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Neo-Liberalism, Globalization and Human Capital Learning
Springer 2007; US$ 99.99With a highly accessible and lucid text this book reviews the political shift toward neo-liberal ideology and explores its tremendous impact on education. It maps out in careful detail the theoretical foundations of democratic citizenship by asking the question: What does it mean to learn and live in a democracy and what responsibilities, capacities... more...
International Handbook of Educational Policy
Springer 2008; US$ 799.99This handbook is for policy researchers, analysts, academics and graduate students interested in educational policy, educational reform, educational governance and leadership, teacher quality, literacy, and workplace learning. This handbook is the only one of its kind. It has over fifty chapters written by nearly ninety leading researchers from a number... more...
Education Across Borders
Springer 2009; US$ 139.99Focuses on the implications of globalization in higher education. This book looks at relations between states and institutions that do not normally attract attention. It considers the challenges for 'non-elite' institutions and examines the potential for knowledge flow and creation in across-border partnerships. more...
The Retreat from Public Education
Springer 2009; US$ 79.99Examines the process of the building of the public education system in Israel. This book describes the significance of public schooling in the process of nation-building, and in the building of a democracy. more...
Education in Political Science
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 120.00This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline?s analytical perspectives and methodological tools. The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a variety of political science perspectives: comparative... more...
Power, Voice and the Public Good
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 99.95Shows how education and schooling respond to and are driven by larger global networks, demands, and discourses are explored. This book addresses ways of looking at the hope and promise of education and schooling in spite of the advent, realities, and comp more...
Globalizing Education, Educating the Local
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 44.95This book offers a critical and deconstructive account of global discourses on education, arguing that these overblown ?hypernarratives? are neither economically, technically nor philosophically defensible. Nor even sane. Their ?mythic economic instrumentalism? mimic rather than meet the economic needs of global capitalism in ways that the Crash... more...
Globalisation, Ideology and Education Policy Reforms, 11
Springer 2010; US$ 129.99The eleventh in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, this work sets out to explore the interrelationship between ideology and education reforms, setting it in a global context. With this as its focus, the chapters represent hand-picked scholarly research on major discourses in the field of comparative... more...
Anarchism and Education
PM Press 2010; US$ 16.00Arguing that the central role of educational practice in anarchist theory and activism has been overlooked by many theorists, this examination of contemporary educational philosophy counters the assertion that anarchism reflects a naïve or overly optimistic view of human nature. By articulating the philosophical underpinnings of anarchist thought... more...
Second International Handbook of Educational Change
Springer 2010; US$ 599.99The two volumes of the second edition of the "International Handbook of Educational Change" comprise a totally new, and updated collection of the most critical and cutting-edge ideas in educational change. Written by the most influential thinkers in the field, these volumes cover educational change at both the theoretical and practical levels.... more...









