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Contemporary Global Perspectives on Cooperative Learning - Applications Across Educational Contexts (Hardcover): Robyn M... Contemporary Global Perspectives on Cooperative Learning - Applications Across Educational Contexts (Hardcover)
Robyn M Gillies, Barbara Millis, Neil Davidson
R4,028 Discovery Miles 40 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume captures contemporary global developments in cooperative learning (CL) across varied educational contexts, levels, and disciplines. Cooperative learning is widely recognized as a pedagogical practice that promotes socialization and learning among students, from kindergarten to tertiary education and across different subject domains. With chapters from contributors throughout the Global North and South, this comprehensive volume offers a wide-ranging perspective and addresses a range of cooperative learning pedagogies including relational, online, and peer learning, STAD, the Jigsaw model, and dialogic talk. The chapters draw on novel empirical research and theory to highlight best practices in cooperative learning, whilst also considering the challenges, limitations, and factors which drive or inhibit learner engagement and success. Consistent attention is given to the pivotal role of the educator in implementing cooperative learning to maximum benefit to enhance students’ affective, social, cognitive, and metacognitive learning. Thus, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers across a variety of subjects; and will provide an additional benefit to in-service and pre-service educators who already practice cooperative learning in their classrooms, as well as those who are interested in implementing the model.

Pioneering Perspectives in Cooperative Learning - Theory, Research, and Classroom Practice for Diverse Approaches to CL... Pioneering Perspectives in Cooperative Learning - Theory, Research, and Classroom Practice for Diverse Approaches to CL (Paperback)
Neil Davidson
R1,322 Discovery Miles 13 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Offering first-hand insights from the early originators of Cooperative Learning (CL), this volume documents the evolution of CL, illustrating its historical and contemporary research, and highlights the personal experiences which have helped inspire and ground this concept. Each of the chapters in Pioneering Perspectives in Cooperative Learning foregrounds a key approach to CL, and documents the experiences, research, and fruitful collaborations which have shaped and driven their development. Contributions from leading scholars include Aronson, Davidson, Kagan, Johnson & Johnson, Schmuck, the Sharans, Slavin and Madden, as well as retrospective pieces on the work of Deutsch and Cohen. These chapters detail the historical development of cooperative learning, cooperation versus competition, and cover major approaches including the jigsaw classroom; complex instruction; the learning together model, and several more. Chapters include qualitative, personal, and retrospective accounts, whereby authors outline the research and theory which underpins each approach while highlighting practical strategies for classroom implementation. This text will primarily be of interest to professors, researchers, scholars, and doctorial students with an interest in the theory of learning, educational research, and educational and social psychology more broadly. Practitioners of CL with an interest in varied forms of small group learning and classroom practice, as well as those interested in the history and sociology of education, will also benefit from the volume.

Pioneering Perspectives in Cooperative Learning - Theory, Research, and Classroom Practice for Diverse Approaches to CL... Pioneering Perspectives in Cooperative Learning - Theory, Research, and Classroom Practice for Diverse Approaches to CL (Hardcover)
Neil Davidson
R4,487 Discovery Miles 44 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Offering first-hand insights from the early originators of Cooperative Learning (CL), this volume documents the evolution of CL, illustrating its historical and contemporary research, and highlights the personal experiences which have helped inspire and ground this concept. Each of the chapters in Pioneering Perspectives in Cooperative Learning foregrounds a key approach to CL, and documents the experiences, research, and fruitful collaborations which have shaped and driven their development. Contributions from leading scholars include Aronson, Davidson, Kagan, Johnson & Johnson, Schmuck, the Sharans, Slavin and Madden, as well as retrospective pieces on the work of Deutsch and Cohen. These chapters detail the historical development of cooperative learning, cooperation versus competition, and cover major approaches including the jigsaw classroom; complex instruction; the learning together model, and several more. Chapters include qualitative, personal, and retrospective accounts, whereby authors outline the research and theory which underpins each approach while highlighting practical strategies for classroom implementation. This text will primarily be of interest to professors, researchers, scholars, and doctorial students with an interest in the theory of learning, educational research, and educational and social psychology more broadly. Practitioners of CL with an interest in varied forms of small group learning and classroom practice, as well as those interested in the history and sociology of education, will also benefit from the volume.

