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  • SPECIALISATION AND CHOICE IN URBAN EDUCATION
    GEOFF WHITTY / TONY EDWARDS / SHARON GEWIRTZ
    First published in 1993, Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education explores how city technology colleges (CTC) have managed the task of selecting intakes representatives of their catchment areas and explore their impact on local schools. From their announcements in 1986, CTC have been presented both as a new choice of school for the inner city and as pointing the way to a mo...

    $800.00

  • SOCIOLOGY AND SCHOOL KNOWLEDGE
    GEOFF WHITTY
    The rise of a radical ‘new’ sociology of education during the early 1970s focused attention on the nature of school knowledge. Although this new approach was set to revolutionize the subject, within a few years, many people considered these developments an eccentric interlude, with little relevance to curriculum theory or practice. First published in 1985, this book offers a mo...

    $1,040.00

  • TRANSCENDING TABOOS
    GARRY YOUNG / MONICA WHITTY
    Cyberspace is composed of a multitude of different spaces where users can represent themselves in many divergent ways. Why in a video game, is it more acceptable to murder or maim than rape? After all, in each case, it is only pixels that are being assaulted. This book avoids wrestling with the common question of whether the virtual violation of real-world taboos is right or wr...

    $1,320.00

  • TRUTH, LIES AND TRUST ON THE INTERNET
    MONICA T. WHITTY / ADAM JOINSON
    The Internet is often presented as an unsafe or untrustworthy space: where children are preyed upon by paedophiles, cannibals seek out victims, offline relationships are torn apart by online affairs and where individuals are addicted to gambling, love, and cybersex. While many of these stories are grounded in truth, they do paint a rather sensationalized view of the Internet, t...

    $1,460.00

  • A TORTOISE FOR THE QUEEN OF TONGA
    JULIA WHITTY
    Bringing a unique perspective and a singular voice to contemporary fiction, A TORTOISE FOR THE QUEEN OF TONGA features lush, poignant stories about the natural world. Here are mammals, historical figures, everyday people who discover the liberating properties of memory and knowledge in the face of captivity and loneliness. We meet a forlorn tortoise forced to live among humans....

    $149.00

  • DEEP BLUE HOME
    JULIA WHITTY
    At the center of Deep Blue Home—a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it—is Whitty's description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected to the earth's climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race.  Whitty's ...

    $272.99

  • MAKING SENSE OF EDUCATION POLICY
    GEOFF WHITTY
    `This book is a very worthwhile read for teachers, student teachers and teacher educators. It would be encouraging if politically based policy makers were to digest its contents also′ - Citizenship, Social and Economics Education `I recommend this book as an enjoyable, thought provoking and politically important read′ - Widenining Participation and Lifelong Learning `This impor...

    $1,672.75

  • TEORIA SOCIAL Y POLITICA EDUCATIVA
    WHITTY
    Agotado

    $240.00

  • LA ESCUELA EL ESTADO Y EL MERCADO
    WHITTY
    Agotado

    $670.00