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Right-Wing Alternative Media

Right-Wing Alternative Media

This book offers a fresh perspective on central questions related to right-wing alternative media: Can right-wing media be alternative? Why do they exist? Are they a threat to the existing order and what have the reactions been from mainstream politicians and media actors?The rise and success of right-wing populism in the political life of many western countries along with several new and apparently successful alternative media operations on the right has caused surprise and confusion among researchers and debaters. How should this challenge to mainstream politics and media be understood? Journalistic political and academic discourse has struggled to explain these tendencies and tend to focus on sensational and extreme examples with little attention directed towards other aspects. This book critically discusses existing theoretical frameworks related to alternative media in general analysing a wide scope of cases to illustrate the diversity of voices in alternative media on the right and highlighting the importance of intellectual coolness and common sense in discussions about this important but ideologically and politically charged area. An important addition to the current discourse of contemporary media Right-Wing Alternative Media is ideal for researchers students and anyone interested in politics and public discourse.

GBP 19.99
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Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities

Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities

This book explores an important issue within the free will debate: the relation between free will and moral responsibility. In his seminal article 'Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility' Harry Frankfurt launched a vigorous attack on the standard conception of that relation questioning the claim that a person is morally responsible for what she has done only if she could have done otherwise. Since then Frankfurt's thesis has been at the center of philosophical discussions on free will and moral responsibility. Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities edited by David Widerker and Michael McKenna draws together the most recent work on Frankfurt's thesis by leading theorists in the area of free will and responsibility. As the majority of the essays appear here for the first time Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities offers the newest developments in this important debate. | Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities

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Alternative Educational Programmes Schools and Social Justice

Alternative Educational Programmes Schools and Social Justice

Alternative education caters and cares for students whose regular schools have failed and excluded them. Fifty years of international research reports that alternative settings are characterised by close and powerful staff–student relationships a curriculum which is relevant engaging and meaningful and the strong sense of agency afforded young people by the opportunity to make decisions. Together these three practices produce increased life chances for alternative education participants. However despite these apparent successes alternative education seems to have had little impact on mainstream schools. This collection of papers addresses the important question – what might regular schools and teachers learn about socially just pedagogies from alternative education practices? In providing answers to this question authors interrogate the taken-for-granted wisdom about alternative education while also taking account of ongoing policy shifts differing locations and populations and persistent and intersecting patterns of raced classed and gendered inequalities. They draw on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to interrogate the ways in which alternative schools and alternative education both challenge and legitimate the kinds of schooling most of us expect for our own and other people's children. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Education. | Alternative Educational Programmes Schools and Social Justice

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Territorial Policy and Governance Alternative Paths

Territorial Policy and Governance Alternative Paths

In response to both policy and conceptual debates alternative narratives have begun to emerge about territorial governance and policymaking. As local and regional policy actors strive to respond to the geographically uneven effects of the economic crises of the early twenty-first century a crucial question emerges: what are the opportunities and challenges presented by alternative forms of territorially based governance and policy?The aim of this edited volume therefore is critically to explore the opportunities and challenges presented by different forms of territorial policy and governance. Drawing on conceptual debates and empirical research from the United Kingdom and other international contexts the contributors engage with issues around the politics and governance of territorial development economic development planning and regeneration and the environment. Territorial Policy and Governance addresses the question of how alternative forms of territorial governance and policy can help to shape patterns of urban and regional development highlighting the related opportunities constraints and challenges that confront their operationalisation. This book will be essential reading for international audiences with an interest in territorial development governance politics human geography and planning and regeneration. | Territorial Policy and Governance Alternative Paths

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Unemployment in Ireland Alternative Perspectives

Unemployment in Ireland Alternative Perspectives

Published in 1998 this book looks at unemployment in Ireland the country's most serious social and economic problem. It is the major contributor to poverty exclusion and social decay. This book contributes to the growing debate on the unemployment problem in Ireland. It is the first academic collection of papers on this issue and contains contributions from some of Ireland's most respected economists. It offers alternative views of the Irish labour market with these views shedding light on many aspects of the unemployment problem including exchange rates influences aggregate demand analysis labour market policies and the historical perspective. Since this book assesses the problem of unemployment from different perspectives it should widen the discussion of this most serious issue. | Unemployment in Ireland Alternative Perspectives

