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  • Everyday Playfulness

    A New Approach to Children's Play and Adult Responses to It

    by Stuart Lester ...
    Seeing play as an important and vital element of life for children and adults alike, this book addresses the ways in which practitioners take account of and act responsibly with moments of children's play and playfulness.Working with the Playwork Principles, the book draws on alternative concepts to traditional approaches, including ideas from materialist and posthuman philosophy and human ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Practice-Based Research in Children's Play

    by Lindsey Kilgour, Stephen Smith, Rebecca Willans, Denise Hill, Nic Matthews, Claire Hawkes, Chris Martin, Bridget Handscomb, John Fitzpatrick, Rebekah Jackson, Linda Kinney, Megan Dickerson, Hattie Coppard, Tom Williams, Paula Harris ...
    This unique collection of 12 research projects carried out by experienced practitioners in the play sector in the UK and USA puts forward a range of perspectives on children's play and adults' relationships with it.Drawing on a diverse range of research methodologies, the studies consider adults' memories of play; the co-production of spaces where children can play (in adventure playgrounds, out ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Aspects of Playwork: Play and Culture Studies

    Volume 14

    by Fraser Brown, Bob Hughes, Sarah Wilson, Mike Wragg, Kelda Lyons, Alex Cote, Rusty Keeler0, Suzanna Law1, Morgan Leichter-Saxby2, Dave Bullough3, Claire Pugh4, Ben Tawil5, Joel Seath6, Tony Chilton7, Maxine Delorme8, Dr. Wendy Russell9, Dr. Michael Patte0, Dr. Stuart Lester1, Dr. Sylwyn Guilbaud2 ...
    Series series Play and Culture Studies
    The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play. Many of these sites employed playleaders, whose job was to use play to instill social behavioral norms on children, using games with rules and organized activities. From the early 1970s, that approach began to be replaced ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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    Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • A Good Book, In Theory

    Making Sense Through Inquiry, Second Edition

    by Alan Sears, James Cairns ...
    This brief and engagingly written book provides a unique introduction to the process of social inquiry and the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry, offering a strong foundation in critical thinking that is rooted in the social sciences but maintains relevance across the disciplines. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Practice as Research

    Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

    Edited by Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt ...
    Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book's framework and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • How to Rethink Human Behavior

    A Practical Guide to Social Contextual Analysis

    by Bernard Guerin ...
    Series series Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour
    Developed from the author’s long teaching career, How to Rethink Human Behavior aims to cultivate practical skills in human observation and analysis, rather than offer a catalogue of immutable ‘facts’. It synthesizes key psychological concepts with insights from other disciplines, including sociology, social anthropology, economics, and history.The skills detailed in the book will help readers to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Non-Representational Theory

    Space, Politics, Affect

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:introduces the rather dispersed ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Art, Artists and Pedagogy

    Philosophy and the Arts in Education

    Edited by Christopher Naughton, Gert Biesta, David Cole ...
    This volume has been brought together to generate new ideas and provoke discussion about what constitutes arts education in the twenty-first century, both within the institution and beyond. Art, Artists and Pedagogy is intended for educators who teach the arts from early childhood to tertiary level, artists working in the community, or those studying arts in education from undergraduate to Masters ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Action Research

    Principles and practice

    by Jean McNiff ...
    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

    $81.99 USD

  • Understanding Material Culture

    by Ian Woodward ...
    "In his interdisciplinary review of material culture, Ian Woodward goes beyond synthesis to offer a theoretically innovative reconstruction of the field. It is filled with gems of conceptual insight and empirical discovery. A wonderful book."- Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University"A well-grounded and accessible survey of the burgeoning field of material culture studies for students in sociology ... Read more

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  • Critical Language Awareness

    by Norman Fairclough ...
    Series series Real Language Series
    The proliferation of language awareness has now led to a need for a reassessment of the nature and functions of language awareness. This accessible collection of essays addresses that need in developing a more rigorous and critical theoretical underpinning for what language awareness is and should do. In particular, it argues that there needs to be a greater awareness of the social and political ... Read more

    $80.99 USD