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  • Thinking Through Family

    Narratives of Care Experienced Lives

    by Janet Boddy, Fidelma Hanrahan, Bella Wheeler ...
    Series series Sociology of Children and Families
    Understanding what ‘family’ means – and how best to support families – depends on challenging politicized assumptions that frame ‘ordinary’ families in comparison to an imagined problematic ‘other’.Learning from the perspectives of people who were in care in childhood, this innovative book helps redefine the concept of family. Linking two longitudinal studies involving young adults in England, it ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Residential Child Care

    Prospects and Challenges

    by Van Beinum, Christine Barter, Joe Francis, Janet Boddy, Jo Dixon, Brigid Daniel, Roger Bullock, Claire Cameron, Aileen Barclay, Teresa O'Neill, Lynne Hunter, Judy Furnivall, Malcolm Hill, Harriet Ward, Jane Scott, Laura Steckley, Kirsten Stalker, Irene Stevens, Dr Ruth Emond ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Residential Child Care draws on the latest research to offer guidance for developing best practice, policy and improved outcomes for children and young people.Contributors examine important aspects of residential care work, and address the concerns about the poor outcomes for young people leaving care and the role of residential child care as a positive choice within the range of care services. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Environment in the Lives of Children and Families

    Perspectives from India and the UK

    by Ann Phoenix, Janet Boddy, Catherine Walker, Uma Vennam ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY licence.How do environmental policies link to dynamic and relational family practices for children and parents? This Policy Press Short presents innovative cross-national research into how ‘environment’ is understood and negotiated within families, and how this plays out in everyday lives.Based on an ESRC study that involved creative, qualitative work with ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Social Pedagogy and Working with Children and Young People

    Where Care and Education Meet

    by Inge Bryderup, Stefan Kleipoedszus, Jytte Juul Jensen, Gabriel Eichsteller, Pat Petrie, Janet Boddy, Sylvia Holthoff, Anna Kathrine Frorup, Michael Fielding, Michel Vandenbroeck ...
    Social pedagogy is an innovative discipline that supports children's upbringing and overall development by focusing on the child as a whole person. It has been described as where education and care meet or as 'education in its broadest sense'.This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory, principles and practice of social pedagogy and the profession of social pedagogue. With chapters ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Care Work

    Present and Future

    Edited by Janet Boddy, Claire Cameron, Peter Moss ...
    Care Work considers the current situation of care work and care workers, from childcare to eldercare, and from family carers to paid carers. It examines the composition of the current workforce (more than a million in the UK alone), the knowledge and education needed for care work, and the significance of where care work is undertaken (in the home, in institutions).Considering potential challenges ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

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    Becoming a Teacher of Language and Literacy explores what it means to be a literacy educator in the 21st century. It promotes a reflective and inquiry-based approach to literacy teaching and examines three central questions: 1. How do teachers approach the teaching of reading and writing, speaking and listening within a digital age? 2. How do teachers approach the standardisation of literacy, ... Read more

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  • Advocacy And Social Work Practice

    by Tom Wilks ...
    This books fills the gap in the market for an accessible, general introduction to advocacy, specifically aimed at social workers. The book looks at the value base of advocacy as well as emphasising practice and skills such as assertiveness and negotiation. ... Read more

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  • Narrative Therapy for Women Experiencing Domestic Violence

    Supporting Women's Transitions from Abuse to Safety

    by Mary Allen ...
    For women experiencing domestic violence, narrative therapy can be a powerful tool to help them gain self-confidence and a sense of identity, resist violence, and make the transition from abuse to safety.Drawing on the narratives of women who have experienced domestic violence, this book explores how women employ strategies of resistance, and how strengthening their sense of identity can ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The short guide to social work

    by Robert Adams ...
    Series series Short Guides
    This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • An Introduction to Social Work Theory

    by David Howe ...
    Social workers need to recognize the critical role that theory plays both in the way they make sense of what is going on and in the way they order their work. Such recognition clarifies practice for both the worker and the client. David Howe's classic text provides a framework to help social workers develop an understanding of the theories which inescapably underpin their thoughts and actions. ... Read more

    $47.99 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 Psychology

    by Jane Callaghan, Lisa Lazard ...
    Series series Critical Thinking in Psychology Series
    This introductory social psychology text addresses the core knowledge domains of the subject, with key chapters on understanding identities, attribution theory, attitudinal research, social influence, racism and prejudice, class and exclusions, methodologies of social psychology and discursive psychology. It provides concise and focused coverage of the central concepts, research and debates in ... Read more

    $70.19 USD