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  • How to QuantCrit

    Applying Critical Race Theory to Quantitative Data in Education

    by Wendy Castillo, Kamden K. Strunk ...
    How to QuantCrit equips researchers and users of quantitative data with practices to alter how they collect and analyze quantitative data. Using Quantitative Critical Race Theory (QuantCrit) as a framework, this book develops the foundation for an iterative praxis to explore a range of questions that prompt practitioners and stakeholders to be engaged critics in working towards a more just and ... Read more

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  • Social Work Theories in Context

    Creating Frameworks for Practice

    by Karen Healy ...
    This popular and innovative core text book explores contemporary social work theories and perspectives in a systematic way, using an integrated and flexible framework to link context, theory, and practice approaches. Healy expertly provides an applied guide to social work theory across a range of organisational contexts, showing social work as a diverse activity that is profoundly shaped by ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    by Karen Swift, Marilyn Callahan ...
    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Read more

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  • Working Together

    Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice

    by Elinor Ostrom, Marco A. Janssen, Amy Poteete ...
    Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working Together examines how different methods have promoted various theoretical developments related to collective ... Read more

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  • Why People Obey the Law

    by Tom R. Tyler ...
    People obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment--this is the startling conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study. Tyler suggests that lawmakers and law enforcers would do much better to make legal systems worthy of respect than to try to instill fear of punishment. He finds that people obey law primarily because they believe in respecting legitimate authority.In ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • DisCrit—Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education

    Edited by David J. Connor, Beth A. Ferri, Subini A. Annamma ...
    Series series Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
    This groundbreaking volume brings together major figures in Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore some of today’s most important issues in education. Scholars examine the achievement/opportunity gaps from both historical and contemporary perspectives, as well as the overrepresentation of minority students in special education and the school-to-prison ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Antiracist Occupational Therapy

    Unsettling the Status Quo

    Edited by Musharrat J. Ahmed-Landeryou ...
    Social justice, inclusion, and person-centredness are the cornerstones of occupational therapy but despite this, the experiences and inequities faced by Black and minoritised populations in health and social care often go unseen and unattended in occupational therapy practice.This timely book provides a compendium of global insights into the inequities faced by Black and minoritised groups in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

    Edited by Judith Treas, Jacqueline Scott, Martin Richards ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
    Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children’s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Inherited Inequality

    Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families

    by Christina J. Cross ...
    A groundbreaking study challenges basic tenets of US social welfare policy with proof that raising Black children in two-parent families does not close racial gaps in life outcomes.Ever since Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s controversial 1965 report on “The Negro Family,” the disadvantages of the single-parent household have been at the center of debates about racial inequality in the United States. In ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Psychology, Poverty, and the End of Social Exclusion

    Putting Our Practice to Work

    by Laura Smith ...
    Series series Multicultural Foundations of Psychology and Counseling Series
    Laura Smith argues that if there is any segment of society that should be concerned with the impact of classism and poverty, it is those within the “helping professions”—people who have built their careers around understanding and facilitating human emotional well-being. In this groundbreaking book, Smith charts the ebbs and flows of psychology’s consideration of poor clients, and then points to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Teaching Social Work

    Reflections on Pedagogy and Practice

    Edited by Rick Csiernik, Susan Hillock ...
    Social work education has the potential to be transformative, consciousness raising, and to produce social change while inspiring hope in students for the creation of more just systems. An understanding of oppression, its diverse manifestations, and its differential impact on vulnerable individuals and groups is essential to contemporary social work education. What then is the best manner in which ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Late-Life Homelessness

    Experiences of Disadvantage and Unequal Aging

    by Amanda Grenier ...
    Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise. In spite of growing media attention and new academic research on the issue, older people often remain unrecognized as a subpopulation in public policy, programs, and homeless strategies. As such, they occupy a paradoxical position of being hypervisible while remaining overlooked.Late-Life Homelessness ... Read more

    $35.99 USD