The book is truly meant to be an introduction to understanding our own humanity. It deals with changing your perspective in order to see your mentality for what it is... you. The idea is to change your view before you try and change anything else, including yourself, because only then can you see that there is more to everything than what you assumed. We can and do assume what is important. But what if there is a lot more to us than our assumptions? The second book picks up where this one leaves off and discusses our humanity in depth. But that all important ability of ours to see our...

In recent decades, governing practices in education have become highly contradictory: deregulation and decentralisation are accompanied by re-regulation and increased centralisation, contributing to considerable governing tensions in and across different national systems and within the emergent European education policy space. On the one hand there is the persistence of performance monitoring through target-setting, indicators and benchmarks, and on the other, the promotion of self-evaluation and 'light touch' regulation that express a 'softer' governance turn, and promote self-regulation as...