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1. Haunting the Knowledge Economy

   By Jane Kenway, Elizabeth Bullen, Johannah Fahey, Simon Robb

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   This highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these...

   Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
2. Globalizing the Research Imagination

   Edited by Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey

   In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by researchers. They are encouraged to develop 'defiant' global imaginations and communities with the capacities to think, 'be' and 'become' differently in a world of...

   Published August 6th 2008 by Routledge
3. Answering Back

   Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools

   By Jill Blackmore, Jane Kenway, Leonie Rennie, Sue Willis

   Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists. This book challenges many...

   Published January 28th 1998 by Routledge
4. Hearts And Minds

   Self-Esteem And The Schooling Of Girls

   By Jane Kenway, Sue Willis

   In this text various specialists in education honsider the merits of current thinking on "self-esteem" in relation to their field of expertise. Each concludes that a radical reassessment of the ways in which we think about...

   Published November 4th 1990 by Routledge