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A long awaited introductory textbook from one of the biggest names in world sociology.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This edition brings together analyses, statistics and directory data on the countries and territories of Western Europe.
In this far-ranging and provocative volume, Joe Colombano and Aniket Shah provide global perspectives on the most significant challenges facing modern America, seeking to inspire new ideas to redevelop America.
This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the most important conflicts in the modern world. On the one hand, it possesses a rigidly organized, centralized state, whose bureaucrats and civil servants are animated by a code of secular activism. On the other hand, France is also the home for Europe's largest Muslim minority, variously estimated at numbering between four and six million people. This means that in terms of simple numbers, France can be counted as the world's fifteenth Islamic power. Previous con...
L’institution, les acteurs, les contenus et les méthodes, l’égalité des chances, l’enseignement professionnel, l’école et son environnement social : tous les grands aspects de l’école dont on attend tout et qu’on critique tant. Depuis son financement et son organisation jusqu’aux rythmes scolaires, aux pédagogies, à l’orientation des élèves ou à la formation des maîtres, en passant par la laïcité, l’ouverture sur la société et le monde économique : une radiographie complète. Débattre en étant informé ; débattre sur les enjeux ; débattre avec des arguments : voilà ce que permet chaque volume de cette collection consacrée aux grandes questions sociales et politiques qui agitent notre pays. Brigitte Perucca est rédactrice en chef du Monde de l’éducation. Elle a également publié La République des enseignants.
An Irish quarterly review.
An analysis of the changes that are transforming the school systems of Western Europe charting the terms and extent of conflicts around the new policy orthodoxy.
People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes, and we wouldn't even be able to put together flat pack furniture. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart o...