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Education studies in South Africa : the quest for relevance, rigour and restr…
The thesis of this volume is that the fields of scholarly enquiry of Education — internationally as well as in South Africa in particular — despite being fields of virile scholarly activity and output, are in need of a major overhaul. In this collected work this want in research is encapsulated in three words: relevance, rigour and restructuring. Research in the scholarly field(s) of Educat…
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- 9781928523604
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- xxi, 379 p
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- 370.73 WOL e
Raw life, new hope: decency, housing and everyday life in a post-apartheid co…
The Cape Flats, a windswept, barren and sandy area which rings Cape Town, is home to more than a million people. Many live here in sprawling shack settlements. The post-apartheid state is attempting to eradicate such settlements by providing formal houses in planned residential estates. Raw Life, New Hope is a longitudinal study of the residents of one such shack settlement, The Park, who moved…
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- 9781919895277
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- vi, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- 362.50968 ROS r
Reconstructing syntax
During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widesprea…
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- 9789004392007
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- xii, 378p. : ill.
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- 415 REC r
power of one on one: human libraries and the challenges of antiracism work
This book provides an overview of the innovative social inclusion initiatives known as human or living libraries. It is the first comprehensive and independent analysis of Human Libraries in Australia. The book provides an overview of Human Library practices and identifies key challenges for policymakers and practitioners while contributing to scholarly debates on anti-racism work and on the be…
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- 9781863654265
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- 1 online resource (ii, 72 p.: ill.)
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- UTS Shopfront monograph series, no 7
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- 302.12 TAN p
Emerging market economies and financial globalization: argentina, brazil, chi…
In the past, foreign shocks arrived to national economies mainly through trade channels, and transmissions of such shocks took time to come into effect. However, after capital globalization, shocks spread to markets almost immediately. Despite the increasing macroeconomic dangers that the situation generated at emerging markets in the South, nobody at the North was ready to acknowledge the pro-…
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- 9781783086740
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- Anthem frontiers of global political economy
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- 330 STA e
Environmental dispute resolution in Indonesia
In the last two decades, Indonesia has seen a dramatic proliferation of environmental disputes in a variety of sectors, triggered by intensified deforestation and large scale mining operations in the resource rich outer islands, together with rapid industrialisation in the densely populated inner island of Java. Whilst the emergence of environmental disputes has sometimes attracted political re…
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- 9789067183260
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- xvii, 334p.
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- 344.598046 NIC e
Transforming research methods in the social sciences: case studies from South…
editors, Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn and Sherianne Kramer.
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- 9781776143559
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- xiv, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- 300.721 LAH t
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