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A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

First published in 1976 this A Theory of Group Structures is a study of the aggregation of individuals into groups which cuts across many different social sciences. Volume two examines a sequence of twelve experiments and reports empirical tests of the theory presented in volume one. The result is a major revision of existing research into problems of group structure and a case study in paradigm development. This book will be of interest to students of all social sciences. | A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

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An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment is the successor to Cooper’s prize-winning book Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice. This expanded and updated volume shows how psychological questionnaires and tests can be chosen administered scored interpreted and developed. In providing students researchers test users test developers and practitioners in the social sciences education and health with an evaluative guide to choosing using interpreting and developing tests it provides readers a thorough grasp of the principles (and limitations) of testing together with the necessary methodological detail. This book has three distinctive features. First it stresses the basic logic of psychological assessment without getting bogged down with mathematics; the spreadsheet simulations and utilities which are integrated into the text allow users to explore how numbers behave rather than reading equations. Readers will learn by doing. Second it covers both the theory behind psychological assessment and the practicalities of locating designing and using tests and interpreting their scores. Finally it is evaluative. Rather than just describing concepts such as test reliability or adaptive testing it stresses the underlying principles merits and drawbacks of each approach to assessment and methods of developing and evaluating questionnaires and tests. Unusually for an introductory text it includes coverage of several cutting-edge techniques and this new edition expands the discussion on measurement invariance methods of detecting/quantifying bias and hierarchical factor models and features added sections on: Best practices for translation of tests into other languages and problems of cultural bias Automatic item generation The advantages drawbacks and practicalities of internet-based testing Generalizability theory Network analysis Dangerous assumptions made when scoring tests The accuracy of tests used for assessing individuals The two-way relationship between psychometrics and psychological theory Aimed at non-mathematicians this friendly and engaging text will help you to understand the fundamental principles of psychometrics that underpin the measurement of any human characteristic using any psychological test. Written by a leading figure in the field and accompanied by additional resources including a set of spreadsheets which use simulated data and other techniques to illustrate important issues this is an essential introduction for all students of psychology and related disciplines. It assumes very little statistical background and is written for students studying psychological assessment or psychometrics and for researchers and practitioners who use questionnaires and tests to measure personality cognitive abilities educational attainment mood or motivation. | An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

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Home Schooling in China Culture Religion Politics and Gender

Home Schooling in China Culture Religion Politics and Gender

Home Schooling in China seeks to provide a better understanding of the social movement of home schooling in China. In this book the author addresses several major themes of home education including marketization social stratification culture religion Confucianism gender policy gender and home schooling. This book draws a broad attention to the in-depth information to the relationship of marketisation social stratification and home education in China. It offers an implication for a better understanding not only for influences of religion (e. g. Christianity) but also the effects of Confucianism on the growth of home education in China. With a strong theoretical foundation the book comprehensively untangles the key possible factors that shape China’s social movement of home education. The book offers a background on theories and research methodology as well as reports on empirical studies that analyse the influences of marketisation on home schooling social stratification and the development of home schooling. This book is ideal reading for academics researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of Confucianism social class gender and education in China. | Home Schooling in China Culture Religion Politics and Gender

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House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles and have been assiduously represented in scripture literature art and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture houses for their gods and house tombs for eternal life. Turning to more recent topics it discusses how writers often used simple huts as a means to address the essentials of existence; modernist architects envisioned the capacity of house and home to improve society; and the suburban house was positioned as a superior setting for culture and family. Throughout the book house and home are critically examined to illustrate the perennial role and capacity of architecture to articulate the human condition position it more meaningfully in the world and assist in our collective homecoming. | House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

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Life at Home for People with a Dementia

Life at Home for People with a Dementia

Life at Home for People with a Dementia provides an evidence-based and readable account of improving life at home for people with a dementia and their families. There are estimated to be 47 million people with a dementia worldwide the majority of whom will live or want to live in their own home. Yet there is a major shortcoming in available knowledge on what life is like for people with a dementia living at home. Most research focuses on care in hospitals or care homes and takes a medical perspective. This book bridges this gap in knowledge by providing a comprehensive and critical overview of the best available evidence on enabling people with a dementia to live well at home from the viewpoint of those living with the condition and in the context of global policy drivers on ageing and health as well as technological advances. The book includes chapters on citizenships – that is the diversity of people living with a dementia – enabling life at home rethinking self-management the ethics and care of people with a dementia at home technological care and citizenship and sharing responsibilities. It concludes with a care manifesto in which we set out a vision for improving life at home for people with a dementia that covers the areas of professional practice education and care research. By covering a wide range of interrelated topics to advance understanding and practice as to how people with a dementia from diverse backgrounds can be supported to live well at home this book provides a synthesised critical and readable understanding of the complexities and risks involved.