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Assessment and Testing An Introduction

Assessment and Testing An Introduction

Originally published in 1972 there were many ‘classics’ dealing with assessment and testing on the market at the time but most of these left the inexperienced reader bewildered in the early stages because of their size and insufficient explanation of the many technical terms used. There were a distinct lack of books which gave students in Colleges of Education dealing with psychology for the first time a simple explanation of basic terms in assessment and testing and which introduced them briefly to the different types of tests available. Assessment and Testing aimed to fill this large gap. It looks at such key psychological terms as ‘sample’ ‘objectivity’ ‘subjectivity’ and such basic statistical terms such as ‘mean’ ‘standard deviation’ and ‘normal curve of distribution’. Because it assumes that the reader has no knowledge of such terms it gives careful and simply illustrated explanations of each. In the same way in simple language with any technical terms explained and illustrated it explains intelligence and personality tests questionnaires sociometric measures projection techniques and other areas of assessment and testing which every practising teacher will meet. The book aims to be essentially practical. It is appreciated all the time that the readers are those who will teach children. It is designed to provide a solid foundation upon which the reader can build later to augment his own experience of identifying children’s particular needs. | Assessment and Testing An Introduction

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Alternative Planning History and Theory

Alternative Planning History and Theory

This book includes twelve newly commissioned and carefully curated chapters each of which presents an alternative planning history and theory written from the perspective of groups that have been historically marginalized or neglected. In teaching planning history and theory many planning programs tend to follow the planning cannon - a normative perspective that mostly accounts for the experience of white Anglo Christian middle class middle aged heterosexual able-bodied men. This book takes a unique approach. It provides alternative planning history and theory timelines for each of the following groups: women the poor LGBTQ+ communities people with disabilities older adults children religious minorities people of color migrants Indigenous people and colonized peoples (in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Anglophone Africa). To allow for easy cross-comparison chapters follow a similar chronological structure which extends from the late 19th century into the present. The authors provide insights into the core planning issues in each time period and review the different stances and critiques. The book is a must-read for planning students and instructors. Each chapter includes the following pedagogical features: (1) a boxed case study which presents a recent example of positive change to showcase theory in practice; (2) a table which lays out an alternative planning history and theory timeline for the group covered in the chapter; and (3) suggestions for further study comprising non-academic sources such as books websites and films.

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Containing and Expanding Therapeutic Possibilities

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Containing and Expanding Therapeutic Possibilities

Complementary and Alternative Medicine is a sociological investigation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in contemporary society and an exploration of the forces throughout the globe across different institutions and within different therapeutic spaces that constrain or foster alternative medicine. Drawing on 30 years of research the book identifies the trends in the use of CAM and explores the scientific political and social challenges that CAM faces in relation to orthodox medicine. The author examines the varieties of CAM practices and how they manifest in different institutional spaces – including public inquiries the orthodox medical practitioner’s consulting room medical journals and the homes of those who use CAM. It also compares unorthodox practices in different geo-political settings namely the global north and the global south. This book is valuable reading for higher-level undergraduate and postgraduate social science students including those in psychology sociology anthropology health sciences and related disciplines. It is relevant for courses in medical sociology medical anthropology and social science and health and a broader audience interested in contemporary health issues controversies and alternative medicine. | Complementary and Alternative Medicine Containing and Expanding Therapeutic Possibilities

GBP 38.99
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Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

This new edition of Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality critically examines the deep and enduring problems within systems of education in the U. S. in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students teachers and communities negatively affected by such testing. Updates to the new edition include new chapters that focus on: the role of schools and standardized testing in reproducing social cultural and economic inequalities; the way high-stakes testing is used to advance neoliberal market-based educational schemes that ultimately concentrate wealth and power among elites; how standardized testing became the dominant tool within our educational systems; the numerous technical and ideological problems with using standardized tests to evaluate students teachers and schools; the role that high-stakes testing plays in the maintenance of white supremacy; and how school communities have resisted high-stakes testing and used better assessments of student learning. Parents teachers university students and scholars will find Unequal By Design useful for gaining a broad critical understanding of the issues surrounding our over-reliance on high-stakes standardized testing in the U. S. through up-to-date research on testing historical and contemporary examples of the struggles over such tests and information about how testing has fostered the privatization of public education in the U. S. | Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

