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  • Sole Parent Students and Higher Education

    Gender, Policy and Widening Participation

    by Genine A. Hook ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines how sole parents are constituted within university contexts, through social discourse and social policies. The gendered assumptions of female parental care-work are analysed as both constraining and enabling sole parent participation in higher education. Social welfare policies and the policies of university institutions are also considered as central to the experiences of sole ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Student Carers in Higher Education

    Navigating, Resisting, and Re-inventing Academic Cultures

    Edited by Genine Hook, Marie-Pierre Moreau, Rachel Brooks ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    This timely volume explores the ways that university institutions affect the experiences of student carers and how student carers negotiate the (often conflicting) demands of care and academic work.The book maps the experiences of student carers in academic cultures, exploring the intersectional ways in which gender, class, race and other social categories define who can take up a position as a ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Men and the Classroom

    Gender Imbalances in Teaching

    by Sheelagh Drudy, Maeve Martin, John O'Flynn, Mairide Woods ...
    The teaching of young children has long been dominated by women. This global phenomenon is firmly rooted in issues related to economic development, urbanization, the position of women in society, cultural definitions of masculinity and the values of children and childcare. Yet, amongst the media scare stories and moral panics about underachieving boys, there are surprisingly few empirically ... Read more

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  • Teachers' Professional Lives

    by Ivor F. Goodson ...
    This text provides a discussion of the meaning of teacher professionalism and how it can be improved. ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Critical Ethics of Care in Social Work

    Transforming the Politics and Practices of Caring

    Edited by Bob Pease, Anthea Vreugdenhil, Sonya Stanford ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. As such, it enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. The editors and contributors to the book argue that care has the potential to interrogate relationships of power and to be a tool for radical political analysis for an emerging critical social work that is concerned with human ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Social Networks and Social Exclusion

    Sociological and Policy Perspectives

    by Graham Allan ...
    How important are social networks to daily life? There is now substantial evidence that attachment to a network may be vital in securing employment, in promoting good health, in maintaining positive relationships, and in supporting people in transitions through the life course. Equally, lack of access to networks may lead to problems of various kinds, such as poverty, lack of support in old age, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Work and Leisure

    Edited by John T. Haworth, Anthony J. Veal ...
    Globalization, economic development and changes in social environments have put the relationships between work, leisure, social structure and quality of life under the spotlight. Profound transformations in the nature and organization of work are occurring, with potentially far-reaching social and economic consequences. Increasingly, organizations demand greater flexibility from their workforces ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Leadership and Diversity

    Challenging Theory and Practice in Education

    by Marianne Coleman, Jacky Lumby ...
    Series series Education Leadership for Social Justice
    ′What makes this book stand out in the crowd is the engaging approach the authors have taken to present their argument and the novel treatment they offer of diversity and diversity management…a must-read for anyone in a leadership position or interested in investigating education leadership and diversity′ - Gender and Education′The authors should be congratulated for tackling the crucial topic of ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Ethics of Care

    Critical Advances in International Perspective

    Edited by Marian Barnes, Tula Brannelly, Lizzie Ward, Nicki Ward ...
    Over the last 20 years there has been a flourishing of work on feminist care ethics. This collection makes a unique contribution to this body of work. The international contributors demonstrate the significance of care ethics as a transformative way of thinking across diverse geographical, policy and interpersonal contexts. From Tronto’s analysis of global responsibilities, to Fudge Schormans’ re ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Youth Work Ethics

    by Howard Sercombe ...
    What does it mean to practice youth work ethically? How does ethical theory relate to the youth work profession? What are the moral dilemmas confronting youth workers today, and how should practitioners respond?This definitive text on youth work ethics examines these questions and more and should be on the reading lists of all youth work trainees and practitioners. A wide range of topics are ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Tackling Wicked Problems

    Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

    Edited by John Harris, Valerie A Brown, Jacqueline Russell ...
    From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Ethics

    Edited by Sarah Banks ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    The past few years have seen a renewed interest in the subject of social work ethics. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Sarah Banks argues that this can be seen as reflecting two very different agendas. On the one hand, it is part of a progressive movement which offers a critique of New Public Management (NPM), or managerialist, approaches ... Read more

    $16.19 USD