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Radical Education and the Common School
A Democratic Alternative
Series: Foundations and Futures of Education
What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic society affect our responses to these...
Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge
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The Atlas of Human Migration
Global Patterns of People on the Move
Series: The Earthscan Atlas
Migration has provided millions with an escape route from poverty or oppression, ensuring the survival, even prosperity, of individuals and their families. New currents of human migration, triggered by ethnic cleansing or climate change or economic need, are appearing all the time and immigration...
Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
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Taking Education Really Seriously
Four Years Hard Labour
Michael Fielding looks at what the Labour Government has achieved in the last four years with its policy of 'education, education, education'.There has been widespread disappointment in New Labour's education policies, which on the whole have not steered too far wide of those put in place by...
Published May 30th 2001 by Routledge