The Best of That World

Barbara Shircliffe

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• Exposes how desegregation policy discriminated against African Americans and how they pursued desegregation, as one of many strategies, including inst... Lees meer

The Best of That World

Barbara Shircliffe

• Hardcover | Understanding Education & Policy
• Exposes how desegregation policy discriminated against African Americans and how they pursued desegregation, as one of many strategies, including inst... Lees meer

The Democratic Classroom

Art Pearl, Tony Knight

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• This text argues that difficult problems can not be solved without a democratic process. Essential to the resolution of such problems is a reconstruct... Lees meer

Testing Controversy

Kendall Phillips (Syracuse University, USA)

• Hardcover | Understanding Education & Policy
• This is a reading of the controversies surrounding educational testing between the early 1970s and the late 1990s. It focuses attention on the challen... Lees meer

PH.D. Stories

JoAnne Dowdy

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• Looks at the challenges and triumphs of Black women academicians. Lees meer

Teaching the Children We Fear

Terry Jo Smith

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• Provides a multilayered analysis into the politics of difference and how they played out in four public schools. This volume features stories which ar... Lees meer

Values Spoken and Values Lived

Maike Philipsen

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• This ethnography depicts the cultural consequences of a local school closing in a small, rural, predominantly black community. It shows how the dynami... Lees meer

The Kids Got Smarter

• Hardcover | Understanding Education & Policy
• In the USA, the Comer programme assists underachieving urban schools by examining their system and their students. The implications of the successes r... Lees meer

Teaching the Children We Fear

Terry Jo Smith

• Hardcover | Understanding Education & Policy
• Provides a multilayered analysis into the politics of difference and how they played out in four public schools. This volume features stories which ar... Lees meer

Assessment and Control at Parkview School

Hilary A. Radnor

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• This interpretive study investigates the process of implementation of externally imposed educational change. It views implementation as an active proc... Lees meer

From Nihilism to Possibility

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• This text advocates theory and practice for the transformation of inner city education through the development and application of critical principles ... Lees meer

Academic Identity

Robert P. Engvall (Roger Williams University, USA)

• Hardcover | Understanding Education & Policy
• This text centres upon full inclusion within the higher education curriculum of such disciplines as women's studies, ethnic studies, criminal studies ... Lees meer

Wayside Attractions

Christopher Bruce Martin (Northern Colorado University, USA)

• Hardcover | Understanding Education & Policy
• This text explores the way in which aspirations and careers get negotiated and are constructed among African-American adolescent males int he context ... Lees meer

Wayside Attractions

Christopher Bruce Martin (Northern Colorado University, USA)

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• This text explores the way in which aspirations and careers get negotiated and are constructed among African-American adolescent males int he context ... Lees meer

Educating for the Good Life

Julie Stradling

• Hardcover | Understanding Education & Policy
• This book explores the following questions: What is the relationship between democratic ideals and goodness in education? What are the characteristics... Lees meer

The Kids Got Smarter

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• In the USA, the Comer programme assists underachieving urban schools by examining their system and their students. The implications of the successes r... Lees meer

Caring as Tenacity

• Hardcover | Understanding Education & Policy
• The impact of an ethic of care, or its absence, is the focus of the schooling stories that make up this volume. The case studies examine the interconn... Lees meer

From Nihilism to Possibility

• Hardcover | Understanding Education & Policy
• This text advocates theory and practice for the transformation of inner city education through the development and application of critical principles ... Lees meer

Time for Change

• Hardcover | Understanding Education & Policy
• Brings together some ideas on reforming education for 14-18 year olds with a focus on more significant reforms for revisioning of high school. This bo... Lees meer

Testing Controversy

Kendall Phillips (Syracuse University, USA)

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• This is a reading of the controversies surrounding educational testing between the early 1970s and the late 1990s. It focuses attention on the challen... Lees meer

Educating for the Good Life

Julie Stradling

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• This book explores the following questions: What is the relationship between democratic ideals and goodness in education? What are the characteristics... Lees meer

Academic Identity

Robert P. Engvall (Roger Williams University, USA)

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• This text centres upon full inclusion within the higher education curriculum of such disciplines as women's studies, ethnic studies, criminal studies ... Lees meer

Values Spoken and Values Lived

Maike Philipsen

• Hardcover | Understanding Education & Policy
• This ethnography depicts the cultural consequences of a local school closing in a small, rural, predominantly black community. It shows how the dynami... Lees meer

Time for Change

Robert W. Smith

• Paperback | Understanding Education & Policy
• Brings together some ideas on reforming education for 14-18 year olds with a focus on more significant reforms for revisioning of high school. This bo... Lees meer