The Longue Duree of the Far-Right - An international historical sociology (Paperback): Richard Saull, Alexander Anievas, Neil... The Longue Duree of the Far-Right - An international historical sociology (Paperback)
Richard Saull, Alexander Anievas, Neil Davidson, Adam Fabry
R1,376 Discovery Miles 13 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume brings together a number of international scholars to offer an original analysis of far-right movements and politics, challenging the existing literature through a very different methodological and theoretical perspective. The approach offered here is that of 'longue duree' analysis, whereby the far-right is understood as an evolving subject of capitalist modernity. The authors argue that an assessment of the contemporary characteristics of the far-right needs to consider the ways in which it is a product of deeper and longer-term structures of socio-economic and political development, than, for example, the inter-war crises of capitalism. The book aims to provide a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the history of the far-right that centres on the international as key to any understanding its evolution, and which distinguishes between the fascist and non-fascist variants as an essential precondition for comprehending the far-right presence in contemporary politics

The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (Paperback): Neil Davidson The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (Paperback)
Neil Davidson
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The traditional view of the Scottish nation holds that it first arose during the Wars of Independence from England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Although Scotland was absorbed into Britain in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, Scottish identity is supposed to have remained alive in the new state through separate institutions of religion (the Church of Scotland), education, and the legal system. Neil Davidson argues otherwise. The Scottish nation did not exist before 1707. The Scottish national consciousness we know today was not preserved by institutions carried over from the pre-Union period, but arose after and as a result of the Union, for only then were the material obstacles to nationhood - most importantly the Highland/Lowland divide - overcome. This Scottish nation was constructed simultaneously with and as part of the British nation, and the eighteenth century Scottish bourgeoisie were at the forefront of constructing both. The majority of Scots entered the Industrial Revolution with a dual national consciousness, but only one nationalism, which was British. The Scottish nationalism which arose in Scotland during the twentieth century is therefore not a revival of a pre-Union nationalism after 300 years, but an entirely new formation. Davidson provides a revisionist history of the origins of Scottish and British national consciousness that sheds light on many of the contemporary debates about nationalism.

What Was Neoliberalism? - Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008 (Hardcover): Neil Davidson What Was Neoliberalism? - Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008 (Hardcover)
Neil Davidson
R1,392 R1,303 Discovery Miles 13 030 Save R89 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson’s brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era. While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the 1970s, there remains much debate about how to understand its significance and even how to define it. Is it best seen as an ideology of free market fundamentalism, a series of policy decisions gutting the public sector and breaking unions, or as an era of capitalist development with its own logic Bringing his considerable intellectual breadth and characteristic generosity to bear on this question, Neil Davidson shows that to truly appreciate what is unique about neoliberalism, and what marks it out as a continuation of capitalism more generally, it is necessary to examine its social dimensions. What Was Neoliberalism? holds fast to Davidson’s conviction that thoroughly understanding the past means being better prepared for the struggles of the future.

The Longue Duree of the Far-Right - An international historical sociology (Hardcover): Richard Saull, Alexander Anievas, Neil... The Longue Duree of the Far-Right - An international historical sociology (Hardcover)
Richard Saull, Alexander Anievas, Neil Davidson, Adam Fabry
R4,637 Discovery Miles 46 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume brings together a number of UK and non-UK-based scholars to offer an original perspective on the analysis of far-right movements and politics.

The principal entry point of this volume s analysis is to challenge the existing literatures on the far-right through offering a very different methodological and theoretical perspective in examining the far-right. Thus, the approach offered in this volume is that of "longue duree " analysis whereby the far-right is understood as a product of deeper and longer-term structures of socio-economic and political development. The far-right is seen as an evolving subject of (capitalist) modernity such that an assessment of its contemporary characteristics needs to consider the way in which the far-right is a constitutive current of longer-term socio-economic and political developments.

It aims to provide a (critical) theoretically-informed assessment of the history of the far-right that centres the international as key to any understanding of the far-right."

