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Download this eBook Breastfeeding Privatization in Public Education
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Breastfeeding Privatization in Public Education


Meral Apak


This book unveils women’s empowerment as mothers as a notion in the school system that reinforces patriarchy rather than weakening it. It discusses how empowerment is a contested notion, even though it is mostly praised in terms of women’s emancipation.This book...

Publication date: 2022-03-24
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Download this eBook Elders' Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in Education
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Elders' Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in Education


Grace Erger , Wambui Karanja , George J. Sefa Dei


This book makes a strong case for the inclusion of Indigenous Elders’ cultural knowledge in the delivery of inclusive education for learners who are members of minority communities. It is relevant to curriculum developers, teachers, policy makers and institutions that...

Publication date: 2022-01-03
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Download this eBook Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture
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Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture


Naomi Barnes , Alison Bedford


This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. It provides tangible, metaphorical examples that shows how it is possible to "do philosophy" rather than subscribe to a theorist by showing that each theorist intersects and...

Publication date: 2021-08-26
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Download this eBook Towards Critical Environmental Education
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Towards Critical Environmental Education


Aristotelis S. Gkiolmas , Constantine D. Skordoulis


This volume discusses theory, philosophy, praxis and methods in Environmental and Ecological education, and considers the junction with the main visions and issues of Critical Pedagogy. The volume and its separate chapters address four axes, which can also be seen as...

Publication date: 2020-11-03
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Download this eBook Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
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Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies


Linda Ware


This edited volume includes chapters on disability studies organized around three themes: Theory, Philosophy and Critique. Informed by a range of scholars who may or may not fashion their work beneath the banner of disability studies in explicit terms, it draws...

Publication date: 2020-03-13
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Download this eBook A Student-centred Sociology of Australian Education
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A Student-centred Sociology of Australian Education


Tiffany Jones


This book is based on a comparative study from 2018, of four different approaches to education, according to 2,500 Australians’ experiences of them, on a range of topics. It shows that whilst the critical approach has strong research-based support across the board,...

Publication date: 2020-01-03
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Download this eBook Queer Pedagogies
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Queer Pedagogies


Cris Mayo , Nelson M. Rodriguez


This book invites readers to explore the critical interruptions occasioned by queer pedagogies. Building on earlier scholarly work in this area, as well as pedagogical production arising out of queer activism, the chapters in this volume examine a broad range of themes...

Publication date: 2019-10-01
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Download this eBook Universities in the Networked Society
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Universities in the Networked Society


Piet Kommers , Josef Malach , Nataliia Morze , Eugenia Smyrnova-Trybulska


This book presents research on the effects and effectiveness of ICT applications in lifelong learning in relation to digital competences of educators. It sketches recent and future evolutions in higher education, explores whether universities have adjusted policies and...

Publication date: 2019-05-21
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Download this eBook Cartographies of Race and Social Difference
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Cartographies of Race and Social Difference


Shukri Hilowle , George J. Sefa Dei


This book critically examines how race is constructed globally to intersect gender, class, sexuality, language ability and religion and answers some very important questions, like how does anti-black racism manifest itself within various contexts? Chapters in the book...

Publication date: 2018-12-04
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Download this eBook Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies
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Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies


John A. Weaver


In this book John A. Weaver suggests curriculum studies scholars need to engage more in science matters. It offers a review of science studies writing from Ludwick Fleck and Thomas Kuhn to Philip Mirowski. The volume includes chapters on the rhetoric of science with a...

Publication date: 2018-08-30
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Download this eBook The Politics of Educational Reform in Ghana
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The Politics of Educational Reform in Ghana


Maxwell A. Aziabah


This book comprises six main chapters and addresses the core research question: How can the endurance of academic bias in Ghana’s secondary education system be explained in the context of educational reform versus change of government concurrence? Six...

Publication date: 2018-07-09
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Download this eBook Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia
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Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia


Barry Down , Janean Robinson , John Smyth


This book draws on the stories of thirty-two young Australians to identify the barriers and obstacles they face in ‘getting a job’ in precarious times and from their vantage point. It maps the kinds of educational policies and practices that need to be created and more...

Publication date: 2018-01-08
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Download this eBook Antonio Gramsci: A Pedagogy to Change the World
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Antonio Gramsci: A Pedagogy to Change the World


John D. Holst , Nicola Pizzolato


This volume provides evidence for the argument of a central place of pedagogy in the interpretation of Gramsci’s political theory. Gramsci’s view that ‘every relationship of hegemony is necessarily a pedagogical relationship’ makes it imperative to dismiss narrow and...

Publication date: 2017-06-12
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Download this eBook Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms
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Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms


George J. Sefa Dei


This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics.  Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms.  The...

Publication date: 2017-05-19
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Download this eBook Postformal Education
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Postformal Education


Jennifer M. Gidley


This book explains why the current education model, which was developed in the 19th century to meet the needs of industrial expansion, is obsolete. It points to the need for a new approach to education designed to prepare young people for global uncertainty,...

Publication date: 2016-08-05
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Download this eBook Practicing Critical Pedagogy
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Practicing Critical Pedagogy


Mary Frances Agnello , William Martin Reynolds


This edited text recaptures many of Joe L. Kincheloe’s national and international influences. An advocate and a scholar in the social, historical, and philosophical foundations of education, he dedicated his professional life to his vision of critical pedagogy.  The...

Publication date: 2015-12-22
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Download this eBook Holistic Pedagogy
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Holistic Pedagogy


Conrad P. Pritscher , Carlo Ricci


This book illuminates what must always be at the heart of powerful schooling and authentic learning. Its focus is on free learning, with an emphasis on early East Asian thought as a vehicle through which learning may emerge. The volume describes learning as helping the...

Publication date: 2015-03-03
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