Stories to Introduce the Concept of Moral Values for Children Aged 5 to 7
The 24 stories in this resource provide a years work based around the people who live in The Crescent. The characters provide a continuity and the themes include: - giving and taking - bullying and friendship - honesty and lies - birth and new arrivals - environmental issues. With every story there is a warm up exercise, Circle Time discussion, supplementary ideas, National Curriculum links and photocopiable worksheets. A comprehensive resource using a mini soap opera storyline, which will help children identify and emphathise with the characters so that they can experience and experiment to gain understanding of their own world.
"Health, Welfare and Practice" is a textbook and training manual for health and social work students and practitioners. It brings together key issues in the provision and use of caring services. Readers are encouraged to make links on issues which cut across the occupational divisions between and within health and welfare. The book should be useful to those wishing to bring about more inter-professional collaboration. Roles and relationships are central themes: their complexity is stressed, as is their relevance for a better understanding of practice. The book is divided into four sections: "experience and expertise" questions the distinctions between health and welfare occupations, and informal helping roles; "diversity and discrimination" explores different approaches for practitioners to develop sensitivity to diverse experiences and to challenge unfairly discriminatory responses, attitudes and stereotyped assumptions; "empowerment and power" examines the potential for user empowerment, given the imbalance in power between workers and users; "reflecting on practice" provides a series of accounts from users and providers of health and social care, which bring the preceding section into sharp focus. "Health, Welfare and Practice" is the set book for the Open University Course K663 Roles and Relationships: Perspectives on Practice".
Ageing and Later Life reflects the diverse nature of the subject by taking a multidisciplinary approach including literary, historical, sociological, policy, psychological, philosophical and clinical perspectives. This lively and informative book features essays by major authors in the field and includes discussions of: cultural aspects of self-image and identity; current concerns relating to health and well-being; the reality of power and control in the care of older people; concepts and values which shape our understanding of ageing; issues of policy and politics; and historical perspectives on ageing and possibilities for the future. Ageing and Later Life is a set book for The Open University course K256 An Ageing Society.
`This text is recommended unreservedly; it should be on the bookshelves of all early childhood workers' - Curriculum This book focuses attention on current early childhood issues and examines them inlight of the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child. The book stresses the importance of national policy and highlights the responsibilities of all adults who work with children, in terms of enabling children to realize their rights. Practical issues are addressed, drawing on relevant theory and current research from the United Kingdon and overseas.
Drawing upon a range of practical and theoretical knowledge, the authors explore all aspects of the leadership role. Professional development, collaboration and self-knowledge are at the centre of their approach, in the belief that people prefer to be led rather than to be managed and that leadership applies equally to the work of classroom teachers, as well as to the head. The purposes and processes of leading and managing primary schools, like processes of teaching and learning are complex. They defy generalized prescriptions, easy analysis and simplistic solutions. In this book the authors explore the intricate processes involved in helping people to be, and to perform, at their best, believing that excellent leaders are judged not only by outcomes, but also by the quality of their vision, their relationships, plans and policies and their commitment to growth and achievement for children and staff.
This is an examination of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of culture and habitus. Within the wider intellectual context of Bourdieu's work, this book provides a systematic reading of his assessment of the role of "culture capital" in the production and consumption of symbolic goods. Fowler outlines the key critical debates that inform Bourdieu's work: the roles of Marx, Lukacs and Goldmann; Benjamin's discussion of the sacred and the profane; and Foucalt's theory of discourses. She introduces Bourdieu's recent treatment of the rules of art, explains the importance of his concept of capital - economic and social, symbolic and cultural - and defines such key terms as habitus, practice and strategy, legitimate culture, popular art and distinction. The book focuses particularly on Bourdieu's account of the nature of capitalist modernity, on the emergence of bohemia and, with the growth of the market, the invention of the artist as the main historical response to the changed place of art.
This text aims to provide an accessible but challenging introduction to Bourdieu's ideas. In a series of discussions, lectures and interviews, the range of Bourdieu's ideas is laid out and its relation to other disciplines and other sociological schools explored. The issues developed include: the sociology of culture, leisure and taste; the intrinsic reflexivity of social science; and the role of language in society and in social sciences. This text is suitable for students, researchers and academics in social theory, sociology, cultural studies and communication.
Mass Communication and the Disruption of Social Order
Intended for academics and students in media studies and political science, the authors of this book explore through a number of different contexts the way in which crises highlight the problematic issues of media performance in democratic states. They examine the relationship between communication and civil society through a number of actual cases of media responses to "crises", ranging from the Gulf War of 1991 to recent events in Eastern Europe. Individual examples of crises emphasize the complexities of understanding the role of the media in struggles of identity around nationality, ethnicity, and gender.
This book carries on the process, initiated by Bryan Turner in his seminal work "The Body and Society", of re-establishing the importance of the body to the social sciences and the humanities. This volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex inter-relations between nature, culture and society. At a theoretical level, the volume explores the origins of a social theory of the body in sources ranging from the work of Nietzche to contemporary feminist theory. The importance of theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies. These range from the expression of the emotions, romantic love, dietary practice, consumer culture, fitness and beauty, to media images of women and sexuality.
