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(Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design
(Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design calls for an attentive examination of the uncommon that inspires creativity, prompting a re-examination of both common and marginalised precedents. Precedents and their origins can be idiosyncratic, and it is not surprising that they often lead to unpredictable outcomes. The uncommon is explored as an undervalued, unregulated, and informal approach to precedents, acknowledging a radical imagination in architectural design that extends beyond visual and typological considerations, expanding the field of influence beyond buildings to investigate interdisciplinary exchanges and a multisensory imagination. This book addresses a critical need to re-ex...
Longest Journey
A Scottish historical saga of exile, disaster, secrets . . . and love - The Scottish Highlands, 1848. Mary-Ann Macgregor's life is full of quiet contentment with her husband Ewan. But when her son Davey befriends a new arrival to the village, Janet, he sets in motion a disastrous chain of events. Harshly punished for a minor crime, Ewan and Davey are sentenced to exile in Australia. Mary-Ann is determined to keep her family together, but her past is catching up with her, and soon her children will know the secret she has tried so hard to keep . . .
Researching with Young People
Introduces existing and emerging research methods that can be used when conducting research with young people.
Higher Education and the Student
As one of the pioneers and leading advocates of neoliberalism, Britain, and in particular England, has radically transformed its higher education system over the last decades. Universities have increasingly been required to act like businesses, and students are frequently referred to as customers nowadays. Higher Education and the Student investigates precisely this relation between the changing function of higher education and what we consider the term ‘student’ to stand for. Based on a detailed analysis of government papers, reports, and speeches as well as publications by academics and students, the book explores how the student has been conceptualised within the debate on higher educ...
The English Interior
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Curriculum: Construction and Critique
Although curriculum is central to the schooling process, debates about it are rarely well informed. Over the past ten years there has been a dearth of books that have informed the debate by examining curriculum in a broader context, beyond the National Curriculum. Ross, in this refreshing re-examination of the area, opens up a more general debate on how the curriculum is shaped and the compromises made between different ideologies of the nature and purpose of education.
