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Elite Statecraft and Election Administration
Bending the Rules of the Game?
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The way in which elections are run is changing, as radical reforms or experiments have been introduced across the world. This book establishes why election administration might be used by political elites to win and maintain power. It identifies the role of elite interests in shaping election administration in USA, UK and Ireland.
Young People and Political Participation
Teen Players
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book analyses the various ways and the extent to which young people participate in politics, focusing primarily on the UK and including cross-national comparisons where relevant. It covers topics including: what is meant by political participation; youth political participation on a pan-European...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book offers a fresh and original approach to the study of one of the dominant features of the twentieth century. Adopting a truly global approach to the realities of modern dictatorship, this handbook examines the multiple ways in which dictatorship functions - both for the rulers and for the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook fully explores the field of alternative education on an international scale. Alternatives to mainstream schooling and education are becoming increasingly recognised as pertinent and urgent for better understanding what really works in successfully educating...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to Prison Tourism across the world. It is divided into seven sections: Ethics, Human Rights and Penal Spectatorship; Carceral Retasking, Curation and Commodification of Punishment; Meanings of Prison Life and Representations...
Student Teachers in School Practice
An Analysis of Learning Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This book discusses changes to student teacher education globally and in the UK, exploring how student teachers learn through school teaching practices and ideas for developing and maximizing learning opportunities in school-based student teacher education.
Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms
Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow?
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Increasingly flexible labour markets and reforms of old-age pension systems are still ranking high on the political agenda of European countries. This volume investigates whether, and to what extent, the interplay between pension reforms and the spread of 'atypical' employment patterns and fragmented...
Teaching and Learning on Screen
Mediated Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
What stories are told about teaching and learning on TV and in film? And how do these stories reflect, refract and construct myths, anxieties and pleasures about teaching and learning? This collection looks at how pedagogy is represented on screen, and how TV programs and films translate pedagogic...
Filicide-Suicide
The Killing of Children in the Context of Separation, Divorce and Custody Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
O'Hagan explores the phenomenon of filicide, a deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. Examining over 120 cases of filicide in the UK, this book identifies relationship and family patterns in which situations may rapidly deteriorate, and children may become the ultimate weapon in disputes between partners.
Youth Identities, Education and Employment
Exploring Post-16 and Post-18 Opportunities, Access and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book investigates how policy, family background, social class, gender and ethnicity influence young people’s post-16 and post-18 employment and education access. It draws on existing literature, alongside new data gathered from a case study in a UK state secondary school, to examine how policy...
Taboo Comedy
Television and Controversial Humour
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and reality shows, and advertising) both on cable and network television. Whilst the focus is predominantly...
Roy Jenkins and the European Commission Presidency, 1976 –1980
At the Heart of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Roy Jenkins brought great talent to Europe’s top job. He played a key role in re-launching European monetary integration, winning the right to attend the new global summits, and smoothing Greece’s path to EC membership. But he fell short of other targets. Commission reform remained elusive, as...
Youth, Music and Creative Cultures
Playing for Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. Youth from seven urban locales in Australia, the UK, the US and Europe document and reflect on their own learning processes and music activities.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This book explores heritage from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines and in doing so provides a distinctive and deeply relevant survey of the field as it is currently researched, understood and practiced around the world.