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  • Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research

    A Practical Introduction

    by Priscilla Alderson ...
    Winner of the 2022 Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize.Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between different research approaches, builds on the strengths of different methods and overcomes their individual limitations.This original text draws on international examples of health and illness ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Choosing for Children

    Parents' Consent to Surgery

    by Priscilla Alderson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    One mother described part of the complications of consenting to her one-week-old child’s high-risk heart surgery.‘I can’t imagine her being any more precious to me than she is now. I can hardly bear feeling so close to her as it is…I can’t wait until I see her again. It’s worse than being in love.’Can emotional parents be rational enough to give informed proxy consent? Research observations and ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Young Children's Rights

    Exploring Beliefs, Principles and Practice Second Edition

    by Priscilla Alderson ...
    Series series Children in Charge
    Published in association with Save the ChildrenPriscilla Alderson examines the often overlooked issue of the rights of young children, starting with the question of how the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the youngest children, from birth to eight years of age. The question of finding a balance between young children's rights to protection, to provision (resources and ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Learning and Inclusion (Routledge Revivals)

    The Cleves School Experience

    by Priscilla Alderson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Mainstream schools are consistently faced with numerous and often contradictory requirements, both to achieve high results and to be inclusive and incorporate children of every ability. This title, first published in 1999, describes how one renowned inclusive community school, Cleves School, responds to the challenges faced by themselves and other schools. Specifically, Priscilla Alderson shows ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Research with Children and Young People

    A Practical Handbook

    by Priscilla Alderson, Virginia Morrow ...
    A practical guide to carrying out ethical research with children and young people, this practical handbook examines the ethical questions that arise at each stage of research, from first plans to dissemination and impact. Illustrated with case studies from international and inter-disciplinary research, it offers advice for addressing each ethical question, issue or uncertainty. Including:• A ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Childhoods Real and Imagined

    Practical Application of Critical Realism and Childhood Studies

    by Priscilla Alderson ...
    Series series Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
    The second volume of Priscilla Alderson’s popular and renowned book Childhoods Real and Imagined relates dialectical critical realism to childhood. By demonstrating their relevance and value to each other, Alderson presents a practical introductory guide for applying critical realism to research about children and young people.Each chapter summarises key themes from several academic disciplines ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Childhoods Real and Imagined

    Volume 1: An introduction to critical realism and childhood studies

    by Priscilla Alderson ...
    Series series Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
    "This book is unusually rewarding in that its author has pulled off the rare trick of providing deep philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to a comprehensive reconsideration of childhood. Priscilla Alderson deploys Bhaskar's 'dialectical critical realism' to excellent effect, illuminating not only our understanding of the presence, and absence, of children in our lives and discourses, but ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • 30 Years of Social Change

    by Jan Lees, Nisha Dogra, Paul Cooper, Michael Mandelstam, Martin Barrow, Carola Beresford-Cooke, CJ Atkinson, Barbara Kelly, Dawn Brooker, Luke Beardon, Marian Liebmann, Belinda Hopkins, Charles Buck, Harriet Ward, Rex Haigh, Sarah Carr, Nigel Ching, Nick Luxmoore, Joyce Lishman, Grace Watts, Lorraine Nicolle, Winnie Dunn, Christiane Sanderson, Sally Donovan, Peter Beresford, Priscilla Alderson, Matthew J. Taylor, Vanessa Rogers, Jennifer Peace Peace Rhind, Dr Anthony Attwood, Dr Gwen Adshead, Kim S. Golding ...
    What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years?What have been the main barriers to progress?What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today?Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together over 30 leading thinkers from diverse disciplines - from autism specialists and social workers through to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    by Iain Wilkinson ...
    Few would dispute that we are living at a time of high anxiety and uncertainty in which many of us will experience a crisis of identity at some point or another. At the same time, news media provide us with a daily catalogue of disasters from around the globe to remind us that we inhabit a world of crisis, insecurity and hazard. Anxiety in a Risk Society : looks at the problem of contemporary ... Read more

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  • The Future of Childhood

    Edited by Alan Prout ...
    In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society. He critically examines 'the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering some of its key assumptions and positions and arguing that childhood is heterogeneous and complex. The study of childhood requires a broad set of intellectual resources and an interdisciplinary approach. Chapters ... Read more

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  • Philosophies of Research into Higher Education

    by Dr Brian J. Brown, Dr Sally Baker ...
    Research in higher education could be more useful, innovative and better designed if we were clearer about the philosophical and epistemological basis of the theories that underlie our research methods. People who have to interpret research would do a better job if they were able to interrogate research more critically and appreciate its strengths and weaknesses. This volume provides this ... Read more

    $210.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Teacher Education

    Collaborative Responses to Uncertainty

    by Anne Edwards, Peter Gilroy, David Hartley ...
    Rethinking Teacher Education is a thorough and critical analysis of the ambivalences and uncertainties that face those in teacher education. The authors draw on their different experiences of teacher education to try to make sense of current practices and where they might lead.The book analyzes past and present constructions of teacher education and offers insights into how a re-evaluation might ... Read more

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