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  • A Practical Guide to Counselling

    Help Others Make Sense of Life

    by Alistair Ross ...
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    Talk, listen, support and understand better.Develop a hands-on understanding of how counselling works and how it can help people, viewing the subject from both a client's and a trainee counsellor's perspective.Learn how to listen more attentively and be a better communicator, be more empathetic with a heightened perception of others, and improve your relationships with both those around you and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sigmund Freud: pocket GIANTS

    by Alistair Ross ...
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    'This is a very, very smart book. It makes Freud accessible, interesting and relevant.' - Ruby WaxSigmund Freud is rightly called the godfather of psychoanalysis. He forever changed the way we view ourselves and developed our understanding of human nature. His concepts have become part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the ... Read more

    $1.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finding Political Identities

    Young People in a Changing Europe

    by Alistair Ross ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines how young people in Europe construct their political identities. Based on small discussion groups with 2000 young people across 29 European states, Alistair Ross explores how 13 to 20 year olds build identities in contemporary society, creating contingent narratives of local, national and European identities with families, friends and social media. As well as exploring whatthese ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Social Subjects Within the Curriculum

    Children’s Social Learning in the National Curriculum

    Edited by John Ahier, Alistair Ross ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Unlike much material available at the time, The Social Subjects Within the Curriculum (originally published in 1995) stands back from the issues of implementing the National Curriculum. Instead, it poses key questions about the ability of such a centralised system to provide an integrated social and economic education for future citizens.Taking the cross-curricular themes as identified in the NCC ... Read more

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  • Educational Research for Social Justice

    Evidence and Practice from the UK

    Edited by Alistair Ross ...
    Series Book 1 - Education Science, Evidence, and the Public Good
    This book presents a series of analyses of educational policies – largely in the UK, but some also in Europe – researched by a team of social scientists who share a commitment to social justice and equity in education. We explore what social justice means, in educational policy and practice, and how it impacts on our understanding of both ‘educational science’ and ‘the public good’.Using a social ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Sigmund Freud

    A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

    by Alistair Ross ...
    Series series Significant Figures in World History
    Sigmund Freud’s name is known throughout the world. He opened up the world of the unconscious, so people can understand themselves so much better than before. His unique ideas are discussed in academic circles. His psychoanalytic techniques influenced mental health, counselling, psychotherapy and psychiatry. His words form part of everyday language. Lying on a couch and having dreams interpreted ... Read more

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  • Understanding the Constructions of Identities by Young New Europeans

    Kaleidoscopic selves

    by Alistair Ross ...
    How do young people construct their identities in the complexity of their own country, belonging to the European Union, and being part of global society? This book is based on a unique empirical study of a thousand young people, aged between eleven and nineteen, from fifteen European countries. Covering East European states that joined the EU be ... Read more

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  • Research Ethics for Counsellors, Nurses & Social Workers

    Research Ethics for Counsellors, Nurses & Social Workers is designed to help you make the best start in your research career. With ethical implications and considerations arising at each stage of the research process, engaging with the wide range of issues and ideas can often prove a challenge. Dee Danchev and Alastair Ross will help you overcome this challenge and become confident, skilled ... Read more

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  • Education, Globalization and the Nation

    Series series Education (R0)
    'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union. ... Read more

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  • Higher Education and Social Class

    Issues of Exclusion and Inclusion

    Working class groups have historically been excluded from participation in higher education. Past decades have seen an expansion of the system towards a more inclusive higher education, but participation among people from working class groups has remained persistently low. Is higher education unattractive for these groups or are the institutions acting to exclude them? This thought-provoking and ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • 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 ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Sigmund Freud

    Series series pocket GIANTS

    Unabridged

    2 hours 13 min

    This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A concise biography of the father of psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud forever changed how we view ourselves and understand human nature. This book explores his key concepts―unconscious thoughts, dream meanings, and childhood sensuality―and his daring methods. Discover how Freud's work has influenced education, critical theory, and our broader culture. From ... Read more

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