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  • Choice, Pathways and Transitions Post-16

    New Youth, New Economies in the Global City

    This internationally appealing book is based on a two-year case study of a group of young people as they move through their final year of mandatory schooling and into their first year of post-16 experience. It looks at their choices, the market behaviour of local education and training providers and those who help and advise these choices. The authors show that recent and current political ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Men and the Classroom

    Gender Imbalances in Teaching

    The teaching of young children has long been dominated by women. This global phenomenon is firmly rooted in issues related to economic development, urbanization, the position of women in society, cultural definitions of masculinity and the values of children and childcare. Yet, amongst the media scare stories and moral panics about underachieving boys, there are surprisingly few empirically ... Read more

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  • AQA Sociology for A-level Book 1

    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

  • Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies

    Applying Post-Structural Ideas

    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    The theories and analyses of post-structural thinkers such as Michel Foucault can seem a long way from practice in early childhood services. In recent years, however, many early childhood researchers and practitioners have found this work important and this fascinating book brings together a range of research and case-studies showing how teachers and researchers have brought post-structuralism to ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Happiest Days?

    How Pupils Cope With Schools

    by Peter Woods ...
    This book examines pupils' experience of school from their own perspectives, showing a range of responses involving both pain and pleasure. It brings together a wide range of material to evoke pupil realities, to describe pupil cultures, and to consider the meanings of activities. ... Read more

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  • Parents And Professionals In Early Childhood Settings

    This book addresses the complex and sometimes controversial issues that emerge from the care and education of young children. ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Thinking Through Ethics and Values in Primary Education

    Series series Thinking Through Education Series
    Thinking Through Ethics and Values in Primary Education is an accessible text that encourages readers to explore deeply the ethics and values surrounding primary education. The text helps the reader to critically reflect on the principles that underpin education. Specifically written for education students in the later years of their course, the text draws on research and practice to explore the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Childcare, Choice and Class Practices

    Middle Class Parents and their Children

    Childcare is a topic that is frequently in the media spotlight and continues to spark heated debate in the UK and around the world. This book presents an in-depth study of childcare policy and practice, examining middle class parents’ choice of childcare within the wider contexts of social class and class fractions, social reproduction, gendered responsibilities and conceptions of ‘good’ parenting ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Marginalised Mothers

    Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting

    by Val Gillies ...
    Series series Relationships and Resources
    Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting and are associated with poor outcomes for children.Marginalised Mothers provides a detailed and much-needed insight into the lived ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Same Sex Intimacies

    Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments

    Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time. This is particularly true of the non-heterosexual world, where the last ten years have seen a popular acceptance of same sex partnerships and, to a lesser extent, of same sex parenting.Based on extensive interviews with people in a variety of non-traditional relationships, this fascinating new book argues ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Working with Men

    Feminism and Social Work

    One of feminism's key contributions to improving social work practice has been to expose the gender-blindness which has characterized social work policy and literature.Working with Men extends and diversifies this contribution by presenting a controversial collection of essays written by feminists about men. In what has been a previously unexplored area of social work, the contributors to Working ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Curriculum Practice

    Some Sociological Case Studies

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    When first published this book was one of the first collections of empirical research in the area of the knowledge transmitted in schools and the responses of students to it. It includes studies of the histories of particular school subjects and of how the knowledge they embody is presented in the classroom. Attention is also given to the effects of gender stereotypes among teachers and pupils, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD