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We live in a rapidly changing world. With Own It!, teens develop
the confidence and competencies they need to forge their own path
in this ever-evolving global landscape. From developing critical
and creative thinking skills and social/emotional aptitudes to
working effectively in a group, Own it! helps create confident,
future-ready learners who are able to meet the challenges ahead.
The Student's Book includes full access to all digital tools for
students, including mobile-friendly Practice Extra and the digital
collaboration space.
Own it! is a four-level lower Secondary course which makes sure
that students are confident and future-ready through a combination
of global topics, collaborative projects and strategies to develop
learner independence. We live in a rapidly changing world. With Own
It!, teens develop the confidence and competencies they need to
forge their own path in this ever-evolving global landscape. From
developing critical and creative thinking skills and
social/emotional aptitudes to working effectively in a group, Own
it! helps create confident, future-ready learners who are able to
meet the challenges ahead. This split combo edition includes units
Starter to 4 of the Students' Book and Workbook combined in a
single volume, with access to Practice Extra and Collaboration
Plus.
Own it! is a four-level lower Secondary course which makes sure
that students are confident and future-ready through a combination
of global topics, collaborative projects and strategies to develop
learner independence. We live in a rapidly changing world. With Own
It!, teens develop the confidence and competencies they need to
forge their own path in this ever-evolving global landscape. From
developing critical and creative thinking skills and
social/emotional aptitudes to working effectively in a group, Own
it! helps create confident, future-ready learners who are able to
meet the challenges ahead. This split combo edition includes units
5 to 9 of the Students' Book and Workbook combined in a single
volume, with access to Practice Extra and Collaboration Plus.
This book offers a unique record of the realities of parental
choice and competitive pressures on schools. On the basis of
research involving thousands of parents and eleven secondary
schools monitored over several years, it sets out: * empirical
findings on parents' preferences and experience of choice, how
schools respond to competitive pressures, and local dynamics of
quasi-markets * theoretical implications for understanding
quasi-markets in education and the public interest * implications
for educational policy, if schools are to be more responsive and
inequalities lessened The book provides insights into whether
pressures for choice and diversity are in the greater public
interest, or if they benefit only the few, and suggests a notion of
the public-market as a model for analysing public services.
This volume provides a unique insight into current understanding of a range of issues central to any analysis and evaluation of market-like systems in schooling, including: * Diversity and hierarchy amongst schools * Parental criteria for choosing schools * The differential impact on advantaged and disadvantaged families * National and international variations in educational policies * Rules and practices concerning school admissions Implications for future research and for educational policy are highlighted and the final chapter provides an overview of key themes and issues. This book will interest all those involved in educational policy, researchers, students, headteachers and other senior managers in schools.
This book offers a unique record of the realities of parental
choice and competitive pressures on schools. On the basis of
research involving thousands of parents and eleven secondary
schools monitored over several years, it sets out: * empirical
findings on parents' preferences and experience of choice, how
schools respond to competitive pressures, and local dynamics of
quasi-markets * theoretical implications for understanding
quasi-markets in education and the public interest * implications
for educational policy, if schools are to be more responsive and
inequalities lessened The book provides insights into whether
pressures for choice and diversity are in the greater public
interest, or if they benefit only the few, and suggests a notion of
the public-market as a model for analysing public services.
Explores the vibrant, divided and evolving field of Islamic studies
in Europe and North America Covers topics ranging from gender and
secularism to pop music and modern science Discusses contemporary
and historical approaches in Islamic Studies Features contributions
from leading scholars studying Islam and Muslims, including Shahzad
Bashir, Hadi Enayat, Juliane Hammer, Aaron Hughes, Carool Kersten,
Susanne Olsson and Jonas Otterbeck Addresses the role of both
Muslims and non-Muslims in the ongoing construction of Islam The
study of Islam and Muslims in Europe and North America has expanded
greatly in recent decades, becoming a passionately debated and
divided field. This collection critically assesses the development
of the field of Islamic Studies and its place in society. Featuring
contributions from anthropologists, historians and scholars of
religion, each chapter contains new empirical material and
discusses approaches to the study of Islam, past and present. The
book situates Islamic Studies within broader discussions of the
construction of identity and its political implications in Europe
and North America. Authors also address tensions between normative
and non-normative approaches to the study of Islam and Muslims and
consider how these might be reconciled.
The British defeat in Burma at the hands of the Japanese in 1942
marked the longest retreat in British army history and the onset of
its most drawn-out campaign of World War II. It also marked the
beginning of the end of British rule, not only in Burma but also in
south and south-east Asia. There have been many studies of military
and civilian experiences during the retreat but this is the first
book to look at the way the campaign was represented in the Western
media: newspapers, pictorial magazines, and newsreels. There were
some twenty-six accredited war correspondents covering the
campaign, and almost half of them wrote books about their
experiences, mostly within a year or two of the defeat. Their
accounts were censured by government officials as being misinformed
and sensationalist. More recent historians, on the other hand, have
criticised them for being too patriotic and optimistic in their
coverage and thus giving the public an unrealistic view of how the
war was progressing. Philip Woods returns to the original sources
to asses the validity of these criticisms.His is the first
re-evaluation of the war correspondent's role in Burma and as such
will be of great value to students of journalism and media.
