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Retooling the Mind Factory

Author : Alan Sears
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551930442
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Retooling the Mind Factory written by Alan Sears and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Sears examines education reform in relation to a broad process of cultural and economic change. His book makes the case that education reform is one aspect of a broad-ranging neo-liberal agenda that aims to push the market deeper into every aspect of our lives by eliminating or shrinking non-market alternatives. The author begins by showing that advocates of education reform have had to make the case that the current system is not working. This sets the ground for an examination of the so-called 'Common Sense Revolution, ' a claim that drastic change was required to redesign government policies to fit a changing world. Lean production methods are a crucial component of this changing world, and broader social and cultural change is now required to consolidate the emerging order built on the spread of these methods. Education reform is designed to recast the relations of citizenship, contributing to the cultural and social change promoted through the social policy of the lean state.

Educational Administration and History

Author : Tanya Fitzgerald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317968239
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Educational Administration and History written by Tanya Fitzgerald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 40 years there have been a number of significant developments across the fields of educational administration and history. In this volume, the authors have selected a number of key issues to illustrate and trace these changes. The seven articles by leading scholars in the field offer an analysis of contemporary educational administration, history and policy debates and how this has impacted on teachers, leaders, schools and the education sector. This book offers readers a valuable insight into continuing and contemporary debates in the field and the authors offer a refreshing interpretation of these debates. This book provides a rich analysis from a range of theoretical, methodological perspectives and highlights the extent to which these debates remain a contemporary concern. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Educational Administration and History.

Class Action

Author : Andy Hanson
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771135697
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Class Action written by Andy Hanson and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring history of a union, labour historian Andy Hanson delves deep into the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and how it evolved from two deeply divided unions to one of the province’s most united and powerful voices for educators. Today’s teacher is under constant pressure to raise students’ test scores, while the rise of neoliberalism in Canada has systematically stripped our education system of funding and support. But educators have been fighting back with decades of fierce labour action, from a landmark province-wide strike in the 1970s, to record-breaking front-line organizing against the Harris government and the Common Sense Revolution, to present-day picket lines and bargaining tables. Hanson follows the making of elementary teachers in Ontario as a distinct class of white-collar, public-sector workers who awoke in the last quarter of the twentieth century to the power of their collective strength.

Equality in the Secondary School

Author : Mike Cole
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441164359
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Equality in the Secondary School written by Mike Cole and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wealth of knowledge from a diverse group of contributors, this volume addresses the importance of going beyond equal opportunities. The contributors provide a compelling argument for promoting equality in secondary schools. Issues covered include: social class; race; gender; sexual orientation; disability and special educational needs with reference to all subjects taught at secondary school level.

Contesting Neoliberal Education

Author : Dave Hill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135906319
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Neoliberal Education written by Dave Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of new public managerialism, attacked the rights and conditions of education workers, and resulted in a loss of democracy, critique and equality of access and outcome. This book, written by an impressive international array of scholars and activists, explores the mechanisms and ideologies behind neoliberal education, while evaluating and promoting resistance on a local, national and global level. Chapters examine the activities and impacts of the arguably socialist revolution in Venezuela, the Porto Alegre democratic community experimental model in Brazil, the activities of the Rouge Forum of democratic socialist teachers and educators in the USA, Public Service International, resistance movements against the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services), and trade union and social movement and community/parental opposition to neoliberal education policies in Britain and in Latin America.

Accumulations, Crises, Struggles

Author : Baris Karaagac
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643904118
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Accumulations, Crises, Struggles written by Baris Karaagac and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about capitalism. To be more specific, it is about the most recent phase or stage of capitalist development, that is, neoliberal globalization. Neoliberalism, as much a political project as an economic one, is still pervasive, and it continues to provide the general framework for politics and political imagination across most of the globe. This volume brings together a group of valuable scholars from different parts of the world looking at the impact of neoliberalism on our societies. And, as such, it aspires to contribute as much to the critique and overcoming of this process as to its analysis. With its extensive coverage, both geographically and thematically, this book will be of interest for students of the social sciences as well as for anyone who makes an effort to understand and change the world in which she lives. Baris Karaagac is a lecturer in the Department of International Development Studies at Trent University, Canada.Ã²

Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture

Author : Emelia Quinn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331973380X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture written by Emelia Quinn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores what the social and philosophical aspects of veganism offer to critical theory. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars working in animal studies and critical animal studies, Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture shows how the experience of being vegan, and the conditions of thought fostered by veganism, pose new questions for work across multiple disciplines. Offering accounts of veganism which move beyond contemporary conceptualizations of it as a faddish dietary preference or set of proscriptions, it explores the messiness and necessary contradictions involved in thinking about or practicing a vegan way of life. By thinking through as well as about veganism, the project establishes the value of a vegan mode of reading, writing, looking, and thinking.