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A Nation of Home Owners

A Nation of Home Owners

Originally published in 1990 and re-issued in 2020 with an updated Preface this book shows how the UK has become a nation of home owners and the effect it has had on people’s lives the impact which it has had on British society and the implications for those who have hitherto been excluded. The book briefly charts the history of the growth of owner-occupation in Britain and considers the evidence on the popularity of owning as opposed to renting. The question of whether and how owner occupiers accumulate wealth from their housing is discussed and the evidence on the political implications of the growth of owner-occupation examined. The influence of buying a house on the way that home is experienced is analysed and the sociological implications in regard to the analysis of social inequalities in Britain discussed. The research for the book was based on in-depth interviews with home-owners and tenants in Burnley Derby and Slough.

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Providing Home Care for Older Adults A Professional Guide for Mental Health Practitioners

Providing Home Care for Older Adults A Professional Guide for Mental Health Practitioners

A practical guide to providing home-based mental health services Providing Home Care for Older Adults teaches readers how to handle the unique aspects of home-based care and apply and adapt evidence-based assessment and treatment within the home-based setting. Featuring contributions from experienced board-certified home care psychologists social workers and psychiatrists the book explains the multifaceted role of a home-based provider offers concrete and practical considerations for working within the home and highlights adaptations to specific evidence-based methods used in treating homebound older adults. Also covered are special topics related to hoarding safety capacity evaluations caregivers case management and use of technology. Each chapter includes engaging case examples with practical tips that illustrate what it is like to work in this new and exciting frontier. Psychologists counselors and other mental health practitioners in home settings will be able to use this guide to provide effective home-based care to older adults. | Providing Home Care for Older Adults A Professional Guide for Mental Health Practitioners

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Future Home Trends Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design

Future Home Trends Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design

Global pandemics smart technologies demographics and climate change are just some of the external disruptors that may impact the home’s evolution over the next ten years. Future Home provides a comprehensive ‘horizon scan’ of what our homes may be like approximately ten years from now by looking for early signs of potentially important developments through a systematic examination of trends innovations and disruptors. The authors consider what aspects of the home are likely to remain constant and what aspects may change beyond all recognition and if changes are predicted what form they may take and most importantly what this means for design professionals. Exploring areas of buildings and technology people and delivery each chapter addresses the catalysts natures and responses to these changes. This book provides an overview of the future home that will be essential reading for designers policy-makers and homeowners alike. | Future Home Trends Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design

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Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home Critical Perspectives

Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home Critical Perspectives

This cross-disciplinary volume brings together diverse perspectives on children’s food occasions inside and outside of the home across different geographical locations. By unpacking mundane food occasions - from school dinners to domestic meals and from breakfast to snacks - Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home shows the role of food in the everyday lives of children and adults around them. Investigating food occasions at home schools and in nurseries during weekdays and holidays this book reveals how children mothers fathers teachers and other adults involved in feeding children understand make sense of and navigate ideological discourses of parenting health imperatives and policy interventions. Revealing the material and symbolic complexity of feeding children and the role that parenting and healthy discourses play in shaping perpetuating and transforming both feeding and eating this volume shows how micro and macro aspects are at play in mundane and everyday practices of family life and education. This volume will be of great interested to a wide range of students and researchers interested in the sociology of family life education food studies and everyday consumption. | Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home Critical Perspectives

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Making Home in Diasporic Communities Transnational belonging amongst Filipina migrants

Making Home in Diasporic Communities Transnational belonging amongst Filipina migrants

