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Specifically designed for those carrying out biographical, life history or family history research, this concise guide covers the methods and issues involved. The author demonstrates that biographical research is a distinctive way of conceptualizing social activity.

This hands-on guide to being a principal is disguised as an engaging novel, with questions that invite debate and discussion.

In this essential new book, George Ritzer considers some of the main tendencies in contemporary social theory. Included here are his latest reflections on the uses and misuses of metatheory.

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Covering aspects of health and well being including physical, emotional and social health, this work helps schools to encourage children to make positive life choices. It links directly to Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) and the National Healthy Schools Standard. It is useful for teachers, School Nurses and PSHE Co-ordinators.

Drawing on the author's own experience as an expert mountaineer, instructor and consultant, this practical guide shows how adventurous outdoor activities can be provided to acceptable standards of safety.

Assisting first-time headteachers make the transition to formal leadership, this resource provides essential support and encouragement to help them fulfill their potential as educational leaders.

Presents an introduction to the critical concepts, structures, and professional practices of political communication. This title considers both practical and theoretical issues central to political communication and offers a critical assessment of developments in political communication.

This book offers lively literacy lessons for children aged 5 to 11, including imagination and visualization, picture books, photographs, paintings, films and television, and comics.

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Designed to heighten awareness of statistical ideas, this comprehensive and research-based text explores four main themes: describing, comparing, inter-relating, and uncertainty.

e-Learning is an essential component of education. This title examines the e-learning approaches, and explores the implications of applying e-learning in practice. It covers topics such as: enriching the learning experience; learner empowerment; design concepts and considerations; creation of e-communities; and, communal constructivism.

In this overview of educational research, the authors provide guiding principles for developing a learner-centered approach that enables all students to learn at high levels.

What is the role of social work? What does it mean to be a social worker? What are the changes affecting social work training? This book addresses these questions and provides an understanding of the knowledge, values, and skills requirements of professional social work. It offers a thoughtful commentary upon training, education and practice.

Provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate. As well as covering the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good feature writing, this book also offers a rich resource of real life examples, case studies and exercises.

Explores the theory, research and practice of career counselling from a British perspective. Divided into two parts, this book provides a comprehensive account of theories of career development and career counselling and their implications for practice. Taking a critical approach, it also shows how research informs our understanding of the field.

Offers you with the basic skills required to enter those first lectures, tutorials, lab-sessions and assessments with confidence. This book offers: advice; portfolio sections at the end of chapter; an emphasis on helping you to get started and build up your confidence; and, integration of theory (in small doses) with practice.

A practical guide to working with people suffering from depression. It outlines how to work with general negativity, sense of failure and abandonment, and feelings of powerlessness, anger, shame and guilt. It examines the essential stages of the therapeutic process from conceptualization and formulation through to a wide variety of interventions.

`Hall et al bring many years of practice and academic experience to their material. The book is accessible in its style and makes extensive use of interesting case histories' - Eisteach (Journal for the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy)Guided Imagery is a unique, practical guide to using imagery in one-to-one therapeutic work with clients.

Helps you combine a conceptually audacious analysis of the changing nature of war with an empirically rich critical analysis of journalists who cover conflict. This title intends to explore questions about the information war and journalistic practices.

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This second edition shows how teachers can advance professionally towards a greater knowledge of the young children's thinking and learning.

Written in a clear, engaging style Facework: Bridging Theory and Practice introduces a new paradigm that identifies facework as the key to communication within the management of difference. Authors Kathy Domenici and Stephen W. Littlejohn illustrate how facework is a central process in the social construction of both identity and community.

Knowledge management is crucial to organizational learning, innovation and success within organizations. This second edition of the successful knowledge management reader provides a core source of key theoretical thinkers in the field and presents the most up-to-date leading-edge articles that explore emerging trends.

Helping to take the fear out of the use of numbers in social research, the Second Edition of this bestselling textbook introduces students to statistics as a powerful means of revealing patterns in human behaviour. The book is full of up-to-date examples and illustrations using the latest SPSS software.

Across all media; print, broadcast as well as online, sports journalism has come to occupy an increasingly visible space. This book looks at the institutional, cultural and economic environment and provides an invaluable overview of contemporary sports journalism across all media forms.

Offering an overview of American unions, this text provides an introduction to what America's labor unions do, and why they do it. It portrays America's unions as complex, self-governing organizations that are struggling to regain their lost membership, bargaining power, and political influence.