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Understanding Digital Societies

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 Understanding Digital SocietiesÂ provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it.
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Understanding Mental Health And Counselling

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 AÂ critical introduction to key debates about how problems of mental health are understood, and to the core approaches taken to working with counselling and psychotherapy clients.
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Youth In Society - Contemporary Theory, Policy And Practice

~~51,66€~~ 41,33€ 20% OFF

 Fully revised in order to incorporate policy development, this book brings together a series of readings to encourage critical reflection and thought about how young people's lives and priorities are changing and becoming more diverse. The book will be of value to 'youth' work professionals and students.
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Educational Leadership - Context, Strategy And Collaboration

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 Drawing together current thinking and research by leading writers in the field, this Reader will help you to understand and critically analyse key strategic aspects of educational leadership, including:- leadership perspectives and values- external and internal contexts- autonomy and accountability- partnership and collaboration- leading strategy and change. The book explores major challenges for educational leaders in managing the increasingly permeable boundary between educational organisations and their external contexts and reconciling environmental expectations and internal priorities. The Reader will encourage you to positively problematize the field and reflect on current debates and issues.This book will be an essential resource for providers and students of postgraduate level courses in educational leadership and management, as well as those involved in undertaking professional development programmes. It will also serve the reflective practitioner as personal reference when occupying or aspiring towards leadership roles in schools, colleges and other educational organisations.Dr Maggie Preedy, Professor Nigel Bennett and Dr Christine Wise have taught, researched and published widely in the field of educational leadership and management. Maggie Preedy and Christine Wise are Senior Lecturers in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at The Open University, UK. Nigel Bennett is Emeritus Professor of Leadership and Management in Education at The Open University.
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Leading Professional Practice In Education

by Christine Wise, Marion Cartwright e Pete Bradshaw

~~51,66€~~ 41,33€ 20% OFF

 Written by leading academics, this volume provides an overview of key contemporary themes in educational leadership
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Understanding Research With Children And Young People

~~52,99€~~ 42,39€ 20% OFF

 How do views about children shape research concerned with their lives? What different forms can research with children take? What ethical issues does it involve? How does it impact on policy and practice, and on the lives of children themselves? This book helps you to understand how research is designed and carried out to explore questions about the lives of children and young people. It tackles the methodological, practical and ethical challenges involved, and features examples of actual research that illustrate: Different strategies for carrying out research Common challenges that arise in the research process Varying modes of engagement that researchers can adopt with participants and audiences; and The impact that research can have on future studies, policy and practice.
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Understanding Research With Children And Young People

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 Useful strategies and guidance for anyone needing to explore the practical and ethical issues around researching with children and young people.
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Understanding Research With Children And Young People

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 Useful strategies and guidance for anyone needing to explore the practical and ethical issues around researching with children and young people.
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Death, Dying And Bereavement

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 `This second edition, ...utilizes around half of the original text, of which a significant portion has been revised and updated. The remainder comprises new material... This book will stimulate thinking and challenge the personal views of both academics and those in practice. ...(A) valuable tool for... those experienced professionals searching for a new angle on several key topics... (A)n excellent balance of theoretical contents and moving prose... (T)his book is directed towards all professionals working in health and social care. ... (and) students wishing to gain greater understanding' - Nurse Education Today
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Working With Young People

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 'Excellent resource that should be essential reading for all those considering working with young people whatever their background or discipline' - Miss Isabelle King, WFD, national Council of Voluntary Youth Services
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Working With Young People

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 'Excellent resource that should be essential reading for all those considering working with young people whatever their background or discipline' - Miss Isabelle King, WFD, national Council of Voluntary Youth Services
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Leading Professional Practice In Education

by Christine Wise, Marion Cartwright e Pete Bradshaw

~~68,93€~~ 55,14€ 20% OFF

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 Written by leading academics, this volume provides an overview of key contemporary themes in educational leadership
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Primary Teaching Assistants - Curriculum In Context

by Carrie (Open University, Uk) Cable, Ian Eyres, Mary (Open University, Uk) Stacey e Roger (Open University, Uk) Hancock

~~55,42€~~ 44,34€ 20% OFF

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 This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new sections on learning outside the classroom, creative approaches using music, dance and art, the role of physical education and ICT.
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Primary Teaching Assistants - Curriculum In Context

by Carrie (Open University, Uk) Cable, Ian Eyres, Mary (Open University, Uk) Stacey e Roger (Open University, Uk) Hancock

~~232,51€~~ 186,01€ 20% OFF

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 This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new sections on learning outside the classroom, creative approaches using music, dance and art, the role of physical education and ICT.
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The State Or The Market - Politics And Welfare In Contemporary Britain

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 This collection deals with the central questions which have emerged from the break-up of the postwar political consensus around the welfare state. A series of distinguished contributors, including exponents of alternative positions on welfare from the right, left and centre, examine key issues in the disputes over the relationship between the state and welfare.
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Beyond Disability - Towards An Enabling Society

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 This study presents theoretical and practical perspectives on how society intervenes in the lives of people with disabilities, demonstrating ways in which such interventions can be ineffective and often counter-productive. Topics include care and counselling, legislation, and future developments.
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Strategic Leadership And Educational Improvement

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 This volume focuses on strategic leadership, the impact of external and internal factors on organizational leadership, and how effective educational leaders manage the competing demands of autonomy and accountability.
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A Reader In Promoting Public Health

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 A reflective and challenging book which analyses all the current key themes in public health
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Human Resource Strategies

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 Examines the significance of human resources management for effective organizational and competitive strategy and considers such issues as the development of appropriate organizational structures and cultures.
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Doing Social Psychology

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 A guide to carrying out a research project in social psychology which challenges the reader to tackle the key methodological and theoretical issues in conducting research. Eight social psychological studies are used to demonstrate a wide range of methods.
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Knowledge, Power And Learning

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 New technologies are altering the relationship between knowledge, power and learning. This book considers the influence of 'information age' on changing relationship between power and knowledge and how this affects learning in a range of situations, from the school to the learning organization and from the musical conservatoire to the workplace.
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Social Science In Question - Towards A Postdisciplinary Framework

by Mark J Smith

~~233,87€~~ 187,10€ 20% OFF

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 This major text takes the reader on an intellectual journey starting with the story of modern science and the impact that this has had on social scientific practice, and going on to outline and critically review the major approaches to social scientific inquiry, ranging from positivism to postmodernism.
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Public Health - Building Innovative Practice

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 Public health is high on government agendas thanks to the increasing burden lifestyle related illness places on healthcare providers. This book answers the need for a comprehensive text covering the core knowledge, competencies and skills taught to the growing public health workforce.
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Educational Leadership - Context, Strategy And Collaboration

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 Authoritative collection from the Open University team.
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