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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william mcgovern”
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  • Developing and Implementing Teaching in Sensitive Subject and Topic Areas

    A Comprehensive Guide for Professionals in FE and HE Settings

    Edited by William McGovern, Aidan Gillespie, Toby Brandon, Alison McInnes ...
    Series series Emerald Points
    Engaging with sensitive topics is crucial for students to develop classroom and workplace resilience. These should be taught in a way that supports the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, and attributes, and that enables students to prepare for and thrive in their future professional life.Providing educators with a comprehensive understanding of the issues involved in teaching sensitive subjects ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Drugs, Identity and Stigma

    Edited by Michelle Addison, William McGovern, Ruth McGovern ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book calls attention to the impact of stigma experienced by people who use illicit drugs. Stigma is powerful: it can do untold harm to a person and place with longstanding effects. Through an exploration of themes of inequality, power, and feeling ‘out of place’ in neoliberal times, this collection focuses on how stigma is negotiated, resisted and absorbed by people who use drugs. How does ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Understanding Safeguarding for Children and their Educational Experiences

    A Guide for Students, ECTs and School Support Staff

    Edited by Dr Helen Woodley, William McGovern, Aidan Gillespie ...
    Series series Emerald Points
    Many of the problem’s children face in relation to their personal lives, educational experiences and attainment are caused by factors that exist outside schools. Yet despite this, all educational establishments and all school staff now have a clear ‘duty’ and ‘responsibility’ to respond to safeguarding and vulnerability concerns. All school staff are expected to be particularly alert to specific ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Mahāyāna Buddhism

    With especial Reference to Chinese and Japanese Phases

    by William McGovern ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Japan
    William Montgomery McGovern’s Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism was one of the first books on Mahayana Buddhism written for a Western audience. It predates influential English language overviews of Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki, A. Watts, and W. Rahula. The author was born in New York City in 1897 and spent his latter teenage years (1914-1917) training at the Nishi Hongwanji Mahayana Buddhist monastery ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Public Involvement and Community Engagement in Applied Health and Social Care Research

    Critical Perspectives and Innovative Practice

    Edited by William McGovern, Hayley Alderson, Bethany Kate Bareham, Monique Lhussier ...
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.This edited collection brings academics, researchers and practitioners/public from a range of subject and discipline areas together with a view to providing insight into critical concerns and innovative practices on the process of developing and delivering Public Involvement and Community Engagement (PICE work) in a ... Read more

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  • The short guide to social work

    by Robert Adams ...
    Series series Short Guides
    This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it ... Read more

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  • Working with Vulnerable Families

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    Edited by Fiona Arney, Dorothy Scott ...
    Poverty, domestic violence, marginalisation, drug and alcohol dependence are just some of the issues faced by many Australian families. Now in its second edition, Working with Vulnerable Families provides a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to family-centred practice in Australia. It explores the ways in which health, education and social welfare professionals can support and protect ... Read more

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  • Racism at Work

    The Danger of Indifference

    by Binna Kandola ...
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  • Social Work and Domestic Violence

    Developing Critical and Reflective Practice

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  • Social Work With Adults

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  • A Good Childhood

    Searching for Values in a Competitive Age

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