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  • Transitions on hold?

    How the Covid-19 pandemic affected young people’s transitions to autonomy

    by Ewa Krzaklewska, Howard Williamson, Amy Stapleton, Frank Tillmann, Tanya Basarab ...
    The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown into relief some key issues in contemporary youth transitions to adulthood in Europe, presented in this bookIn early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic struck Europe with a vengeance. All sections of the population were rapidly affected by the efforts made to limit the deadly impact of the coronavirus: lockdowns and other restrictions on personal movement, the closure of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • About time! A reference manual for youth policy from a European perspective

    by Howard Williamson, Max Fras, Zara Lavchyan ...
    A reference tool for initiating youth policy and learning about the diversity of national and international governance and about the infrastructure available for youth policy, its implementation, review and evaluation Today, we know much more about national and European youth policy, the role of research, participation of young people and monitoring and evaluation of youth policy than we did when ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Milltown Boys at Sixty

    The Origins and Destinations of Young Men from a Poor Neighbourhood

    by Howard Williamson ...
    The Milltown Boys at Sixty is a story like no other, giving both an insider and an outsider view of the ‘Milltown Boys’, exploring the nature of an ethnographic relationship based on research about their experiences of the criminal justice system.A group classically labelled as delinquents, drug-takers and drop-outs, the Boys were also, in many different ways, fathers, friends and family men, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Youth and Policy

    Contexts and Consequences

    by Howard Williamson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1997, this volume is concerned primarily, though not exclusively, with one particular vulnerable group: unqualified young men on the margins. These young men, whose cultures of machismo, manualism and anti-mentalism previously served to prepare them for the manual labour market, are increasingly the careerless, the jobless and the folk-devils of the modern, post-industrial ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The history of youth work in Europe - volume 6

    Connections, disconnections and reconnections – The social dimension of youth work in history and today

    by Howard Williamson, Tanya Basarab, Filip Coussée ...
    A better understanding of youth work’s historical links with social work can help us to shape its relationship with social work in the future. This sixth publication in the History of Youth Work in Europe project based on the workshop held in Malta – Connections, Disconnections and Reconnections: The Social Dimension of Youth Work, in History and Today – looks at the relationship between youth ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Working Class

    Poverty, education and alternative voices

    Edited by Ian Gilbert ...
    In The Working Class: Poverty, education and alternative voices, Ian Gilbert unites educators from across the UK and further afield to call on all those working in schools to adopt a more enlightened and empathetic approach to supporting children in challenging circumstances. One of the most intractable problems in modern education is how to close the widening gap in attainment between the haves ... Read more

    $30.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wife Drought

    by Annabel Crabb ...
    'I need a wife'It’s a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it’s not actually a joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a Godsend on the domestic front. It’s a potent economic asset on the work front. And it’s an advantage enjoyed – even in our modern society – by vastly more men than women.Working women are in an advanced, sustained, and chronically under ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • What Makes a Good School?

    by Chris Bonner, Jane Caro ...
    School choice has become one of the most agonizing issues of parenthood; while schools boast of unsurpassed facilities, genius teachers, and stellar academic achievement, parents wonder whether the marketing hype is actually true. Drawing on the authors' experiences and knowledge—one as a school principal and both as parents and advocates—this account compares public, Catholic, private, selective, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oranges and Sunshine

    Empty Cradles

    by Margaret Humphreys ...
    Also published as Empty Cradles.In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children's homes in ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • A Contemporary History of Social Work

    Learning from the Past

    by Terry Bamford ...
    Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has failed to maintain its position as a driver of social reform. Bamford looks forward to a new model of practice that places a commitment to put social justice back at the heart of professional practice ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness

    by Alastair Campbell ...
    Are you happy? Does it matter?Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means to him. Taking in economic and political theories, he questions how happiness can survive in a grossly negative media culture, and how it could ... Read more

    $3.40 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Thinking Allowed

    On Schooling

    by Mick Waters ...
    Mick Waters has consistently been a down-to-earth voice in the increasingly complex world of education for many years. He has regularly endeared himself to school communities in the UK and overseas by talking the sort of sense they needed to hear - practical, challenging, inspiring, insightful, engaging. His unique perspective, closeness to the classroom and ability to see innovation in terms of ... Read more

    $18.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus