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  • Regimes of Social Cohesion

    Societies and the Crisis of Globalization

    by A. Green, J. Janmaat ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, Green and Janmaat identify four major traditions of social cohesion in developed societies, analyzing how these various mechanisms are withstanding the strains of the current global financial crisis. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Dynamics and Social Outcomes of Education Systems

    Edited by J. Janmaat, M. Duru-Bellat, P. Méhaut, A. Green ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Some scholars argue that education systems across the western world are becoming increasingly similar due to the influence of transnational discourses and organizations. Others believe that education is the panacea for all problems of social cohesion. After all, aren't the well-educated usually more tolerant, civically engaged and trusting than the poorly educated? This book critically examines ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Education, Democracy and Inequality

    Political Engagement and Citizenship Education in Europe

    by Bryony Hoskins, Jan Germen Janmaat ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book posits that national education systems are enhancing socioeconomic inequalities in political engagement. While the democratic ideal is social equality in political engagement, the authors demonstrate that the English education system is recreating and enhancing entrenched democratic inequalities. In Europe, the UK has the strongest correlation between social background and voting ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Research Handbook on Education and Democracy

    Edited by Jan Germen Janmaat, Anne Bert Dijkstra ...
    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Education
    This timely Research Handbook examines how the many facets of education can foster democratic competences. It reviews state-of-the-art research and identifies a number of under-explored issues in the field, highlighting the potential of educational reforms in improving democratic engagement across a wealth of demographics.Internationally renowned contributors discuss the definition of democratic ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Civil Disorder, Domestic Terrorism and Education Policy

    The Context in England and France

    by Jonathan S. James, Jan Germen Janmaat ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the links between education policy and occurrences of civil disorder and domestic terrorism in England and France. Since 2001, both England and France have experienced outbreaks of rioting in which young people of immigrant origin have been implicated: both have also been the targets of domestic terror attacks perpetrated by their own citizens. Both countries have had similar ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Faith Schools, Tolerance and Diversity

    Exploring the Influence of Education on Students' Attitudes of Tolerance

    by Helen Everett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the effects of faith schools on social cohesion and inter-ethnic relations. Faith schools constitute approximately one third of all state-maintained schools and two fifths of the independent schools in England. Nevertheless, they have historically been, and remain, controversial. In the current social climate, questions have been raised about the ability of faith schools to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    The Renewal of Social Democracy

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  • Handbook of Children's Rights

    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Michael Freeman ...
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  • The Right to Maim

    Debility, Capacity, Disability

    by Jasbir K. Puar ...
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    In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how ... Read more

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  • The Killing Fields of Inequality

    by Göran Therborn ...
    Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because of it. These ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Evidence

    From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence

    by Justin Parkhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Religion

    A Critical Agenda

    by Grace Davie ...
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