How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions? (Paperback): Neil Davidson How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions? (Paperback)
Neil Davidson
R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this panoramic historical analysis, Neil Davidson defends a renovated concept of bourgeois revolution. Davidson shows how our globalized societies of the present are the result of a contested, turbulent history marked by often forceful revolutions directed against old social orders, from the Dutch Revolt to the English and American Civil Wars and beyond.

What Was Neoliberalism? - Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008 (Paperback): Neil Davidson What Was Neoliberalism? - Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008 (Paperback)
Neil Davidson
R650 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R98 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson’s brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era. While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the 1970s, there remains much debate about how to understand its significance and even how to define it. Is it best seen as an ideology of free market fundamentalism, a series of policy decisions gutting the public sector and breaking unions, or as an era of capitalist development with its own logic Bringing his considerable intellectual breadth and characteristic generosity to bear on this question, Neil Davidson shows that to truly appreciate what is unique about neoliberalism, and what marks it out as a continuation of capitalism more generally, it is necessary to examine its social dimensions. What Was Neoliberalism? holds fast to Davidson’s conviction that thoroughly understanding the past means being better prepared for the struggles of the future.

Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age - Struggling to Be Born? (Paperback): Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, Neil Davidson Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age - Struggling to Be Born? (Paperback)
Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, Neil Davidson
R689 R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Save R102 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This ambitious volume examines revolutionary situations during a non-revolutionary historical conjuncture--the neoliberal era. The last three decades have seen an increase in the number of political upheavals that challenge existing power structures, many of them taking the form of urban revolts. This book compellingly explores a series of such upheavals--in Eastern Europe, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, sub-Saharan Africa (including Congo, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso) and Egypt. Each chapter studies the ways in which protest movements developed into insurgent challenges to state power, and the strategies that regimes have deployed to contain and repress revolt. In addition to empirical chapters, the book engages in theorization of revolution, dealing with questions such as the patterning of revolution in contemporary history, the relationship between class struggle and social movements, and the prospects of socialist revolution in the twenty-first century.

Police and Community in Twentieth-Century Scotland (Paperback): Louise a Jackson, Neil Davidson, Linda Fleming, David M Smale,... Police and Community in Twentieth-Century Scotland (Paperback)
Louise a Jackson, Neil Davidson, Linda Fleming, David M Smale, Richard Sparks
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotland across the twentieth century, demonstrating patterns that were diverse and variegated. It considers both the formal rhetoric (and sets of structures) that defined and prescribed the policing ideal as well as the experience of policing from a range of grassroots' perspectives. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, oral history interviews, and memoirs, as well as previously unused primary sources, the author identifies and explains the factors that led to not only co-operation, consensus and the building of trust, but also points of tension and conflict across a century of social, political and technological change.

No Problem Here - Racism in Scotland (Paperback): Neil Davidson, Minna Liinpää, Maureen McBride, Satnam Virdee No Problem Here - Racism in Scotland (Paperback)
Neil Davidson, Minna Liinpää, Maureen McBride, Satnam Virdee
R392 R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Save R48 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Does Scotland have a problem with racism? With its 'civic nationalism' and 'welcoming' attitude towards migrants and refugees, Scotland is understood to be relatively free of structural and institutional racism. As the contributors to this book show, such generalisations fail to withstand serious investigation. Their research into the historical record and contemporary reality tells a very different story. Opening up debate on a subject that has been shut down for too long,No Problem Here gathers together the views of academics, activists and anti-racism campaigners who argue that it is vital that the issue of racism be brought into the centre of public discourse. Scotland's role in maintaining and extending slavery across the British Empire is finally beginning to receive the attention it deserves. Yet there is much more that needs to be said about racism in Scotland today.

