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Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities

Author : Sue Winton
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641138815
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities written by Sue Winton and published by IAP. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities offers scholars, students, and practitioners important new knowledge about how current policies impact families, schools, and community partnerships. The book’s authors share a critical orientation towards policy and policy research and invite readers to think differently about what policy is, who policymakers are, and what policy can achieve. Their chapters discuss findings from research grounded in diverse theories, including institutional ethnography, critical disability theory, and critical race theory. The authors encourage scholars of family, school, and community partnerships to ask who benefits from policies (and who loses) and how proposed reforms maintain or disrupt existing relations of power. The chapters present original research on a broad range of policies at the local, state/provincial, and national levels in Canada and the USA. Some authors look closely at the enactment of specific district policies, including a school district’s language translation policy and a policy to create local advisory bodies as part of decentralization efforts. Other chapters reveal the often unacknowledged yet necessary work parents do to meet their children’s needs and enable schools to operate. A few chapters focus on challenges and paradoxes of including families and community members in policymaking processes, including a case where parents demonstrated a preference for a policy that research demonstrates can be detrimental to their children’s future education opportunities. Another set of chapters emphasizes the centrality of policy texts and how language influences the educational experiences and engagement of students and their families. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of implications of the research for educators, families, and other community partners.

Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter

Author : Elizabeth E. Heilman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135891540
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter written by Elizabeth E. Heilman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade, the Harry Potter books have become ubiquitous early texts for children, and are also a popular choice for many adults. Indeed, an entire generation of children has now grown up in the midst of "Pottermania." But beyond the books, movies, web sites, and more, this significant cultural phenomenon also constitutes a powerful form of social text, and speaks volumes about the intersections of ideology, popular culture, and childhood. Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter provided the first sustained analyses of the iconic status of the Potter books, bringing together scholars from various disciplines to examine the impact of the series. This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts. Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter, Second Edition draws on a wider range of intellectual traditions to explore the texts, including moral-theological analysis, psychoanalytic perspectives, and philosophy of technology. The Harry Potter novels engage the social, cultural, and psychological preoccupations of our times, and Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter, Second Edition examines these worlds of consciousness and culture, ultimately revealing how modern anxieties and fixations are reflected in these powerful texts. ("DISCLAIMER: This book is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., or anyone associated with the Harry Potter books or movies.")

Critical Perspectives in Public Health

Author : Judith Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134130805
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives in Public Health written by Judith Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining analytical introductory chapters, edited versions of influential articles from the journal Critical Public Health and specially commissioned review articles, this volume examines the contemporary roles of ‘critical voices’ in public health research and practice from a range of disciplines and contexts.

Critical Perspectives on Think Tanks

Author : Landry, Julien
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789909236
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Think Tanks written by Landry, Julien and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book explores think tanks from the perspective of critical policy studies, showcasing how knowledge, power and politics intersect with the ways in which think tanks intervene in public policy.

Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education

Author : Kristin Snoddon
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 180041076X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education by : Kristin Snoddon

Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education written by Kristin Snoddon and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first edited international volume focused on critical perspectives on plurilingualism in deaf education, which encompasses education in and out of schools and across the lifespan. The book provides a critical overview and snapshot of the use of sign languages in education for deaf children today and explores contemporary issues in education for deaf children such as bimodal bilingualism, translanguaging, teacher education, sign language interpreting and parent sign language learning. The research presented in this book marks a significant development in understanding deaf children's language use and provides insights into the flexibility and pragmatism of young deaf people and their families’ communicative practices. It incorporates the views of young deaf people and their parents regarding their language use that are rarely visible in the research to date.

Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change

Author : Ilija Tomanić Trivundža
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351591207
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change by : Ilija Tomanić Trivundža

Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change written by Ilija Tomanić Trivundža and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media, power and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. This diversity is simultaneously structured and balanced by a deeply shared set of concerns, that are mobilised to defend core societal values including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and humanity. Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change raises questions about how the omnipresent media can contribute to the materialisation of these core values, and how it sometimes works against them. Rethinking social change, mediatisation and regulations are thus significant issues – explicitly addressed in this book. In addition the authors show how the role of the critical media and communication scholar merits and requires (self-)reflection; critical voices matter, but they also face structural limitations. This book was originally published as two special issues of Javnost – The Public.

David Bowie

Author : Eoin Devereux
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317754492
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book David Bowie written by Eoin Devereux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bowie: Critical Perspectives examines in detail the many layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in popular culture. This interdisciplinary book brings together established and emerging scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including musicology, sociology, art history, literary theory, philosophy, politics, film studies and media studies. Bowie’s complexity as a singer, songwriter, producer, performer, actor and artist demands that any critical engagement with his overall work must be interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in its scope. The chapters are organised around the key themes of ‘textualities’, ‘psychologies’, ‘orientalisms’, ‘art and agency’ and ‘performing and influencing’ in Bowie’s work. This comprehensive book contributes a great deal to the study of popular music, performance, gender, religion, popular media and celebrity.

