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  • Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child

    Time for Slow Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education

    by Alison Clark ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    This book explores the relationship with time in early childhood by arguing for the valuing of slow pedagogies and slow knowledge. Alison Clark points to alternative practices in Early Childhood Education and Care that enable a different pace and rhythm, against the backdrop of the acceleration in early childhood and the proliferation of testing and measurement. Diverse approaches are explored to ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Listening to Young Children, Expanded Third Edition

    A Guide to Understanding and Using the Mosaic Approach

    by Alison Clark ...
    Viewing children as 'experts in their own lives', the Mosaic approach offers a creative framework for understanding young children's perspectives through talking, walking, making and reviewing material with an adult. This book demonstrates how children's views and experiences can stay in focus in early childhood provision. The multi-method approach brings together digital tools with interviewing ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Transforming Children's Spaces

    Children's and Adults' Participation in Designing Learning Environments

    by Alison Clark ...
    How can young children play an active role in developing the design of learning environments?What methods can be used to bring together children’s and practitioners’ views about their environment?What insights can young children offer into good designs for these children’s spaces?With the expansion of early childhood education and the move to 'extended schools', more young children will spend more ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Principles of Property Law

    by Alison Clarke ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Principles of Property Law offers a critical and contextual analysis of fundamental property law concepts and principles, providing students with the necessary tools to enable them to make sense of English land law rules in the context of real world applications. This new book adopts a contextual approach, placing the core elements of a qualifying law degree property and land law course in the ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • Divorce

    Causes and Consequences

    Series series Current Perspectives in Psychology
    This comprehensive book provides a balanced overview of the current research on divorce. The authors examine the scientific evidence to uncover what can be said with certainty about divorce and what remains to be learned about this socially and politically charged issue. Accessible to parents and teachers as well as clinicians and researchers, the volume examines the impact of marital breakup on ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era

    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    This study of Civil War-era politics explores how German immigrants influenced the rise and fall of white commitment to African-American rights. Intertwining developments in Europe and North America, Alison Clark Efford describes how the presence of naturalized citizens affected the status of former slaves and identifies 1870 as a crucial turning point. That year, the Franco-Prussian War prompted ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Revisiting Contemporary Childhoods

    International Research on Children’s Voice and Agency

    What does it mean to put children's voices at the centre and truly recognise their capacity for change?Through rich, interdisciplinary research spanning Australia, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, India and the UK, this book illuminates how children actively negotiate, resist and reshape the structures around them. It champions children’s agency as central to reimagining childhoods beyond western ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Born to a Changing World

    Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

    by Alison Clarke ...
    Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the voices of this charming narrative tell of new life arriving amidst a turbulent world.Women in the nineteenth century gave birth in widely varying circumstances: Māori women of noble families might be lovingly cared for within the whare kōhanga; wealthy colonial wives employed doctors and monthly nurses; rural women relied on local midwives and ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Learning Skills for Nursing Students

    Series series Transforming Nursing Practice Series
    This book helps students master the key learning skills they need to become successful learners throughout their degree and beyond. It clearly explains the core skills they will need right from the start of the course, such as writing and numeracy skills and how to organise studies. It also introduces more advanced skills that students will need as the course progresses, such as research and ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Victor Papanek

    Designer for the Real World

    The history and controversial roots of the social design movement, explored through the life and work of its leading pioneer, Victor Papanek.In Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World, Alison Clarke explores the social design movement through the life of its leading pioneer, the Austrian American designer, theorist, and activist Victor Papanek. Papanek's 1971 best seller, Design for the Real ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Creating Life Story Theatre

    A Guide for Applied Theatre Practitioners

    Balancing practical exercises and case studies, this book equips practitioners, students and academics with guidance for exploring the process of making theatre from personal stories.Inviting you to consider the ethical challenges and rewards of this specialized area of theatre making, this book contextualizes the authors' original approaches within the range of existing applied theatre practice. ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Tupperware

    The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America

    From Wonder Bowls to Ice-Tup molds to Party Susans, Tupperware has become an icon of suburban living. Tracing the fortunes of Earl Tupper's polyethylene containers from early design to global distribution, Alison J. Clarke explains how Tupperware tapped into potent commercial and social forces, becoming a prevailing symbol of late twentieth-century consumer culture.Invented by Earl Tupper in the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD