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Re-engaging Young People in Education
Learning from alternative schools
This book provides insights into the educational practices that work to re-engage young people who have become disenchanted with traditional schooling practices. It examines the lives of students and workers (such as teachers and social workers) who participate in education sites on the fringes of...
To Be Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Ways of Reading
Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature, 4th Edition
Ways of Reading is a best-selling core textbook that provides the reader with the tools to analyse and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts. Six sections, split into self-contained units with their own activities and notes for further reading, cover: techniques and...
To Be Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
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Troubling Gender in Education
This book explores new questions and lines of analysis within the field of ‘gender and education’, conveying some of the style and diversity of contemporary research directions. It celebrates as well as assesses the achievements of feminist work in education, acknowledging this legacy while also ‘...
Published September 30th 2010 by Routledge
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Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism
The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism
Series: Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions
This is a major anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in the Ladakh region of North-West India and of the role of tantric ritual in the formation and maintenance of traditional forms of state structure and political consciousness in Tibet. Containing...
Published June 30th 2010 by Routledge
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Ways of Reading
Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature, 3rd Edition
Ways of Reading is a well-established core textbook that provides the reader with the tools to analyze and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts.Six sections, split into self-contained units with their own activities and notes for further reading, cover: techniques and...
Published November 23rd 2006 by Routledge