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  • Gendering Women

    Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse

    by Julia Holdsworth, Suzanne Clisby ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licenceGendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course.Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman – in family life, education, ... Read more

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  • AQA Sociology for A-level Book 1

    by David Bown, Laura Pountney, Tomislav Maric ...
    Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and approved by AQA.- Develop the knowledge required to master Year 1 topics with clear a... ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Gender and Lifelong Learning

    Critical Feminist Engagements

    Edited by Carole Leathwood, Becky Francis ...
    This insightful book is ideal for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning. Asking pertinent questions relating to discourses on policy, the authors offer the reader a rare view of lifelong learning from a gender-focused perspective, filling a gap in the literature and moving current debate on into new areas. Questions ... Read more

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  • Welfare Words

    Critical Social Work & Social Policy

    by Paul Michael Garrett ...
    ‘Systematically exposes the neoliberal myths in unequal societies’ - Niels Rosendal Jensen′A call to arms to challenge inequality and social exclusion.′ - Lel Meleyal‘An impassioned dissection of the highly coded lexicon of so-called welfare reform…get reading, get angry, get ready’. - Gargi BhattacharyyaWelfare Words analyses the keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Changing Teacher Professionalism

    International trends, challenges and ways forward

    Edited by Sharon Gewirtz, Pat Mahony, Ian Hextall, Alan Cribb ...
    Significant changes in the policy and social context of teaching over the last 30 years have had substantial implications for teacher professionalism. As the influence of central regulation and marketisation has increased, so the scope for professional influence on policy and practice has in many cases diminished. Instead, teachers have had to respond to a range of other demands stemming from ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • What is Youth Work?

    Edited by Janet Batsleer, Bernard Davies ...
    Series series Empowering Youth and Community Work PracticeýLM Series
    With the proposed development of the ′youth professional′ and the consolidation of graduate professional qualifications, this is an important time for youth work. This book sets out the current state of debate about youth work for those considering, or about to embark on, a degree course. Contemporary debates in youth work are explored, and help to give students a sense of its history and its ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Innovations in Lifelong Learning

    Critical Perspectives on Diversity, Participation and Vocational Learning

    Edited by Sue Jackson ...
    This book opens up ways to engage critically with what counts as innovatory practice in lifelong learning today, locating its discussion of innovations in lifelong learning within an international and comparative framework.Innovations in Lifelong Learning engages first hand with issues and concerns from around the globe, offering an international perspective on current trends through its range of ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Women, Oppression and Social Work

    Issues in Anti-Discriminatory Practice

    Edited by Lesley Day, Mary Langan ...
    Many of the gains of the women's movement over the past 20 years now seem threatened by the combined effects of prolonged economic insecurity, reductions in the scope of welfare provision and a general shift in the climate of public opinion to the right. Social workers are faced with the growing damands of a more inpoverished and more unstable society, with less resources to meet these demands. In ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • A Political History of Child Protection

    Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand

    by Ian Kelvin Hyslop ...
    Exploring the current and historical tensions between liberal capitalism and indigenous models of family life, Ian Kelvin Hyslop argues for a new model of child protection in Aotearoa New Zealand and other parts of the Anglophone world.He puts forward the case that child safety can only be sustainably advanced by policy initiatives which promote social and economic equality and from practice which ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Homeless Person in Contemporary Society

    by Cameron Parsell ...
    The homeless person is thought to be different. Whereas we get to determine our difference or sameness, the homeless person’s difference is imposed upon them and assumed to be known because of their homelessness. Exclusion from housing – either a commodity that should be accessed from the market or social provision – signifies the homeless person’s incapacities and failure to function in what are ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Youth Work Practice

    Edited by Kathy Edwards, Dana Fusco, Pam Alldred, Fin Cullen ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Youth Work Practice showcases the value of professional work with young people as it is practiced in diverse forms in locations around the world. The editors have brought together an international team of contributors who reflect the wide range of approaches that identify as youth work, and the even wider range of approaches that identify variously as community work or ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work

    Edited by Nigel Parton ...
    Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work has two inter-related themes. First to account for and analyse current changes in social work and secondly, to assess how far recent developments in social theory can contribute to their interpretation. Representing the work of a range of academics all involved in research and teaching in relation to social work, it considers issues of central ... Read more

    $81.99 USD