Scotland After Britain - The Two Souls of Scottish Independence (Paperback): Ben Wray, Neil Davidson, James Foley Scotland After Britain - The Two Souls of Scottish Independence (Paperback)
Ben Wray, Neil Davidson, James Foley
R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Since the referendum, Scottish independence has been captured by conservative forces. Scotland After Britain argues for fidelity to the true meaning of the word independence. It should mean not only a break from the failing British state, but also from the prison of free trade and militarism that has delivered successive crises. Most of all, independence must honestly address the huge injustices of income, wealth and power that continue to define Scottish society, by restoring agency to working class communities and voters. Scotland After Britain shines a spotlight on pro-independence politics since Brexit and the pandemic. The Scottish national question has emerged as the biggest fracture in the British state after Brexit. The independence movement emerged from mass public disenchantment at the status quo, yet the SNP continues governing as if that disenchantment never happened, and the party leadership appears increasingly ambivalent about the risks of demanding independence. Most of all, the British state remains hostile to allowing a second referendum, while the SNP leadership has been unwilling to sanction protest beyond the ballot box. Where do we go from here? Scotland After Britain argues Brexit could force the movement to engage in a reckoning with the true stakes of independence, a process that will inevitably require a breach with the SNP's establishment vision.

How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition): Neil Davidson How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)
Neil Davidson
R609 Discovery Miles 6 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Once of central importance to left historians and activists, recently the concept of the 'bourgeois revolution' has come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this abridged edition of How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?, Neil Davidson expertly distils his theoretical and historical insights about the nature of revolution for general readers. Through research and comprehensive analysis, Davidson demonstrates that what's at stake is far from a stale issue for the history books - understanding struggles of the past offer lessons for today's radicals.

We Cannot Escape History - Nations, States and Revolutions (Paperback): Neil Davidson We Cannot Escape History - Nations, States and Revolutions (Paperback)
Neil Davidson
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These essays focus on the two great themes of nation and revolution, and the third which links them: the state. Ranging from the extent to which nationalism can be a component of left-wing politics to the difference between bourgeois and socialist revolutions, the book concludes with an extended discussion of the different meanings history has for conservatives, radicals and Marxists.

Holding Fast To An Image Of The Past - Essays on Marxism and History (Paperback): Neil Davidson Holding Fast To An Image Of The Past - Essays on Marxism and History (Paperback)
Neil Davidson
R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Neil Davidson explores classic themes in historical materialism and Marxism as he explains concepts such as the moments of transition from the dominance of one mode of production to another (industrialisation), the process of social revolution which has always accompanied these transitions (unionisation) and the problem of nationalism, both as a theoretical challenge to Marxism's capacity for historical explanation and as a practical obstacle to socialist consciousness. 'Holding Fast to an Image of the Past' is a fresh take on the history of Marxism.

Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age - Struggling to Be Born? (Hardcover): Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, Neil Davidson Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age - Struggling to Be Born? (Hardcover)
Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, Neil Davidson
R1,622 Discovery Miles 16 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This ambitious volume examines revolutionary situations during a non-revolutionary historical conjuncture--the neoliberal era. The last three decades have seen an increase in the number of political upheavals that challenge existing power structures, many of them taking the form of urban revolts. This book compellingly explores a series of such upheavals--in Eastern Europe, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, sub-Saharan Africa (including Congo, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso) and Egypt. Each chapter studies the ways in which protest movements developed into insurgent challenges to state power, and the strategies that regimes have deployed to contain and repress revolt. In addition to empirical chapters, the book engages in theorization of revolution, dealing with questions such as the patterning of revolution in contemporary history, the relationship between class struggle and social movements, and the prospects of socialist revolution in the twenty-first century.

The Gamechanger - When Dreams Fight with Reality - the winner is the one with the most belief (Paperback): Neil Davidson The Gamechanger - When Dreams Fight with Reality - the winner is the one with the most belief (Paperback)
Neil Davidson
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Don't Just Roll the Dice - A Usefully Short Guide to Software Pricing (Paperback): Neil Davidson Don't Just Roll the Dice - A Usefully Short Guide to Software Pricing (Paperback)
Neil Davidson
R304 R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Save R24 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How do you price your software? Is it art, science or magic? How much attention should you pay to your competitors? This short handbook will provide you with the theory, practical advice and case studies you need to stop yourself from reaching for the dice. Table of Contents Chapter 01: Some - but not too much - Economics Chapter 02: Pricing Psychology: What is your product worth? Chapter 03: Pricing Pitfalls Chapter 04: Advanced Pricing Chapter 05: What your price says about you (and how to change it) Why read this book? "At Business of Software 2007 Michael Pryor held an impromptu session on how to price your software. So many people turned up, and so many people kept on arriving, that by the time they'd introduced themselves there was no time left to talk about software pricing. I've had similar experiences; in fact, "How do I price my software?" is probably the most common question I'm asked by software entrepreneurs and product managers. This handbook is an attempt to answer that question." Neil Davidson, Author. About the Author Neil Davidson is co-founder and joint CEO of Red Gate Software. Red Gate was founded in 1999 and now employs some 150 people. It was Cambridge News business of the year in 2006 and has been in the Sunday Times top 100 companies to work for three years running. It was founded with no VC money and little debt. Neil is also founder of the annual Business of Software conference and runs the Business of Software social network.

