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  • Beyond Fragments

    Adults, Motivation And Higher Education

    by Linden West ...
    Adults now constitute the majority of students in higher education; what they bring to it, want and need are important questions in the development of a more responsive higher education. The author discusses The Relationship Between Motives, Education, And Life History To Explore how culture and history shape people and their motives for learning, taking into account variations in gender, social ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Distress in the City

    Racism, fundamentalism and a democratic education

    by Linden West ...
    Every day brings news about so-called Islamic State and its seduction of young people in the West. The radicalization of young Muslims causes alarm; even the desirability of multiculturalism is questioned in troubled cities where racism and Islamophobia are on the rise. This book is a case study of one distressed post-industrial city struggling with various discontents, drawn from those who live ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Psychoanalysis and Education

    Minding a Gap

    Edited by Alan Bainbridge, Linden West ...
    This book provides a unique and highly topical application of psychoanalytic theory to the broad context of education, including schools, universities, and adult learning. Education is understood as a crucial element in a lifelong project to gain more coherent and meaningful understanding of self and others. Psychoanalysis has taken the contingency, construction, and development of human ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Using Biographical Methods in Social Research

    by Linden West, Barbara Merrill ...
    Using Biographical Methods in Social Research provides an informative, comprehensive, accessible and practical guide to the nature and use of biographical methods, combining a consideration of theoretical issues with practical guidance as well as reflections on the personal experience of doing research.Barbara Merrill and Linden West consider important questions about who and what research is for ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Researching Critical Reflection

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Jan Fook, Val Collington, Fiona Ross, Gillian Ruch, Linden West ...
    Critical reflection helps professionals to learn directly from their practice experience, so that they can improve their own work in an ongoing and flexible way – something essential in today’s complex and changing organisations. It allows change to be managed in a way which enables individuals to preserve a sense of what is fundamentally important to them as professionals. It is particularly ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change

    A transdisciplinary approach to researching lives

    Edited by Hazel Reid, Linden West ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    In this volume, academics and researchers across disciplines including education, psychology and health studies come together to discuss personal, political and professional narratives of struggle, resilience and hope. Contributors draw from a rich body of auto/biographical research to examine the role of narrative and how it can be constructed to compose a life story, considering the roles of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    by Janet Batsleer ...
    Informal Learning in Youth Work offers fresh perspectives on all aspects of informal education in the youth work setting. Designed to develop the reader′s knowledge and skills, this comprehensive textbook explores key issues such as communication, power relations, ethics, gender exclusion, sexuality, race discrimination and social class. The author places particular emphasis on conversation as a ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The Importance of Disappointment

    by Ian Craib ...
    This sane and insightful discussion explores the nature of identity in late modern societies to criticize the way in which psychotherapy has become an ideology of late modernity and to emphasize the importance of `negative' messages in psychoanalytic theory. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages?

    Do men and women really speak different languages?

    by Deborah Cameron ...
    Popular assumptions about gender and communication - famously summed up in the title of the massively influential 1992 bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - can have unforeseen but far-reaching consequences in many spheres of life, from attitudes to the phenomenon of 'date-rape' to expectations of achievement at school, and potential discrimination in the work-place. In this wide ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Psychology: the Key Concepts

    by Graham Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Psychology: The Key Concepts is a comprehensive overview of 200 concepts central to a solid understanding of Psychology and includes the latest recommendations from the British Psychology Society (BPS). The focus is on practical uses of Psychology in settings such as nursing, education and human resources, with topics ranging from Gender to Psychometrics and Perception. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Mediation Skills and Strategies

    A Practical Guide

    by Tony Whatling ...
    Mediation is a process that can be used to resolve conflict in many different dispute contexts. This book focuses on the essential skills and strategies needed by any mediator to be successful in their work.Tony Whatling draws on his extensive experience in the field of mediation to explain the range of skills and strategies that are commonly used, as well as why you would use different skills and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Feminism, Interrupted

    Disrupting Power

    by Lola Olufemi ...
    Series series Outspoken by Pluto
    'I was blown away' - Angela DavisPlastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast becoming a popular slogan for our generation. But feminism isn't a commodity up for purchase; it's a weapon for fighting against injustice.This revolutionary book reclaims feminism from consumerism through exploring state violence against women, reproductive justice, ... Read more

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