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Child Guidance Centres in Japan Alternative Care Social Work and the Family

Child Guidance Centres in Japan Alternative Care Social Work and the Family

In contemporary Japan 85% of children in alternative care remain housed in large welfare institutions as opposed to family-based foster care. This publication examines how Japan has been isolated from global discourse on alternative care urging a shift in social work and alternative care policies. As the first ethnographic account from inside child guidance centres it makes a key contribution towards understanding the closed world of Japan’s social services; including the decision-making processes by which a child is removed from the family and placed into care. In addition regional variation in policy implementation for alternative care is outlined with reference to detailed case studies and a discussion around organisational cultures of the child guidance centres. Where foster care is constructed as anything other than professional it is often seen as a threat to the child’s family-bond with their natal parent and therefore not used. Child Guidance Centres in Japan destabilises this construction of the family-bond as singular and discrete highlighting new practices in alternative care. Child Guidance Centres in Japan: Alternative Care and the Family will be a vital resource for students scholars of social work and Japanese studies as well as practitioners and lobbyists involved in alternative care. | Child Guidance Centres in Japan Alternative Care Social Work and the Family

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Decentered Playwriting Alternative Techniques for the Stage

Decentered Playwriting Alternative Techniques for the Stage

Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western Indigenous and underrepresented storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters hegemonic methods. A collection of short essays and exercises by leading teaching artists playwrights and academics in the fields of playwriting and dramaturgy this book focuses on reimagining pedagogical techniques by introducing playwrights to new storytelling methods traditions and ways of studying and teaching diverse narratological practices. This is a vital and invaluable book for anyone teaching or studying playwriting dramatic structure storytelling at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels or as part of their own professional practice. | Decentered Playwriting Alternative Techniques for the Stage

GBP 34.99
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IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

This popular guide clarifies the requirements for inspection and testing explaining in clear language those parts of the IET Wiring Regulations that most need simplifying. In addition to the descriptive and diagrammatic test methods that are required explanations of the theory and reasoning behind test procedures are given together with useful tables for the comparison of test results. The book also provides essential information on the completion of electrical installation certificates with a step-by-step guide on the entries that need to be made and where to source data. With the content suitable for both City & Guilds and EAL Inspection and Testing courses and containing a sample MCQ paper and answers it is also an ideal revision guide. Fully up to date with the latest amendments to the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. Simplifies the advice found in the Wiring Regulations explaining how they apply to working practice for inspection testing and certification. Expert advice from an engineering training consultant supported with colour diagrams examples and key data. | IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

GBP 21.99
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Alternative Approaches to Education A Guide for Teachers and Parents

Alternative Approaches to Education A Guide for Teachers and Parents

Alternative Approaches to Education provides parents and teachers with information and guidance on different education options in the UK and further afield. This new and expanded edition including additional chapters and up-to-date contact details explains the values philosophies and methods of a range of alternative approaches available outside and within the state system as well as if you’re ‘doing it yourself’. Illustrated throughout with the first-hand experiences of children teachers and parents it provides lists of useful contacts sources of further information and answers to common questions. Together with brand new chapters on recent research and contemporary debates and on Free Schools it covers: Small alternative schools Steiner Waldorf education Democratic schools Alternatives in the state system Parents as change agents Setting up a Small School or Learning Centre Home-based education Flexible schooling Exploring why alternative approaches to education are needed this accessible and informative book challenges the dominant educational orthodoxies by putting children first. It will be of interest to teachers looking to build on their knowledge of different educational approaches in order to find new ways of working. It is also an ideal introduction for parents deciding how best to educate their children. | Alternative Approaches to Education A Guide for Teachers and Parents

GBP 26.99
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Effective Augmentative and Alternative Communication Practices A Handbook for School-Based Practitioners

Effective Augmentative and Alternative Communication Practices A Handbook for School-Based Practitioners

Effective Augmentative and Alternative Communication Practices provides a user-friendly handbook for any school-based practitioner whether you are a special education teacher an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) consultant assistive technology consultant speech language pathologist or occupational therapist. This highly practical book translates the AAC research into practice and explains the importance of the use of AAC strategies across settings. The handbook also provides school-based practitioners with resources to be used during the assessment planning and instructional process. | Effective Augmentative and Alternative Communication Practices A Handbook for School-Based Practitioners

