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Academic Tribes And Territories

Intellectual Enquiry and the Culture of Disciplines

By: Becher, Tony,Trowler, Paul

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Academic Tribes And Territories

Intellectual Enquiry and the Culture of Disciplines

By: Becher, Tony,Trowler, Paul

Acclaim for the first edition of Academic Tribes and Territories: '...Becher's insistence upon in-depth analysis of the extant literature while reporting his own sustained research doubled the thickness of the material to be covered...Academic Tribes and Territories is a superb addition to the literature on higher education...There is here an education to be had.' (Burton R. Clark, Higher Education) '...Becher's landmark work. The higher education community - both practitioners and educational researchers - need to assimilate and to heed the message of this important and insightful book.' (Alan E. Bayer, Journal of Higher Education) 'a bold approach to a theory of academic relations...The result is a debt to him {Becher} for all students of higher education.' (The Times Educational Supplement) 'a classic in its field...The book is readily accessible to any member of the academic profession, but it also adds significantly to a specialist understanding of the internal life of higher education institutions in Britain and North America. I confidently predict that it will appear prominently on citation indices for many years.' (Gareth Williams, Studies in Higher Education) How do academics perceive themselves and colleagues in their own disciplines, and how do they rate those in other subjects? How closely related are their intellectual tasks and their ways of organizing their professional lives? What are the interconnections between academic cultures and the nature of disciplines? Academic Tribes and Territories maps academic knowledge and explores the diverse characteristics of those who inhabit and cultivate it. This second edition provides a thorough update to Tony Becher's classic text, first published in 1989, and incorporates research findings and new theoretical perspectives. Fundamental changes in the nature of higher education and in the academic's role are reviewed and their significance for academic cultures is assessed. This edition moves beyond the first edition's focus on elite universities and the research role to examine academic cultures in lower status institutions internationally and to place a new emphasis on issues of gender and ethnicity. This second edition successfully renews a classic in the field of higher education.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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Academic Tribes and Territories

By: Tony Becher,Paul Trowler

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Professional Practices

Commitment and Capability in a Changing Environment

By: Tony Becher

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Professional Practices

Commitment and Capability in a Changing Environment

By: Tony Becher

Practicing professionals will benefit from this insight into how people in their own and other professions cope with similar problems. Becher's volume will be particularly appealing to educationists, policymakers, and social scientists interested in the subject of professionalism, those involved in the provision of initial and mid career change for the professions, and those with a lay interest in the topic."--BOOK JACKET.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412832039

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The Politics of Curriculum Change

By: Tony Becher,Stuart Maclure

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The Politics of Curriculum Change

By: Tony Becher,Stuart Maclure

Curriculum development occupied an increasingly important place on the educational scene in the mid 1960s, foreshadowing much of the national debate initiated by the Prime Minister of Britain in late 1976. The agencies for development take different forms in different countries, but the underlying issues are remarkably similar across the globe. It is the basic framework common to all planned curriculum change which The Politics of Curriculum Change (originally published in 1978) is concerned to bring into sharper focus. A major consideration in embarking on or analysing any curriculum programme is the extent to which it reflects public concerns about education. The notion of the ‘public curriculum’ is a central strand in the authors’ argument. It leads naturally into a discussion of mechanisms for control and development, and the political acceptability of new proposals to teachers, parents, pupils, and the public at large. But curriculum change has its internal, as well as its external politics. These are reflected in the contrasting styles of development, varied forms of evaluation, and in the conflicting response of the profession, both to change of the curriculum as a whole, and to a piecemeal subject-by-subject approach. The authors give these working aspects of curriculum development as careful attention as they afford to the larger issues of schooling in society. All in all, this book offers a view which has not hitherto been clearly articulated, but which is essential to understanding what curriculum development is all about. Its authors are in a good position to do this: one had a particularly close involvement with the external, and the other with the internal politics of development, and they previously worked together on an international study of curriculum.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040123546

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Private Property and Public Power

Eminent Domain in Philadelphia

By: Debbie Becher

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Private Property and Public Power

Eminent Domain in Philadelphia

By: Debbie Becher

News media reports on eminent domain often highlight outrage and heated protest. But these accounts, Debbie Becher finds, obscure a much more complex reality of how Americans understand property. Private Property and Public Power presents the first comprehensive study of a city's acquisitions, exploring how and why Philadelphia took properties between 1992 and 2007 for private redevelopment. Becher uses original data-collected from city offices and interviews with over a hundred residents, business owners, community leaders, government representatives, attorneys, and appraisers-to explore how eminent domain really works. Surprisingly, the city took over 4,000 private properties, and these takings rarely provoked opposition. When conflicts did arise, community residents, businesses, and politicians all appealed to a shared notion of investment to justify their arguments about policy. It is this social conception of property as an investment of value, committed over time, that government is responsible for protecting. Becher's findings stand in stark contrast to the views of libertarian and left-leaning activists and academics, but recognizing property as investment, she argues, may offer a solid foundation for more progressive urban policies.

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Oxford University Press

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0199322562

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9780199322565

The New Key to Costa Rica

Your Guide to the Land and Culture

By: Beatrice Blake,Anne Becher

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The New Key to Costa Rica

Your Guide to the Land and Culture

By: Beatrice Blake,Anne Becher

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

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1569759006

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9781569759004

The Wisdom Of Ginsu: Carve Yourself A Piece Of The American Dream

By: Edward Valenti,Barry Becher

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The Wisdom Of Ginsu: Carve Yourself A Piece Of The American Dream

By: Edward Valenti,Barry Becher

This is the 40th Anniversary edition of the Wisdom of Ginsu. While this book was written nearly 14 years ago, the lessons contained are even more relevant today than they were back then. With a country so divided, political correctness at a crazy level and an all out attack on capitalism in favor of socialism, this a must read for everyone that would like to break away from the crowd, gain an edge, and grow rich and happy. In each chapter the authors spell out in exact terms what they did right and more importantly what they did wrong...Ginsu-ism's. Millennial's will clearly see what is possible in America with some enthusiasm and ingenuity. "Only in America " can this kind of success happen. As the authors are fond of saying " "There's no way you can sit on your ass and slide uphill

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1456631985

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9781456631987

Family Practices in South Asian Muslim Families

Parenting in a Multi-Faith Britain

By: H. Becher

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Family Practices in South Asian Muslim Families

Parenting in a Multi-Faith Britain

By: H. Becher

Despite the growing multi-faith and multi-ethnic nature of Britain, there is insufficient knowledge about diversity in family practices across ethno-religious groups. This book fills that gap, exploring family practices – values, roles, relationships, support systems and daily routines – among South Asian Muslim families in Britain.

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Springer

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0230583393

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9780230583399

The Politics of Curriculum Change

By: Tony Becher,Stuart Maclure

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The Politics of Curriculum Change

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Private Property and Public Power

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The New Key to Costa Rica

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The Wisdom Of Ginsu: Carve Yourself A Piece Of The American Dream

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Family Practices in South Asian Muslim Families

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The Politics of Curriculum Change

The Politics of Curriculum Change

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