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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Communities for Social Change

    Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work

    by Annette Coburn, Sinéad Gormally ...
    Series Book 483 - Counterpoints
    Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin community and youth work. It informs understanding of a range of community concepts and practices that are used to identify practical skills and characteristics that can help to promote equality by challenging injustice. Working with ... Read more

    $49.58 CAD

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  • Radical Education and the Common School

    A Democratic Alternative

    by Michael Fielding, Peter Moss ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic society affect our responses to these questions?Addressing these fundamental issues, Fielding and Moss contest the current mainstream ... Read more

    $99.78 CAD

  • Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society

    Sociological Perspectives

    by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
    This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning with examples from around the globe. Divided into three clear parts the book:looks at the development of the knowledge economyprovides a critique of lifelong learning and the learning societyfocuses on the changing ... Read more

    $99.78 CAD

  • Ethical Issues in Social Work

    Edited by Richard Hugman, David Smith ...
    Series series Professional Ethics
    It has always been recognised that the practice of social work raises ethical questions and dilemmas. Recently, however, traditional ways of addressing ethical issues in social work have come to seem inadequate, as a result of developments both in philosophy and in social work theory and practice. This collection of thought-provoking essays explores the ethics of social work practice on the light ... Read more

    $82.53 CAD

  • Innovations in Lifelong Learning

    Critical Perspectives on Diversity, Participation and Vocational Learning

    Edited by Sue Jackson ...
    This book opens up ways to engage critically with what counts as innovatory practice in lifelong learning today, locating its discussion of innovations in lifelong learning within an international and comparative framework.Innovations in Lifelong Learning engages first hand with issues and concerns from around the globe, offering an international perspective on current trends through its range of ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation

    by Madeleine Leonard ...
    Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives.Examining children’s involvement in areas such as the ... Read more

    $77.75 CAD

  • Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice

    by John Smyth ...
    Series series Critical Pedagogy Today
    We live in a time when those who wield unrestrained power believe they have the inalienable right to determine the destiny, nature and shape of social institutions like schools. Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice challenges this arrogance by showing how teachers, students, parents, communities, and researchers can develop narratives that amount to working with and for those who are increasingly ... Read more

    $38.87 CAD

  • Core Themes In Social Work: Power, Poverty, Politics And Values

    by Martin Sheedy ...
    This book will challenge students and practitioners to locate themselves in the arena of effective critical practice by exploring core themes which are central to how we think about and carry out the professional role of social worker. ... Read more

    $33.65 CAD

  • Changing Teacher Professionalism

    International trends, challenges and ways forward

    Edited by Sharon Gewirtz, Pat Mahony, Ian Hextall, Alan Cribb ...
    Significant changes in the policy and social context of teaching over the last 30 years have had substantial implications for teacher professionalism. As the influence of central regulation and marketisation has increased, so the scope for professional influence on policy and practice has in many cases diminished. Instead, teachers have had to respond to a range of other demands stemming from ... Read more

    $82.53 CAD

  • Foucault and Educational Leadership

    Disciplining the Principal

    by Richard Niesche ...
    School principals are increasingly working in an environment of work intensification, high stakes testing, accountability pressures and increased managerialism. Rather than searching for the latest leadership fad or best practice model, this book suggests that in order to better understand these pressures, the work of educational leadership requires more sophisticated theorisation of these ... Read more

    $80.07 CAD

  • Leadership and Diversity

    Challenging Theory and Practice in Education

    by Marianne Coleman, Jacky Lumby ...
    Series series Education Leadership for Social Justice
    ′What makes this book stand out in the crowd is the engaging approach the authors have taken to present their argument and the novel treatment they offer of diversity and diversity management…a must-read for anyone in a leadership position or interested in investigating education leadership and diversity′ - Gender and Education′The authors should be congratulated for tackling the crucial topic of ... Read more

    $97.91 CAD

  • Youth Work Ethics

    by Howard Sercombe ...
    What does it mean to practice youth work ethically? How does ethical theory relate to the youth work profession? What are the moral dilemmas confronting youth workers today, and how should practitioners respond?This definitive text on youth work ethics examines these questions and more and should be on the reading lists of all youth work trainees and practitioners. A wide range of topics are ... Read more

    $80.63 CAD