Discovering the Scottish Revolution 1692-1746 (Paperback, New): Neil Davidson Discovering the Scottish Revolution 1692-1746 (Paperback, New)
Neil Davidson
R1,207 Discovery Miles 12 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

*Winner of the the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2003* This book is a reassessment of Scottish politics and society in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Neil Davidson argues that Scotland experienced a revolution during this period that has rarely been recognised in the existing historiography. Davidson explores the political and economic changes of these years, revealing how social and economic power was transferred from one class to another. He describes how Scotland was transformed from a backward and feudal economy to a new centre of emergent capitalism. He traces the economic and social crisis that led to Scotland's incorporation into the Union in 1707, but argues that the Union did not lead to the transformation of Scottish society. The decisive period was instead the aftermath of the last Jacobite revolt in 1746, whose failure was integral to the survival and consolidation of British, and ultimately global capitalism.

NeoLiberal Scotland - Class and Society in a Stateless Nation (Paperback, Unabridged edition): Patricia McCafferty, David... NeoLiberal Scotland - Class and Society in a Stateless Nation (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
Patricia McCafferty, David Miller, Neil Davidson
R1,204 Discovery Miles 12 040 Out of stock

Neoliberal Scotland argues that far from passing Scotland by, as is so often claimed, neoliberalism has in fact become institutionalised there. As the mainstream political parties converge on market-friendly policies and business interests are equated with the public good, the Scottish population has become more and more distanced from the democratic process, to the extent that an increasing number now fail to vote in elections. This book details for the first time these negative effects of neoliberal policies on Scottish society and takes to task those academics and others who either defend the neoliberal order or refuse to recognise that it exists. Neoliberal Scotland represents both an intervention in contemporary debates about the condition of Scotland and a case study, of more general interest, of how neoliberalism has affected one of the "stateless nations" of the advanced West.Chapter One takes an overview of the origin and rise of neoliberalism in the developed world, arguing that it repudiates rather than continues the thought of Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment. Part One addresses the fundamental issue of social class in Scotland over three chapters. Chapter Two attempts to locate the ruling class both internally and externally. Chapter Three explores the changing nature of working class membership and its collective experience. Chapter Four follows the working class into the workplace where heightened tensions in the state sector have provoked an increasingly militant response from trade unionists. Part Two engages with the broader impact of neoliberalism on Scottish society through a diverse series of studies. Chapter Five assesses claims by successive Scottish governments that they have been pursuing environmental justice. Chapter Six examines how Glasgow has been reconfigured as a classic example of the "neoliberal city". Chapter Seven looks at another aspect of Glasgow, in this case as the main destination of Eastern European migrants who have arrived in Scotland through the international impact of neoliberal globalisation. Chapter Eight investigates the economic intrusion of private capital into the custodial network and the ideological emphasis on punishment as the main objective in sentencing. Chapter Nine is concerned with the Scottish manifestations of "the happiness industry", showing how market-fundamentalist notions of individual responsibility now structure even the most seemingly innocuous attempts to resolve supposed attitudinal problems. Finally, Chapter Ten demonstrates that the limited extent to which devolved Scottish governments, particularly the present SNP administration, have been able to go beyond the boundaries of neoliberal orthodoxy has been a function of the peculiarities of party competition in Holyrood, rather than representing a fundamental disavowal of the existing order.

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