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  • Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City: Melbourne

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the connections between policy, school experiences, and everyday activities of children growing up in the global city of Melbourne, Australia. It provides an in-depth consideration of Melbourne primary school children’s lifeworlds, exploring everyday stories and practices inside and outside of school. This includes consideration of the diverse ways that educational “success” may ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Transgender People and Education

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive account of the educational experiences of students, parents, and educators—transgender and cisgender—in the context of current debates about the inclusion of transgender people in schools. Drawing on critiques of cisgenderism and emphasising the importance of a whole-of-school approach, Transgender People and Education explores complex topics including sexuality ... Read more

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  • First-Time Parenting Journeys

    Expectations and Realities

    All too often heterosexual first-time parents are treated as the unmarked norm within research on reproduction. First-Time Parenting Journeys maps out what it means to be situated within the norm, while providing a critical account of how social norms about parenthood shape, regulate, and potentially delimit experiences of new parenthood for heterosexual couples. Based on qualitative longitudinal ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City: Singapore

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines connections between policy contexts, school experiences and everyday activities of children growing up in the global city of Singapore. In particular, it explores how Singapore children’s everyday experiences inside and outside of school shape their orientations towards educational success. Alongside an analysis of school life and educational policies, it also considers children ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Home and Away

    Mothers and Babies in Institutional Spaces

    Series series Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
    In Home and Away: Mothers and Babies in Institutional Spaces, the authors examine how health design in a psychiatric mother-baby unit can serve the needs of mothers and babies, their families, and the staff. Arguing that while mothers in institutional care are away from their own homes, they need not be away from their babies, the authors show that any examination of built space must consider how ... Read more

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    This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology. Adopting a unique and refreshing approach to criminological theory, it focuses on the great debates in criminology from its inception as a field to the present day. It explores the debates that have motivated criminological thought, that have represented turning points in theoretical and empirical trajectories, that have offered ... Read more

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  • Social Work Theory: A Straightforward Guide for Practice Educators and Placement Supervisors

    Social work students need to be able to link theory to their practice on placement. The need to support students in this area often causes anxiety for practice educators and placement supervisors. The first edition of this book was used widely by practice educators in supporting student learning in relation to theory and practice. It was so popular that many students started to use the book ... Read more

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  • Critical Suicidology

    Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century

    Globally, suicides account for a significant number of premature deaths every year. Traditional approaches to suicide research and prevention are not working for everyone, but why is this? And what can be done about it?In Critical Suicidology, a team of international scholars, practitioners, and people directly affected by suicide argue that the field of suicidology has become too focused on the ... Read more

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  • Teaching Secondary History

    Teaching Secondary History provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of teaching History to years 7–12 in Australian schools. Engaging directly with the Australian Curriculum, this text introduces pre-service teachers to the discipline of History. It builds on students' historical knowledge, thinking and skills and offers practical guidance on how to construct well-rounded ... Read more

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  • Asking the Right Questions 2

    Talking about sexual orientation and gender identity in mental health, counselling and addiction settings

    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, two-spirited, intersex and queer (LGBTTTIQ) people have specific life factors that relate to substance use and/or mental health problems. These factors include coming out, gender transition, societal oppression, loss of family support, isolation, and the prominence of bar culture in their communities.This manual will help counsellors create an ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Tourist Behaviour

    Themes and Conceptual Schemes

    Series Book 27 - Aspects of Tourism
    Tourism is an inherently social phenomenon. Tourists travel with others and experience places and cultures through interacting with both familiar and unfamiliar others. This volume presents a thorough tour of the social psychological processes which underpin contemporary travel. The fascinating phenomenon of tourist behaviour deals with topics such as motivation, destination choice, travellers' on ... Read more

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  • Teaching and Researching: Autonomy in Language Learning

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    Series series Applied Linguistics in Action
    Autonomy has become a keyword of language policy in education systems around the world, as the importance of independent learning and new technologies has grown.Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Teaching and Researching Autonomy provides an accessible and comprehensive critical account of the theory and practice of autonomy. Examining the history of the concept, it addresses ... Read more

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