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Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its techniques can be brought to bear on the other social sciences. It wasn't going to be long, therefore, before students started complaining. The vast majority have voted with their feet and signed up for business and management degrees, but in the past two years there has grown an important new movement that has decided to tackle those who think they run economics head-on. This is the Post-autistic Economics Network. The PAE Network started in France and has spread first to Cambridge and then other parts of the world. The name derives from the fact that mainstream economics has been accused of institutional autism, ie. qualitative impairment of social interaction, failure to develop peer relationships and lack of emotional and social reciprocity. In short, economics has lost touch with reality and has become way too abstract. This book charts the impact the PAE Network has had so far and constitutes a manifesto for a different kind of economics - it features key contributions from all the major voices in heterodox economics including Tony Lawson, Deirdre McCloskey, Geoff Hodgson, Sheila Dow and Warren Samuels.

This article describes an attempt to include citizenship within history teaching. The author considers history an ideal context for citizenship education because the learning objectives of citizenship such as enquiry, participation, action and communication are all familiar to history teachers since historical enquiry, interpretations, analysis, explanation and appreciating different perspectives have long been compulsory elements in most history curricula. Here the author uses history as a platform and then moves on to higher order citizenship concepts, in particular human rights and the democratic process. The study was carried out with students' from 12 to 14 years old in two classes from different schools, one a co-educational private school with mixed achievers and one a state girls' school with low achievers. Both classes participated separately in history tasks and activities on an historical site on the island of Malta. The main objective of the follow-up citizenship lessons was to debate whether torture should ever be used in a democratic society. ; peer-reviewed

Teaching a television production class is a real challenge, especially when working with the typical budget and time limitations of most elementary, middle, or high school curricula. Beyond the technical aspects of teaching this subject, what is the best

Place pedagogy change is a work of creative experimentation in which we explore the ways in which pedagogies of place can enable the relational learning of connections between people, places and communities. In adding the element of place to the dynamic relations between teacher, learner, and knowledge, we articulate a pedagogy of ethical uncertainty. Ethical refers to our mutual responsibilities to others and to the more-than-human world, and uncertainty to the unpredictability inherent in our relationship with this world. In Place pedagogy change, we examine the nature of such innovative pedagogies as they emerged across the curriculum from early childhood to school and community education, and in teacher education. The book will provide a useful text for teachers and teacher eductors wishing to address questions of place and sustainability in educational research and practice.

Seminars by Professor Windy Dryden. See the man live and in action. To find out more and to book your place go to www.cityminds.com. ______________________________________. SAGE celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the Counselling in Action in November 2008. To view the video - click here --------------------------------------------------------------. `An excellent compilation... Given the explosion in the demand for both counselling and supervision, this book should be required reading for all those putting a toe in these complex waters. However, I think it is also a salutary guide for those al

The great majority of working Americans are unprepared to face the difficult task of planning for retirement. In fact, the personal savings rate has been holding steady at zero for several years, down from 8 percent in the mid-1980s. Overcoming the Saving Slump explores the many challenges facing workers in the transition from a traditional defined benefit pension system to one that requires more individual responsibility, analyzing the considerable impediments to saving and evaluating financial literacy programs devised by employers and the government. Mapping the changing landscape of pensions and the rise of defined contribution plans, Annamaria Lusardi and others investigate new methods for stimulating saving and promoting financial education drawing on the experience of the United States as well as countries that have privatized their welfare systems, including Sweden and Chile. This timely volume pinpoints where human resources departments, the financial industry, and government officials have succeeded-or failed-in bridging the way to a new retirement system. As the workforce ages and more pensions disappear each second, Lusardi's findings will be invaluable for economists and anyone facing retirement.

part Part I Law and Institutions -- chapter 1 Law and the Rule of Law -- chapter 2 The Separation of Powers -- chapter 3 Judicial Review -- chapter 4 Conceptions of Democracy: "ick" versus "in" -- chapter 5 The Concept (and Reality?) of Representation -- chapter 6 Political Parties -- chapter 7 Elections -- chapter 8 Civil Society -- part Part II Markets and Power -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 9 Human Nature and the Market -- chapter 10 Freedom and the Market -- chapter 11 Justice and the Market -- chapter 12 Democracy and the Market I: Corporations and the State -- chapter 13 Democracy and the Market II: Corporate Governance -- chapter 14 Democracy and the Market III: Globalization and Governance -- chapter 15 e Concept of Power I: e ree Faces of "Negative" Power -- chapter 16 The Concept of Power II: Normalization versus Communication -- part Part III Culture and Identity -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 17 What is (a) Culture? -- chapter 18 Beyond Ethnocentrism and Relativism? -- chapter 19 Modernity -- chapter 20 Modernity and Identity -- chapter 21 Gender Identity -- chapter 22 Racial Identity -- chapter 23 National Identity -- chapter 24 Religious Identity -- part Part IV Conclusion -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 25 The Subject -- chapter 26 The Subject in the Group -- chapter 27 Identity Politics Revisited -- chapter 28 The Subject in Nature -- chapter Glossary of Names -- chapter Endnotes.