Constructing Risky Identities In Policy And Practice

Author : J. Kearney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137276088
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Risky Identities in Policy and Practice written by J. Kearney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores how the dominant risk agenda is being embedded across welfare policy and practice contexts in order to redefine social problems and those who experience them. Identities of 'risky' or 'safe', 'responsible' or 'irresponsible' are being increasingly applied, not only to everyday life but also to professional practice.

Author : Daniel Xerri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319771779
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teacher Involvement in High-Stakes Language Testing written by Daniel Xerri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advocates that teachers should play an active role in high-stakes language testing and that more weight should be given to teacher judgement. This is likely to increase the formative potential of high-stakes tests and provide teachers with a sense of ownership. The implication is that the knowledge and skills they develop by being involved in these tests will feed into their own classroom practices. The book also considers the arguments against teacher involvement, e.g. the contention that teacher involvement might entrench the practice of teaching to the test, or that teachers should not be actively involved in high-stakes language testing because their judgement is insufficiently reliable. Using contributions from a wide range of international educational contexts, the book proposes that a lack of reliability in teacher judgement is best addressed by means of training and not by barring educators from participating in high-stakes language testing. It also argues that their involvement in testing helps teachers to bolster confidence in their own judgement and develop their assessment literacy. Moreover, teacher involvement empowers them to play a role in reforming high-stakes language testing so that it is more equitable and more likely to enhance classroom practices. High-stakes language tests that adopt such an inclusive approach facilitate more effective learning on the part of teachers, which ultimately benefits all their students.

Author : Barbara Garrick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811027005
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorising Personalised Education written by Barbara Garrick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the theoretical underpinning of the concept of personalised education and explores the question: What is personalised education in the contemporary higher education sector and how is it implemented? A broad, sophisticated definition of personalised learning has the potential to serve as a basis for more effective educational practices. The term ‘personalised education’ is, and continues to be, one with a variety of definitions. The authors’ definition both incorporates earlier concepts of personalised education and critically reassesses them. The book then adds a further dimension: personalised instruction in electronically mediated environments, where the goal is to achieve learning towards mastery individually with the help of differentiated and individualised electronic learning platforms. This book assesses the various arguments concerning personalised education, examining each through the lens of educational theory and pedagogy and subsequently positing a number of qualitative characteristics of personalised education that have the potential to influence policy and practices in the higher education sector.

Author : James Reid
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787146537
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on and from Institutional Ethnography written by James Reid and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores recent developments in Institutional Ethnography (IE) and offers reflective accounts on how IE is being utilised and understood in social research. IE is a sociological sub-discipline developed by Dorothy E. Smith that seeks to explicate the textual mediation of people’s everyday experiences in their local sites of being.

Author : Donovan, Catherine
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447307445
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Violence and Sexuality written by Donovan, Catherine and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first detailed discussion of domestic violence and abuse in same-sex relationships, offering a unique comparison between same-sex and heterosexual contexts. Catherine Donovan and Marianne Hester examine how experiences of domestic violence and abuse are shaped by gender, sexuality, and age, seeking to understand what factors drive victims to seek—or not seek—help. Employing a methodology that includes both quantitative and qualitative research, they provide a new framework of analysis—what they call “practices of love”—that challenges heteronormative models of engaging domestic violence in research, policy, and practice.

Author : Rees, James
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447355601
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Policy Review 32 written by Rees, James and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the voices of leading experts in the field, this edition offers an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year. The book considers a range of current issues and critical debates in the UK and international social policy field. Published in association with the SPA, this comprehensive analysis of the current state of social policy will be of interest to students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.

Author : Sonya Stanford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137441364
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Mental Health Policy and Practice written by Sonya Stanford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern society is increasingly preoccupied with fears for the future and the idea of preventing 'the worst'. The result is a focus on attempting to calculate the probabilities of adverse events occurring – in other words, on measuring risk. Since the 1990s, the idea of risk has come to dominate policy and practice in mental health across the USA, Australasia and Europe. In this timely new text, a group of international experts examines the ways in which the narrow focus on specific kinds of risk, such as violence towards others, perpetuates the social disadvantages experienced by mental health service users whilst, at the same time, ignoring the vast array of risks experienced by the service users themselves. Benefitting from the authors' extensive practice experience, the book considers how the dominance of the risk paradigm generates dilemmas for mental health organizations, as well as within leadership and direct practice roles, and offers practical resolutions to these dilemmas that both satisfy professional ethics and improve the experience of the service user. Combining examination of key theories and concepts with insights from front line practice, this latest addition to Palgrave's Beyond the Risk Paradigm series provides an important new dimension to debates on mental health provision.

Author : Douglas Hartmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022637503X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Basketball written by Douglas Hartmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it’s also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men to run around in the wee hours of the night—all trying to throw a leather ball through a metal hoop—could constitute meaningful social policy. Organized in the 1980s and ’90s by dozens of American cities, late-night basketball leagues were designed for social intervention, risk reduction, and crime prevention targeted at African American youth and young men. In Midnight Basketball, Hartmann traces the history of the program and the policy transformations of the period, while exploring the racial ideologies, cultural tensions, and institutional realities that shaped the entire field of sports-based social policy. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book also brings to life the actual, on-the-ground practices of midnight basketball programs and the young men that the programs intended to serve. In the process, Midnight Basketball offers a more grounded and nuanced understanding of the intricate ways sports, race, and risk intersect and interact in urban America.

Author : Catherine Donovan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030354032
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queering Narratives of Domestic Violence and Abuse written by Catherine Donovan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to focus on violent and/or ‘abusive’ behaviours in lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender, non-binary gender or genderqueer people’s intimate relationships. It provides fresh empirical data from a comprehensive mixed-methods study and novel theoretical insights to destabilise and queer existing narratives about intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA). Key to the analysis, the book argues, is the extent to which Michael Johnson’s landmark typology of IPVA can be used to make sense of the survey data and accounts of ‘abusive’ behaviours given by LGB and/or T+ participants. As well as calling for IPVA scholars to challenge heteronormativity and cisnormativity and improve IPVA measurement, this book offers guidance and a new tool to assist practitioners from a variety of relationships services with identifying victims/survivors and perpetrators in LGB and/or T+ people’s relationships. It will appeal to academics and practitioners in the field of domestic violence and abuse.​

Author : Gary Craig
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447333764
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community Organising Against Racism written by Gary Craig and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Craig and his contributors blend theory and practice-based case studies to review how different community development approaches can empower minority ethnic communities to confront racism and overcome social, economic and political disadvantage.