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1. Focus Groups

   From structured interviews to collective conversations

   By George Kamberelis, Greg Dimitriadis

   Focus Groups: From Structured Interviews to Collective Conversations is a conceptual and practical introduction to focus group. As the title indicates, focus groups traditionally encompass a wide range of discursive practices. These span from formal structured interviews with particular people...

   To Be Published February 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Critical Dispositions

   Evidence and Expertise in Education

   By Greg Dimitriadis

   Set against the current proliferation of global "difference" and economic realignment, Critical Dispositions explores the notions of "evidence" and "expertise" in times of material scarcity. Both have come to the forefront of national and international debate in education as "evidence" and "...

   Published March 8th 2012 by Routledge
3. Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education

   Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple

   Edited by Lois Weis, Greg Dimitriadis, Cameron McCarthy

   For more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. Beginning with Ideology and Curriculum (1979), Apple moved to understand the relationship between and among the economy, political and cultural power in...

   Published April 2nd 2006 by Routledge
4. Theory for Education

   Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal

   By Greg Dimitriadis, George Kamberelis

   Series: theory4

   Theory for Education provides a concise and clear introduction to key contemporary theorists, including their lives, major works and ideas. Written for the student in need of a quick introduction or for the scholar brushing up on details, this new volume in the theory4 series presents major...

   Published March 23rd 2006 by Routledge
5. Race, Identity, and Representation in Education

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Cameron McCarthy, Warren Crichlow, Greg Dimitriadis, Nadine Dolby

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   This stunning new edition retains the book's broad aims, intended audience, and multidisciplinary approach. New chapters take into account the more current backdrop of globalization, particularly events such as 9/11, and attendant developments that make a reconsideration of race relations in...

   Published March 29th 2005 by Routledge
6. Learning to Labor in New Times

   Edited by Nadine Dolby, Greg Dimitriadis

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Learning to Labor in New Times foregrounds nine essays which re-examine the work of noted sociologist Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his seminal Learning to Labor, one of the most frequently cited and assigned texts in the cultural studies and social foundations of education....

   Published April 11th 2004 by Routledge
7. Promises to Keep

   Cultural Studies, Democratic Education, and Public Life

   Edited by Greg Dimitriadis, Dennis Carlson

   Series: Social Theory, Education, and Cultural Change

   This book takes a serious look at the erosion of democratic public life and public education, and offers directions for re-imagining, re-designing, and re-inventing the current system. Bridging the disciplines of film studies, postcolonial studies, curriculum theory, and politics, these essays...

   Published March 27th 2003 by Routledge