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1	Conflict of Interests: The Politics of American Education more books like this by Joel H Spring add to wishlist Providing a critical understanding of the political and social forces shaping educational politics in the United States, this concise text describes and analyzes how policy is made for American schools and its effect on all of our lives and thinking. Joel Spring argues that the politics of Education is driven by a complex interrelationship between ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| SVS
2	The Political Dynamics of American Education more books like this by Frederick M Wirt add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.50!
3	Politics, Markets and America's Schools more books like this by John E Chubb, Terry M Moe add to wishlist During the 1980s, there was a powerful movement for educational change and the nation's political institutions responded with aggressive reforms. In this volume, Chubb and Moe argue that these reforms are destined to fail because they do not get to the root of the problem. see all copies from $2.09! new only from $14.97! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education more books like this by Henry A Giroux add to wishlist The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work. This completely revised and updated edition takes these areas and draws new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and critical pedagogy. Highly relevant to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.80! \| SVS
5	Pedagogy of the Heart more books like this by Paulo Freire add to wishlist In an age of globalization, where multinational corporations seem to dictate to governments the considerations of the polity, the status of the poor and their education has never seemed more hopeless or urgent. For decades, Paulo Freire - the Brazilian educator and social theorist who died in September 1997 - was the champion of the poor ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $21.54!
6	Jefferson's Children more books like this by Leon Botstein add to wishlist Leon Botstein argues that the pessimism and belief in cultural decline that has dominated American discourse about education and the future of our children is both wrong and harmful. In this book, he offers both a critique of such relentless negativity and an alternative that reaffirms the civilizing mission of education for all our citizens. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.50! \| first editions
7	American Inquisitors more books like this by Walter Lippmann add to wishlist The record of man's early evolution, though still fragmentary, is more complete on the African continent than anywhere else in the world. The ecological context of this evolution, however, has been studied intensively only in recent years. This pioneering volume draws together eminent specialists from many fields-physical anthropologists, ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $26.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Power & Ideology in Education more books like this by Jerome Karabel (Editor), Albert H Halsey (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $15.50! new only from $54.63! \| SVS
9	Political Agendas for Education: From the Christian Coalition to the Green Party more books like this by Joel H Spring add to wishlist This text describes and analyzes the educational agendas of major political organizations. From the outrage of evangelical parents at "anti-Christian" curriculums to Clinton's promises of college places and job skills, this book illuminates the political aims of educational reform. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.55!
10	Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking more books like this by Professor David Bromwich add to wishlist Liberal education has been under siege. Far-right ideologies in journalism and government have pressed for a uniform curriculum that focuses on the achievements of Western culture. Partisans of the academic left, who hold our culture responsible for the evils of society, have attempted to redress imbalances by fostering multiculturalism in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling more books like this by Deborah Reed-Danahay, Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor) add to wishlist Drawing on an ethnographic study of a remote farming community in the Auvergne, Dr Reed-Danahay challenges conventional views about the operation of the French school system. She demonstrates how parents and children subvert and resist the ideological messages of the teachers, and describes the ways in which a sense of local difference is ... see all copies from $27.49! new only from $31.17! \| SVS
12	The Making of a Government: Political Leaders in Modern Mexico more books like this by Roderic A. Camp add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $38.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Price of Excellence more books like this by Professor Jacob Neusner, PH.D., Noam M M Neusner (Editor) add to wishlist Offers a historical analysis of the rise and fall of higher education in the past 30 years, through an account of the senior author's experiences as a Je teaching religious studies during the Cold War. Addresses the ways in which public policy dictated university and college educational policies, a see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions
14	Our Minerva: The Men and Politics of the University of London 1836-1858 more books like this by F M G Willson add to wishlist The origin of the University of London is a complex story and this book focuses on the academic politics and the inter-relationships of the personalities involved, relating these matters to national politics. This account is based upon the archives and personal papers of the leading figures. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	De-Facing Power more books like this by Clarissa Rile Hayward, Professor Ian Shapiro (Editor), Professor Russell Hardin (Editor) add to wishlist In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view which treats power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a 'face', she considers power as a complex network of social boundaries - norms, identities, institutions - which define both the field of action and the ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $20.00! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Gender Question in Education: Theory, Pedagogy, and Politics more books like this by Ann Diller, Barbara Houston, Kathryn Morgan add to wishlist In this innovative book, four prominent philosophers of education introduce readers to the central debates about the role of gender in educational practice, policymaking, and theory. More a record of a continuing conversation than a statement of a fixed point of view, The Gender Question in Education enables students and practicing teachers to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.00! \| SVS
17 view cover	Illusory Freedoms: Liberalism, Education and more books like this by Ruth Jonathan add to wishlist This book examines education as a touchstone for recasting some of the intractable problems of social theory. Trends in education policy from the post-war reformist settlement to the consumerist, market ethos of recent years, with the UK as an illustrative example, provide the practical focus. The resurgence of a neo-liberal approach to the ... see all copies from $7.29! new only from $11.49!
