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Spatial Theories of Education

Policy and Geography Matters

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,Colin Symes

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Spatial Theories of Education

Policy and Geography Matters

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,Colin Symes

This collection of original work, within the sociology of education, draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory. The premise of this book is that drawing on theories of space allows for a more sophisticated understanding of the competing rationalities underlying educational policy change, social inequality and cultural practices. The contributors work a spatial dimension into the consideration of educational phenomena and illustrate its explanatory potential in a range of domains: urban renewal, globalisation, race, markets and school choice, suburbanisation, regional and rural settings, and youth and student culture.

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1134139616

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EBOOK: Working Knowledge

By: Colin Symes,John McIntyre

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EBOOK: Working Knowledge

By: Colin Symes,John McIntyre

a rich inter-weaving of carefully articulated critical stances... It is impossible, in a short review, to do justice to the quality and variety of all these perspectives... The result is strong coverage of the territory set out in the title, in ways that many working in the field will find valuable." (Phil Hodkinson, Journal of Education for Teaching) Universities are undergoing a series of profound changes. One of the more pronounced of these involves the partnerships that are now being formed between business enterprises and higher education. The emergence of these partnerships has much to do with the changing economy, which is increasingly based around knowledge and information - the traditional stock-in-trade of the university. Knowledge capitalism has given a renewed impetus to higher education. One expression of this is work-based learning, which challenges the scope and site of the university curriculum. This book analyses this development from a number of perspectives: critical, historical, philosophical, sociological and pedagogical. Its various contributors argue that work-based approaches contain much that is challenging to the university, and also much that could help to create new frameworks of learning and new roles for academics. Working Knowledge offers a comprehensive examination of the new vocationalism in higher education.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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Setting the Record Straight

A Material History of Classical Recording

By: Colin Symes

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Setting the Record Straight

A Material History of Classical Recording

By: Colin Symes

The words surrounding music influence how we listen to it.

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A Cultural Analysis of Mobile Communities on Board Cruise Ships

Aboard and Abroad

By: Colin Symes

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A Cultural Analysis of Mobile Communities on Board Cruise Ships

Aboard and Abroad

By: Colin Symes

Cruise ships are among the star performers of the tourist industry. Their traditions stem back to the nineteenth century. Though these traditions have undergone modernisation, this book argues that the pleasures that the passengers of the past sought parallel those of their contemporary counterparts. It examines the textual representation of cruises in tourist brochures and in the travel writing of, among others, Mark Twain and Paul Theroux, before turning its attention to being a passenger on a cruise ship. Much of the book draws on the author’s own experiences of travelling on cruise ships and, by way of comparison, a container ship. Of particular focus is what passengers do with their time aboard such ships, and how that time is subject to many of same controls found elsewhere in modern institutions.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527575187

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Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

By: Ruth A. Symes

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Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

By: Ruth A. Symes

The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly lost ten of her fourteen children in infancy, a miner who purportedly went to live with the Red Indians and a merchant prince of the Empire who was rumoured to have two wives. This book shows how a variety of sources including birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, newspaper reports, passports, recipe books, trade directories, diaries and passenger lists were all used to uncover more, and how much can be detected by setting the characters from your family tree in their proper historical backgrounds.This book is an updated edition of Ruth Symes previous book, titled Stories From Your Family Tree: Researching Ancestors Within Living Memory (2008).

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Pen and Sword

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1473862965

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9781473862968

Sir Callie and the Dragon's Roost

By: Esme Symes-Smith

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Sir Callie and the Dragon's Roost

By: Esme Symes-Smith

The battle is won, but the war is far from over. In this thrilling sequel, a twelve-year-old nonbinary hopeful knight fights for the heart of their kingdom in a magical medieval world filled with dragons, shape-shifters, and witches. Thanks to Callie and their friends, Helston seems to be changing for the better: Boys are allowed to explore their magic, and girls are permitted to train as warriors. Callie is an official Helston page, Willow in on track to become king, and Elowen and Edwyn are finally safe and free of their father. Everything is…perfect. Except it isn’t. Not in Helston, where every step forward is accompanied by a storm of opposition. Even Queen Ewella and Sir Nick are struggling against the wave of fear and anti-magical sentiment growing daily, while the encroaching threat from across the bridge looms. Callie isn’t foolish; they notice the suspicious glances thrown Neal’s way and hear the doubtful murmurs following Willow. They know what people think about them, too. Tolerance is not the same as acceptance, and when the fragile peace finally shatters, Callie and their friends have no choice but to leave their home and run. On the other side of the bridge, old secrets are revealed and new allegiances are formed that will throw into question everything Callie thought they knew about their world. Including what it means to be a hero.

