"Central Asia, home of Tamerlane and the Silk Road, is a crossroads of great cultures and civilizations. In 1991 five nations at the heart of the region - Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan - suddenly became independent from the USSR. Today they sit …
For more than thirty years neoliberalism has declared that market functioning trumps all other social, political and economic values. In this book, Nick Couldry passionately argues for voice, the effective opportunity for people to speak and be heard on what affects their lives,…
For more than 30 years neoliberalism has declared that market functioning trumps all other social, political and economic values. In this book, the author argues for voice, the effective opportunity for people to speak and be heard on what affects their lives.
"Using detailed and empirically grounded analysis, examines the changing relationship between the Chinese state and the society it governs, how governance choices made affect the country and the rest of the world, and how local Chinese authorities have responded to the challenge…
"Using detailed and empirically grounded analysis, examines the changing relationship between the Chinese state and the society it governs, how governance choices made affect the country and the rest of the world, and how local Chinese authorities have responded to the challenge…
"Citizenship in the Arab World Kin, Religion and Nation-State is the fruit of five years of onsite research on citizenship in the eigthteen Arab-majority and Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The work blazes a path, describing how sending countries s…
Abstract: The book is the fruit of five years of on-site research on citizenship in the Arab world. It takes a broader legal perspective to the multifaceted reality of nationality and citizenship. The methodology employed builds on the interdisciplinary approach of comparative l…
"Citizenship in the Arab World Kin, Religion and Nation-State is the fruit of five years of onsite research on citizenship in the eigthteen Arab-majority and Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The work blazes a path, describing how sending countries s…
Argues that educators' endless obsession with homophobia, sexism, racism, and other alleged hateful disorders is part of a much larger ongoing radical ideological quest to transform America, by first capturing education. In pursuing their objectives, radical pedagogues have aban…
Argues that educators’ endless obsession with homophobia, sexism, racism, and other alleged hateful disorders is part of a much larger ongoing radical ideological quest to transform America, by first capturing education. In pursuing their objectives, radical pedagogues have aban…
Schooling, society and curriculum
by Moore, Alex
fromFoundations and futures of education
In recent years, much curriculum debate has focused less on wider issues related to the purpusses of education and more on the contet and 'delivery' of school curricula themselves, including new and revised national curricula. Schooling, Society and Curriculum seeks to return cu…