How Christian leaders adapted the governmental practices and
political thought of their Muslim rulers in the Abbasid caliphate
The Imam of the Christians examines how Christian leaders adopted
and adapted the political practices and ideas of their Muslim
rulers between 750 and 850 in the Abbasid caliphate in the Jazira
(modern eastern Turkey and northern Syria). Focusing on the
writings of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, the patriarch of the Jacobite
church, Philip Wood describes how this encounter produced an
Islamicate Christianity that differed from the Christianities of
Byzantium and western Europe in far more than just theology. In
doing so, Wood opens a new window on the world of early Islam and
Muslims' interactions with other religious communities. Wood shows
how Dionysius and other Christian clerics, by forging close ties
with Muslim elites, were able to command greater power over their
coreligionists, such as the right to issue canons regulating the
lives of lay people, gather tithes, and use state troops to arrest
opponents. In his writings, Dionysius advertises his ease in the
courts of 'Abd Allah ibn Tahir in Raqqa and the caliph al-Ma'mun in
Baghdad, presenting himself as an effective advocate for the
interests of his fellow Christians because of his knowledge of
Arabic and his ability to redeploy Islamic ideas to his own
advantage. Strikingly, Dionysius even claims that, like al-Ma'mun,
he is an imam since he leads his people in prayer and rules them by
popular consent. A wide-ranging examination of Middle Eastern
Christian life during a critical period in the development of
Islam, The Imam of the Christians is also a case study of the
surprising workings of cultural and religious adaptation.
The study of Islam and Muslims in Europe and North America has
expanded greatly in recent decades, becoming a passionately debated
and divided field. This collection critically assesses the
development of the field of Islamic Studies and its place in
society. Featuring contributions from anthropologists, historians
and scholars of religion, each chapter contains new empirical
material and discusses approaches to the study of Islam, past and
present. The book situates Islamic Studies within broader
discussions of the construction of identity and its political
implications in Europe and North America. Authors also address
tensions between normative and non-normative approaches to the
study of Islam and Muslims and consider how these might be
reconciled.
This book takes the idea of distributing leadership in schools to a
new level of understanding and practice. The authors address the
complexities of leadership by putting forward two essential
propositions. The first is the need to understand leadership as the
outcome both of people's intentions and the complex flow of
interactions in the daily life of schools. The second is the need
to integrate values of social justice and democracy into our
understanding of leadership. Building on this insight, the authors
show how leadership can be truly collaborative. The book also
combines practice, theory and research and draws on the authors'
international experience. This book is an invaluable resource for
reflection and change for everyone who contributes to and studies
leadership - senior leaders, teachers, support staff, students and
researchers.
This book takes the idea of distributing leadership in schools to a
new level of understanding and practice. The authors address the
complexities of leadership by putting forward two essential
propositions. The first is the need to understand leadership as the
outcome both of people's intentions and the complex flow of
interactions in the daily life of schools. The second is the need
to integrate values of social justice and democracy into our
understanding of leadership. Building on this insight, the authors
show how leadership can be truly collaborative. The book also
combines practice, theory and research and draws on the authors'
international experience. This book is an invaluable resource for
reflection and change for everyone who contributes to and studies
leadership - senior leaders, teachers, support staff, students and
researchers.
This fast-paced, inspiring and original work proposes that, if
religions fade, then secular law provides a much more comprehensive
moral regime to govern our lives. Backed by potent and haunting
images, it argues that the rule of law is the one universal
framework that everyone believes in and that the law is now the
most important ideology we have for our survival. The author
explores the decline of religions and the huge growth of law and
makes predictions for the future of law and lawyers. The book
maintains that even though societies may decide they can do without
religions, they cannot do without law. The book helpfully
summarises both the teachings of all the main religions and the
central tenets of the law - governing everything from human
relationships to money, banks and corporations. It shows that,
without these legal constructs, some of them arcane, our societies
would grind to a halt. These innovative summaries make complex
ideas seem simple and provide the keys to understanding both the
law and religion globally. The book will appeal to both lawyers and
the general reader. The book concludes with the author's personal
code for a modern way of living to promote the survival of
humankind into the future. Vividly written by one of the most
important lawyers of our generation, this magisterial and exciting
work offers a powerful vision of the role of law in centuries to
come and its impact on how we stay alive.
This fast-paced, inspiring and original work proposes that the
secular legal systems around the world provide an immeasurably
bigger and more comprehensive moral regime to govern our lives than
the religious codes. Backed by potent and haunting images the book
states that the law, for all its faults, is the one universal
ethical framework that everyone believes in and that the law is now
by far the most important ideology we have for our survival. The
reach of the law extends not just to crime and the family, but also
to vast realms relating, for example, to money, banks, tax and
corporations and even securitisations and derivatives. The immense
influence that the law has raises fundamental moral challenges. The
author explores the decline of religions and the huge growth of law
and makes suggestions for the future of law and lawyers. The
innovative summaries of both the main religions and the central
tenets of law worldwide provide useful insights into both the law
and religions. The book will appeal to lawyers, economists,
philosophers, scientists and many other specialities and is written
for the general reader. Written by one of the most important
lawyers of our generation, this exciting and powerful new paperback
is a major philosophical statement for our times as witnessed by
its enthusiastic reception when first published in 2016.
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