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by Barbara Wejnert
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This volume highlights the ways in which scholarly analysis has contributed to a rich understanding of the links between spreading democracy, gender equality, and environmental protection. Combining theoretical, empirical, and policy perspectives, the volume includes cutting-edge debates on the meaning...
by Kelum Jayasinghe, Nirmala Nath, Radiah Othman
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
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
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...
Disputes in Everyday Life
Social and Moral Orders of Children and Young People
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...
Effective Teaching for Managers
Lessons from Films
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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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The requirement for sustainable transport in urban areas has become more onerous in the past decade due to a number of negative externalities which have been increasingly associated with growing mobility and the advances made in the technology and available options for sustainable transport. However,...
Emotion and School
Understanding How the Hidden Curriculum Influences Relationships, Leadership, Teaching, and Learning
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...
Warrior Women
Remaking Post-Secondary Places Through Relational Narrative Inquiry
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
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...
by Lisa Keister
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2002
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...
Composing Lives in Transition
A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Early School Leavers
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...
Narrative Conceptions of Knowledge
Towards Understanding Teacher Attrition
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...
by Thaddeus Muller
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
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...
Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy
Structural Ideals and Moral Realities
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...