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  • Novel Approaches to Anthropology

    Contributions to Literary Anthropology

    by Mary-Elizabeth Reeve, John W. Pulis, David Surrey, Ray McDermott, Helena Wulff, Ward Keeler ...
    This volume of interdisciplinary essays reflect current contributions to literary anthropology. Novel Approaches to Anthropology: Contributions to Literary Anthropology showcases the myriad ways that anthropologists bring their disciplinary perspectives, theories, concepts, and pedagogical strategies to interpreting fiction and travel writing written in the past and present. The authors integrate ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Successful Failure

    The School America Builds

    by Herne Varenne, Ray Mcdermott ...
    In this controversial work, Herv Varenne and Ray McDermott explore education as cultural phenomenona construct of artifice and reality we impose upon ourselves. Questioning how the American education system defines and measures success and failure, Successful Failure is a must-read for anyone interested in educational reform, the American educational system, and the anthropology of education. }In ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sterne, Tristram, Yorick

    Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne

    by Ashleigh Blackwood, Robert Chibka, Amelia Dale, Stephanie DeGooyer, John Owen Havard, Christoph Henke, Tom Keymer, Elizabeth Kraft, Jakub Lipski, Ray McDermott, Brian Michael Norton, Pat Rogers, Artem Serebrennikov, Donald R. Wehrs ...
    Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8–11, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more than sixty papers. The organizers invited participants to submit revised versions of their contributions for this volume, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • Interpretive Research Design

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    by Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Dvora Yanow ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods
    Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training they receive. This book is an authoritative examination of the concepts and processes underlying the ... Read more

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  • The Knowledge Deficit

    Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children

    by E. D. Hirsch ...
    The Knowledge Deficit illuminates the real issue in education today -- without an effective curriculum, American students are losing the global education race. In this persuasive book, the esteemed education critic, activist, and best-selling author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., shows that although schools are teaching the mechanics of reading, they fail to convey the knowledge needed for the more complex and ... Read more

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  • Reflexivity and Qualitative Research

    by Jane Gilgun ...
    Researchers' own experiences affect every aspect of the research they do, from conceptualization of the issues to be researched, relationships with research participants, to interpretation of findings, to writing up results, to dissemination. This article discusses reflexivity and provides examples of what it is.Reflexivity is important topic for qualitative researchers to consider and to ... Read more

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  • Why Worry About Future Generations?

    by Samuel Scheffler ...
    The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and have argued that we have duties of beneficence to promote the well-being of our descendants. Rather than focusing exclusively on issues of moral ... Read more

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  • Critical Curriculum Studies

    Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing

    by Wayne Au ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students’ understanding of the world around them. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social justice to argue for a transformative curriculum that challenges existing inequity in social, ... Read more

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  • Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology

    by Philip Manning ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
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  • The Language of Law School

    Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer"

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  • Open Your Eyes

    Deaf Studies Talking

    Edited by H-Dirksen L. Bauman ...
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