Making Home in Diasporic Communities demonstrates the global scope of the Filipino diaspora engaging wider scholarship on globalisation and the ways in which the dynamics of nation-state institutions labour migration and social relationships intersect for transnational communities. Based on original ethnographic work conducted in Ireland and the Philippines the book examines how Filipina diasporans socially and symbolically create a sense of ‘home’. On one hand Filipinas can be seen as mobile as they have crossed geographical borders and are physically located in the destination country. Yet on the other hand they are constrained by immigration policies linguistic and cultural barriers and other social and cultural institutions. Through modalities of language rituals and religion and food the author examines the ways in which Filipinas orient their perceptions expectations practices and social spaces to ‘the homeland’ thus providing insight into larger questions of inclusion and exclusion for diasporic communities. By focusing on a range of Filipina experiences including that of nurses international students religious workers and personal assistants Making Home in Diasporic Communities explores the intersectionality of gender race class and belonging. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology as well as those with interests in gender identity migration ethnic studies and the construction of home. | Making Home in Diasporic Communities Transnational belonging amongst Filipina migrants

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Coming Home Your Way Understanding University Student Intercultural Reentry

Coming Home Your Way Understanding University Student Intercultural Reentry

Coming Home Your Way offers college and university students returning from an education-abroad experience a wealth of pertinent information opportunities for meaningful reflection and practical guidance on making the most of their time abroad. Grounded in research and addressing an array of aspects of education abroad – including intercultural communication changing relationships and career impact – Coming Home Your Way will be an invaluable tool for any student planning experiencing or returning from a stay abroad. Drawing from theory and research from multiple disciplines and real-world experiences of students who have studied abroad the volume addresses key themes critical to understanding reentry including individual differences in taking in experience communication patterns and approaches the reentry transition the nature of relationships in reentry bridging reentry and career and more. Within each chapter are opportunities for self-reflection that allow readers to integrate the ideas presented into their own experience. Compelling short fictional accounts add flavor and detail that bring theory to life. Coming Home Your Way provides a window into the complex experience of intercultural reentry. Reentry from an education-abroad experience can be a period of intense growth and can feel disruptive and confusing while it’s happening. The authors explain and explore these complexities in a conversational style that will engage students and with the rigor expected by their instructors. Like no other book currently on the market Coming Home Your Way will give college and university students insight into the challenges and intercultural opportunities that reentry offers. | Coming Home Your Way Understanding University Student Intercultural Reentry

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Migration Work and Home-Making in the City Dwelling and Belonging among Vietnamese Communities in London

Migration Work and Home-Making in the City Dwelling and Belonging among Vietnamese Communities in London

This book explores the relationships between home work and migration among Vietnamese people in East London demonstrating the diversity of home-making practices and forms of belonging in relation to the dwelling workplace and wider city. Engaging with wider scholarship on transnationalism urban mobilities and the geopolitical dimensions of home among migrants and diasporic communities the author draws on ethnographic work to examine the experiences of people who migrated from Vietnam to London at different times and in diverse circumstances including individuals who arrived as refugees in the 1970s as well as those who have migrated for work or education in recent years. Migration Work and Home-Making in the City thus sheds new light on the social material and spiritual practices through which people create senses of home that connect them with their country of origin and reveals how home-making is constrained by immigration policies insecure housing and precarious work thus highlighting the barriers to belonging in the city. | Migration Work and Home-Making in the City Dwelling and Belonging among Vietnamese Communities in London

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Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research A New Approach

Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research A New Approach

Traditional approaches focused on significance tests have often been difficult for linguistics researchers to visualise. Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research: A New Approach breaks these significance tests down for researchers in corpus linguistics and linguistic analysis promoting a visual approach to understanding the performance of tests with real data and demonstrating how to derive new intervals and tests. Accessibly written this book discusses the ‘why’ behind the statistical model allowing readers a greater facility for choosing their own methodologies. Accessibly written for those with little to no mathematical or statistical background it explains the mathematical fundamentals of simple significance tests by relating them to confidence intervals. With sample datasets and easy-to-read visuals this book focuses on practical issues such as how to: • pose research questions in terms of choice and constraint; • employ confidence intervals correctly (including in graph plots); • select optimal significance tests (and what results mean); • measure the size of the effect of one variable on another; • estimate the similarity of distribution patterns; and • evaluate whether the results of two experiments significantly differ. Appropriate for anyone from the student just beginning their career to the seasoned researcher this book is both a practical overview and valuable resource. | Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research A New Approach

