Education Books

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11. Audit Education

    Edited by Karen Van Peursem, Elizabeth Monk, Richard M.S. Wilson, Ralph Adler

    Series: Special issue books from 'Accounting Education: an international journal'

    Audit professionals are valued members of society and are expected to be both skilled and ethical in their decision-making. The role of the auditor extends far beyond that of counting beans by demanding a social and political awareness, a technical knowledge, ethical principles and relationship...

    Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
12. Globalization, Knowledge and Labour

    Education for Solidarity within Spaces of Resistance

    Edited by Mario Novelli, Anibel Ferus-Comelo

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    This book begins from the central premise that progressive social change requires collective struggle underpinned by a clear strategy, and that processes of neoliberal globalisation have altered the cartography upon which social struggle takes place. Drawing on insights from the knowledge...

    Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
13. Personal Transferable Skills in Accounting Education

    Edited by Kim Watty, Beverley Jackling, Richard M.S. Wilson

    Series: Special issue books from 'Accounting Education: an international journal'

    The development of generic skills (often referred to as ‘soft skills’) in accounting education has been a focus of discussion and debate for several decades. During this time employers and professional bodies have urged accounting educators to consider and develop curricula which provide for the...

    Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
14. The Interface of Accounting Education and Professional Training

    Edited by Elaine Evans, Roger Juchau, Richard M.S. Wilson

    Series: Special issue books from 'Accounting Education: an international journal'

    Over many decades the global development of professional accounting education programmes has been undertaken by higher education institutions, professional accounting bodies, and employers. These institutions have sometimes co-operated and sometimes been in conflict over the education and/or...

    Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
15. Education and Development

    Edited by Walter McMahon

    Series: Major Themes in Education

    This series addresses the relation of education to knowledge-based growth and broader measures of development beyond growth, central features of the modern world in which education has a central role. This role includes the effects of education on pure economic growth including it’s effects on the...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
16. The Routledge Companion to Education

    Edited by James Arthur, Andrew Peterson

    Who are the key thinkers in education? What are the hot topics in education? Where will education go from here? The Routledge Companion to Education presents the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide available to the key theories, themes and topics in education. Forty specially commissioned chapters...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
17. Education and Social Justice in the Era of Globalisation

    Perspectives from India and the UK

    Edited by Marie Lall, Geetha B. Nambissan

    The book discusses the implications of globalization on education from the perspective of social justice. It looks at two countries — India and the UK — to look at how global economic and cultural processes are mediated through nation states, institutional structures and the aspirations of...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge India
18. Education and Inequality in India

    A Classroom View

    By Manabi Majumdar, Jos Mooij

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a...

    Published August 23rd 2011 by Routledge
19. Therapeutic Practice in Schools

    Working with the Child Within: A Clinical Workbook for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Arts Therapists

    Edited by Lyn French, Reva Klein

    This book is an indispensable guide to providing therapy services for children and adolescents in primary and secondary school settings. The contributors have extensive experience in the field and carefully examine every aspect of the work, ranging from developing an understanding of the school...

    Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
20. Higher Education Reform in China

    Beyond the Expansion

    Edited by W. John Morgan, Bin Wu

    Series: China Policy Series

    A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade – China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years. China is exceptional among lower income...

    Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge