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This book studies the ways in which inclusive practices function in schools. Based on a large-scale research project it provides a secure understanding of what really works. Using a framework for analysing and understanding the factors that enable students to become effective social learners and highlighting those which can influence successful inclusive practice it examines how schools can establish and implement an agenda for change. Findings are discussed in relation to research from international studies in order to provide an understanding of how students and families can be supported...

This book studies the ways in which inclusive practices function in schools. Based on a large-scale research project it provides a secure understanding of what really works. Using a framework for analysing and understanding the factors that enable students to become effective social learners and highlighting those which can influence successful inclusive practice it examines how schools can establish and implement an agenda for change. Findings are discussed in relation to research from international studies in order to provide an understanding of how students and families can be supported...

Theories of performativity have garnered considerable attention within the social sciences and humanities over the past two decades. At the same time, there has also been a growing recognition that the social production of space is fundamental to assertions of political authority and the practices of everyday life. However, comparatively little scholarship has explored the full implications that arise from the confluence of these two streams of social and political thought. This is the first book-length, edited collection devoted explicitly to showcasing geographical scholarship on the...

Theories of performativity have garnered considerable attention within the social sciences and humanities over the past two decades. At the same time, there has also been a growing recognition that the social production of space is fundamental to assertions of political authority and the practices of everyday life. However, comparatively little scholarship has explored the full implications that arise from the confluence of these two streams of social and political thought. This is the first book-length, edited collection devoted explicitly to showcasing geographical scholarship on the...

The sociologist Thomas Sowell writes, "We need to confront the most blatant fact that has persisted across centuries of social history vast ddifferences in productivity among peoples, and the economic and other consequences of such differences." Poverty demeans dignity, shrinks the soul, wastes potential, and inflicts suffering on three billion people on our planet. We must also acknowledge that, during the past fifty yyears, the record in international assistance to the least developed countries has been disappointing; the economics-based abstractions developed in the think tanks of...