Whitewashed Critical Perspectives

Author : Catherine Compton-Lilly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000402460
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Whitewashed Critical Perspectives written by Catherine Compton-Lilly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines revolutionary constructs in literacy education and demonstrates how they have been gentrified, whitewashed, and appropriated, losing their revolutionary edge so as to become palatable for the mainstream. Written by top scholars in literacy education, chapters cover key concepts that were originally conceived as radical theories to upset the status quo—including Third Space, Funds of Knowledge, Culturally Relevant Pedagogies, and more. Each chapter addresses how the core theory was culturally appropriated and de-fanged to support rather than take down racial and societal hierarchies. Critiquing the harmful impact of watering down these theories, the contributors offer ways to restore the edge to these once groundbreaking ideas, reject racist and assimilationist trends, and support the original vision behind these liberatory theories. In so doing, this volume adopts a truly radical, critical stance that is essential for researchers, scholars, and students in literacy education.

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage

Author : Veysel Apaydin i
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787354849
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage by : Veysel Apaydin i

Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage written by Veysel Apaydin i and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural heritage where groups and communities ascribe values, develop memories, and shape their collective identity.

Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia

Author : Paula Gerber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780455229973
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia written by Paula Gerber and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly examination of the most important human rights issues facing Australia today. For scholars and practitioners, and who wish to increase their understanding, it provides timely and provocative perspectives on the law and policy regarding the application of human rights standards in Australia. Authors from Monash University.

Critical Education in the New Information Age

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742575691
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Education in the New Information Age by : Henry A. Giroux

Download or read book Critical Education in the New Information Age written by Henry A. Giroux and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by some of the world's leading educators provide a revolutionary portrait of new ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change. The authors take into account such diverse terrain as feminism, ecology, media, and individual liberty in their pursuit of new ideas that can inform the fundamental practice of education and promote a more humane civil society. The book consolidates recent thinking just as it reflects on emerging new lines of critical theory.

Lima Barreto

Author : Lamonte Aidoo
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739176137
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Lima Barreto written by Lamonte Aidoo and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis of this writer’s work in English. It is an intellectually diverse collection of essays that recover Barreto’s œuvreand consider a wide range of topics, including Barreto’s treatment of race, family, class, social and gender politics of postabolition Brazil, neocolonialism, the disjuncture between urban and suburban spaces, and national identity politics.

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

Author : Birgit Schippers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786600161
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Human Rights written by Birgit Schippers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to critical human rights scholarship by interrogating the significance of human rights for critical theory and practice. While the contributions engage sensitively yet thoroughly with the regulatory, disciplinary, and exclusionary effects of human rights, they do so without giving up on the transformative potential of human rights. By thinking productively through the exclusions, paradoxes and aporias of human rights, Critical Perspectives on Human Rights is a key reference text for students and scholars in this important area of inquiry.

Critical Perspectives on Open Development

Author : Arul Chib
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262363327
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Open Development written by Arul Chib and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores whether, for whom, and under what circumstances the free, networked, public sharing of ICT resources contributes to positive social change"--

Critical Perspectives on Bell Hooks

Author : Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135856893
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Bell Hooks written by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Critical Perspectives on bell hooks, contributors in the field of education, philosophy, and social work offer critical reflections on bell hooks’ work where she has been most influential. This is a must-read for scholars, professors, and students interested in issues of race, class and gender.

Critical Perspectives on Language Teaching Materials

Author : John Gray
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230362857
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Language Teaching Materials written by John Gray and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Critical Perspectives on Language Teaching Materials brings together a collection of critical voices on the subject of language teaching materials for use in English, French, Spanish, German and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classrooms. It is firmly located within the 'critical turn' in Applied Linguistics and seeks to build on the growing body of work in this vein. Collectively the authors take it as axiomatic that the politics of representation and identity, and issues of ideology and commercialism cannot be neglected in any serious study of language teaching materials. Rather, it sees these issues as central. The book draws on research carried out in the UK, Spain, North America and Brazil, and is aimed at language teachers, teacher educators, students, researchers, materials writers and those working in the materials publishing industry.

Critical Perspectives on Linguistic Fixity and Fluidity

Author : Jürgen Jaspers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429890389
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Linguistic Fixity and Fluidity by : Jürgen Jaspers

Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Linguistic Fixity and Fluidity written by Jürgen Jaspers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a critical perspective on current views on linguistic fixity and fluidity in sociolinguistics and highlights empirical accounts alternative to prevailing trends in the field. Featuring accounts from a broad range of regional contexts, the collection takes stock of such terms as "polylingualism", "metrolingualism" and "translanguaging" to question perceptions around multilingual and monolingual language use. The book critiques the status of fluid language use as a more "natural" language practice and in turn, its greater potential for corresponding social transformation, demonstrating the value of linguistic fixity and the continuous debate between fixity and fluidity in multilingual speakers' lives. In providing these accounts, the book seeks not to advocate for linguistic fixity or fluidity, but to argue that sociolinguists pay close attention to the way both types of linguistic practice open up or close down avenues for social transformation. This collection is a key reading for graduate students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, and linguistic anthropology.