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Chapter 10 Towards decolonising schooling : realising the impossible dream?
"This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa. It examines ‘on the ground’ history of colonialism from the vantage point of a small town in the Karoo region, showing how patterns of possession and dispossession have played out in the municipality and schools. Using the strong pol…
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- 9780367853624
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- 17 p.
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- Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialism
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- 370 CHR t
Geographies of the university
This open access volume raises awareness of the histories, geographies, and practices of universities and analyzes their role as key actors in today’s global knowledge economy. Universities are centers of research, teaching, and expertise with significant economic, social, and cultural impacts at different geographical scales. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries offer origina…
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- 9783319755939
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- xiv, 676p. : ill.
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- 378.009 GEO g
Contested childhoods: growing up in migrancy
This open access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood. Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing number of children are growing up. In this space, families, nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves ar…
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- 9783319446080
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- 193 p.; 22 cm.
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- IMISCOE Research Series
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- 304.808 COn c
Students at risk of school failure
The main objective of this Research Topic is to determine the conditions that place students at risk of school failure, identifying student and context variables.In spite of the fact that there is currently little doubt about how one learns and how to teach, in some countries of the “developed world,” there is still there is a high rate of school failure. Although the term “school failure…
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- 9782889455911
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- 592 p.
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- 371.29 STU s
Men and the classroom : gender imbalances in teaching
The teaching of young children has long been dominated by women. This global phenomenon is firmly rooted in issues related to economic development, urbanization, the position of women in society, cultural definitions of masculinity and the values of children and childcare. Yet, amongst the media scare stories and moral panics about underachieving boys, there are surprisingly few empirically-sup…
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- 9780203420300
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- ix, 182p. : ill.
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- 371.110081 MEN m
Critical perspectives on educational leadership
First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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- 9780203977927
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- vii, 247p. : ill.
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- 371.2 CRI c
Extending educational reform : from one school to many
In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many? Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explo…
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- 9780203993965
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- xi, 179p. : ill.
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- 371.200973 DAT e
Innovative school principals and restructuring : life history portraits of su…
Restructuring is an international phenomenon, and great stress is placed on the role of the innovative principal in the process. This book offers insights into the ways in which six principals go about leading the change process in their schools, and looks for ways of understanding why and how principals behave and think in the way they do. Its edited topical life history approach identifies ke…
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- 9780203985946
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- vi, 182p. : ill.
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- 371.200994 DIM i
Education in Scotland : policy and practice from pre-school to secondary
Education in Scotland is markedly different from what happens in the rest of the UK - with a different National Curriculum, school boards to oversee school management and a General Teaching Council which has been in existence since 1965. Whilst there are many examples of successful and innovative practice in Scotland, the system is quite often not recognised as different by writers who talk abo…
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- 9780203974841
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- xv, 186p. : ill.
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- 370.9411 EDU e
Teaching under pressure : looking at primary teachers' stress
This text is based on the author's research into primary school teacher's stress. The research has been linked with the author's belief in the need to understand ourselves, our personal and professional situations and how they relate. The resulting book is a practical text designed to address the reader in such a way that they can readily identify with what is being discussed. Futhermore, reade…
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- 9781135717544
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- vii, 159p. : ill.
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- 371.10019 COC t
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