Risky Business?
Risky Business?

Author: Robert MacDonald

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-22

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1135427658

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First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Regenerating the Inner City
Regenerating the Inner City

Author: David Donnison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-20

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1351035568

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Originally published in 1987, Regenerating the Inner City looks at the changes to Glasgow’s East End and how industrial closures and slum clearance projects have caused people to leave. This is reflected across the western world, and causes severe blows to cities where these industries are located. The book draws on Glasgow’s Eastern Area Renewal Scheme, the first big urban renewal project in Britain. The contributors to the volume come from a range of disciplines and form practical conclusions for policy-makers, and community activists. The book uses door-to-door surveys in Glasgow’s east end, and interviews with community groups to gain an authentic understanding of the issue.

The Compact City
The Compact City

Author: Elizabeth Burton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1135816980

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provides forum for progressing the urban debate demonstrates good design and practice through a variety of case studies offers cross-disciplinary view points

Working Across the Gap
Working Across the Gap

Author: Lisl Klein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0429924224

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The author's experience of applying the social sciences in organizations must be unique. Her work is grounded in research but much of her professional activity has been in application, combining the methods and findings of research with an understanding of dynamics in working with organizations. Moving between research and practice she has, for nearly forty years, pursued the aim of rendering the social sciences useful and practical in organizational life. This collection of papers brings together wide-ranging material that is highly relevant to today's world, whilst also providing a useful historical overview of the field. The links between research, policy and practice are brought vividly to life, the many examples creating a thread that connects theory with operational reality. The author provides an insightful and significant theory of practice, developed through vignettes of her work and experience that make this a very readable and engaging book.

The Creative Art of Troublemaking in Education
The Creative Art of Troublemaking in Education

Author: Frank Coffield

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-09-09

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1040109969

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Drawing on a lifetime’s experience and research in education, Frank Coffield brings together some of his previously published papers to assess the impact of a wide range of national educational policies and to examine the role of the state in public education. He concludes that damage has been done to education by political parties of both right and left and that damage will not be reversed until: further, vocational and adult education receive the same levels of commitment and resource as other sectors; serious steps are taken to tackle Britain’s unacceptable levels of poverty; and the powers of the state are reduced. Among the unresolved challenges highlighted are the plight of young people from deprived estates; their tactics in dealing with unemployment; the task of improving learning, schools, inspection, and system governance; the failure to increase productivity being blamed solely on education; and the dysfunctional and undemocratic political framework on which education reform is forced to depend. An essential read for anyone in education, this provocative criticism of our past and current educational 'system' provides an accessible as well as a humorous critique of educational policy and politics.

A Thing of the Past?
A Thing of the Past?

Author: Michael Lavalette

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 0853236445

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In Britain the phrase ‘child labour’ is associated with the past, with children going up chimneys and down mines. However, in reality British children continue to perform arduous jobs, and British multinationals exploit child workers across the globe. This book explores the theoretical context of child labour research before considering the history of child labour and concluding with the present situation in the UK and USA.