Routledge aug 2003 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This much-needed book prepares student teachers for the pressures and challenges that they will face on school experience programs, and then as they move from school experience to their first job. The 'story', as the expert trainee becomes the novice teacher is set in the context by extracts from numerous genuine case studies, which the author uses to highlight the highs and lows, problems, pitfalls and possibilities of the life in school. To help the student further, the book also contains summaries, and makes comments that will underpin issues of practice with relevant theory.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures 406 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Despite challenges to its domination, the way modern-world politics is conducted is structured by a set of understandings dating back to the rise of the European powers. Here, John Agnew systematically explores how Europeans in a position of global power imposed their ways and views on others through visualizing the world as a whole, defining world regions as modern or backward, seeing the nation statehood as the highest and best form of political organization, and viewing world politics as the outcome of the pursuit of primacy by competing states. Exploring the elements of geographical imagination and how they have come together in different historical and modern epochs, this updated new edition examines: the implications of recent world events such as September 11th continued expansion of the EU and NATO the near bankruptcy and failure of various states the re-ignition of the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Providing a lucid analysis of how world politics has come to be practised in its present form, Agnew identifies and argues for an alternative, given the costs visited on the world in twentieth century by the practice of the modern geographical imagination. 168 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Considers the 'late industrialisation' of China, showing how government policies have encouraged the development of 120 'national champions', and how these compete with multinational enterprises.