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by Kelum Jayasinghe, Nirmala Nath, Radiah Othman
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015

This volume aims to contribute to the substance of this debate by looking at how the NPM ideas have been conceptualised, implemented and affected the accounting, accountability and auditing practices in emerging economies characterised by different ideologies, economic, social and political factors....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013

True to the nature of the Gedenkschrift, this commemorative publication celebrates the work of sociologist Dr. William Freudenburg, one of the founding editors of RSPPP and Dehlsen Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara. Chapters include personal reminiscences as well as research that...
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Disputes in Everyday Life

Social and Moral Orders of Children and Young People

by Loretta Bass
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012

Volume 15 of "Sociological Studies of Children and Youth" investigates the interactional procedures used by children and young people as disputes arise in varying contexts of their everyday life. Disputes are a topic of angst and anxiety for children, young people and adults alike, and yet...
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Effective Teaching for Managers

Lessons from Films

by Stephen Carroll, Alisa Kinney, Harry Sapienza
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015

Effective Teaching for Managers addresses the manager's role as teacher in leading staff and getting the best performance out of them. The topic of effective managerial teaching is of special interest today given the significant changes (economic, social and technological) facing organizations everywhere....
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Emotion and School

Understanding How the Hidden Curriculum Influences Relationships, Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013

Emotion and School: Understanding How the Hidden Curriculum Influences Relationships, Leadership, Teaching, and Learning reports the history, developments, applications and possible future directions of relational and emotion-focused school research from North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. It...
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Warrior Women

Remaking Post-Secondary Places Through Relational Narrative Inquiry

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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

"Warrior Women" makes visible the ongoing intergenerational narrative reverberations (Young, 2003; 2005) shaped through Canada's residential school era which denied the communal and cultural, economic, educational, human, familial, linguistic, and spiritual rights of Aboriginal people. Attending...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015

Support staff in schools are increasingly recognised as playing an important, though often undefined, role in inclusive education. While there has been some research on how best to work with support staff, this book provides readers with a comprehensive examination of roles and responsibilities within...
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by Lisa Keister
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2002

Work behaviours and inequality in work-based rewards are essential to financial security and general well-being. Although the benefits of receiving work-based rewards, such as income, benefits and retirement packages, are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly. Scholars have invested considerable...
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Composing Lives in Transition

A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Early School Leavers

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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013

Composing Lives in Transition: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Early School Leavers is structured around ten narrative accounts, each one offering glimpses into the lives of early school leavers from different backgrounds. Framed by the puzzling question of why someone would want to leave...
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Narrative Conceptions of Knowledge

Towards Understanding Teacher Attrition

by D. Jean Clandinin, C. Aiden Downey, Lee Schaefer
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014

"The book volume shares six narrative accounts, which offer glimpses into the teachers' lives, which are composed with attention to place, temporality, and personal and social dimensions. By inquiring narratively into the experiences of these teachers, the book identifies the complex ways in...
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by Thaddeus Muller
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015

The papers in this volume were presented in at the third conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). The theme of the 2012 conference was "Conflict, Cooperation and Transformation in Everyday Life." The fifteen papers presented across this volume and...
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Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy

Structural Ideals and Moral Realities

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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014

This thirty fourth volume in the REA series contains fourteen chapters by a variety of researchers touching on a wide range of topics in economic anthropology and covering a vast geographical area. The chapters are divided into four sections: one focusing on commodities and their social meanings and...
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by Thaddeus Muller
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015

The papers in this volume were presented at the third conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). The theme of the 2012 conference was "Conflict, Cooperation and Transformation in Everyday Life". The fifteen papers presented across this volume and volume...
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by Sam Hillyard
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016

Many researchers in recent years have begun to reflect on their gender identity and how this impacts on the research process and discuss how this helps build rapport with participants and creates successful or unsuccessful pieces of qualitative research. However, how does this intersect with other...
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