GBP 31.99
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Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer A Beginner's Guide

Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer A Beginner's Guide

A comprehensive textbook Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer explores the ways in which the materiality and science of photography and aesthetic concepts of contemporary photography can work together in an accessible way. The book explores processes such as calotype wet plate collodion cyanotype platinum and palladium gum bichromate and digital. It explains not only the historical context behind these processes but draws on examples from contemporary practitioners to show how the processes can be used within the field of contemporary photography. Author Morgan Post exemplifies the creative ways in which a contemporary photographer can engage with alternative process photography as a beginner and includes contributions from Takashi Arai Alida Rodrigues Binh Danh Diana H. Bloomfield and many others from around the world. The textbook is accompanied by a companion website offering accessible step-by-step video instructions that demonstrate the processes explored. Bridging analogue and digital media the textbook is ideal for students of photography and amateur photographers with an interest in alternative methods to photography. | Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer A Beginner's Guide

GBP 38.99
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Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques

Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques

Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes 2nd edition is packed with stunning imagery how-to recipes techniques and historical information for emulating the ethereal dream-like feel of alternative processing. This fully updated edition covers alternative processing from its historical roots through to digital manipulation and contemporary techniques and how to combine them. It features several new techniques alongside new approaches to older techniques including hand painting on silver gelatin prints ceramics and photography cyanotypes wet plate collodion digital prints and many more. Enfield showcases the different styles and methods of contemporary artists together with suggestions for vegan and vegetarian friendly alternative processing transforming 2D images to 3D installations and how to apply darkroom techniques to digital captures. Professionals students and hobbyists will discover how to bring new life and imagination to their imagery. Whether in a darkroom using traditional chemicals at the kitchen sink with pantry staples or in front of the computer re-creating techniques digitally you will learn how to add a richness and depth to your photography like never before. | Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques

GBP 39.99
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Alternative Art and Anthropology Global Encounters

Alternative Art and Anthropology Global Encounters

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America Europe and Australia; until now scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia Latin America and Africa the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters a range of anthropologists artists and curators from countries such as China Japan Indonesia Bhutan Nigeria Chile Ecuador and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider a leading scholar in the field draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology visual anthropology anthropology of art art history and curatorial studies. | Alternative Art and Anthropology Global Encounters

GBP 27.99
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Supports An Alternative to Mass Housing

Supports An Alternative to Mass Housing

First translated in English ten years after its original Dutch publication in 1962 this book has inspired practitioners for generations. It’s proposal to distinguish the infill from the support - what users can individually decide in a housing process from what users share - has turned out to be feasible in practice. The Natural Relation - the interaction of people with their immediate environment and the central concept of the book - is the result of that distinction. It is essential to the well-being of everyday environment regardless of function or available resources. | Supports An Alternative to Mass Housing

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American Political Thought An Alternative View

American Political Thought An Alternative View

The twenty-first century presents unique political challenges like increasing concern over racially based police brutality and mass incarceration continuing economic and gender inequality the rise of conservative and libertarian politics and the appropriate role of religion in American politics. Current scholarship in American political thought research neither adequately responds to the contemporary moment in American politics nor fully captures the depth and scope of this rich tradition. This collection of essays offers an innovative expansion of the American political tradition. By exposing the major ideas and thinkers of the four major yet still underappreciated alternative traditions of American political thought—African American feminist radical and conservative—this book challenges the boundaries of American political thinking about such values like freedom justice equality democracy economy rights identity and the role of the state in American life. These traditions the various authors show in different ways not only present a much fuller and more accurate characterization of what counts as American political thought. They are also especially unique for the conceptual resources they provide for addressing contemporary developments in American politics. Offering an original and substantive interpretation of thinkers and movements American Political Thought will help students understand how to put American political thought into conversation with contemporary debates in political theory. | American Political Thought An Alternative View

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Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

