Product Description: This line from Max Boyce's Hymns and Arias usually elicits delirious applause in the rugby world. It is now the title of this book, which looks at the classic matches between the two old foes. Included are Wales vs. England matches that featured controversies, matches recalling notable debuts, games where particular skill levels were displayed, and matches involving convincing Welsh wins...read more

Product Description: This book brings together new thinking on education's complex and evolving role in conflict and fragility. The changing nature of conflict, from inter- to intra-state, and with shifting geopolitical power balances, demands a reconceptualization of where education is positioned...read more

Product Description: This new collection by Lynn Davies, her first in eight years, abounds in departures: words and communities die, trout-lilies and passengers vanish, even the King and Queen of Fairies disappear. In poem after poem, Davies's powerful imagination blends observation and fancy, passion and playfulness, producing strikingly fresh metaphors...read more

Product Description: This is a book about risk. Security, be it national, societal or personal, is a global concern but our contemporary gods--religion, secularism and education--can all be a risky business for security. Using insights from complexity science, the book proposes a new dynamic secularism as a viable way to accommodate diversity of supernatural belief within worldly politics...read more

Product Description: Nigel Owens is one of the best referees in world rugby. But before reaching the highest echelons of the game, he went through a personal crisis and ""came out"" as gay - the first to do so in the macho world of professional rugby...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Extremism is a huge concern across the world right now, fuelled by its links to terrorism and religious fundamentalism. This book explores the relationship of education to extremism and examines how education could counter its more dangerous forms...read more

First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an international context. Based on the author's extensive research and experience of education in several areas afflicted by conflict, the book explores the relationship between schooling and social conflict and looks at conflict internal to schools. It posits a direct link between the ethos of a school and the attitudes of future citizens towards 'others'. It also looks at the nature and purpose of peace education and war education, and addresses the role of gender and masculinity.In five lucid, vigorously argued sections, the author brings this thought-provoking and original piece of work to life by:* Setting out the terms of the debate, defining conflict and peace and outlining the relevant aspects of complexity theory for education* Exploring the sources of conflict and their relations to schooling in terms of gender/masculinity, pluralism, nationalism and identity* Focusing on the direct education/war interface* Examining educational responses to conflict* Highlighting conflict resolution within the school itself.This is the first time that so many aspects of conflict and education have been brought together in one sustained argument. With its crucial exposure of the currently culpable role of formal schooling in maintaining conflict, this book will be a powerful and essential read for educational policy makers, managers, teachers and researchers dealing with conflict in their own contexts. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book is quite different from existing 'Western' books on school effectiveness. It describes and analyses the way in which schools operate in developing countries and also tries to explain why they are as they are. Examining them at three levels - the macro, the meso and the micro - the authors use a theoretical framework that they have termed 'post-bureaucracy...read more

Product Description: Inherent in the educational policies of most countries are concerns to make education both more efficient and more equitable. In theory these goals are not incompatible. A shift in expenditure towards technical/vocational education, for example, could both serve the country's need for skilled labour and narrow the gap between academically trained elites and less "productive" personnel...read more