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Involuntary Dislocation Home Trauma Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development

Involuntary Dislocation Home Trauma Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development

Renos K. Papadopoulos clearly and sensitively explores the experiences of people who reluctantly abandon their homes searching for safer lives elsewhere and provides a detailed guide to the complex experiences of involuntary dislocation. Involuntary Dislocation: Home Trauma Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development identifies involuntary dislocation as a distinct phenomenon challenging existing assumptions and established positions and explores its linguistic historical and cultural contexts. Papadopoulos elaborates on key themes including home identity nostalgic disorientation the victim and trauma providing an in-depth understanding of each contributing factor whilst emphasising the human experience throughout. The book concludes by articulating an approach to conceptualising and working with people who have experienced adversities engendered by involuntary dislocation and with a reflection on the language of repair and renewal. Involuntary Dislocation will be a compassionate and comprehensive guide for psychotherapists clinical psychologists counsellors and other professionals working with people who have experienced displacement. It will also be important reading for anyone wishing to understand the psychosocial impact of extreme adversity. | Involuntary Dislocation Home Trauma Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development

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Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

This is the first book exploring the concept of home advantage (HA) the well-known beneficial effect that players and teams derive from performing at home in all sports throughout the world. Despite the fact that the existence of HA dates back to the origins of organized sport in the late 19th century its root causes and how they operate and interact with each other are still unclear and remain the topic of intense research involving many disciplines all with the potential objective of improving team and individual performance. This book covers a broad review of HA divided into three different sections: (i) Section 1 focuses on the theory of HA in sport (the concept of this phenomenon its quantification and factors supposedly associated with the HA are explored; (ii) Section 2 analyses the effects of HA in sports related to both male and female athletes in relation to tactics and strategies fans referees travel situational variables and the home disadvantage; and (iii) Section 3 studies the HA as it applies to specific sports worldwide such as outdoor sports (football rugby cricket and Australian Football) indoor sports (basketball futsal handball water polo and volleyball) US professional sports individual sports racket sports combat sports minor sports disabled sports and the Olympic Games. This book has been written in cooperation with top leading experts in this field worldwide. The book offers a better understanding of the HA effect for MSc and PhD students athletes coaches performance analysts sport psychologists sociologists sport scientists and sport journalists. | Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

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Finding Our Way Home Women's Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School

Finding Our Way Home Women's Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School

Finding Our Way Home: Women’s Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School shares the personal stories of sixteen women all of whom were sent away to board at an early age. Their accounts delve into the depths of long suppressed emotions and feelings and the lifelong impact that the early separation from their families has had. Much has been written about the impact of ‘boarding school syndrome’ on male boarders but less about their female counterparts. This book is the first to explore the experience from a purely female perspective and offers an intriguing insight into the world of boarding schools and the upbringing of girls born in the mid-to-late 20th century. Finding Our Way Home is a book for everyone who ever attended boarding school as well as psychotherapists and counsellors working with boarding school survivors. | Finding Our Way Home Women's Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School

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Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care

Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care

In Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care Nawal Qarooni invites us to step beyond school-centric one-off events and practices to create more authentic engaging collaborations with caregivers. Instead of asking what families can do to support schools Qarooni asks how schools can identify and celebrate what families already inherently bring to their children’s literacy learning. Establishing this work in holistic teaching—a pedagogical mindset that affirms the importance of loving the whole child through compassionate collective care—Qarooni explores five critical literacy tenets by highlighting opportunities to listen for honor connect to and elevate family strengths while inviting them even further into our shared work and encouraging reflection around: Recognizing the journey of process Celebrating the role collaboration plays within the collective Using observational literacy to read the world Advocating for the power of talk to grow ideas and connect with others Giving children choice to make self-directed decisions With moments of memoir woven in alongside diverse family examples and classroom stories connected to realistic instructional practices Qarooni shows how all families contribute meaningfully to their children’s literacy lives. Discover how we can tap into those vast wells to support learning at home and in school while building positive reciprocal relationships across both settings. With an afterword by En Comunidad authors Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations is rooted in the simple truth that we cannot separate knowing our students from knowing their home communities and the people that they love. This book offers a toolkit for connecting with families and elevating the intrinsic strengths that reside in every child’s home. | Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care