Covers all your testing and inspection needs to help you pass your exams on City & Guilds 2391 and EAL 600/4338/6 and 600/4340/4 and Part P courses. Entirely up to date with the 18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations Step-by-step descriptions and photographs of the tests show exactly how to carry them out Completion of inspection and test certification and periodic reporting Fault finding techniques Testing 3 phase and single phase motors Supporting video footage of the tests contained in this book are available on the companion website This book covers everything you need to learn about inspection and testing with clear reference to the latest updates to the legal requirements and wiring regulations. It answers all of your questions on the basics of inspection and testing using clear and easy to remember language along with sample questions and scenarios as they will be encountered in the exams. Christopher Kitcher tells you what tests are needed and describes them in a step-by-step manner with the help of colour photographs and the accompanying website. All of the theory required for passing the inspecting and testing element of all electrical installation qualifications along with the AM2 City & Guilds 2391 certificate and the EAL 600/4338/6 and 600/4340/4 qualifications is contained within this easy-to-follow guide – along with some top tips to help you pass the exam itself. With a strong focus on the practical element of inspection and testing for NVQs or apprenticeships this is also an ideal reference tool for experienced electricians and those working in allied industries on domestic and industrial installations. www. routledge. com/cw/kitcher provides a large bank of helpful video demonstrations multiple choice questions to test your learning and further supporting materials. | Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

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Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

This book offers a comprehensive critique of how the assessment industry and standardized testing adversely impact students teachers and society. The authors present the case that the interconnected developments of the testing industry and the Assessment Industrial Complex (AIC) have effectively anchored American schooling to testing. Using an antiracist lens the authors deconstruct the AIC exposing the neoliberal agenda of education reformers and how proponents utilize the rhetoric of testing and the data extracted from them to normalize the reliance on AIC systems. This critique further exposes education reformers’ ideological agenda their hypocrisy and how they grossly profit from the AIC at the expense of society’s marginalized and most vulnerable students. The COVID-19 pandemic society’s racial unrest and anti-testing movements have aligned to underscore the need to examine systemic oppression and the impact it has on society through our education system. This text exposes how standardized testing perpetuates these injustices and provides the opportunity to disrupt the systems they rely upon and bolster the societal resistance that is needed. | Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

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Practicing Prodependence The Clinical Alternative to Codependency Treatment

Practicing Prodependence The Clinical Alternative to Codependency Treatment

In Practicing Prodependence: The Clinical Alternative to Codependency Treatment Drs. Weiss and Buck present a new social and psychological model of human interdependence-focused treatment for families and loved ones of addicts. Unlike Codependence Prodependence celebrates the human need for and pursuit of intimate connection viewing this as a positive force for change. This strength and attachment-based model is focused on accepting and celebrating human connection in ways that are healthy and life affirming for each person – even in the face of addiction. In this way Prodependence presents a new paradigm through which loved ones can learn to love more effectively without bearing shame or judgment for the valuable help they give. This book will assist counselors therapists and addiction professionals in improving the ways they treat loved ones of addicts and other troubled people teaching readers how to offer clients more dignity for their suffering than blame for the problem. | Practicing Prodependence The Clinical Alternative to Codependency Treatment

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Housing and Residential Structure Alternative Approaches

Housing and Residential Structure Alternative Approaches

First published in 1980 Housing and Residential Structure was written to take stock of the many changes that had recently taken place in explanatory approaches to housing markets and residential structure. The book is divided into three parts. Part One focuses on the demand-orientated approaches of human ecology and neo-classical economics. Part Two discusses the institutional approaches with reference to an analysis of private and public sector housing in Britain drawing on illustrative material from North America and France to aid the comparative analysis of institutional structures. Part Three is devoted to an evaluation of the Marxist approaches to housing and residential structure from Marx and Engels to Castells and Harvey. | Housing and Residential Structure Alternative Approaches

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Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

Testing Fresh Expressions investigates whether fresh expressions of church really do what is claimed for them by the fresh expressions movement and in particular whether their unique approach helps to reverse trends of decline experienced by traditional churches. Part 1 examines those claims and untangles their sociological and theological assumptions. From a careful study of factors underlying attendance decline and growth Part 2 argues that long-term decline can be resisted only if churches are better able to attract children the non-churched or both. Part 3 tests the comparative ability of a group of growing parish churches and a group of fresh expressions to resist trends of decline and discovers some intriguing social dynamics common to both groups. Part 4 argues that fresh expressions do not fulfil the unique role often claimed for them but that they do have the capacity to help reinvigorate the whole church. | Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

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