Product Description: This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is socially and culturally responsive, communitarian and justice-oriented emerges...read more

Product Description: The promise, embraced by governments around the world, is that the knowledge economy will provide knowledge workers with a degree of autonomy and permission to think which enables them to be creative and to attract high incomes. What credence should we give to this promise? The current economic crisis is provoking a reappraisal of both economic and educational policy...read more

Product Description: The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentieth century. For other Western societies who have felt the impact of New Right policies the New Zealand case is interesting because it provides some indication of how policies of decentralization in education might be used to develop egalitarian and democratic educational policies...read more

Product Description: What unites the contributors to this book is an opposition to Thatcherite policies on education and an agreement upon the need for the development of democracy in education. This volume highlights the importance of an area of neglected theoretical and practical concern: the development of a critique of the philosophy and policies of the new Right, and of credible alternative policies...read more

Product Description: Inequalities in educational opportunity have been a persistent feature of all school systems for generations, with conventional explanations of differences in educational attainment tending to be reduced to either quantitative or non-quantitative 'list' theories...read more

Product Description: Debates about good governance are increasingly focused on the coordination failure that occurs when several agencies are required to act in concert with each other, and this monograph looks at just such a case in the South African government's efforts to "join up" education and work to produce a skilled labor force...read more

Product Description: Today, economic success is seen as depending on the creation of a high-skilled workforce. This is the first book to offer a comparative examination of national routes to a 'high skill' economy. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Why are America and Britain wealthier than ever but millions of children live in poverty, neighbourhoods want for basic amenities and the middle classes fear for their families, jobs and futures? The answer is not to be found in globalization, technological innovation, or our personal failings to adapt to changing circumstances as we are so often told...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text argues that the faith in educational markets is misplaced. Throughout the English speaking world and now Western Europe and parts of East Asia, parental choice and educational markets are being seen by politicians and policy advisors as the apanacea to problems of low educational standards and social exclusion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text argues that the faith in educational markets is misplaced. Throughout the English speaking world and now Western Europe and parts of East Asia, parental choice and educational markets are being seen by politicians and policy advisors as the apanacea to problems of low educational standards and social exclusion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is for everyone concerned with the social study of education, placing it at the center of political and sociological debate about post-industrial societies. The fifty-two papers examine major changes that have taken place in the late twentieth century, giving students a comprehensive introduction to both the nature of these changes and to their interpretation in relation to long-standing debates within education, sociology, and cultural studies...read more

Product Description: This collection reviews debates and reforms in education in the light of recent theories of post-Fordism. The contributors argue that advances in technology and mass communications have made it increasingly plausible to talk about the rise of the "information" society...read more