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  • Family Troubles?

    Exploring Changes and Challenges in the Family Lives of Children and Young People

    Edited by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Carol-Ann Hooper, Val Gillies ...
    As the everyday family lives of children and young people come to be increasingly defined as matters of public policy and concern, it is important to raise the question of how we can understand the contested terrain between “normal” family troubles and troubled and troubling families. In this important, timely and thought-provoking publication, a wide range of contributors explore how “troubles” ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Making Families

    Moral Tales of Parenting and Step-Parenting

    by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Rosalind Edwards, Val Gillies ...
    This book goes to the heart of academic, political and popular debates, as well as professional concerns, about the nature of contemporary family life and parenting. Families are widely discussed in western societies as breaking down or as radically changing, with step-families in particular seen as evidence of such trends. In one of the first British in-depth sociological research studies for ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Mother's Intuition? (1994)

    Choosing Secondary Schools

    by Miriam David, Anne West, Jane Ribbens ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1994, Mother’s Intuition? examines the process of choosing secondary schools in two inner London boroughs. The research is based upon detailed interviews with parents as well as questionnaires filled in by pupils themselves. The authors address several important dimensions in the choosing process which had not been investigated by previous research. The book particularly focusses on ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Understanding Family Meanings

    A Reflective Text

    by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Megan Doolittle, Shelley Day Sclater ...
    Family Studies is a key area of policy, professional and personal debate. Perhaps precisely because of this, teaching texts have struggled with how to approach this area, which is both 'familiar' and also contentious and value laden. This innovative and reflective book deals with such dilemmas head-on, through its focus on family meanings in diverse contexts in order to enhance our understanding ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Key Concepts in Family Studies

    by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Rosalind Edwards ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    "This is a thoughtful and sometimes challenging elaboration of some of the key concepts in contemporary family studies... Students and researchers will want to have this book close to hand, not simply as a reference work but as a stimulus to critical social analysis."- David H J Morgan, University of Manchester"Written in an intelligent, engaging, and accessible manner by two leading and highly ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

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    Postmodern Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Jan Fook, Bob Pease ...
    Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • 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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  • Undoing Privilege

    Unearned Advantage in a Divided World

    by Professor Bob Pease ...
    For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. In Undoing Privilege, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change. As a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance.Undoing Privilege explores the main sites of privilege, from Western ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Feeling Power

    Emotions and Education

    by Megan Boler ...
    First published in 1999. Megan Boler combines cultural history with ethical and multicultural analyses to explore how emotions have been disciplined, suppressed, or ignored at all levels of education and in educational theory. FEELING POWER charts the philosophies and practices developed over the last century to control social conflicts arising from gender, class, and race. The book traces the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Formations of Class & Gender

    Becoming Respectable

    by Bev Skeggs ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of gender, identity and power.Beverley Skeggs identifies the neglect of class, and shows how class and gender must be fused together to produce an ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Partnerships for Inclusive Education

    A Critical Approach to Collaborative Working

    by Liz Todd ...
    Shortlisted for the NASEN/TES 2007 Book AwardIncreased partnership between professionals, particularly through the integration of services, indicates a major opportunity for child and parent participation, but one that seems in danger of being side-stepped. Drawing on substantial research evidence, this book looks at reasons for this situation; what is happening now, what developments and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Social Work Theories and Methods

    Edited by Mel Gray, Stephen Webb ...
    The second edition of this celebrated book by two of the world′s leading researchers in social work introduces readers to the main theories, theorists and perspectives that contribute to the debate on social work theory and social work methods. It brings together some outstanding international researchers in social work to challenge the reader to critically question how they think about social ... Read more

    $78.29 USD