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059348584X

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Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings

By: Ruth Alexandra Symes

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Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings

By: Ruth Alexandra Symes

Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialization, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words.

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Pen and Sword

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1473855438

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Immigration Appeals and Remedies Handbook

By: Mark Symes,Peter Jorro

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Immigration Appeals and Remedies Handbook

By: Mark Symes,Peter Jorro

Immigration Appeals and Remedies Handbook, Second Edition covers all aspects of immigration and nationality appeals and challenges to decisions via administrative and judicial review. It explains the rights of appeal to the First-tier Tribunal onwards to the Upper Tribunal and higher courts, including practice and procedure and issues arising from remote hearings by video link. This Second Edition provides clarity of approach through the extensive use of checklists and bullet points. It also includes a new chapter on remote hearings, along with a myriad of other issues including: - Developments in human rights appeals - EU Citizens' Rights Appeals post-Brexit - The scope of nationality appeals - Practice and procedure in SIAC - Disclosure, costs, vulnerable witnesses and capacity - Remedies against dishonesty allegations - Immigration public law: practice and procedure This is an essential title for all immigration law practitioners, judiciary in both the tribunals and senior courts, law libraries, academics and students.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526516659

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9781526516657

The Northern Utopia

British Perceptions of Norway in the Nineteenth Century

By: Peter Fjågesund,Ruth A. Symes

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The Northern Utopia

British Perceptions of Norway in the Nineteenth Century

By: Peter Fjågesund,Ruth A. Symes

In the nineteenth century, the ancient ‘filial tie’ between Britain and Norway was rediscovered by a booming tourist industry which took thousands across the North Sea to see the wonders of the fjords, the fjelds, and the beauties of the North Cape. This illustrated volume, for the first time, collects together vivid – and predominantly first-hand – impressions of the country recorded by nearly two hundred British travellers and other commentators, including Thomas Malthus, Charlotte Brontë, Lord Tennyson, and William Gladstone. In a rich selection of travel writing, fiction, poetry, journalism, political speeches, and art, Norway emerges as a refreshingly natural utopia, happily free from her imperial neighbour’s increasing problems with the side-effects of industrialisation. This is a fascinating examination of the people, institutions, customs, language and environment of Norway seen through the eyes of the British. Using the tools of literary and historical scholarship, Fjågesund and Symes set these perceptions in their nineteenth-century context, throwing light on such issues as progress, art and aesthetics, democracy, religion, nationhood, race, class, and gender, all of which occupied Europe at the time. The Northern Utopia will be of particular interest to students of British and Scandinavian cultural history, literature and travel writing. It will also enthral all those who love Norway.

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BRILL

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9004485015

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9789004485013

He Was Our Man in Washington

A History of the Obama Years

By: Owen Symes

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He Was Our Man in Washington

A History of the Obama Years

By: Owen Symes

Owen Symes is a rising young star who has created a masterful social history of the Obama years. The clarification of Obamacare and other policies for health and human services is especially helpful. As we move forward, Symes’s analysis helps us shed our illusions so we can avoid making the same mistakes all over again.' Howard Waitzkin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of New Mexico He Was Our Man in Washington provides a detailed narrative of the years of the Obama administration gravitating around six key topics: the War on Terror, the Great Recession, marginal struggles, the Affordable Care Act, climate change, and Indigenous issues, that sit at the intersection of the other topics. Each chapter begins with a brief account of the historical context within which the Obama administration acted. The result is a fair-minded but highly critical interpretation of president Obama and his brand of "hope and change," grounded in a reality that goes beyond mere headlines.

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John Hunt Publishing

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1789043328

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9781789043327

The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo)

A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Latin Edition with a New English Verse Translation

By: Kyle A. Thomas,Carol Symes

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The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo)

A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Latin Edition with a New English Verse Translation

By: Kyle A. Thomas,Carol Symes

The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) was composed around 1160 at the imperial Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee, at a critical point in the power-struggle between the papacy and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. This new translation and commentary reveals this drama to be strikingly representative of the role that theatrical performance played in shaping contemporary politics, diplomacy, and public opinion. It also shows how drama functioned as an integral component of the educational curricula of elite monastic institutions like Tegernsee, where political administrators and diplomats were trained, and how performance served as a common, connective lingua franca among monasteries in twelfth-century Bavaria. In this new translation, Carol Symes provides the first full and faithful rendering of the play’s dynamic language, maintaining the meter, rhyme scheme, and stage directions of the Latin original and restoring the liturgical elements embedded in the text. Kyle A. Thomas, whose fully-staged production tested the theatricality of this translation, provides a new historical and dramaturgical analysis of the play’s rich interpretive and performative possibilities.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1501513575

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9781501513572

Unemployment in Europe

Problems and Policies

By: Valerie Symes

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Unemployment in Europe

Problems and Policies

By: Valerie Symes

Unemployment in Europe asks why European unemployment is so high and examines the policies adopted at local, national and European level to tackle the problems. It includes case studies of five major European cities with high unemployment.

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Psychology Press

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0415118247

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9780415118248

Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston

By: Esme Symes-Smith

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Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston

By: Esme Symes-Smith

In a magical medieval world filled with dragons, shape-shifters, and witches, a twelve-year-old nonbinary hopeful knight battles for the heart of their kingdom. A thrilling middle-grade series opener that explores identity and gender amid sword fights and magic, and proves anyone can be a hero. “These heroes come in all shapes and skills—I cheered for them throughout their exciting journey.” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce When their ex-hero dad is summoned back to the royal capital of Helston to train a hopeless crown prince, Callie lunges at the opportunity to finally prove themself worthy to the kingdom’s "great and powerful." Except the intolerant great and powerful look at nonbinary Callie and only see girl. But Callie has always known exactly what they want to be, and they’re not about to let anything stand in their way. Trapped in Helston’s rigid hierarchy where girls learn magic and boys train as knights, Callie discovers they aren’t alone—there’s Elowen, the chancellor’s brilliant daughter, whose unparalleled power is being stifled; Edwyn, Elowen’s twin brother desperate to win his father’s approval; and Willow, the crown prince who was never meant to be king. In this start to an epic series packed with action, humor, and heart, Callie and their new friends quickly find themselves embedded in an ancient war—and their only hope to defeat the threats outside the kingdom lies in first defeating the bigotry within. "Everything you could possibly want from a middle grade fantasy." —The Nerd Daily

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Yearling

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0593485807

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9780593485804

Family First

Tracing Relationships in the Past

By: Ruth A. Symes

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Family First

Tracing Relationships in the Past

By: Ruth A. Symes

Discover the history of family roles and relationships—and how to learn more about your own ancestors. A blend of social history and family history, Family First looks at relationships and our attitudes and experiences surrounding them—fathers, mothers, babies, children, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and the elderly, friends and neighbors. This book examines how readers might learn more about how their own ancestors functioned in these relationships, and what records might tell us more. Each chapter starts with a guide on how to interpret the most common and direct of family history sources, then goes on to examine each relationship in its changing historical contexts—how, for example, did the role of a father differ in the Victorian period from earlier periods? What similarities and differences were there in behavior and roles between fathers of different social classes? How did fatherhood change in the context of the two world wars? How has family size changed? How have opinions shifted about marriage between cousins? Explore these questions and more in this intriguing book.

