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Assembling Comparison
Understanding Education Policy through Mobilities and Assemblage
This book combines assemblage theory and policy mobilities to inform the study of comparative and international education (CIE), focusing on education policy and how such policy moves are enacted.
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Betraying a Generation
How Education is Failing Young People
Ainley explains how English education is now driven by the economy and politics, having failed to deliver upward social mobility and a brighter future. Concludes with suggestions for positive change.
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Countering Extremism in British Schools?
The Truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair
In 2014 the ‘Trojan Horse’ affair, an alleged plot to ‘Islamify’ several state schools in Birmingham, caused a previously highly successful school to be vilified. Holmwood and O’Toole challenge the accepted narrative and show how it was used to justify an intrusive counter extremism agenda.
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COVID-19 and Racism
Counter-Stories of Colliding Pandemics
This book addresses the prejudices that emerged out of the collision of the two pandemics of 2020: COVID-19 and Racism.
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Democratizing Science
The Political Roots of the Public Engagement Agenda
Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines remedies for improving public trust and the legitimacy of science. It reviews policy approaches adopted by governments and offers an original analysis of the political roots of the impact and public engagement agenda, shedding light on the wider connections to democracy.
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Dimensions of Impact in the Social Sciences
The Case of Social Policy, Sociology and Political Science Research
This concise, informative book analyses impact across the social sciences. Drawing on fifteen interviews with senior academics for a longitudinal view, the author sets out valuable recommendations of how and when scholars can achieve impact.
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Education and Resilience in Crisis
Challenges and Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ethnic Segregation Between Schools
Is It Increasing or Decreasing in England?
This book uses up-to-date evidence to interrogate contemporary patterns of ethnic and social segregation at a school-level, looking at how the changing geographies of ethnic segregation reflect those of social segregation.
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The New Political Economy of Teacher Education
The Enterprise Narrative and the Shadow State
Adopting a political economy perspective, Viv Ellis, Lauren Gatti and Warwick Mansell present a unique and international analysis of teacher education policy in the US, England and Norway after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.
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Poetry and Pedagogy in Higher Education
A Creative Approach to Teaching, Learning and Research
Explore the transformative power of poetry in higher education for personal and professional development with this guide, featuring practical exercises and case studies for educators and learners.
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School Governance
Policy, Politics and Practices
Informed by twenty years’ experience as a school governor, Jacqueline Baxter considers what implications the 2014 ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal has had for the future of a democratic system of education in England.
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Supporting Struggling Students on Placement
A Practical Guide
Practical guidance that will further knowledge and engender confidence for any teachers, assessors and supervisors on courses with a practice learning component, based on the authors first-hand experience and international multi-disciplinary research and literature.
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