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The robust, real-world approach makes this book appropriate for practitioner researchers and postgraduate students up to PhD level. Covers distance and face-to-face interviewing, from the un-structured and naturalistic to the highly structured, focused and time-efficient.

Offers many questions and answers about ethics in counselling and therapy, counselling supervision, research and other important issues. The questions cover a range of issues, including: confidentiality, constraints and the management of confidentiality; boundaries, dual and multiple relationships, relationships with former clients; and more.

This book provides a critical examination of the myths surrounding adult education and its practice.

This book gives teachers and students a better understanding of the thinking of young adolescent pupils in science lessons and indicates the difficulties such pupils have in understanding the more abstract or formal ideas with which they are presented.

Much of the time, experienced professionals in both education and other fields cannot explain what they are doing, or tell you what they know; and students cannot articulate their learning. This work tackles this apparent paradox head on, and explores the dynamic relationship between reason and intuition in the context of professional practice.

Examines action research as a 'cultural innovation' with transformative possibilities for the professional culture of teachers and teacher educators in academia.

Recent educational reforms have raised standards of achievement but have also resulted in growing inequalities based on 'race' and social class. This book reports detailed research in two secondary schools showing the real costs of reform in terms of the pressures on teachers and the rationing of educational opportunity.

Argues for independent, critical research on education policy in the context of attacks on the quality and usefulness of educational research in general. This book offers guidance on the theoretical and methodological resources available to practitioners and others with an interest in doing research on policy.

Should the bond with the dead be continued or broken? What is clear is that the grieving individual is not left in a social vacuum but has to struggle with expectations from self, family, friends, professionals and academic theorists. This book applies sociological insights to one of the most personal of human situations.

This book sets out a framework for practice that provides a new approach to working with families, couples and individuals. This is not offered as a prescriptive model but as an aid and guide to practice that draws aspects of narrative and attachment therapy into systemic work.

Addresses one of sociology's most fundamental and most debated concepts, the concept of social structure. This book attempts to show how these apparently competing conceptions might be put together in order to make the concept of social structure less ambiguous and more useful for those who want to think about how 'societies' are organised.

What is historical research in education? How can researchers get started in this area? Why does this field offer a common project for historians, educationists, and researchers across the social sciences? This book explores how to set about historical research in education.

This book presents an integrative relational model for psychotherapy supervision.

The concept of discourse is used in a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. By drawing upon existing empirical accounts, this book shows how this conception of discourse theory is used to analyse central issues in social science research.

Introduces the key readings in critical and cultural theory. This title guides students through the tradition of thought, from Saussure's early writings on language to contemporary commentary on world events by theorists such as Baudrillard and Zizek.

Explores the different ways of teaching that are free from determinist beliefs about ability. Drawing on a research project at the University of Cambridge, this book features 9 case studies that describe how teachers have developed alternative practices despite considerable pressure on them and on their schools and classrooms.

Explores the structure and content of the DfES Birth to Three Matters Framework. This book supports the use of the pack by providing detail, background information, and discussion of research and case studies in Early Years. It examines a range of issues that impact on the development of quality in early years settings.

Introduces theoretical approaches to ethnography, interviewing, narrative, discourse and psychoanalysis. This book includes numerous boxes that outline key issues in the development, application and assessment of qualitative research methods, and debates and problems with particular qualitative methods taught in psychology.

Through a celebration of teaching and research, this book explores exemplary practice in science education and fuses educational theory and classroom practice in unique ways. It enables the reader to move between practice and theory, reading about classroom innovation and then theorizing about the basis and potential of this teaching approach.

What makes the book distinctive is its focus on interviewing not just as a tool to be used within other frameworks such as case study, action research, evaluation and surveys, but as an approach to organise a project as a whole, to provide frameworks for organising perspectives on the multiple 'worlds' of everyday life.

This important book provides practical guidance for parents, teachers and other early years practitioners who are concerned with young children's musical development.

Explores the professional and personal difficulties, anxieties, emotions and pitfalls that students of psychotherapy and counselling face. This book is suitable for psychotherapy and counselling students, and also for qualified practitioners, tutors and supervisors looking for a different perspective.

Many organizations in health and social care are striving to implement the ideas of organizational excellence, performance measurement and process improvement, in the context of a large number of government initiatives. This book gives an explanation of this area and includes a variety of case studies and examples within health and social care.

This book examines the relationships between society and material culture: the interaction between people and things. Tim Dant argues that the traditional approach to material culture has focused on the symbolic meanings of objects, largely overlooking the material impact that objects have on everyday life in late modernity.

The most important consideration in early education is the way in which young children learn. Their transferable skills of communication, collaboration and investigation can underpin various aspects of learning. This book focuses on these elements in a group of pre-schools in an area of Northern Italy.

Reflecting on the proliferation of sites displaying culture in visitable form, this book offers various ways of thinking about tourism, leisure and heritage. It locates diverse exhibitionary locations within different social, economic and cultural transformations, including contemporary practices of tourism and travel.

Reviews disease specific measures of quality of life and, where relevant, popularly used symptom and single dimension scales. This book is suitable as a source book for researchers, medical and health care practitioners who are involved in the measurement of the outcome of health services.

Explores the main difficulties in the language of science and examines ways to aid students in retaining, understanding, reading, speaking and writing scientific language.

Addresses the aspects of the value system in which therapists are situated. This book explores the key issues through the experience of the contributors, each of whom is well known in this field. It deals with different aspects of the psychotherapist's work, beginning with the general underlying principles, continuing through matters of technique.

Evaluates the extent to which early years policies, provision and practice promote and foster gender equity. This book explores the rationale for the drive to employ more men in the early years field and examines the link made between 'underachievement' in boys and the 'feminine' nature of early years provision.