This monograph highlights that school climate is a science of education and psychology that must be studied in detail in order to understand the dynamic nature of learning environments, and to learn how to improve the conditions for learning in all schools.
Coordination and Subordination
Recent studies challenge the traditional boundaries between coordination and subordination. This collection of papers delves into these challenges, using data from different languages to develop innovative perspectives and advance thought-provoking ideas.
A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research
Questions of gender and violence against women have been placed firmly on the agenda of research within the humanities in recent years. This book represents an important combination of scholarly insights and provides multiple reflections on gender research in the African context.
Ancient Epic
This book adopts a broad approach to the Epic, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, with comparisons to Vedic, Sanskrit, and Medieval poetry. It explores the hero, the bard, and myth, and traces the influence of Homer on authors like Virgil, Ovid, and Seneca.
Spirituality for Youth-Work
This title addresses the lack of studies discussing spirituality in human services and youth work. It offers a coherent vocabulary and narrative from which to construct a more deliberate practice of spiritual care, education and professional identity for youth workers.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary witnessed a surprising cultural flourishing. This was possible through intense exchange with Europe. This series draws an alternative map of the era, replacing centre-periphery conceptions.
Antiziganism
This volume explores the discrimination and persecution of Romanies, focusing on the theoretical understanding of ‘antiziganism.’ Essays analyze the historical continuity of stereotypes and the counter-discourse of Romanies, providing necessary readings.
In examining the effects of new media and media uses in fields such as social discourse, transmediality, and aesthetics, the essays in this collection investigate the recent powerful revolutions in our media and media uses initiated by the introduction of a ‘new’ medium.
Sexing the Border
This innovative book is a timely intervention in video and new media art, examining gender in post-Socialist contexts. Chapters explore how encounters between art and technology represent gender, critically reflecting current debates across the region and Europe.
This book uses cross-linguistic analysis to explore verb constructions. It reveals how seemingly equivalent verbs can differ in meaning across languages, and how similar meanings are often expressed by completely different grammatical constructions.
Authority and Displacement in the English-Speaking World (Volume II
This collection of essays in two volumes examines the concepts of authority and displacement within English language regions. This second volume focuses on an American context, with contributions focusing on American and Canadian culture and works by authors of Guyanese origin.
Tax Reform in Uganda
Kwagala-Igaga employs political economy and optimal theory to explain the weaknesses evident in the tax system in Uganda since the introduction of extensive reforms in 1997, highlighting the constraints imposed upon tax design and tax reform in the country.
Yea, Alabama! A Peek into the Past of One of the Most Storied Universities in the Nation
A history of the University of Alabama as never before published. Years of research into newly discovered documents reveal dramatic rivalries, political intrigue, the University’s near-total destruction, and the never-before-told story of slavery.
An accessible and comprehensive analysis of J.H. Prynne, a leading figure in contemporary poetry. This study analyses the nexus between Prynne’s political thought and linguistic innovation, providing a crucial pathway into his most challenging and complex volumes.
Contextual Identities
This interdisciplinary, intercultural book brings the concepts of “identity,” “comparativism,” and “communication” together to reinterpret postmodernism. It investigates multiple identities in discursive contexts and will interest those in image and literary studies.
This book explores the creation of writing systems where dialect variation exists. Authors examine how social and political factors drive standardization and question its value, revealing the conflicts that arise in language planning worldwide.
Choral Singing
What role does choral activity play in the construction of social and musical meaning? This anthology addresses questions like these from a wide range of disciplines, contributing to a transdisciplinary discussion about the origins, functions, and meanings of choral singing.
This edited volume offers an overview of the complexity of the visual rhetoric of violence, discussing both fictional works, including films and novels, and non-fictional genres, such as news media, showing how such expressions of violence have assumed diverse narrative forms.
Governing Sex, Building the Nation
Exploring the sexual politics of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan, this book focuses on the politicisation of prostitution and its role in postcolonial nationhood. It uncovers the interlinkages between colonialism, prostitution and nationalism in East Asia.
T. S. Eliot’s year in Paris was a decisive turning point. This volume reconsiders the deep impact of French and European art and thought on his development, moving beyond accepted narratives to open up new and unexpected veins of inquiry.
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