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1. Sports Coaching Research

   Context, Consequences, and Consciousness

   By Anthony Bush, Michael Silk, David Andrews, Hugh Lauder

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms...

   To Be Published October 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Educating for the Knowledge Economy?

   Critical perspectives

   Edited by Hugh Lauder, Michael Young, Harry Daniels, Maria Balarin, John Lowe

   The promise, embraced by governments around the world, is that the knowledge economy will provide knowledge workers with a degree of autonomy and permission to think which enables them to be creative and to attract high incomes. What credence should we give to this promise? The current economic...

   Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

   Edited by Hugh Lauder, Cathy Wylie

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentieth century. For other Western societies who have felt the impact of New Right policies the New Zealand case is interesting because it...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

   In Search of A Future

   Edited by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   What unites the contributors to this book is an opposition to Thatcherite policies on education and an agreement upon the need for the development of democracy in education. This volume highlights the importance of an area of neglected theoretical and practical concern: the development of a...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
5. Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning

   A Critical Perspective

   Edited by Harry Daniels, Hugh Lauder, Jill Porter

   Series: Critical Perspectives on Education

   Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education - learners and teachers....

   Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
6. Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy

   A Critical Perspective

   Edited by Harry Daniels, Hugh Lauder, Jill Porter

   Series: Critical Perspectives on Education

   Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy focuses on what schools are for and what should be taught in them, how learning is possible across boundaries, and issues of diversity and equity. Policies and practices relating to schools are also considered. Within this volume, internationally...

   Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge