John Smyth: 15 books
Doing Critical Educational Research
A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
John Smyth’s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from...
by John Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
We live in a time when those who wield unrestrained power believe they have the inalienable right to determine the destiny, nature and shape of social institutions like schools. Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice challenges this arrogance by showing how teachers, students, parents, communities,...
The Toxic University
Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to the institution of the university, as a result of the withdrawal of state funding and the imposition of neoliberal market reforms on higher education. It argues that universities have lost their way, and are currently drowning in an...
Becoming Educated
Young Peoples Narratives of Disadvantage, Class, Place and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ‘disadvantaged’ contexts. The book argues that because the focus has been obdurately and willfully on the wrong things – blaming students; measuring, testing and comparing them; and treating families and...
The Socially Just School
Making Space for Youth to Speak Back
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most marginalized and at an educational disadvantage. Social justice is a key theme as the book examines the needs of youth,...
by Alistair Dow, Robert Hattam, Alan Reid
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to their work, as well as responding in ways that actively shape these processes. For teachers and researchers, this book...
Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia
Young People Have Something to Say
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This book draws on the stories of thirty-two young Australians to identify the barriers and obstacles they face in ‘getting a job’ in precarious times and from their vantage point. It maps the kinds of educational policies and practices that need to be created and more widely sustained to assist...
Re-Making Teaching
Ideology, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Dramatic, profound and far-reaching changes are being visited on schools worldwide that have their genesis a long way from the classroom but which impact heavily on teachers and their work. Most of this reform has been achieved with little or no involvement of teachers themselves. This book sets out...
Living on the Edge
Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education—the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living...
The Habit of Lying
Sacrificial Studies in Literature, Philosophy, and Fashion Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2002
Lying appears to be ubiquitous, what Franz Kafka called "a universal principle”; yet, despite a number of recent books on the subject, it has been given comparatively little genuinely systematic attention by philosophers, social scientists, or even literary theorists. In The Habit of Lying...
by John A Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2015
I know what you are going to say – this could not really happen to one man. But I swear my story is true, although there are many out there who wish to change it or conceal it. I am nearly at the end now and all I really want is for my story to be told. No more lies, no more bearing the blame for...
From Enlightenment to Rebellion
Essays in Honor of Christopher Fox
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book is a collection of essays and a short story written to honor Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish Studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Professor Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions, and subjects...
Basic Russian
A Grammar and Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Designed for students with a basic knowledge of Russian, this book provides an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume.
Across more than forty grammar topics it introduces the student to Russian people and culture through the medium of the language used today, covering...
Intermediate Russian
A Grammar and Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Intermediate Russian provides a reference grammar and related exercises in one volume. Varied texts from Russian sources give an insight into contemporary Russian society and culture. Features include:
* texts and exercises reflecting contemporary Russian
* concise grammar explanations
* full exercise...
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