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  • Ageing and the Media

    International Perspectives

    by Nicole Dalmer, Lucia Cedeira Serantes, Eugène Loos, Loredana Ivan, Maria Sourbati, Wenqian Xu, Christa Lykke Christensen, Karin Lövgren, Linn J Sandberg, Jeff Hearn, Dana Sawchuk, Monika Wilinska, Doris Akyere Boateng, Chin-Hui Chen, Yan-Hua Huang, Gisela Grangeiro da Silva Castro, Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard, Laura Hurd, Raveena Mahal, Barbara Ratzenböck ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, physical wellbeing and cognitive performance of older people.This international collection examines different dimensions of ageing and ageism in a range of media. Chapters include explorations of the UK media during the ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Ageing in Everyday Life

    Materialities and Embodiments

    by Laura Hurd Clarke, Mineko Wada, Kim Sawchuk, Barbara Marshall, Julia M Twigg, Alisa Grigorovich, Pia Kontos, Brenda Vrkljan, Amanda Grenier, Jessica Gish, Linn J Sandberg, Julia Rozanova, Sally Chivers, Gavin Andrews, Susan Braedley, David J Ekerdt ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society.Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, the two parts address the materialities and the embodiments of everyday life respectively. Topics covered include household possessions, ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Facing Age

    Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture

    by Laura Hurd Clarke ...
    Series series Diversity and Aging
    The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical realities of growing older. Although the women in the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Principles and practice

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    Since its first publication, Action Research: Principles and Practice has become a key text in its field. This new updated edition clearly describes and explains the practices of action research and its underlying values, and introduces important new ideas, including:all professionals should be reflective practitionersthey should produce their personal theories of practice to show how they are ... Read more

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  • Professional Identity and Social Work

    Edited by Stephen A. Webb ...
    How are identities formed among social workers, many of whom perform complex, challenging and ambiguous public sector functions on a regular basis? Why does identity come to matter for professional social work? This book, the first of its kind in the field, examines professional identity in relation to social work by asking how practitioners think of themselves as a "social worker", a professional ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Everyday Life

    by Susie Scott ...
    This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topics as leisure, eating and drinking, the idea of home, and time and schedules in order to show how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane 'micro' level practices of everyday life.Each chapter is organized around three main themes ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Imagination for Inclusion

    Diverse contexts of educational practice

    Edited by Derek Bland ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Imagination for Inclusion offers a reconsideration of the ways in which imagination engages and empowers learners across the education spectrum, from primary to adult levels and in all subject areas. Imagination as a natural, expedient, and exciting learning tool should be central to any approach to developing and implementing curriculum, but is increasingly undervalued as learners progress ... Read more

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  • Working with Experience

    Animating Learning

    Edited by David Boud, Nod Miller ...
    Every day we are confronted with problems and challenges which we address by drawing on our experience and by using this experience to find ways of learning what to do in new circumstances. Learning through experience is the normal, commonplace approach to learning and we take it for granted. Whilst much is known about teaching and being taught, far less attention has been given to learning in ... Read more

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  • Engaging the Disengaged

    Inclusive Approaches to Teaching the Least Advantaged

    by Tarquam McKenna, Marcelle Cacciattolo, Mark Vicars ...
    Engaging the Disengaged addresses strategies and models of immersive teaching and learning that lead to successful schooling outcomes. The new Australian Curriculum emphasises the importance of improved educational participation. This book will equip pre-service teachers with the tools and strategies they need to successfully implement these priorities. Drawing together a diverse range of experts, ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Understanding Childhood

    A Cross Disciplinary Approach

    Edited by Mary Jane Kehily ...
    Series Book 1 - Open University Childhood
    Childhood has become central to socio-political debates and policy initiatives both nationally and globally. Despite the privileges afforded to children in the West, Western childhoods are no longer seen as the 'ideal' to which all should aspire. Recent reports and policy concerns suggest that growing up in the West may be marked by the commercialisation of childhood, leading to unhappiness, poor ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation

    by Madeleine Leonard ...
    Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives.Examining children’s involvement in areas such as the ... Read more

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  • Learning Outside the Academy

    International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher, Susan Whittaker ...
    This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other.The contributions to this book are based on material ... Read more

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