by Edward Shergold ...

Narrated by Brent Edward Sawicki ...

Unabridged

7 hours 7 min

The story of Isaac Marcu Moritz and the great affliction of his childhood caused by a lightning bolt launched by Jupiter, god of the sky, the father of gods and men, and the patron of Rome.The bolt kills his aged mentor whose knowledge of history and languages is transferred to the traumatised mind of the boy. He is plagued throughout his life by visions and torment of Rome’s ancient rulers and ... Read more

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The story of Isaac Marcu Moritz and the great affliction of his childhood caused by a lightning bolt launched by Jupiter, god of the sky, the father of gods and men, and the patron of Rome.The bolt kills his aged mentor whose knowledge of history and languages is transferred to the traumatised mind of the boy. He is plagued throughout his life by visions and torment of Rome’s ancient rulers and
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Grasp the Nettle

Australian Country life in the 1920s era

by Sylvia Lerch ...

Narrated by Brent Edward Sawicki ...

Unabridged

1 hour 27 min

Set in a remote district of Western Australia in the 1920s, an era which outlawed suicide, an unidentified body has been found and police are treating the death as suspicious. The story presents a chance for strangers (the reader) to peruse the very private diaries of the protagonists. Intriguingly, this is like peeping through the coin slot of a piggy bank to count the wealth inside. Elsie has ... Read more

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Set in a remote district of Western Australia in the 1920s, an era which outlawed suicide, an unidentified body has been found and police are treating the death as suspicious. The story presents a chance for strangers (the reader) to peruse the very private diaries of the protagonists. Intriguingly, this is like peeping through the coin slot of a piggy bank to count the wealth inside. Elsie has
... Read more

Media and Development

by Martin Scott ...

Series series Development Matters
Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

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Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the
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