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  • Quality In Early Childhood Services - An International Perspective

    by Helen Penn ...
    Examining how quality and good practice in early childhood education and care is interpreted and implemented in a variety of settings and circumstances. ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Understanding Early Childhood: Issues And Controversies

    by Helen Penn ...
    Understanding Early Childhood is an introductory text for students on early years courses which offers broad and insightful perspectives across a range of themes on the ways in which we understand and study young children. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Who Needs Nurseries?

    We Do!

    by Helen Penn ...
    The role that nurseries play in supplementing family care is an important subject – but in the UK, there is currently little consensus about what nurseries should provide, how they should be run, and who should pay for them.This topical book sets out to look at:• Who benefits from using nurseries?• Who can access nurseries?• Who should provide them?• How do children behave while they are in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 'Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible'

    A Memoir of Work in Childcare and Education

    by Helen Penn ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    An astute exploration of the complexities of working and learning in the field of Early Childhood Education and Care, Professor Helen Penn tells of her experiences of working as a teacher, social worker, campaigner, researcher and writer, and so reflects on the perennial and complex issues which shape this expanding field.Mapping the author’s career from the mid-sixties onward, ‘Be Realistic, ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Early Childhood and Development Work

    Theories, Policies, and Practices

    Edited by Anne-Trine Kjørholt, Helen Penn ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice. Underpinning the theoretical debates are the familiar tensions between global norms and local contexts; increasing inequality alongside economic progress, and the increasing prominence of business and the private sector ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Unequal Childhoods

    Young Children's Lives in Poor Countries

    Edited by Helen Penn ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    An expert in her field, Helen Penn discusses the inequalities between and within countries of childhood poverty and how this poverty is recognized and defined through the following case-studies:Kazakhstan - once part of the Soviet UnionSwaziland - a country in Southern Africa devastated by HIV and AIDSHimalayan IndiaBrazil - one of the world's most unequal countries.These four case studies ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education

    by Michel Vandenbroeck, Jan De Vos, Wim Fias, Liselott Mariett Olsson, Helen Penn, Dave Wastell, Sue White ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    This book explores and critiques topical debates in educational sciences, philosophy, social work and cognitive neuroscience. It examines constructions of children, parents and the welfare state in relation to neurosciences and its vocabulary of brain architecture, critical periods and toxic stress.The authors provide insight into the historical roots of the relationship between early childhood ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Poles and Jews

    Troubled Past, Brighter Future

    by Natalia Aleksiun, Lawrence Baron, Havi Ben-Sasson, Guy Billauer, Stanislaw Krajewski, Joanna B. Michlic, Shana Penn, Antony Polonsky, Thaddeus Radzilowski, Helene Sinnreich, Carolyn Slutsky, Eli Zborowski, Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski, Rabbi Michael Schudrich, John T. Pawlikowski ...
    Since Polish Catholics embraced some anti-Jewish notions and actions prior to WWII, many intertwined the Nazi death camps in Poland with Polish anti-Semitism. As a result, more so than local non-Jewish population in other Nazi-occupied countries, Polish Catholics were considered active collaborators in the destruction of European Jewry. Through the presentation of these negative images in ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Bed No. 1

    From Coma to Cycling

    by Laurence Penn ...
    Much more than one man's battle with COVID-19. This story shines a light on the lives of the people who saved Laurence Penn, a fifty-four-year-old man who is placed into a coma in bed number one on ICU to help him fight the deadly virus sweeping the globe from 2020.We get a front-line view of the challenges of working in healthcare during a pandemic and meet the research nurses and healthcare team ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Tong Lashing [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Sir Apropos of Nothing 3

    by Peter David ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Scott McCormick, Yasmin Tuazon, Chris Davenport, Kimberly Gilbert, Colleen Delany, Bradley Smith, Terence Aselford, Tony Nam, Scott Graham, Joe Brack, James Konicek, Al Twanmo, Eric Singdahlsen, Eva Wilhelm, Patrick Bussink, Nick DePinto, Danny Gavigan, Marni Penning, Helen Pafumi, Nora Achrati, Drew Kopas, Christopher Graybill, Steve Wannall, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Ken Jackson, Casie Platt, Mort Shelby ...
    Series series Sir Apropos of Nothing

    Unabridged

    9 hours 56 min

    It's hard to find a lesser man than Apropos: a con man, a knave, a scalawag...and those are his finer points. This time, Apropos winds up a stranger in a strange land called "Chinpan," populated by those who speak a different language and live by a code of honor, neither of which Apropos can comprehend. And yet it is here that he begins to examine his life and question whether he can aspire to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Critical Approach to Age Relations

    by Simon Biggs, Ariela Lowenstein ...
    The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century. The advent of ageing populations may lead to increased conflict or solidarity in society, and provokes a profound ambivalence both in public and in the private sphere. In a new approach, Biggs and Lowenstein offer a critical examination of Generational Intelligence ... Read more

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  • Dissecting Discrimination

    Identifying Its Various Faces and Their Sources

    by Daniel Villiger ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This Open-Access-book examines the phenomenon of discrimination using a descriptive approach. Discrimination is omnipresent, whether it is people who discriminate against other people or, more recently, also machines that discriminate against people. The first part of the analysis employs decision theory on discrimination, leading to two fundamental subtypes: taste-based discrimination and ... Read more

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