How Societies Work, 5th Edition

Author : Joanne Naiman
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1773633023
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book How Societies Work, 5th Edition written by Joanne Naiman and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, protesters around the world – including Canada – called for changes to the societies in which they live. Many observers were asking: “What do they want?” Some answers to this question can be found in How Societies Work, a unique and accessible introductory sociology textbook that introduces students to the structure of contemporary societies and the power relationships within them. In contrast to most introductory textbooks, How Societies Work explores a broad range of sociological concepts and theories while simultaneously creating a coherent picture of modern societies. Drawing on fields as diverse as anthropology, genetics, economics, social psychology, history and politics, this innovative and popular text looks at both the roots of modern societies and the current structures within them. This approach helps undergraduate students make sense of our complex social world and encourages them to connect the social world to their own lived experiences. This extensively revised and updated fifth edition includes discussions of the roots of the recent global economic crisis and worldwide responses to it, growing social inequality, broader global struggles for change, the growth of the security state in Canada and the sudden resurgence of political protest in North America. The final chapter looks to the future, examining such issues as the possible consequences of climate change, increased forced migration of peoples and the changing dynamic of global power. More boxes, quotes and “think about it” elements have been added to the fifth edition, while the language, clarity of presentation and many examples make it even more accessible to readers. It is an introductory textbook that truly engages students in the “sociological imagination.” This fifth edition is presented in a large format, making it easier to read and even more student friendly. A testbank and power point presentation are available for instructors upon request.

Divided Province

Author : Greg Albo
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773555684
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Divided Province written by Greg Albo and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No government jurisdiction in Canada has so radically transformed its public policies over the past decades as Ontario, and yet the province has also maintained a striking degree of political stability in its party system. Since the 1990s, neoliberalism has been the point of reference in constructing policy agendas for all of Ontario's political parties. It has guided the strategy for governance of the dominant Liberal Party since 2003, even as it divides the province between workers and employers, north and south, rural and urban, and racialized minorities and the majority population. With a focus on the governments of Mike Harris, Dalton McGuinty, and Kathleen Wynne, Divided Province brings together leading researchers to dissect the province's public policies since the 1990s. Presenting original, state-of-the-art research, the book demonstrates that, although the Conservative government of Mike Harris implemented the sharpest and most profound shift towards the establishment of a neoliberal regime in the province, the subsequent Liberal governments consolidated that neoliberal turn. The essays in this volume explore the consequences of this ideological turn across a spectrum of policies, including health, education, poverty, energy, employment, manufacturing, and how it has impacted workers, women, First Nations, and other distinct communities. The first book to offer a comprehensive critical account of neoliberalism in Ontario, Divided Province overturns conventional readings of the province's politics and suggests that building a more democratic and egalitarian alternative to the current orthodoxy requires nothing less than a radical rupture from existing policies and political alliances. Without such a decisive break, political space may well open up again for the populist right.

Languages of the Unheard

Author : Stephen D'Arcy
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783601655
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Languages of the Unheard written by Stephen D'Arcy and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Luther King once insisted that 'a riot is the language of the unheard.' Since 2011 swathes of protest, rebellion, and rioting have covered the globe. A new, disenfranchised generation is fighting for its voice as once again scores of police line the streets and pop icons demand a political revolution. Challenging us to consider arson attacks against empty buildings, black bloc street-fighting tactics, and industrial sabotage, amongst an array of other militant action, philosopher Stephen D'Arcy asks if it is ever acceptable to use or threaten to use armed force. Drawing a clear line between justifiable and unjustifiable militancy, Languages of the Unheard shows that the crucial contrast is between democratic and undemocratic action, rather than violence and non-violence. Both a consideration of the ethics and politics of militant protest and the story of dissidents and their actions post 1968, this book argues that militancy is not a danger to democratic norms of consensus-building. Instead, it is a legitimate remedy for elite intransigence and unresponsive systems of power that ignore, or silence, the people.

