After 9/11, rightists capitalized on an atmosphere of fear and confusion to resuscitate the culture wars of the 1990s and once again targeted the academy. Using tactics reminiscent of the McCarthy era, religious firebrands, militant neoconservatives, and free market fundamentali…
This book draws together many previously published articles and book chapters produced by the author over the past 20 years of work in the field of indigenous education. However, rather than just being a compilation of a series of papers, this book is a record of the development…
The Adult Learning Project in Edinburgh, affectionately known as ALP, is a sustained experiment in applying the principles of the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, in a European post-industrial urban environment. Because this book explains so sensitively the theory and rationale…
Scholars of modern Japan agree that education played a crucial role in that country's rapid modernization during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With few exceptions, however, Western approaches to the subject treat education as an instrument of change controlled by the Meiji polit…
"In recent years, lifelong learning has become one of the most prominent education policy goals. This book shows how international organizations have promoted this idea and disseminated the need for it to countries all over the world. As a consequence of their activity, lifelong…
A growing body of research has given critical attention to diverse theories and practices of environmental education, and its potential contribution to addressing pressing global issues such as sustainable development and climate change. While much of this work has focused on pe…
In this book the notions of real learning and equality are approached as processes of becoming leading to the figuration of new worlds through local curations of learning and practice. Though its main theses are mainly grounded in the context of art practice and education they h…
The aim of this book is provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the philosophy, theory, categories and concepts of lifelong learning. The books is concerned to examine in depth the range of philosophical per…
A conceptual analysis of Sexism and Sexist education / Maryann Ayim and Barbara Houston -- Genderized education: Tradition reconsidered / Maryann Ayim -- Freeing the Children: The abolition of gender / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- Gender freedom and the subtleties of sexist education…
A conceptual analysis of Sexism and Sexist education / Maryann Ayim and Barbara Houston -- Genderized education: Tradition reconsidered / Maryann Ayim -- Freeing the Children: The abolition of gender / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- Gender freedom and the subtleties of sexist education…
A conceptual analysis of Sexism and Sexist education / Maryann Ayim and Barbara Houston -- Genderized education: Tradition reconsidered / Maryann Ayim -- Freeing the Children: The abolition of gender / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- Gender freedom and the subtleties of sexist education…
"In the twenty-first century, universities are part of systems of innovation spanning the globe. While there is nothing new in universities' links with industry, what is recent is their role as territorial actors. It is government policy in many countries that universities, and …
Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of experts, and knowledge innovation. While there is nothing new in universities' links with…
