Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john schostak

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  • PARADOXES OF DEMOCRACY, LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION
    JOHN SCHOSTAK / ‎MATTHEW CLARKE / ‎LINDA HAMMERSLEYFLETCHER
    Paradoxes of Democracy, Leadership and Education engages both critically and creatively with important social, political and educational issues, and argues that the organisational forms of contemporary schooling are caught up in politically significant contradictions. Highlighting the inescapable paradoxes that educators must grapple with in their thought and practice as they s...

    $1,040.00

  • SCHOOLING THE VIOLENT IMAGINATION
    JOHN F. SCHOSTAK
    The violent imagination begins in experiences of violation against the self and grows through the stories, myths, folktales and anecdotes of everyday life. Originally published in 1986, John Schostak discusses the educational, social and moral implications of the violent imagination in connection with theories of violence, childrearing practices, and schooling as a childrearing...

    $1,000.00

  • BREAKING INTO THE CURRICULUM
    JOHN F. SCHOSTAK
    Information technology is here to stay. Its impact has already been far-reaching: in business, in communications, and in leisure activities it has been responsible for replacing human action by that of machines. As such it raised questions about freedom and the meaning of work and human activity which could no longer be ignored by those working in education. The educational res...

    $1,000.00

  • PUPIL EXPERIENCE
    JOHN F. SCHOSTAK / TOM LOGAN
    First published in 1984, this book focuses upon pupil perspectives of schooling from first school to school leaver, taking their thoughts and feelings as accurate assessments of their experience. The study presents what was at the time new thinking and research findings on a wide range of important topics to provide an insight in ...

    $660.00

  • DEMOCRACY, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
    JOHN SCHOSTAK / IVOR F. GOODSON
    Considering how practices and processes of research and education can create fundamental, radical social change, Democracy, Education and Research assesses the meaning of ‘public impact‘ by rethinking what is meant by ‘public‘ and how it is essential to the methodologies of education and research. Focusing on empirical illustrations of the use of research and educational proces...

    $860.00

  • WRITING RESEARCH CRITICALLY
    JOHN SCHOSTAK / JILL SCHOSTAK
    This is not a standard guide to writing a dissertation, thesis, project report, journal article or book. Rather, this book will help researchers who are dissatisfied with the typical recipe approaches to standardised forms of writing-up and want to explore how academic writing can be used to greater effect. Writing Research Critically shows that writing up is not just about ‘pr...

    $1,060.00

  • MALADJUSTED SCHOOLING (RLE EDU L)
    JOHN SCHOSTAK
    The problems this book discusses are the same now as they were 25 years ago: unemployment, poor housing, inadequate facilities, poverty, racism, violence. What is the function of a school in such a situation? Although many schools hold reformist ideals, their practice is constrained by organisational demands. School organisation is based upon a coercive theory of social control...

    $1,420.00

  • RADICAL RESEARCH
    JOHN SCHOSTAK / JILL SCHOSTAK
    Radical Research explores the view that research is not a neutral tool to be employed without bias in the search for truth. Rather the radical roots of research are to be seen in the focus on freedom and emancipation from blind allegiance to tradition, ‘common sense’, religion, or powerful individuals and organisations. Radical Research introduces and draws upon leading contemp...

    $860.00