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Pen and Sword

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1473874041

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9781473874046

Defeating the Evil-God Challenge

In Defence of God’s Goodness

By: Jack Symes

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Defeating the Evil-God Challenge

In Defence of God’s Goodness

By: Jack Symes

The evil-god challenge is one of the most popular topics in contemporary philosophy of religion. In this landmark text, Jack Symes offers the most detailed examination of the challenge to date. Exploring the nature of god through the leading schools of philosophical theology, Symes argues that it is significantly more reasonable to attribute goodness to god than evil. Drawing from a breadth of ground-breaking material – in metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics and epistemology – Symes claims to defeat the evil-god challenge on behalf of traditional theism. Is it any more reasonable to believe in a good god than an evil god? Not according to proponents of the evil-god challenge. After all, the world contains a significant amount of good and evil for which either god could be held responsible. However, if belief in both gods is equally as reasonable, then religious believers are unjustified in favouring one hypothesis over the other. Therefore, in order to defend their faith, theists must respond to the evil-god challenge: the question of what justifies belief in good god over evil god.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135041929X

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A Common Stage

Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras

By: Carol Symes

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A Common Stage

Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras

By: Carol Symes

Introduction : locating a medieval theater -- A history play : the Jeu de saint Nicolas and the world of Arras -- Prodigals and jongleurs : initiative and agency in a theater town -- Access to the media : publicity, participation, and the public sphere -- Relics and rites : "The play of the bower" and other plays -- Lives in the theater -- Conclusion : on looking into a medieval theater.

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Cornell University Press

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0801445817

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9780801445811

Crystal and Gem

By: R. F. Symes,Harding, Roger

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Crystal and Gem

By: R. F. Symes,Harding, Roger

In association with the Natural History Museum.

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077372463X

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Crystal & Gem

By: R. F. Symes,R. R. Harding

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Crystal & Gem

By: R. F. Symes,R. R. Harding

Be an eyewitness to the stunning natural beauty of crystals of every size, shape, and color -- and their remarkable uses in everything from surgeons' scalpels to silicon chips. See a crystal's hidden layers. Find out how to make stones sparkle. Discover where to find crystals in your home. Book jacket.

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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

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0756606632

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9780756606633

Transporting Moments: Mobility, Australian Railways and the Trained Society

By: Colin Symes

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Transporting Moments: Mobility, Australian Railways and the Trained Society

By: Colin Symes

Sociologists have suggested that being on the move entails a complex choreography, comprised of passenger comportment, signage, announcements and posters. Employing insights from mobility theory, Transporting moments provides an account of railway culture from a passenger’s perspective. The book uses the context of commuting in Sydney, at a time when elements of its intra-urban rail network were being upgraded as its principal case study. This upgrade covers its rolling stock, infrastructure and linguistic landscape. It is argued that understanding the rationale behind these changes requires an understanding of the historical and policy context in which the railways of Sydney’s, New South Wales and Australia are embedded. This is also the case with the nation’s long distance trains, whose operators have fought hard to stave off competition from airliners and cars. Transporting moments, therefore, presents strong case for preserving public transport as a more equitable and sustainable form of mobility. Governments, Australian or otherwise, can use these insights for productive investment in their rail networks and public transportation service in general, and for reducing the nation’s addiction to the automobile. With its invaluable insights into travelling on trains, Transporting moments is a fascinating addition to the growing corpus of literature on day-to-day mobility.

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Bentham Science Publishers

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1681080117

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A Cultural Analysis of Mobile Communities on Board Cruise Ships

Aboard and Abroad

By: Colin Symes

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A Cultural Analysis of Mobile Communities on Board Cruise Ships

Aboard and Abroad

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527575187

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Setting the Record Straight

A Material History of Classical Recording

By: Colin Symes

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A Material History of Classical Recording

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The words surrounding music influence how we listen to it.

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Wesleyan University Press

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EBOOK: Working Knowledge

By: Colin Symes,John McIntyre

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By: Colin Symes,John McIntyre

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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Transporting Moments: Mobility, Australian Railways and the Trained Society

By: Colin Symes

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Spatial Theories of Education

Policy and Geography Matters

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,Colin Symes

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Policy and Geography Matters

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,Colin Symes

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1134139624

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Schools and Classrooms

A Cultural Studies Analysis of Education

By: Noel Preston,Colin Symes

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Schools and Classrooms

A Cultural Studies Analysis of Education

By: Noel Preston,Colin Symes

One of the TEducation Australia' series, this book argues for a more emanicipatory and less conformist educational paradigm. Uses contemporary social theory, classroom analysis, interviews and cultural reflection to challenge dominant educational theory and practice. Both authors teach at the Queensland University of Technology.

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0582869064

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