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“thomas pettersson”

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  • Education by the Numbers and the Making of Society

    The Expertise of International Assessments

    Edited by Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson, Thomas S. Popkewitz ...
    International statistical comparisons of nations have become commonplace in the contemporary landscape of education policy and social science. This book discusses the emergence of these international comparisons as a particular style of reasoning about education, society and science. By examining how international educational assessments have come to dominate much of contemporary policymaking ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Global Education Race

    Taking the Measure of PISA and International Testing

    by Sam Sellar, Greg Thompson, David Rutkowski ...
    A global education race now pits countries, regions, and school systems against one another. The racecourse has been created by a small number of influential international testing programs, and the popular media announces winners and losers. Fear of falling behind haunts policy-makers and shapes educational priorities around the world. But are we running in the right direction? We all have a stake ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Institutional Ethnography as Practice

    by Marie L. Campbell, Marjorie L. DeVault, Tim Diamond, Lauren Eastwood, Alison Griffith, Liza McCoy, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Ellen Pence, George W. Smith, Dorothy E. Smith, Susan Turner1, Douglas Weatherbee2, Alex J. Wilson3 ...
    In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal how institutional relations and regimes are organized. As a whole, the book aims to provide ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research

    Edited by Reza Banakar, Dr Max Travers ...
    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    Socio-legal researchers increasingly recognise the need to employ a wide variety of methods in studying law and legal phenomena, and the need to be informed by an understanding of debates about theory and method in mainstream social science. The papers in this volume illustrate how a range of topics, including EU law, ombudsmen, judges, lawyers, Shariah Councils and the quality assurance industry ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Handbook of Public Policy Analysis

    Theory, Politics, and Methods

    Edited by Frank Fischer, Gerald J. Miller ...
    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
    The study of public policy and the methods of policy analysis are among the most rapidly developing areas in the social sciences. Policy analysis has emerged to provide a better understanding of the policymaking process and to supply decision makers with reliable policy-relevant knowledge about pressing economic and social problems.Presenting a broad, comprehensive perspective, the Handbook of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Europe’s New Scientific Elite

    Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area

    by Barbara Hoenig ...
    Series series Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
    Winner of the Harald Kaufmann Prize for Senior Researchers, 2018This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change in the social organization of science, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks

    Edited by Mark Lubell, Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Networks are omnipresent in our natural and social world, and they are at the heart of politics. Relationships of many types drive political institutions, processes, and decision-making. Therefore, it is imperative for the study of politics to include network approaches. Already, these approaches have advanced our understanding of critical questions, such as: Why do people vote? How can people ... Read more

    $190.79 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods

    Edited by Elisabete A. Silva, Patsy Healey, Neil Harris, Pieter Van den Broeck ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods is an expansive look at the traditions, methods, and challenges of research design and research projects in contemporary urban planning. Through case studies, an international group of researchers, planning practitioners, and planning academics and educators, all recognized authorities in the field, provide accounts of designing and implementing ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Spatial Planning in the Netherlands

    by Patrick Witte, Thomas Hartmann ...
    This book provides an introduction to spatial planning in the Netherlands. It explores the academic underpinnings of the discipline and its practical implications, making use of insights on planning practices from the Netherlands. As an academic book with relevance for spatial planning teaching and practice, the relation between planning practice and planning as an academic discipline are ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Children’s Rights and the Capability Approach

    Challenges and Prospects

    Edited by Daniel Stoecklin, Jean-Michel Bonvin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume addresses the conditions allowing the transformation of specific children’s rights into capabilities in settings as different as children’s parliaments, organized leisure activities, contexts of vulnerability, children in care. It addresses theoretical questions linked to children’s agency and reflexivity, education, the life cycle perspective, child participation, evolving ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity

    Edited by Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein, Roberto Carlos Dos Santos Pacheco ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Interdisciplinarity has become as important outside academia as within. Academics, policy makers, and the general public seek insights to help organize the vast amounts of knowledge being produced, both within research and at all levels of education. The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity offers a thorough update of this major reference work, summarizing the latest ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Rethinking Career Studies

    Facilitating Conversation across Boundaries with the Social Chronology Framework

    by Hugh Gunz, Wolfgang Mayrhofer ...
    Careers are studied across many disciplines - particularly from the social sciences - but there is little conversation between them. Many scholars are studying the same thing in different ways, too often missing opportunities to learn from one another and draw on each other's ideas and findings to enrich their own. Gunz and Mayrhofer bridge these scholarly discourses as they explore the meaning of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD