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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ole madsen”
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  • Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health

    Can Kids Be Taught to Master Life?

    by Ole Jacob Madsen ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Mental Health
    Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness.The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to place more responsibility on the individual rather than address fundamental societal flaws that really ... Read more

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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures

    Edited by Daniel Nehring, Ole Jacob Madsen, Edgar Cabanas, China Mills, Dylan Kerrigan ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures explores central lines of enquiry and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology, and the happiness industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, politics, law, history, social work, cultural studies, development studies, and American Indian ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Optimizing the Self

    Social representations of self-help

    by Ole Jacob Madsen ...
    Series series Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation
    This book provides an analysis of the social representations of leading self-help genres, including neurolinguistic programming, cognitive self-help therapy, mindfulness, self-management, self-esteem, self-leadership and self-control. Exploring the globalised therapeutic culture of today, the book argues that psychology as ‘science’ is often abandoned to aid the individual pursuit for self ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • The Psychologization of Society

    On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway

    by Ole Jacob Madsen ...
    Series series Therapeutic Cultures
    The Psychologization of Society explores the manner in which psychology has increasingly crept into everyday life, with nature reduced to a source of mental health, the belief in God motivated by health not salvation, sin and evil turned into psychiatric diagnosis and the market economy being primarily driven by psychology. Showing that Norway, like the United States and Great Britain, is ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Future of Smart Production for SMEs

    A Methodological and Practical Approach Towards Digitalization in SMEs

    Edited by Ole Madsen, Ulrich Berger, Charles Møller, Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Brian Vejrum Waehrens, Casper Schou ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explains and exemplifies how SMEs can embrace the Smart Production approach and technologies in order to gain a beneficiary outcome. The book describes the Smart Production vision for SMEs, as well as the method to get there. The concept behind the book is based on the long-term experience of the authors in researching and tackling problems of SMEs in the manufacturing sector. The book ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Therapeutic Turn

    How psychology altered Western culture

    by Ole Jacob Madsen ...
    Series series Concepts for Critical Psychology
    In what ways has psychology become more influential in Western society? In this book author Ole Jacob Madsen considers the notion of a ‘Therapeutic Turn’ in Western culture – the tendency for psychology to permeate ever new spheres within society.The Therapeutic Turn evaluates the increasing prevalence of psychology in several areas of Western society: Western consumer culture, contemporary ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

    A Youth Mental Health Crisis?

    by Ole Jacob Madsen ...
    Translated by Diane Oatley ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success. It critically examines our understanding of this so-called “achievement generation”, questioning whether today’s youth are really worse off than previous generations ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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    the struggle for identity in a market-based society

    by Paul Verhaeghe ...
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  • Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

    Exploring the Role of Education

    Edited by Anna Craft, Guy Claxton, Howard Gardner ...
    "In today′s ′teach-to-the-test′ climate, do we ever need a book about wisdom and creativity! Our focus as educators is enriched by this book."—Robert Di Giulio, ProfessorJohnson State College"Creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship may each sound good enough in itself, but the contributors to this volume make a compelling case for how much they need one another."—David Perkins, ProfessorHarvard ... Read more

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  • Nordic Childhoods and Early Education

    Philosophy, Research, Policy and Practice in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden

    Edited by Johanna Einarsdottir, Judith T. Wagner ...
    Series series International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice
    In this book, noted Nordic researchers and teacher educators provide insights into early childhood discourses and practices in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. In addition to these insiders’ perspectives, an American scholars explore Nordic themes, trends, and practices as they emerge in the book's chapters on such varied topics as Nordic childhoods, children's perspectives, preschool ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Against Empathy

    The Case for Rational Compassion

    by Paul Bloom ...
    “Like a tough-to-crack case against an idea that most of us have long known is key to repairing the world… will legitimately change how you think about the world and your own sense of morality.” —New York MagazineNew York Post Best Book of the YearWe often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, ... Read more

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  • Dumbing Down

    The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great School System—and How to Reverse the Trend

    by Magnus Henrekson, Johan Wennström ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book examines the challenges and issues caused by a move to a marketized education system in Sweden. Observing the introduction of the school voucher system and a postmodern social constructivist view of knowledge, the move away from objective knowledge is identified as the core reason for Sweden’s current education crisis. The impact of declining education standards on the labor ... Read more

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