This text uses case studies to engage historical and contemporary issues in academic politics, arguing for the importance of this often-dismissed facet of academic work. The author's treatment includes discussions of issues as the Enola Gay exhibit, the science debates in the USA, and the politics of academic evaluations and hiring practices. The book should interest students and scholars of international and comparative education, higher education policy and practice, cultural studies, and science studies.

This book presents an approach to the teaching of mathematics that departs radically from conventional prescription-oriented and management-based methods. It brings together recent developments in such diverse fields as continental and pragmatist philosophy, enactivist thought, critical discourses, cognitive theory, evolution, ecology, and mathematics, and challenges the assumptions that permeate much of mathematics teaching. The discussion focuses on the language used to frame the role of the teacher and is developed around the commonsense distinctions drawn between thought and action,...