EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age

This book advances a critical political economy approach to EdTech and analyses the economic, political and ideological structures and social power relations that shape the EdTech industries and drive EdTech’s development and diffusion. 
Particular attention is paid to the integration of EdTech with some of the most contentious developments of our time, including platformization and data-veillance, the automation of work and labor, and globalization-imperialism. 
By using a political economy of communication approach, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the current transformations of capitalism, the State, higher education and online learning in the digital age.

History

Mirrlees, Tanner

Alvi, Shahid

Americas

Routledge

This book advances a critical political economy approach to EdTech and analyses the economic, political and ideological structures and social power relations that shape the EdTech industries and drive EdTech’s development and diffusion. Particular attention is paid to the integration of EdTech with some of the most contentious developments of our time, including platformization and data-veillance, the automation of work and labor, and globalization-imperialism. By using a political economy of communication approach, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the current transformations of capitalism, the State, higher education and online learning in the digital age.

Under Siege: Poverty and Crime in a Public Housing Community

Under Siege is one of the first books of its kind. It vividly describes the devastating consequences of living in a public housing community damaged by the disappearance of manufacturing jobs, government cutbacks, and other alarming structural transformations that currently plague the United States and Canada. Walter DeKeseredy and his colleagues build on the rich theoretical perspectives developed by feminist scholars―as well as those constructed by Jock Young, Robert Sampson, and William Julius Wilson―as they present both the qualitative and quantitative results of a case study of six public housing estates located in an impoverished urban area. This groundbreaking book provides an in-depth analysis of predatory crime victimization, intimate partner victimization, public racial and sexual harassment, and the relationship of all these harms to the residents' perceptions of their neighborhood social disorganization/collective efficacy. Under Siege is uniquely valuable both for its rich theoretical basis and for its transparent presentation of the authors' research methodology. It is a thought-provoking sociological contribution that offers progressive strategies for ameliorating both poverty and crime in North American public housing complexes.

Politics & Social Sciences

Schwartz, Martin D.

Tomaszewski, Andreas E.

DeKeseredy West Virginia University, Walter S.

Social Sciences

Lexington Books

Under Siege is one of the first books of its kind. It vividly describes the devastating consequences of living in a public housing community damaged by the disappearance of manufacturing jobs, government cutbacks, and other alarming structural transformations that currently plague the United States and Canada. Walter DeKeseredy and his colleagues build on the rich theoretical perspectives developed by feminist scholars―as well as those constructed by Jock Young, Robert Sampson, and William Julius Wilson―as they present both the qualitative and quantitative results of a case study of six public housing estates located in an impoverished urban area. This groundbreaking book provides an in-depth analysis of predatory crime victimization, intimate partner victimization, public racial and sexual harassment, and the relationship of all these harms to the residents' perceptions of their neighborhood social disorganization/collective efficacy. Under Siege is uniquely valuable both for its rich theoretical basis and for its transparent presentation of the authors' research methodology. It is a thought-provoking sociological contribution that offers progressive strategies for ameliorating both poverty and crime in North American public housing complexes.

Alvi (sociology, U. of St. Thomas) examines sociocultural causes for youth crime in Canada and the society's reactions to it. The treatment includes discussions of macrostructural issues such as unemployment and poverty, as well as microstructural issues such as family structure. Alvi's account considers Marxist, feminist, ecological, social control, differential associative, and other theoretical perspectives. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Youth and the Canadian Criminal Justice System

Anderson Pub. Co.

Deviance and Crime: Theory, Research and Policy

DeKeseredy, Walter

Ellis, Desmond

In the past ten years, much has changed in terms of youth justice policies in Canada as well as in the way Canadian society has evolved. This book examines these developments and puts them in a critical criminological perspective.

Youth Criminal Justice Policy in Canada: A Critical Introduction (SpringerBriefs in Criminology)

Springer

This book sensitizes the reader to the fact that there is substantial disagreement within the academic community, and among policymakers and the general public, over what behaviors, conditions (e.g., physical attributes), and people should be designated as deviant or criminal. Normative conceptions, the societal reaction/labeling approach, and the critical approach are offered as frameworks within which to study these definitions. A comprehensive explanation of theory and social policy on deviance is constructed.
<ul><li>Chapters contain boxed insert material, charts, tables, discussion questions, problem-solving scenarios, suggested readings, and online resources.</li></ul>

Deviance and Crime, Third Edition: Theory, Research and Policy

DeKeseredy, Walter S.

Anderson

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EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age

EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age

Under Siege: Poverty and Crime in a Public Housing Community

Under Siege: Poverty and Crime in a Public Housing Community

Youth and the Canadian Criminal Justice System

Deviance and Crime: Theory, Research and Policy

Youth Criminal Justice Policy in Canada: A Critical Introduction (SpringerBriefs in Criminology)

Deviance and Crime, Third Edition: Theory, Research and Policy