Curriculum Politics, Policy, Practice

Curriculum Politics, Policy, PracticeStudies the intersections of curriculum politics and policy making throughout the world. Offering a range of studies on the intersections of curriculum politics, policy, and or practice, this book addresses the following questions: Who decides what is taught in K 12 schools? On what basis? What actually happens in classroom practice? What do students have opportunities to learn? Who benefits from these decisions and practices? It includes case studies

This book recounts the history of journalism in Ireland from the 1880s to today

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but argues that the ability to "manufacture consent" from the public in favor of these elite views is far from guaranteed

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King and Springwood argue that collegiate revenue producing sports are created as a spectacle

activist social scientists promoted a model of community action that allowed for the use of social protest as an instrument of local reform

Driven by a fearful anticipation of the afterlife and fuelled by a desire for grace and salvation

Brimming with observations on the eventual paradigmatic shifts of society

This book is an ethnographic analysis of alcoholism

Examines in depth how to enact positive systemic changes

including the invention of light and electronic microscopes

Machen crafts a layered tale of suspense and secrecy that continues to entertain and surprise over a century after its release