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  • Researching Care with Case Studies

    by Robert Stake, Merel Visse ...
    Researching Care with Case Studies offers a fresh perspective on the universe of care practices, using case studies to illuminate their stretch and complexities.Building on Robert Stake’s foundational work with qualitative methods and Merel Visse’s integrating insights from care studies, this book offers a comprehensive approach to understanding care across various fields. It bridges the gap ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege

    Critical Care Ethics Perspectives

    by Sophie Bourgault, Maggie FitzGerald, Christine Koggel, Marie Garrau, Riikka Prattes, Vrinda Dalmiya, Andrea Doucet, Eva Jewell0, Vanessa Watts1, Emilie Dionne2, Vivienne Bozalek3, Masaya Llavaneras Blanco4, Christopher Paul Harris5, Alistair Niemeijer6, Merel Visse7 ...
    Series series Carework in a Changing World
    Care ethics first emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics; feminist scholars like Carol Gilligan argued that women’s moral experiences were not reflected in the dominant, masculinist approaches to ethics, which were centered on a rational, disembodied, atomistic moral subject. Care ethics challenged this model by positing ethics as relational, contextualized, embodied, and realized through ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Wonder, Silence, and Human Flourishing

    Toward a Rehumanization of Health, Education, and Welfare

    by Åshild Slettebø, Merel Visse, Sine Maria Herholdt-Lomholdt, Aslaug Kristiansen, Randi Edland Kroken, Claudia Welz ...
    Series series Philosophical Practice: Transformative Reflection on Life
    Wonder, Silence, and Human Flourishing: Toward a Rehumanization of Health, Education, and Welfare approaches humanization and the process of re-enchantment in a radical new way. For more than a decade the call for rehumanization in education, care and welfare has been heard and discussed primarily in critical thinking, political theory, and sociological discourses. This critique is mainly based on ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • A Paradigm of Care

    by Robert Stake, Merel Visse ...
    Remember the pots hammered by spoons from high Manhattan windows, and parades of cars and pick-up trucks holding dear the medical professionals responding to covid-19. This book is part of that chorus, that march, to express appreciation for the giving of care. And beyond doctors and nurses, bless their hearts, to mothers caring for their babies, for captains for their teams, for the soon-to-be ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Evaluation for a Caring Society

    Edited by Merel Visse, Tineke Abma ...
    Series series Evaluation and Society
    This book highlights views on responsive, participatory and democratic approaches to evaluation from an ethos of care. It critically scrutinizes and discusses the invisibility of care in our contemporary Western societies and evaluation practices that aim to measure practices by external standards. Alternatively, the book proposes several foci for evaluators who work from a care perspective or ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

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    by Nanaymie Godfrey ...
    Strategic Positioning is a method that can ensure each one of us an opportunity to be heard and understood within a culture that often neglects our input. It equalizes the playing field in social interaction and assures each one of us a chance to voice our thoughts and opinions through a technique that acknowledges the importance of the unique aspects of self. In the first of the three in the ... Read more

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  • How Do We Know Ourselves?

    Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind

    by David G. Myers ...
    “Each chapter is a gem of insight into the human experience, cut and polished to perfection by the renowned psychologist David Myers. Better than any book I can recall, this book answers questions about why we think, feel, and act as we do—but also makes us curious to learn more.” —Angela DuckworthA delightful tour of the wonders of our humanity from David G. Myers, the award-winning professor and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Free to Learn

    Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

    by Peter Gray ...
    "A lightning bolt of a book" makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn (Lenore Skenazy)In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today’s constantly changing world, we must entrust them to steer their own learning and development. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • What the Best College Teachers Do

    by Ken Bain ...
    What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.The short answer is—it’s not what teachers do, it’s what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Intersectionality

    An Intellectual History

    by Ange-Marie Hancock ...
    Intersectionality theory has emerged over the past thirty years as a way to think about the avenues by which inequalities (most often dealing with, but not limited to, race, gender, class and sexuality) are produced. Rather than seeing such categories as signaling distinct identities that can be adopted, imposed or rejected, intersectionality theory considers the logic by which each of these ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Elephant in the Brain

    Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

    by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson ...
    Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about ... Read more

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  • The Schools Our Children Deserve

    Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    In this provocative and well-researched book, Alfie Kohn builds a powerful argument against “teaching to the test” in favor of more child-centered curriculums to raise lifelong learners.Drawing on stories from real classrooms and extensive research, Kohn shows parents, educators, and others how schools can help students explore ideas rather than just fill them with forgettable facts and prepare ... Read more

    $10.49 USD