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  • Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice
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    Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice

    A groundswell of interest has led to significant advances in understanding and using Culturally Responsive Arts Education to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors. Examining a...
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    Deconstructing Privilege

    Although scholarly examinations of privilege have increased in recent decades, an emphasis on privilege studies pedagogy remains lacking within institutions. This edited collection explores best practices for effective teaching and learning about various...
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    The Transformation of Children's Services

    Can we imagine different ways of working together to secure better outcomes for children and families? What are the complex issues that underlie the apparently simple call for 'joined-up' services?Children's services in many countries around the world...
    $413.95

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  • The Life and Death of Secondary Education for All The Life and Death of Secondary Education for All
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    The Life and Death of Secondary Education for All

    Is there life after death for secondary education?This book focuses upon the quality of learning. 'Reform', so called, too often begins with qualifications, examinations, institutional provision, paths of progression. All those are very important, but...
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  • Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education
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    Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education

    The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education Series, Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce, reviews the implications of new forms of academic and professional...
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  • School Trouble School Trouble
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    School Trouble

    This book sets out a series of possible approaches to pursuing social justice in and through educational settings. It identifies a series of key features of the contemporary political, theoretical and popular landscape in relation to school practice.
    $362.21

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  • Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership
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    Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership

    Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping Your Head concerns the emotional and psychological experience of school leadership-in particular, the felt experience of life as a headteacher. It describes the pressures and rewards of the role,...
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  • Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education
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    Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education

    Critical Race Theory (CRT) is at the forefront of contemporary discussions about racism and race inequity in education and politics internationally. The emergence of CRT marked a pivotal moment in the history of racial politics within the academy and...
    $159.78

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  • Educating for a Characterful Society Educating for a Characterful Society
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    Educating for a Characterful Society

    The UK National Curriculum states that schools should reaffirm commitment to the virtues of truth, justice, honesty, trust and a sense of duty. This aim, loosely defined as 'character' education, is widely agreed to be critical to healthy development and...
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  • Plug-and-Play Education Plug-and-Play Education
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    Plug-and-Play Education

    Plug-and-Play Education: Knowledge and Learning in the Age of Platforms and Artificial Intelligence documents and critiques how the education sector is changing with the advancement of ubiquitous ed tech platforms and automation.
    $372.01

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  • The Impact of Legislatures The Impact of Legislatures
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    The Impact of Legislatures

    The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern...
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  • Building Knowledge in Higher Education Building Knowledge in Higher Education
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    Building Knowledge in Higher Education

    From pressures to become economically efficient to calls to act as an agent of progressive social change, higher education is facing a series of challenges. There is an urgent need for a rigorous and sophisticated research base to support the informed...
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  • Give Life a Chance Give Life a Chance
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    Give Life a Chance

    The book is in memory of our father, Robert Arthur Stanley, who was murdered June 1, 2001.The story covers the case from the beginning of his murder to the end, at the sentencing of the persons involved. The story also takes in the process involved with...
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  • Emilee's Special Time Emilee's Special Time
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    Emilee's Special Time

    Emilee's Special Time demonstrates the beauty and magic of spending one-on-one time with one's children, especially pre-planned time. Emilee's Special Time provides a method of building wonderful, lasting relationships with your children...
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  • Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education
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    Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education

    Written for Higher Education Masters and PhD programs, this landmark textbook joins the theory of feminist post-structuralism with research methods for the purpose of policy analysis in Higher Education. It showcases the different methods that can be...
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  • Black Youth Matters Black Youth Matters
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    Black Youth Matters

    How do young black students respond, resist, and work to transform their school experience? How do young people adapt, survive, and then succeed in spite of their negative school experience? For an increasing number of marginalized black youth, the paths...
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  • Education and Neoliberal Globalization Education and Neoliberal Globalization
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    Education and Neoliberal Globalization

    This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic...
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  • Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change
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    Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change

    The failure of current policy to address important quality of life issues for urban youth remains a substantial barrier to civic participation, educational equity, and healthy adulthood. This volume brings together the work of leading urban youth...
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  • Privilege and Diversity in the Academy Privilege and Diversity in the Academy
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    Privilege and Diversity in the Academy

    Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system. Through detailed institutional ethnographies of three very different universities, Privilege and Diversity in the...
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  • Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times
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    Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times

    Educational leaders not only face moral and ethical decisions regarding their classrooms, schools, districts, and education institutions, but they also must consider the complexities and threats that impact their communities. In this unstable era of war,...
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  • The Textbook as Discourse The Textbook as Discourse
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    The Textbook as Discourse

    The central assumption of The Textbook as Discourse is this: interpreted in the flow of history, textbooks can provide important insights into the nature and meaning of a culture and the social and political discourses in which it is engaged. This book...
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  • Literacy in Times of Crisis Literacy in Times of Crisis
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    Literacy in Times of Crisis

    "Fresh, provocative, timely, and important, this volume extends the field of sociocultural literacies in new directions."--Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, University of California, Los AngelesOn the frontline of critical issues in education today, this book...
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  • Leading Schools Successfully Leading Schools Successfully
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    Leading Schools Successfully

