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  • Learning Disability

    A Social approach

    Edited by David Race ...
    The detailed study of learning disability features rarely in university courses. To a large extent this reflects the low value attributed by our society and its human services to people with learning difficulties. This unusual book, based on one of those rare courses, includes contributions from academic specialists, students and people with learning difficulties, all of whom have participated in ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Leadership and Change in Human Services

    Selected Readings from Wolf Wolfensberger

    Edited by David Race ...
    For over forty years Wolf Wolfensberger has been a significant figure in the world of human services, especially in the field of learning disability. His work on normalization and citizen advocacy in the late 1960s and early 1970s has been acknowledged by supporters and critics alike to have been fundamental to developments in a number of countries, most notably his adopted country, and the USA, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America

    by Ai-jen Poo, Ariane Conrad ...
    One of Time's 100 most influential people "shines a new light on the need for a holistic approach to caregiving in America . . . Timely and hopeful" (Maria Shriver).In The Age of Dignity, thought leader and activist Ai-jen Poo offers a wake-up call about the statistical reality that will affect us all: Fourteen percent of our population is now over sixty-five; by 2030 that ratio will be one in ... Read more

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  • Reflective Teaching

    An Introduction

    by Kenneth M. Zeichner, Daniel P. Liston ...
    Series series Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling Series
    This popular text provides a clear, succinct explanation of how reflection is integral to teachers’ understandings of themselves, their practice, and their context, and elaborates how various conceptions of reflective teaching differ from one another. The emphasis on the importance of both self and context is embedded within distinct and varied educational traditions (conservative, progressive, ... Read more

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  • Community

    A Contemporary Analysis of Policies, Programs, and Practices

    by Katharine Kelly, Tullio Caputo ...
    Community is an elusive yet frequently invoked concept. Terms like community health, community living, community schools, community policing, community development, and community renewal have become part of the contemporary lexicon.What has led organizations, and particularly Western governments, to take such an interest in community, and why this interest now? What has caused the increasing ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • American Hunger

    The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Washington Post Series

    by Eli Saslow ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory ReportingIn this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow traveled across the country over the course of a year—from Florida and Texas to Rhode Island and Tennessee—to examine the personal and political implications and repercussions of America's growing food stamp program.Saslow shows us the extraordinary impact the ... Read more

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  • Adopting after Infertility

    Messages from Practice, Research and Personal Experience

    by Penny Netherwood, Jenny Gwilt, Gayle Letherby, Sally Baffour, Gill Haworth, Anthea HendryKnight, Nicola Hudson, Lone Schmidt, Peter Selman, Lorraine Culley, Petra Thorn, Jan Way, Julia Feast, Olga Van den Van den Akker ...
    Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and support to assist them in the process of adoption to support the adopters and to deal with any issues that may result from infertility.Adopting after Infertility is an accessible and informative interdisciplinary book that addresses the issues that ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • What Kind of Citizen? Educating Our Children for the Common Good

    by Joel Westheimer ...
    How can schools teach the skills required for a strong democracy to flourish? What Kind of Citizen? asks readers to imagine the kind of society they would like to live in—and then shows the ways in which schools can be used to make that vision a reality. Westheimer draws on groundbreaking research on school programs and policies to sharply critique the current direction of school reform. He points ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Understanding Poverty in the Classroom

    Changing Perceptions for Student Success

    by Beth Lindsay Templeton ...
    People who live in poverty consider life in different ways than those who have adequate basic resources. Many educators tend to see the world through their middle-class worldview. Because of this, they do not understand these significant and often rational differences. They may misinterpret behavior they see and ascribe negative connotations to how their students are reacting. Their assumptions ... Read more

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  • Education to Better Their World

    Unleashing the Power of 21st-Century Kids

    by Marc Prensky ...
    “Marc Prensky—one of the smartest people working in educational reform today—offers us a lucid, inspiring, optimistic, doable, and crucial blueprint for how we can build a future with the schools children desperately need in our modern, high-risk, highly complex, fast-changing, and imperiled world.”—James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Early Intervention

    How Canada's social programs can work better, save lives, and often save money

    by James Hughes ...
    Governments and social agencies tackle the toughest social problems their citizens face -- poverty, homelessness, mental and physical illness, violence, abuse, and more. Yet these problems persist in Canada -- in many cases, they are worsening -- and the costs of the social safety net continue to rise.New approaches have been developed by innovators frustrated by the failure of traditional ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Supporting Children with Dyslexia

    by Shannon Green, Dr. Gavin Reid ...
    Series series 100 Ideas for Teachers
    No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners ... Read more

    $17.99 USD