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Highlights and explores key challenges for society in the light of new findings on the nature of aspirations and personal development.

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Focusing on bell hooks' social and educational theory, the author of this book deals with the issues of marginality and cultural alienation that are prevalent among certain groups within American society, and presents strategies to help develop critical consciousness.

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This work elucidates bell hooks' social and educational theory, with emphasis on the 1994 book, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom.

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This book, with its attention to literature and the visual arts as well as traditional non-fiction sources, provides a distinctive, wide-ranging exploration of utopia and education. Utopia is examined not as a model of social perfection but as an active, ongoing, imaginative educational process the building of better worlds.

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A volume of radical studies in the sociology and politics of education, specifically addressing educational policies and the crisis of the welfare state, and aiming to open up new areas in the critical social analysis of education.

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A volume of radical studies in the sociology and politics of education, specifically addressing educational policies and the crisis of the welfare state, and aiming to open up new areas in the critical social analysis of education.

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A study of representation and the "politics of place" through a pedagogy of narrative-forming inquiry and a critical reflection on identity. It seeks to propose a multicultural revision of knowledge that displaces the binarisms of insider/outsider rather than shifting the margin to the centre.

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The authors' goal is to explore how an alternative, politically viable public discourse on education can be constructed.

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The authors' goal is to explore how an alternative, politically viable public discourse on education can be constructed.

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Many contemporary secondary education standards call for teachers to reach across traditional disciplinary lines and create curricula and instructional techniques that are interdisciplinary in nature (as examples, for mathematics see Principles and Standards for School Mathematics;

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Americas failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak pictureand it isthis is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do.

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Higher education is in a time of crisis--diminishing funds, rising costs, lack of student preparation for college work, low morale among students and faculty, strained relations between faculty and administration, and confusion about curriculum and educational goals.

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Higher education is in a time of crisis--diminishing funds, rising costs, lack of student preparation for college work, low morale among students and faculty, strained relations between faculty and administration, and confusion about curriculum and educational goals.

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This book provides insights into the ways in which foundational knowledge of research and research processes can be applied in order to build rigorous research design.

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This book provides insights into the ways in which foundational knowledge of research and research processes can be applied in order to build rigorous research design.

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The teaching of ethics and moral values in the schools is an issue that is currently surrounded by public confusion and complaint about the failure of teachers and the teaching system.

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Offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. This book provides a thorough interrogation of the arguments and practices characteristic of both sides of the divide, focusing on how well they address the common problems that all social research faces.