    Leading Schools Successfully: Stories from the field considers international research focussing on leadership in schools. Based on the ISSPP (International Successful School Principalship Project) which has conducted over one hundred multiple perspective...
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  • Higher Education Choice in China Higher Education Choice in China
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    Higher Education Choice in China

    Much of the existing research on parental involvement and higher education choice examines the difference between the working class and the middle class, but little literature looks at different factions within the social classes. This book discusses...
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  • Engaging Leaders Engaging Leaders
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    Engaging Leaders

    Addressing the question of how leadership can work most successfully in universities, Engaging Leaders strengthens the sense of shared professional knowledge and capability amongst leaders in higher education. Presenting a narrative of change which not...
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  • Political Contexts of Educational Leadership Political Contexts of Educational Leadership
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    Political Contexts of Educational Leadership

    Co-published with UCEA, this exciting new textbook is the first to tackle the ISLLC Standard #6-the political context of education. This unique volume helps aspiring school leaders understand the dynamics of educational policy in multiple arenas at the...
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  • School Choice in China School Choice in China
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    School Choice in China

    School Choice in China explores the major characteristics of schooling options in China, highlighting how largely middle-class parents exploit their cultural, economic and social capital for their children's admission into choice schools. It highlights...
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  • Educating Learners with Down Syndrome Educating Learners with Down Syndrome
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    Educating Learners with Down Syndrome

    Educating Learners with Down Syndrome importantly incorporates the voices of individuals with Down syndrome, whose personal narratives add significance to the research mission of the text and demonstrate the authors' inclusive philosophy. Aimed at...
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  • Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory
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    Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory

    The first collection of the key works of the major curriculum studies scholar William E. Doll, Jr., this volume provides an overview of his scholarship over his fifty-year career and documents the theoretical and practical contribution he has made to the...
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  • Learning-Focused Leadership in Action Learning-Focused Leadership in Action
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    Learning-Focused Leadership in Action

    Learning-Focused Leadership in Action explores what it means for educational leadership to be "learning-focused," what this looks like in practice at both the school and district level, and how such changes can be set in motion.
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  • Knowledge, Expertise and the Professions Knowledge, Expertise and the Professions
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    Knowledge, Expertise and the Professions

    It has long been recognised that specialised knowledge is at the core of what distinguishes professions from other occupations. The privileged status of professions in most countries, however, together with their claims to autonomy and access to...
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  • Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South
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    Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South

    How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice. Questions of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education are increasingly contested, most especially in the global South, and improving the quality of...
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  • Diverse Perspectives on Inclusive School Communities Diverse Perspectives on Inclusive School Communities
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    Diverse Perspectives on Inclusive School Communities

    What is an inclusive school community?How do stakeholders perceive their roles and responsibilities towards inclusive school communities?How can school communities become more inclusive through engagement with individual perspectives?Diverse Perspectives...
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  • The Right to Higher Education The Right to Higher Education
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    The Right to Higher Education

    The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners,...
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  • The New Instructional Leadership The New Instructional Leadership
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    The New Instructional Leadership

    Co-published with UCEA, this exciting new textbook is the first to tackle the ISLLC Standard 2-Instructional Leadership. In light of recent curriculum reforms, accountability policies, and changing demographics, today's leaders must not only have...
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  • Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Schools Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Schools
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    Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Schools

    The contribution schools can make to improving students' health and wellbeing is increasingly recognised. Schools that have embraced this role and adapted policies and practices to create an environment in which young people feel safe and happy have...
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  • Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People
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    Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People

    Violence, democracy and rights are issues that are not fully addressed in research methodology literatures, yet violence is of vital interest in substantive and theoretical debates across the social sciences, education, philosophy, politics and cultural...
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  • Reclaiming Childhood Reclaiming Childhood
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    Reclaiming Childhood

    Children are cooped up, passive, apathetic and corrupted by commerce... or so we are told. Reclaiming Childhood confronts the dangerous myths spun about modern childhood. Yes, children today are losing out on many experiences past generations took for...
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  • Good Teachers, Good Schools Good Teachers, Good Schools
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    Good Teachers, Good Schools

    'Good schools think with people and not to people' argues David Hudson in this thought-provoking practical guide for those wanting to bridge the gap between middle and senior management roles, and make a difference in their schools. Accessibly and...
    $76.49

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  • The Future of Educational Change The Future of Educational Change
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    The Future of Educational Change

    This timely book provides a systematic overview and critique of contemporary approaches to educational change from some of the best-known writers and scholars in the field, including Andy Hargreaves, Larry Cuban, Ivor Goodson, Jeannie Oakes, Milbrey...
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  • Passionate Principalship Passionate Principalship
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    Passionate Principalship

    This book puts 'real life' back into the literature on school principalship. Through a life history approach, it portrays daily life in schools as a much more messy, contested and precarious existence, where principals struggle with passionate commitment...
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