This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Changes in the organization and practices of higher education tend to travel from the ‘West to the rest’. Thus, distinctive geographies of knowledge are being produced, intersected by geometries of power and raising questions about the recognition, production, control and usage of university-produced knowledge in different regions of the world. What flows of power and influence can be traced in the shifting geographies of higher education? How do national systems locate themselves in global arenas, and what consequences does such positioning have for local practices and relations of higher education? How do universities and university workers respond to the increasing commodification of knowledge? How do consumers of knowledge assess the quality of the ‘goods’ on offer in a global marketplace? The 2008 volume of the World yearbook addresses these questions, highlighting four key areas: Producing and Reproducing the University― How is the university adapting to the pressures of globalization? Supplying Knowledge―What structural and cultural changes are demanded from the university in its new role as a free market supplier of knowledge? Demanding Knowledge―Marketing and Consumption―How can consumers best assess the quality of education on a global scale? Transnational Academic Flows―What trends are evident in the flow of students, knowledge and capital, with what consequences? The 2008 volume is interdisciplinary in its approach, drawing on scholarship from accounting, finance and human geography as well as from the field of education. Transnational influences examined include UNESCO and OECD, GATS and the effects of digital technologies. Contrasting contexts include Central and Eastern Europe, Finland, China and India and England. With its emphasis on the interrelationship of knowledge and power, and its attention to emergent spatial inequalities, Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education provides a rich and compelling resource for understanding emergent practices and relations of knowledge production and exchange in global higher education.

Intended for those who are in the earlier stages of development as a researcher. This volume deals with the practical considerations around actually doing research - such as good ways to frame research questions, how to plan your research projects effectively and how to undertake the various necessary tasks.

Details strategies that you might adopt to get your research projects funded. This book also explains how to manage your research projects once they are funded. It explains how generic university research funding mechanisms work so that you will be better equipped to navigate your way through the financial maze associated with the funding sources.

Product Description: This is the first book to deal with sexuality in all phases of formal education, from early years to university. It presents a review of the literature across all the phases and combines it with the original research by each of the three authors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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This text challenges the widespread perception that all boys are underachieving at school. It raises the questions of which boys? at what stage of education? and according to what criteria? The issues surrounding boys' "underachievement" have been at the centre of public debate about education and the raising of standards in the 1990s. Media and political responses to the "problem of boys" have tended to be simplistic, partial, and owe more to "quick fixes" than investigation and research. The book provides a detailed and nuanced "case study" of the issues in the UK, which should be of international relevance as the moral panic is a globalized one, taking place in diverse countries. The contributors to this book take seriously the issues of boys' "underachievement" inside and outside school from a critical perspective which draws on the insights of previous feminist studies of education to illuminate the problems associated with the education of boys. The text should be of interest to educators, policy makers, students and techers of education, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies and others interested in gender and achievement.

Product Description: This is an amalgam of contemporary debates about sexuality within the context of schooling, posing controversial question, such as: how far is schooling influenced by wider public debates and scandals about sexuality?; what part does schooling play in the production of sexual and other identities?; how can we understand the role and limits of moral traditionalism?; what has the impact the feminism and the lesbian and gay movement been?; how have these radical influences been recuperated?; why is sex education in schools so "impossible"?; and what are the strategies for improving it? This accessible study aims to examine and answer these questions, and provide a key text for teachers and policymakers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

We are living in an era in which higher education is increasingly policed, in part through pressure on universities to deliver so-called quality in mechanical, technical ways. One consequence of this is the targeting of oppositional and interdisciplinary subjects. In a series of provocative and accessible essays, A Question of Discipline explores cultural studies pedagogies and praxis as a case study of the contradictions produced when teaching and researching from radical agendas take place within hierarchical and oppressive institutional contexts. The book opens up critical debates about self-reflexivity in university teaching; about the transformation of oppressive power relations toward more inclusive teaching and learning cultures; and about the paradoxical locations of practitioners, teachers, and learners of cultural studies within universities. A Question of Discipline will be essential reading for teachers and students of cultural and media studies, anthropology, education, sociology, and women’s studies.

Product Description: This accessible and authoritative book looks at the key debates in gay and lesbian studies and provides an introductory overview and critical reflection of each field. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Challenging Lesbian and Gay Inequalities in Education is an essential addition to the library of anyone concerned about developing education for social justice and about challenging inequalities in society. Through a series of historically-located articles ranging from personal stories, through examples of 'good practice', to theoretical analysis of the interweaving of heterosexism, sexism and racism, the book traces the ways in which these oppressions are constructed and played out within and through the system of schooling and through education policies...read more