Beginning with the Internet, then taking into account television, cinema, computer games, music, and radio, this title analyzes the emergence and implications of these diverse media, coloring our cultural landscape with different ideas on texts and how they work.

Reveals the complexity of the language used in SMS text communication, and how it exploits various linguistic resources to create identities. This book describes the language used in a corpus of over 11,000 text messages, as yet the largest collection in the UK.

The most comprehensive empirical and conceptual analysis of the state of religious education in British schools currently available.

There is an unresolved tension in Dostoevsky's novels - a tension between believing and not believing in the existence of God. This book enables us to consider the nature of God in the 21st Century through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels.

A concise comparative introduction to education in each major geographical region of the world and the major issues in international education today.

An exploration of how the issues of extremism and terrorism should be addressed and taught in schools. It is suitable for students studying education at undergraduate and postgraduate level looking to engage with the philosophical, sociological and political issues discussed and the resulting curriculum and pedagogical debates.

Offers a global exploration of formal and non-formal education provision to refugees and asylum seekers in refugee camps, and in schools and universities of host countries. This book draws on international research in numerous countries, including Thailand, North Korea, Lebenon, Africa, the USA and the UK.

A practical guide that helps Early Years practitioners to engage fathers in their child's wellbeing. It provides practitioners with: strategies for recruiting, engaging and retaining fathers; evaluation techniques to develop work with fathers over time; evidence on father involvement; and, policy frameworks and their impact on practice.