Many of todays students in further and higher education do not have a traditional approach to learning. The reasons for this include current teaching styles in schools, a crowded curriculum and an even more crowded life, both on campus and off.

For many, the need to earn a living eats into basic learning time and, for those following multidisciplinary programmes, there is the difficulty of balancing the competing demands of a variety of subjects.

Add to this the cost of traditional textbooks and the inadequacy of library funding and it is obvious that a different approach to teaching and...

Through dozens of diverse and timely political essays and analyses, this book addresses the most pressing problems of our contemporary world. Instead of the tired, detached academic inquiry that permeates from institutions of higher education, these pages contain writings that have been produced by political organizers and revolutionaries throughout the course of their daily activity in social, economic, and political movements. The 2017 Hampton Reader includes the most popular essays from The Hampton Institute: A Working-Class Think Tank. The Hampton Institute is an intellectual and...

Through dozens of diverse and timely political essays and analyses, this book addresses the most pressing problems of our contemporary world. Instead of the tired, detached academic inquiry that permeates from institutions of higher education, these pages contain writings that have been produced by political organizers and revolutionaries throughout the course of their daily activity in social, economic, and political movements. The 2017 Hampton Reader includes the most popular essays from The Hampton Institute: A Working-Class Think Tank. The Hampton Institute is an intellectual and...