The Democratic Imagination

Author : James Cairns
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442605308
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Democratic Imagination written by James Cairns and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy is very much an open question in the early twenty-first century. While voter participation declines in many traditional democracies, new movements for democracy are emerging around the world. This book brings the question of democracy out of the halls of political power and home to our daily lives, pitting "official democracy" and "democracy from below" against one another in a lively debate. For more information see www.democraticimagination.com.

We Can Do Better

Author : David Camfield
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1552669971
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book We Can Do Better written by David Camfield and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The view that capitalism is an inherently flawed, exploitative, crisis-prone, oppressive system is not new. But neoliberal capitalism’s flaws are increasingly dangerous in Western countries and globally as corporations exert growing influence on governments, as the endless pursuit of profits pushes our climate to the breaking point and as far-right politics dominate the media. Solutions are needed. Fast. In We Can Do Better, David Camfield lays out a theoretical basis for political and social change that fuses critical Marxism with insights from anti-racist queer feminism. This reconstructed historical materialism treats capitalism and class as inextricably interwoven with gender, race and sexuality. After discussing today’s most influential social theories, Camfield uses this theory to analyze a range of issues that face our world today, including climate change, growing social insecurity and the persistence of sexism and racism. Camfield argues that the key to achieving change for the better is social struggle, and he offers ideas about moving from social theory to social action.

Health Matters

Author : Eric Mykhalovskiy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487525389
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Health Matters written by Eric Mykhalovskiy and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book calls into question the complexity of social, political, cultural, and technological aspects of the health care system. It explores how critical social science research can be put into action to improve health care in Canada.

Sensing Law

Author : Sheryl Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317282043
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Sensing Law written by Sheryl Hamilton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich collection of interdisciplinary essays, this book explores the question: what is to be found at the intersection of the sensorium and law’s empire? Examining the problem of how legal rationalities try to grasp what can only be sensed through the body, these essays problematize the Cartesian framework that has long separated the mind from the body, reason from feeling and the human from the animal. In doing so, they consider how the sensorium can operate, variously, as a tool of power or as a means of countering the exercise of regulatory force. The senses, it is argued, operate as a vector for the implication of subjects in legal webs, but also as a powerful site of resistance to legal definition and determination. From the sensorium of animals to technologically mediated perception, the ways in which the law senses and the ways in which senses are brought before the law invite a questioning of the categories of liberal humanism. And, as this volume demonstrates, this questioning opens up the both interesting and important possibility of imagining other sensual subjectivities.

The Myth of the Age of Entitlement

Author : James Cairns
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442636408
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Age of Entitlement written by James Cairns and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing bleak economic prospects and potential ecological disaster. Providing insights from millennials rarely profiled in the mainstream media, Cairns redefines entitlement as a fundamental concept for realizing economic and environmental justice.

Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education

Author : James E. Côté
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317677773
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education written by James E. Côté and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first handbook to cover the sociological approaches to higher education. It is timely because of global expansions of mass higher educational systems, especially as these systems come under scrutiny by a variety of stakeholders. Questions are being raised about the value of traditional pedagogies along with calls for efficiency, accountability and cost-reduction, but above all job training. Within this neoliberal context, each chapter examines different sociological aspects of, and debates about, educational institutions as status-conferring organizations, with myriad positional characteristics, experiences, and outcomes. Many current debates concern the legitimacy of the statuses conferred, including the continuing debate regarding the role of universities in legitimating social class reproduction as well as more recent concerns about standards in mass systems. This handbook puts these issues and debates in focus in ways that will be of interest to a variety of stakeholders, within academia as well as in policy circles.

The Discourse of Commercialization

Author : J. Crichton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230295231
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Discourse of Commercialization written by J. Crichton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how the commercialization of professional practice is implicated in its organizational discourses. Drawing on a study of ELT colleges, the book explores how teaching practices are permeated and challenged by a 'discourse of commercialization' through which market priorities become normative in teachers' professional lives.