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Coming Home after Disaster Multiple Dimensions of Housing Recovery

Coming Home after Disaster Multiple Dimensions of Housing Recovery

Post-disaster housing concerns and dilemmas are complex global in nature and are inextricably intertwined with social economic and political considerations. The multi-faceted nature of housing recovery requires a holistic approach that accounts for its numerous dimensions and contours that are best captured with multi-disciplinary multi-scalar and multi-hazard approaches. This book serves as a valuable resource by highlighting the key issues and challenges that need to be addressed with regard to post-disaster housing. By featuring a collection of case studies on various disasters that have occurred globally and written by scholars and practitioners from various disciplines it highlights the rich diversity of approaches taken to solve post-disaster housing problems. Coming home after Disaster can serve as an essential reference for researchers and practitioners in disaster and emergency management public administration public policy urban planning sociology anthropology geography economics architecture and other related social science fields. Key features in this book are: Addresses a wide range of dilemmas such as differential levels of social and physical vulnerability; problems related to land tenure home-ownership property rights planning and zoning; and political and legal challenges to housing recovery. Discusses the role played by public private and non-governmental organizations the informal sector financial institutions and insurance in rebuilding and housing recovery. Features global case studies incorporates relevant examples and policies and offers solutions from a range of scholars working in multiple disciplines and different countries. | Coming Home after Disaster Multiple Dimensions of Housing Recovery

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Renewable Energy Systems The Earthscan Expert Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies for Home and Business

Renewable Energy Systems The Earthscan Expert Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies for Home and Business

This book is the long awaited guide for anyone interested in renewables at home or work. It sweeps away scores of common misconceptions while clearly illustrating the best in renewable and energy efficiency technologies. A fully illustrated guide to renewable energy for the home and small business the book provides an expert overview of precisely which sustainable energy technologies are appropriate for wide-spread domestic and small business application. The sections on different renewable energy options provide detailed descriptions of each technology along with case studies installation diagrams and colour photographs showing precisely what is possible for the average household. The chapter on how to select the renewable technology most appropriate for ordinary homes and businesses summarizes this analysis in a neat and easy to use table and demonstrates with examples exactly how to assess your local renewable resources. Renewable technologies covered include wood energy wind power solar photovoltaics solar thermal passive solar geothermal and air-to-air heat pumps as well as water or hydro based energy systems – plus the all-important subject of energy efficiency. Whilst written to be accessible to a wide audience the book is targeted at readers who are keen to work with renewable technologies students building engineers architects planners householders and home-owners. | Renewable Energy Systems The Earthscan Expert Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies for Home and Business

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Buying Your Home A Practical Guide for First-Time Buyers

Buying Your Home A Practical Guide for First-Time Buyers

Many young people aspire to own their own home but face a myriad of challenges such as high property prices the need to raise a large deposit and difficulties of getting a mortgage. The process of buying a property is also stressful fraught with complexity and uncertainty and a mistake can prove very costly. This book therefore provides a much-needed step-by-step guide to help those seeking to buy a property for the first time. Packed with helpful and practical tips this book gives a complete overview of the house-buying process including finance legal and property aspects. The authors discuss a wide range of topics including: creating the right mindset the pros and cons of home ownership how to choose a suitable property how to save for a deposit how to negotiate for a better price how to get a mortgage the steps in the house-buying process how to ensure that mortgage payments can always be met The book is written by experienced property buyers who have bought multiple properties who have worked as a mortgage adviser and financial planner and who understand personal finance. It will be essential reading for undergraduate students in the field of accounting and finance and will also appeal to the general public particularly those seeking to buy a property for the first time. After reading the book readers will be able to map out a plan to buy their first property with greater confidence and make a better and more informed decision that will bring financial rewards. | Buying Your Home A Practical Guide for First-Time Buyers

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Long Term Results of Infant School Methods

Long Term Results of Infant School Methods

First published in 1950 Long Term Results of Infant School Methods was written to explain and summarise the results of Gardner’s experiment to test the extent to which the effect of different styles of Infant school education experimental or control would also be apparent at a later stage. The book details how the tests and the schools involved were chosen; the different types of tests conducted and their respective aims; and a summary of Gardner’s conclusions. It will appeal to those with an interest in the history and theory of education.

