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  • River Of Time

    by Jon Swain ...
    Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape - the villages along its banks, surrounded by ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Designing Research in Education

    Concepts and Methodologies

    Edited by Jon Swain ...
    This is a clear introduction to the methodological and philosophical debates in the field of education research. It sets out the key ideas, questions, and dilemmas which inform all research and then, through the careful use of case studies and practical advice from experienced researchers, grounds them in the specific concerns of education and educational studies.Written by experienced academics ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Negotiating Gendered Identities in Primary School

    Children’s Lives with Their Peers

    by Jon Swain ...
    This open access book explores young children’s lives in their later years at primary school, from their own point of view. It focuses on how girls and boys experience life in their informal peer group and explores the dynamics of friendships and social hierarchies, identities and how time is spent outside of lessons, including the use of social media. The author interrogates how children make ... Read more

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  • Survival in the Killing Fields

    by Haing Ngor ...
    Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, is a searing account of a country's descent into hell. His was a world of war slaves and execution squads, of senseless brutality and mind ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ethnographic Methods

    by Karen O'Reilly ...
    This new edition of Karen O’Reilly’s popular Ethnographic Methods provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the technical, practical and philosophical issues that arise when employing traditional and innovative research methods in relation to human agents.Using a wide range of case studies and source material to illustrate the dilemmas and resolutions that an ethnographic researcher ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Literacy Wars

    Why teaching children to read and write is a battleground in Australia

    by Ilana Snyder ...
    Do we have a literacy crisis?Fierce debates in the media over how to teach children to read and write have reached new heights in recent years. The intensity of the debates is not surprising as literacy education matters to everyone, but there is collateral damage. Public confidence in literacy teachers has been undermined and many believe we have a literacy crisis in our schools.The Literacy Wars ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Reacting to Reality Television

    Performance, Audience and Value

    by Beverley Skeggs, Helen Wood ...
    The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour.The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves up as television participants for others to watch and criticise. But how do we react ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies

    Applying Post-Structural Ideas

    by Glenda Mac Naughton ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    The theories and analyses of post-structural thinkers such as Michel Foucault can seem a long way from practice in early childhood services. In recent years, however, many early childhood researchers and practitioners have found this work important and this fascinating book brings together a range of research and case-studies showing how teachers and researchers have brought post-structuralism to ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces

    by Nick McGlynn ...
    Series series Transforming LGBTQ Lives
    Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces is an exploration of the spaces of the UK’s Bear community – and the people who are in them.The book details a wealth of existing writing and scholarship on Bears – both historical and contemporary – and uses new empirical research to demonstrate and explain the complexity of ‘Bear’ in the present-day UK. Moving beyond a focus on masculine attitudes, it ... Read more

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  • From entertainment to citizenship

    Politics and popular culture

    by John Street, Sanna Inthorn, Martin Scott ...
    From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars – like Bono and Bob Geldof – who claim to represent them. It explores how young people connect the pleasures of popular culture to the world at large. For them, popular culture is not simply a matter of escapism and entertainment, but of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Research Methods

    by Steve Chapman, Patrick McNeill, Patrick McNeill ...
    Since its first edition in 1985, Patrick McNeill's Research Methods has become a classic introductory text for students of sociology at A level and in undergraduate courses as well as for a range of specialists in education, business, social care and medicine who need a brief but authoritative account of how sociologists set about conducting research.After a brief overview of the history of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Intellectual Disability and Being Human

    A Care Ethics Model

    by Chrissie Rogers ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
    Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies, and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always be appropriate when thinking about intellectual (or learning) disability.This pioneering book, in considering intellectually disabled people's lives, sets out a care ethics model of disability that outlines the emotional caring sphere, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD