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Download this eBook Education and Working-Class Youth
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Education and Working-Class Youth


Robin Simmons , John Smyth


This book provides an inclusive and incisive analysis of the experiences of working-class young people in education. While there is an established literature on education and the working class stretching back decades, comparatively there has been something of a neglect...

Publication date: 2018-05-25
Format: PDF, ePub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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£89,50
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
Format: PDF, ePub
Publisher: Springer
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£44,99
Download this eBook The Toxic University
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The Toxic University


John Smyth


This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to the institution of the university, as a result of the withdrawal of state funding and the imposition of neoliberal market reforms on higher education. It argues that universities have lost their way, and...

Publication date: 2017-06-23
Format: PDF, ePub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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£27,99
Download this eBook The Socially Just School
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The Socially Just School


Barry Down , Peter Mcinerney , John Smyth


This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most marginalized and at an educational disadvantage. Social justice is a key theme as the...

Publication date: 2014-07-08
Format: ePub
Publisher: Springer
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Download this eBook Becoming Educated
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Becoming Educated


Peter Mcinerney , John Smyth


Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ‘disadvantaged’ contexts. The book argues that because the focus has been obdurately and willfully on the wrong things – blaming students; measuring, testing and comparing them; and...

Publication date: 2014-02-01
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Download this eBook Doing Critical Educational Research
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Doing Critical Educational Research


Barry Down , Robert Hattam , Peter Mcinerney , John Smyth


John Smyth’s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and...

Publication date: 2014-02-01
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Download this eBook Critical Voices in Teacher Education
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Critical Voices in Teacher Education


Barry Down , John Smyth


We live in dangerous times when educational policies and practices are debated largely in terms of how they fit with the needs of the free market. This volume is a collection of writing by teacher-educators that draws on their unique biographies, experiences and...

Publication date: 2012-04-28
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Publisher: Springer
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