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At Home in School (1988) Parent Participation in Primary Education

At Home in School (1988) Parent Participation in Primary Education

Originally published in 1988 this book discusses the gradual move from the separation of home and school to an increasing acceptance of the central role of parents as partners in their children's education. The book looks at the progress made towards real partnership with parents. An eminently practical account of the advantages of working with parents and the ways in which this can be achieved it will be of special value to student teachers and practicing teachers and to parents interested and involved in their children's education. The authors review national trends and developments since the issue was first seriously raised by the Plowden Report in 1967. Then focusing on one urban primary school (Redlands Primary School Reading) they describe the changes which have taken place over a seven-year period from the perspective of teachers parents and children. The book includes a personal account by Angela Redfern (formerly Deputy Head at Redlands) of what it has been like to be a teacher during this period of change and telling comments from both parents and children on all aspects of involvement in school. Partnership with parents emerges as a course of action which reaps benefits for all concerned and the authors stress that the developments taking place in schools like Redland are important for all schools irrespective of their social class or ethnic composition. | At Home in School (1988) Parent Participation in Primary Education

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A Place Like Home A Hostel for Disturbed Adolescents

A Place Like Home A Hostel for Disturbed Adolescents

The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the so-called delinquent the misfit the maladjusted. He was the first Englishman to train as a psychiatric social worker and was well known for his books The Hawkspur Experiment The Barns Experiment etc. Originally published in 1970 this book describes another experiment with a hostel for boys leaving schools for maladjusted children and lacking any settled home from which to enter the community. It demonstrates once again David Wills’s conviction that the offender wants to be ‘good’ and will be helped by affection rather than by punishment. Yet it is obvious that the work was full of stress and that only people with some of the attributes of archangels could respond to the boys’ needs and remain in control of the situation. The book demonstrates the extent of deprivation suffered by such young people and that no ordinary hostels or lodgings will do if they are to be set upon a less turbulent course of life leading to truly adult independence. It added greatly to our understanding of the personalities experience of life and needs of maladjusted boys in their ‘teens at the time although the lessons drawn from it were disturbing in relation both to prevention and treatment. The penetration of David Wills’s assessment is beyond doubt and (as Dame Eileen Younghusband concludes in her Foreword) his book will give a great deal to those ‘trying in various capacities to help boys and girls who otherwise would grow into adulthood permanently handicapped emotionally and socially’. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1970. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. | A Place Like Home A Hostel for Disturbed Adolescents

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An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents and Clinicians

An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents and Clinicians

An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems gives a new perspective on sensory and behavior problems one that sees those behaviors as stemming from a child’s immature sensory nervous system and regulation difficulties. This book offers an effective at-home intervention the Qigong Sensory Treatment that enlists a parent's attuned touch to address often overlooked sensory issues that underlie ‘problem’ behaviors and works to organize those sensory experiences to foster connection and the capacity for self-regulation. It introduces the reader to a new and clinically useful model to understand sensory development the Early Childhood Self-regulatory Milestones which are critical to the emotional and behavioral health and regulation for all children. With clear step-by-step instructions diagrams and links to online instructional videos it teaches parents how to successfully implement the daily QST hands-on routine. Unique to the treatment model is how it guides and focuses parents to easily recognize interpret and respond to their child's shifting non-verbal body and behavioral responses and cues. An extensive workbook section navigates parents through a year-long process of learning and implementing QST at home. Weekly letters include those written by the authors parents who share their own personal experiences with the routine and by QST Master Trainers who offer their years of experience and helpful tips. The 52 letters are timed to anticipate and answer typical questions or stumbling blocks that parents commonly encounter at key points guiding them to success with their child’s sensory and behavior difficulties while making for happier and less-stressful times with their child. This guide will be indispensable to parents and clinicians looking to understand and more effectively work with their child’s developmental difficulties. | An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents and Clinicians

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