18 view cover	The Political Dimension in Teacher Education: Comparative Perspectives on Policy Formation, Socialization and Society more books like this by Mark B Ginsburg add to wishlist In-service and teacher training programmes are based on policies and practices built by individuals and groups. This book examines teacher education and its relationship with power and society, specifically power relations involving social class, racial/ethnic and gender issues evident in living environments, religious institutions and ... see all copies from $3.34! new only from $13.34! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Educational Policy and the Politics of Change more books like this by Bob Lingard, Miriam Henry, Sandra Taylor add to wishlist Provides an account of how educational policies are developed by the state in response to broader social, cultural, economic and political changes which are taking place. The text examines the way in which schools live and work with these changes, and the policies which result from them. The book examines policy making at each level, from ... see all copies from $26.30! new only from $47.72! \| SVS
20 view cover	110 Livingston Street Revisited: Decentralization in Action more books like this by David Rogers, Norman H Chung (Photographer) add to wishlist "An extraordinaryily well-documented and interesting account of the problems of ethnic change in a big city school system." - Martin Renn, Professor of Social Policy, MIT and author of the "Dilemmas of Reforms" and "Social Policy" "Even small town systems nowadays face the crisis of confidence in public education. Thus the lessons learned in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Politics of Education: Conflict and Consensus on Capitol Hill more books like this by John Brademas add to wishlist Volume 1 in the Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series Drawing from his experiences as a long-term congressman, John Brademas focuses on policy formation to examine the politics of federal support for education. Brademas provides both analytic histories of representative education legislation and philosophical meditations on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	School Wars Religion Values (Dp11) more books like this by Barbara B Gaddy, T William Hall, Dr. Robert J Marzano add to wishlist Debates over what and how students should learn have become highly polarized in recent years, with educators increasingly at odds with religious conservatives in battles over curriculum, literature, teaching methods and school improvement efforts. This work focuses closely on activists in the Christian fundamentalist movement, explaining why they ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.26! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Tenured Radicals, Revised: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education more books like this by Roger Kimball add to wishlist Since Tenured Radicals first appeared in 1990, it has achieved the status of a minor classic. Trenchant and witty, it lays bare the sham of what now passes for serious teaching and research in the humanities at American universites. "Mr. Kimball names his enemies precisely....This book will breed fistfights."--Roger Rosenblatt, New York Times ... see all copies from $2.14! new only from $5.98!
24 view cover	Schooling and Social Change 1964-1990 more books like this by Roy Lowe add to wishlist Offers an overview of the ways in which the sweeping social and economic changes of the modern period have impacted on the education system. The author draws on research to paint a vivid picture of the ways in which schools and universities were moulded by external events and of the part they played in promoting modernization of society. The book ... see all copies from $20.05! new only from $34.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	In Defense of Good Teaching: What Teachers Need to Know about the "Reading Wars" more books like this by Ken Goodman (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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