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Improving Learning eBook Series

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  • Improving Disabled Students' Learning

    Experiences and Outcomes

    by Mary Fuller, Jan Georgeson, Mick Healey, Alan Hurst, Katie Kelly, Sheila Riddell, Hazel Roberts, Elisabet Weedon ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support?This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today. The current generation of students is the first to move through university after the enactment of the Disability ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

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  • Working with Vulnerable Families

    A Partnership Approach

    Edited by Fiona Arney, Dorothy Scott ...
    Poverty, domestic violence, marginalisation, drug and alcohol dependence are just some of the issues faced by many Australian families. Now in its second edition, Working with Vulnerable Families provides a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to family-centred practice in Australia. It explores the ways in which health, education and social welfare professionals can support and protect ... Read more

    $61.28 USD

  • Partnerships for Inclusive Education

    A Critical Approach to Collaborative Working

    by Liz Todd ...
    Shortlisted for the NASEN/TES 2007 Book AwardIncreased partnership between professionals, particularly through the integration of services, indicates a major opportunity for child and parent participation, but one that seems in danger of being side-stepped. Drawing on substantial research evidence, this book looks at reasons for this situation; what is happening now, what developments and ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Reconstruction of Social Work Through Personalisation

    The Need for Policy and Practice Shift in Social Care: Family Directed Support Care Systems.

    by Felix. U. A Ugwumadu ...
    The growing older people population and their increasing needs for care is now presenting significant difficulties to both national government and local authorities because of constriction of formal caregivers and family units. Inevitably a change of this magnitude within the complex system in which older people services operate everywhere attracts a range of responses from the very enthusiastic ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Included or Excluded?

    The Challenge of the Mainstream for Some SEN Children

    Edited by Ruth Cigman ...
    In a pamphlet published in 2005 Mary Warnock expressed concerns about some of the concepts that she had helped to introduce in the field of special education almost three decades earlier. She argued that the role of special schools was unclear and the pursuit of inclusion had become too ideological.This highly topical book suggests that distinctions should be made between kinds of special needs ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Working with Aggression and Resistance in Social Work

    Edited by Brian J. Taylor ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    Social workers have roles that require them to engage with clients and families who may be ′reluctant clients′, ambivalent or resistant towards those seeking to help and protect. This includes safeguarding roles in relation to children and vulnerable adults, and work to engage with marginalised groups such as young offenders and those with mental health and substance misuse problems. The text ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Effective Safeguarding for Children and Young People

    What next after Munro?

    by Maggie Blyth, Enver Solomon ...
    The number of children entering the child protection system has risen dramatically in the last three years with implications for children's services and partner agencies. This timely volume takes a critical look at the impact of the Munro Review (2011) on child protection and the Government's response. It looks at questions including how effective Local Safeguarding Children Boards are in ... Read more

    $25.91 USD

  • Social Work and Evidence-Based Practice

    Edited by David Smith ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Evidence-based practice - what it might mean, how it can be achieved, whether it should be aspired to - is the subject of much debate and argument in social work. Covering areas of social work practice that are well established and those in which evidence is just beginning to become available, the authors address issues such as:* What is to count as evidence, and who decides this?* If relevant ... Read more

    $32.48 USD

  • Developing Professional Practice 7-14

    by Viv Wilson, Sue Kendall-Seatter ...
    Developing Professional Practice 7-14 provides a thoroughly comprehensive and cutting edge guide to developing the necessary knowledge, skills and understanding for teaching within the 7-14 age range. This book is designed to guide you through your initial teacher training programme, and on into the early stages of your career, with the aim of stimulating and supporting you in the process of ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Social Work with People with Learning Difficulties

    by Paul Williams, Michelle Evans ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    This book is part of the highly successful Transforming Social Work Practice series and is written specifically to support students on the social work degree. Full of practical activities, case studies and opportunities for students to critically reflect and explore theory and practice.Current practice in the field was driven by the government White Paper ′Valuing People′ (2001) which declared ... Read more

    $51.02 USD

  • Family Support: Prevention, Early Intervention and Early Help

    by Nick Frost, Shaheen Abbott, Tracey Race ...
    Series series Social Work in Theory and Practice
    Family Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people. Drawing on contemporary thinking and research, the book aims to make a contribution to current debates about how we can best support families in need.Underpinning the book is an analysis of how family support is changing, having moved from ‘prevention’ through to contemporary ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Understanding Family Support

    Policy, Practice and Theory

    by John Pinkerton, Pat Dolan, John Canavan ...
    Understanding Family Support provides a definition of family support and a clear perspective on the role that it has in promoting the welfare of children and their families.Family support is a concept that has been used in a range of ways to describe various aspects of child welfare policy and practice. The authors argue that this weakens family support as an overarching child welfare paradigm. ... Read more

    $25.82 USD