Curriculum in higher education should adapt to meet the changing needs of students and society but is often resistant to change. Studies on curriculum change in higher education have identified str...

By Dena Freeman and Heikki Patomäki The Global Left in a Multipolar World is a new open access book which explores how a transformative global left politics might be advanced in the world-political…

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Kate Soper is a prominent environmentalist and peace campaigner, as well as a pioneering philosopher of Marxism and ecology, human needs, consumerism and its alternatives. In the first half of our ...

Social positioning theory and the morphogenetic/morphostatic approach of Margaret Archer are compared. The differences identified are found mostly to reflect contrasts in objectives and orientation...

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In this article, I discuss Archer's morphostatic/morphogenetic approach (M/M) and the concept of time. I argue that M/M is a methodology of temporality; of phase, order and sequence. As such, it is...

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The institutional logics and norm circle perspectives have emerged as two approaches to the analysis of institutions in organisations and society. This paper compares the two perspectives and asks…

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Adopting a critical realist approach to educational leadership, this book shows how applied theory can contribute to the development of mechanisms allowing for the effective leadership of organisation...

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Abstract. In this article, I place Dennis Robertson’s popular book Money in the context of its time in order to make a simple point about the scope and lim

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In Part 1 of this interview Professor Benton discussed his early life, education and the start of his academic career and focused in particular on his Philosophical Foundations of the Three Sociolo...

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The purpose of this paper is to explore workplace harassment in the context of platform work. To seek a causal explanation for harassment experienced by platform workers, we conducted a secondary a...

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