Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight
into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected …

This comprehensive review of literature on social justice provides a thorough conceptual
and theoretical overview of social justice and its origins. A review of policies and programs …

Young people grow up in incredibly varied circumstances, with different priorities and
perspectives. While'youth'does not exist as a single group, there is an urgent task in …

Girls are now out-performing boys at GCSE level, giving rise to a debate in the media on
boys' underachievement. However, often such work has been a'knee-jerk'response, led by …

Drawing on international and national data, theory and research, Gender and the Changing
Face of Higher Education provides an accessible but nuanced discussion of …

The overall purpose of this text is to introduce beginning researchers to the study of
educational and social policy, how it has been examined from a scholarly perspective, and …

Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process
of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to …

In this paper we look at three identity positions salient in research of young people studying
in complementary schools in Leicester, a large linguistically and ethnically diverse city in the …

Since the 1992 Education Act inaugurated national arrangements for inspection, schools
have operated within an'inspection climate'which pervades every aspect of school life on a …

This book deals with one of the most urgent, damaging, and complex issues affecting young
lives and contemporary society in general-the escalating high school dropout rate. Though …