The Business of Reforming American Schools POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security

The Business of Reforming American Schools POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social SecurityA critical look at the influence of the business community on the school reform movement, specifically how popular business management theories have been used as "tools" to produce a "workforce" for the 21st century. Focusing on the influence of the business community on schools, this book describes how popular business management theories and production processes have been imported into schools during periods of societal upheaval in order to create a

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It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of ‘place’ and developed a ‘spatial turn’ that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing

The patterns which emerge in this period go far to explain the nature of later medieval patterns of settlement and field systems

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As one of the first truly transnational studies of individual medieval aristocrats

In each of them we find the reinscription of elements drawn from the scene of Dante's encounter with Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise

with a specific focus on ethics

This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality

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