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  • Social Work

    A Critical Approach to Practice

    by Jan Fook ...
    Now 20 years since its first publication, Jan Fook returns to update her seminal text. Celebrating the ageless ideals of the profession, this book throws a life belt to all social work students and professionals looking to engage with the critical tradition of social work to improve their understanding and practice.Part One: Critical Potential and Current Challenges sets the historical and current ... Read more

    $68.79 CAD

  • Transformative Social Work

    Practices for Academic Settings

    Edited by Jan Fook, Danielle Jatlow ...
    Transformative approaches to social work have been popular for some time. Most discussions of this perspective, however, focus on actual practice with clients or service users, not educational contexts. In addition, there is often a lack of clarity about what “transformative” really means, both in theory and in practice.This book brings together a range of contributors to reconsider transformative ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Learning Critical Reflection

    Experiences of the Transformative Learning Process

    Edited by Laura Béres, Jan Fook ...
    Learning Critical Reflection documents the actual learning experiences of social work students and practitioners. It explores how a more in-depth understanding of the process of learning, combined with an analysis of how to critically reflect, will help improve the learning process.The contributors are all professionals who have learnt, in a formalised way, how to critically reflect on their ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Transforming Social Work Practice

    Postmodern Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Jan Fook, Bob Pease ...
    Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Practicing Critical Reflection in Social Care Organisations

    Edited by Jan Fook ...
    This book explores concrete examples of different strategies and activities aimed at creating and embedding critically reflective learning and working environments within organisations whose prime function is social care.Critical reflection has long been recommended as a general professional skill and is a core component of the practice capabilities in social work in countries across the Western ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Practice and Research in Social Work

    Postmodern Feminist Perspectives

    Edited by Barbara Fawcett, Brid Featherstone, Jan Fook, Amy Rossiter ...
    Although postmodernist theory has been related to and explored in sociology and social policy, this book is amongst the first to apply the theories to social work, and relate them to current debates. Contributors come from the UK, Australia, South Africa and Canada and many have professional experience as social workers. They appraise the key issues in the contested field of postmodernism and ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Critical Reflection in Context

    Applications in Health and Social Care

    Edited by Jan Fook, Fiona Gardner ...
    Critical reflection enables practitioners – especially those within health and social care –to theorise from their own practice, improving and developing their work and practising both creatively and professionally.This book provides an accessible overview of the influential Fook/Gardner Critical Reflection framework for students, researchers and professionals. It then presents a wide range of ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Researching Critical Reflection

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Jan Fook, Val Collington, Fiona Ross, Gillian Ruch, Linden West ...
    Critical reflection helps professionals to learn directly from their practice experience, so that they can improve their own work in an ongoing and flexible way – something essential in today’s complex and changing organisations. It allows change to be managed in a way which enables individuals to preserve a sense of what is fundamentally important to them as professionals. It is particularly ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition

    Knowledge and Theory

    by Steven Shardlow, Jane Aldgate, Alastair Gibson, Judith Brearley, Brigid Daniel, Daphne Statham, Michael Sheppard, Geraldine Macdonald, Peter Marsh, Steven Walker, Colin Keenan, Rob MacKay, Alan Barr, Robert Buckley, Fiona Feilberg, Jan Fook, Ian Fisk, Terry Maclean, Sheila Slessor, Amy Richert, Janine Bolger, Amy Clark, Mike Shepherd, Hazel Kelmshall, David Humphrey, Pauline Hardiker, Mary Barker, Heather Munro, Rory Lynch, Patricia Kearney, Neil Gibson, Prof Mark Doel ...
    This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment models and interventions, and also offers guidance on the effective implementation of assessment across a ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Everyday Social Justice and Citizenship

    Perspectives for the 21st Century

    Edited by Pam Jarvis, Jan Fook, Jonathan Doherty, Ann Marie Mealey ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    Social justice is a concept which is widely touted and lauded as desirable, yet its meaning may differ depending on whether its focus is on the underlying values of social justice, the more specific objectives these entail, or the actual practices or policies which aim to achieve social justice. In the current global political context, we need to re-examine what we mean by social justice, and ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • A Practical Guide to Transformative Supervision for the Helping Professions

    Amplifying Insight

    by Nicki Weld ...
    Supervision is a valuable protected space for personal and professional development that has the potential to contribute greatly to positive transformative change.This book explores what is meant by transformative supervision and how it can be undertaken. It examines the key factors that contribute to the transformative function, such as the role of observation and questioning, the importance of ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

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  • Education, Philosophy and the Ethical Environment

    by Graham Haydon ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    How much can we reasonably expect from education? This book, written by a philosopher of education, casts new light on this question by seeing values education, not as a separate activity within schools, but as an aspect of education that both reflects the surrounding climate of values and can help to change it. Graham Haydon argues that all of us – whether as teachers, parents, students or ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD