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  • Late-Life Homelessness

    Experiences of Disadvantage and Unequal Aging

    by Amanda Grenier ...
    Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise. In spite of growing media attention and new academic research on the issue, older people often remain unrecognized as a subpopulation in public policy, programs, and homeless strategies. As such, they occupy a paradoxical position of being hypervisible while remaining overlooked.Late-Life Homelessness ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure

    Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology

    Edited by Jan Baars, Joseph Dohmen, Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson ...
    Ageing, meaning and social structure is a unique book advancing critical discourse in gerontology and makes a major contribution to understanding key social and ethical dilemmas facing ageing societies. It confronts and integrates approaches that have been relatively isolated from each other, and interrelates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Precarity and Ageing

    Understanding Insecurity and Risk in Later Life

    by Baozhen Luo, Larry Polivka, Michael D Fine, Elena Portacolone, Mushira Mohsin Khan, Karen Kobayashi, Sarah Vickerstaff, Wendy Loretto, Laura Airey, David Lain, Amanda Grenier0, Stephen Katz2 ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    What risks and insecurities do older people face in a time of both increased longevity and widening inequality?This edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing different groups of older people. Exploring a range of topics, the chapters provide a critical review of the concept of precarity, highlighting the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Ageing in Everyday Life

    Materialities and Embodiments

    by Laura Hurd Clarke, Mineko Wada, Kim Sawchuk, Barbara Marshall, Julia M Twigg, Alisa Grigorovich, Pia Kontos, Brenda Vrkljan, Amanda Grenier, Jessica Gish, Linn J Sandberg, Julia Rozanova, Sally Chivers, Gavin Andrews, Susan Braedley, David J Ekerdt ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society.Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, the two parts address the materialities and the embodiments of everyday life respectively. Topics covered include household possessions, ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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  • Understanding Childhood

    A Cross Disciplinary Approach

    Edited by Mary Jane Kehily ...
    Series Book 1 - Open University Childhood
    Childhood has become central to socio-political debates and policy initiatives both nationally and globally. Despite the privileges afforded to children in the West, Western childhoods are no longer seen as the 'ideal' to which all should aspire. Recent reports and policy concerns suggest that growing up in the West may be marked by the commercialisation of childhood, leading to unhappiness, poor ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Action Research

    Principles and practice

    by Jean McNiff ...
    Since its first publication, Action Research: Principles and Practice has become a key text in its field. This new updated edition clearly describes and explains the practices of action research and its underlying values, and introduces important new ideas, including:all professionals should be reflective practitionersthey should produce their personal theories of practice to show how they are ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Research in Art and Design Education

    Issues and Exemplars

    Edited by Richard Hickman ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    Although educators are increasingly interested in art education research, there are few anthologies tackling the subject. Research in Art & Design Education answers this call, summarizing important issues in the field such as non-text based approaches and interdisciplinary work. Contributions from internationally renowned researchers explore a broad range of topics in art education, highlighting ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Values And Vision In Primary Education

    by Kathleen Taylor, Tim Wooldridge, Simon Pratt-Adams ...
    This book provides teachers with scaffolding to develop reflective practice, moving towards an evolving philosophy of education. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education

    Knowledge, Values and Ambiguity in the Creative Curriculum

    by Susan Orr, Alison Shreeve ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education provides a contemporary volume that offers a scholarly perspective on tertiary level art and design education. Providing a theoretical lens to examine studio education, the authors suggest a student-centred model of curriculum that supports the development of creativity.The text offers readers analytical frameworks with which to challenge assumptions ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Women and Depression

    Recovery and Resistance

    by Michelle N. Lafrance ...
    Series series Women and Psychology
    Women and Depression: Recovery and Resistance takes a welcome look at women’s experiences of living well after depression. Lafrance argues that the social construction of femininity is dangerous for women’s health, and ultimately, central to their experiences of depression. Beginning with a critical examination of the ways in which women’s depression is a product of the social, political, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Professional Identity and Social Work

    Edited by Stephen A. Webb ...
    How are identities formed among social workers, many of whom perform complex, challenging and ambiguous public sector functions on a regular basis? Why does identity come to matter for professional social work? This book, the first of its kind in the field, examines professional identity in relation to social work by asking how practitioners think of themselves as a "social worker", a professional ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Analyzing Qualitative Data

    Edited by Alan Bryman, Bob Burgess ...
    This major inter-disciplinary collection, edited by two of the best respected figures in the field, provides a superb general introduction to this subject. Chapters include discussions of fieldwork methodology, analyzing discourse, the advantages and pitfalls of team approaches, the uses of computers, and the applications of qualitative data analysis for social policy. Shrewd and insightful, the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD