The Third Path: A Relationship-Based Approach to Student Well-Being and Achievement

Education & Teaching

Boland, Tom

Carson, Lori

Tranter, David

Schools & Teaching

elson Canada Elhi

The Spectacle of Critique: From Philosophy to Cacophony (Contemporary Liminality)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

Far from being the preserve of a few elite thinkers, critique increasingly dominates public life in modernity, leading to a cacophony of accusation and denunciation around all political issues. The technique of unmasking ¿power¿ or ¿hegemony¿ or ¿ideology¿ has now been adopted across the political spectrum, where critical discourses are routinely used to suggest that anything and everything is only a ¿construct¿ or even a ¿conspiracy¿. This book draws on anthropological theory to provide a different perspective on this phenomenon; critique appears as a liminal predicament combining imitative polemical and schismatic urges with a haunting sense of uncertainty. It thereby addresses a central academic concern, with a special focus on political critique in the public sphere and within social media. Combining historical interrogations of the roots of critique, as well as examining contemporary political discourse in relation to populism, as seen in presidential elections, historical commemorations and welfare reform, The Spectacle of Critique uses anthropology and genealogy to offer a new sociology of critique that problematises critique and diagnoses its crisis, cultivating acritical and imaginative ways of thinking.

The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour Market

Western culture has 'faith' in the labour market as a test of the worth of each individual. For those who are out of work, welfare is now less of a support than a means of purification and redemption. Continuously reformed by the left and right in politics, the contemporary welfare state attempts to transform the unemployed into active jobseekers, punishing non-compliance.Drawing on ideas from economic theology, this provocative book uncovers deep-rooted religious concepts and shows how they continue to influence contemporary views of work and unemployment: Jobcentres resemble purgatory where the unemployed attempt to redeem themselves, jobseeking is a form of pilgrimage in hope of salvation, and the economy appears as providence, whereby trials and tribulations test each individual. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the sociology and anthropology of modern economic life.Chapters 1 and 3 are available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Griffin, Ray

Anthropology

Bristol University Press

Mathematical Models for Teaching: Reasoning Without Memorization

Science & Math

Kajander, Ann

Mathematics

Canadian Scholars Pr

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