Product Description: How do we understand and explain who has access to higher education? How do we make sense of persisting and new forms of inequality? How can global, national and institutional policymakers and practitioners make higher education more inclusive? Access to Higher Education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges seeks to update thinking on these questions, combining new voices and emerging perspectives with established writers in the field...read more

Product Description: Josh, an 11-year-old boy living in Leeds, is thrown into turmoil when his single mum goes into hospital. He is forced to live with one of his uncles, the disciplinarian Nathan, near Whitby on the Yorkshire coast. But when his other uncle, the bohemian Rupert, unexpectedly takes Josh to stay with him in his caravan at Whitby, Josh is propelled into a world that will change his life forever...read more

Product Description: Teaching and Learning in Aboriginal Education, 2e, helps pre-service teachers prepare themselves for the challenges and joys of teaching Aboriginal students in urban, remote and rural primary and secondary schools. The book balances the practical, the personal and the theoretical to convey the richness of diversity that is found within Australian classrooms...read more

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Product Description: The authors of this book examine issues regarding the growth of regionalism. They ask how politics shapes the construction of regional agreements, to what extent these agreements incorporate or limit economic liberalization, and how various concerns affect the evolution of regional groupings...read more