''Love is not merely a contributor--one among others--to a meaningful life. In its own way it may underlie all other forms of meaning.''--from the Introduction In his widely acclaimed trilogy The Nature of Love, Irving Singer traced the development of the concept of love in history and literature from the Greeks to the twentieth century. Now in a ......
Care professionals constantly confront the problem of balancing the need to obtain optimal satisfaction of users' needs without regard for their means, with the concerns of managers and policy makers to measure and regulate costs. Drawing on current research, this book assesses the issues and problems arising as social work and services ......
Roger Grainger shows how drama therapy itself is an effective treatment for depression and schizophrenia, having a measurable effect on thought disorder. He looks at the specific relationship between rational thought and artistic experience which allows the second to act as the mediator of the first. The book is in two parts, and examines the ......
The only one-volume anthology of twentieth-century theology. Indispensable to understanding the advent and import of today's radically pluralistic scene, this unique historical anthology presents thirty-seven signal readings from key theologians of this century. Outstanding interpreters of these figures and their generative ideas, Braaten ......
Noted ethicist Childs believes that core Christian commitments can illuminate all economic activity, ground a dialogical approach to ethics and decision-making, and infuse character into corporate culture. Topics such as competition, regulation, environment, risk, truthtelling, whistle-blowing, leadership, discrimination, affirmative action, and ......
The widespread rejection of conventional theory and method has led to the evolution of different ways to gather and analyze psychological data. This text provides a guide to key effective methods, which contain a range of qualitative approaches, for example, semi-structured interviews, grounded theory, and discourse analysis. A revision of quantitative methods to suit the changing picture of contemporary psychological research is presented alongside. A number of chapters are concerned with research as a dynamic interactive process and should be useful reading for those interested in conducting research in psychology.
This book is concerned with the conflict in United States schools between principals and teachers over teacher supervision. Many teachers are unhappy, regarding classroom supervision as a meaningless and intrusive ritual where all teachers - regardless of experience and competence - receive the same superficial treatment. The solution advocated by the authors includes a more individualized, less clinical form of supervision which draws upon the best of current research on teaching and team leadership.
How do organizations learn, change and adapt? The chapters in this book contribute to the development of organizational learning theory in three ways. They delineate its scope, differentiating it from organizational ecology, choice and individual learning; demonstrate the explanatory power of a learning perspective; and illustrate the application of research tools useful for the study of learning.
