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Examines issues of television and cultural identities in the context of globalization. This book explores issues in contemporary cultural studies, such as media, globalization, language, gender, and identity. It is a useful read for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on television and cultural identities in the field of cultural studies.

Provides a set of principles for doing educational research for social justice. This book is helpful to various researchers, whether they are just beginning their first project, or whether they are already highly experienced.

The book presents a detailed and in-depth picture of early years development, particularly of developmental processes and interactions.

Offers a range of perspectives on the complex and multifaceted history of a British commercial broadcaster, this book explores key tensions and conflicts which have influenced the ITV service. It shows that ITV has had to tread an uneasy line between public service and commercial imperatives, and between a pluralistic regional structure.

Offers a research background for adults helping three- to five-year-olds learn mathematics, including social and emotional processes as well as mathematical ideas and common difficulties. This book includes implications for practice and proposes a playful and sensitive approach.

This book provides a multi-professional introduction to the key concepts in public health and epidemiology. It presents a broad, interactive account of contemporary public health, placing an emphasis on developing public health skills and stimulating the reader to think through the issues for themselves.

A guide to cancer treatment relief through art therapy. It provides theoretical insights into the value of art therapy for cancer sufferers.

All forms of psychotherapy deal with the limitations of our awareness. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which these discourses employ a rich variety of concepts to address the limits of our everyday consciousness.

This book investigates how social control has been used to how individuals, communities and societies respond to a variety of forms of deviant behaviour.

Takes both a chronological as well as thematic approach, in order to explore the ways in which the audience, as an analytical concept has changed. This book also examines the relationships which audiences have with texts and the ways in which they exert their power as consumers.

Examines approaches used to manage pharmaceutical expenditure across Europe and what impact these strategies have had on efficiency, quality, equity and cost of pharmaceutical care. This book is suitable for students of health policy, regulation and management, and for health managers and policy makers.

Introduces students and practitioners to a range of different approaches to early childhood. This book provides practical strategies for developing and implementing early learning experiences that promote excellence and equity for children.

Provides an introduction to analysing media texts. This book with its award winning DVD, helps students learn how to do semiotic, genre and narrative analysis, content and discourse analysis, and engage with debates about the politics of representation.

There are so many ways in which health might be improved today and, as technology improves, the opportunities will increase. Economic evaluation can help set out the value of the costs and benefits from competing choices. This book examines how to undertake economic evaluation of health care interventions in low, middle and high income countries.

The impact of the environment on human health is of growing concern to the public, politicians and public health practitioners. This book describes the methods available for public health practitioners to enable investigations to be carried out and how findings should be interpreted to ensure that the most appropriate policies are adopted.

Explores the links between therapy and the political world, and their contribution to each other. This collection covers topics such as psychotherapy in the political sphere, including the roots of conflict, social trauma, and ecopsychology and political dimensions of psychotherapy practice, such as discrimination, power, and sexuality.

What does higher education learning and teaching enable students to do and to become? Which human capabilities are valued in higher education, and how do we identify them? This book offers ways to reflect ethically about the purposes and values of contemporary higher education in relation to agency, learning, public values and democratic life.

This book outlines approaches to networked e-learning course design that are underpinned by a belief that students learn best in these contexts when they are organised in groups and communities. As such, the book is one of the first to provide a detailed analysis of what goes on in e-learning groups and communities.

Life history has become popular with researchers investigating educational topics of various kinds, including: teachers' perceptions and experiences of different areas of their lives and careers; curriculum and subject development; pedagogical practice; and managerial concerns. This book explores the various reasons for this popularity.

Explores the diverse characteristics of those who inhabit and cultivate academic knowledge. This book reviews fundamental changes in the nature of higher education and in the academic's role are reviewed and assesses their significance for academic cultures.

Adulthood is no longer lived as a state of personal completion. Careers, intimate relationships, even identities, are increasingly provisional. Does this mean that there is no significant difference between adults and children? This book examines these issues through assessments of theories of childhood in a globalizing and mediated social world.

Provides an overview of the self and how it is conceptualized across the psychotherapies within various theories of personality. Outlining some of the philosophical and historical issues surrounding the notion of selfhood, this book examines classical and developmental models of psychoanalytic thought that implicitly point to the idea of self.

Describes, defines and demonstrates the clinical applications of transference and projection and how they are used by psychotherapists as 'mirrors to the self'. This work is suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychotherapy, counselling, counselling psychology and clinical psychology.

Discusses about youth culture and popular music since the 1950s. This book includes chapters that looks at a specific era of youth and music, including rock 'n' roll, sixties counter-cultural rock, heavy metal, punk, reggae, rap, techno and house. It is suitable to undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in youth culture.

Covering the business and management processes of producing animation, from a project's inception to its conclusion, this work includes topics ranging from the initial concept and the pitch, to establishing a core team, developing the script and characters, budgeting and scheduling, and breaking down animation production in an understandable way.

Learning through the arts has the potential to stimulate open ended activity that encourages discovery, exploration, experimentation and invention, thus contributing to children's development in all areas of learning. This book examines how visual representations, music, plays and drama can enable children to express their thoughts and responses.

Offers practical guidance for parents, teachers and other early years workers who want to give children a good start in mathematical development. Showing how competent children are as mathematicians from an early age, this book offers an overview of young children's mathematical behaviour at home and in early years settings.

This innovative book looks at how and why girls and boys adopt 'laddish' behaviours in schools. It examines the ways in which students negotiate pressures to be popular and 'cool' in school alongside pressures to perform academically. It also deals with the fears of academic and social failure that influence pupils' school lives and experiences.

Explores an array of issues, providing a framework for understanding key debates on how the media represent science and risk. This book weaves together insights from multiple strands of research across diverse disciplines. It is useful for students and scholars in cultural and media studies, science studies, journalism, sociology and politics.

Argues that in a world of growing complexity and rapid change, it is vital to forge strong, open and interactive relationships with communities beyond schools in order to bring about significant improvements in teaching and learning within schools.