Discusses the importance of promoting equality in schools. This book covers such topics as social class; 'race'; gender; sexual orientation; and, disability and special educational needs with reference to various subjects taught at primary school level.

Argues for a materialist understanding of class in analyzing the structure of owning and power in social relations, and as a key element in the restructuring of society in a more egalitarian way.

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Analyzes the ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of schooling and education. This title explains the machinations, agenda and impacts of the privatising and 'merchandisation' of education by the World Bank, the General Agreement on Trade in Services, and the political spectrum of Neoliberal governments.

Amanda is a teenage girl who talks about her friends, their new mobile phones and their lives at school. So why is she a suspect? Could she, or one of her friends, have murdered the man the police have found dead in the railway yard? What's the truth behind the murder?

Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World. This collection examines aspects of neoliberal arguments focusing on low- and middle-income countries (including Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, China, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and South Africa), and suggest where they fall short.

When rain threatens the parade's success, JT decides to move it from Merriweather Farm to town, and everyone from Deerfield Valley comes out to watch.

Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of public managerialism. This book explores the mechanisms and ideologies behind neoliberal education, while evaluating and promoting resistance on a local, national and global level.

This book brings together a group of top international scholars who consider Pedagogy of Critique, Revolutionary Pedagogy and Radical Critical Pedagogy as forms of praxis to examine the paradoxical roles of schooling in reproducing and legitimizing large-scale structural inequalities.

Covers installation and setting up whether on Mac OS 9, OS X, or Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP.

Presents a critique of neoliberalised education - privatization, marketisation, public managerialism, increasing control and surveillance of schools and colleges - in eight of the rich countries of the world: USA, Canada, England and Wales, Finland, Greece, Taiwan, Israel, and Japan.

A wonderfully warm, witty and true novel about fatherhood within the extended family, when family values crash and you're left holding the babies in one hand and your sanity in the other

This text looks at each national curriculum subject and analyzes it in terms of culture and ideology represented. It proceeds to give detailed advice and suggestions on how to promote equality and equal opportunities within each subject.

This text covers the range of equality issues in school level education from the perspective and needs of educators, trainee teachers and students of education. It uses a blend of issues, concepts, facts and research to open up key issues and consider policy developments in the field.

A small child, a large family - a deeply perceptive and moving novel about adoption