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World Yearbook of Education 2006
Education, Research and Policy: Steering the Knowledge-Based Economy
Series: World Yearbook of Education
This volume considers the ways in which educational research is being shaped by policy across the globe. Policy effects on research are increasingly influential, as policies in and beyond education drive the formation of a knowledge-based economy by supporting increased international...
Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L)
The Social Functions of the Intellectual
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This book explores the complex social assumptions and values that underlie research programmes about schools. The analysis of educational research draws upon American and European scholarships in the sociology of knowledge, social philosophy and the history and sociology of science. The discussion...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Schooling and the Making of Citizens in the Long Nineteenth Century
Comparative Visions
Series: Routledge Research in Education
This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across four continents during the period...
Published March 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform
Science, Education, and Making Society by Making the Child
In Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform, noted educationalist Thomas Popkewitz explores turn-of-the-century and contemporary pedagogical reforms while illuminating their complex relation to cosmopolitanism. Popkewitz highlights how policies that include "all children" and leave "no child...
Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge
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Cultural History and Education
Critical Essays on Knowledge and Schooling
Cultural History and Education brings together an outstanding group of the leading scholars in the study of the cultural history of education. These scholars, whose work represents a variety of national contexts from throughout Europe, Latin America, and North America, contribute to a growing...
Published March 20th 2001 by Routledge
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Critical Theories in Education
Changing Terrains of Knowledge and Politics
Series: Social Theory, Education, and Cultural Change
Published March 15th 1999 by Routledge