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“ailsa watkinson”

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  • Spare the Child

    Ending Childhood Corporal Punishment

    by Ailsa Watkinson ...
    An urgent examination of Canada’s legal, cultural, and historical acceptance of corporal punishment and the children it continues to failIn Spare the Child: Ending Childhood Corporal Punishment, author Ailsa Watkinson exposes a troubling truth: since 1892, Section 43 of the Canadian Criminal code has granted legal defense for parents and caregivers who use corporal punishment on children for the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Systemic Violence

    How Schools Hurt Children

    Edited by Juanita Ross Epp, Ailsa M. Watkinson ...
    This text examines the negative practices of schools which are resulting in school systems failing students. Such practices include intrusive authoritarian administrative structures and procedures; inappropriate discipline; unrealistic expectations; and placid exceptance of exclusionary practices. Indeed, educational systemic violence includes any practice or procedure that prevents students from ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    by Michael Slote ...
    Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality. Taking inspiration from British moral sentimentalism and drawing on recent psychological literature on empathy, he shows that the use of that notion ... Read more

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  • Critical Perspectives On Educational Leadership

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    This book is an edited collection of original papers which challenge in a very direct manner the dominant behviourist and functionalist views that have come to entrap those who live, work and conduct research in the areas of educational leadership, and focusing instead on the structures and processes within schools as organisations that frustrate, distort and ultimately stifle educative ... Read more

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  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

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  • Governing the Present

    Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life

    by Nikolas Rose, Peter Miller ...
    The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneering work by Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose. This volume will bring together key papers from their work for the first time, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of this approach to the analysis of political power and the ... Read more

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  • Feeling Power

    Emotions and Education

    by Megan Boler ...
    First published in 1999. Megan Boler combines cultural history with ethical and multicultural analyses to explore how emotions have been disciplined, suppressed, or ignored at all levels of education and in educational theory. FEELING POWER charts the philosophies and practices developed over the last century to control social conflicts arising from gender, class, and race. The book traces the ... Read more

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  • Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice

    by John Smyth ...
    Series series Critical Pedagogy Today
    We live in a time when those who wield unrestrained power believe they have the inalienable right to determine the destiny, nature and shape of social institutions like schools. Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice challenges this arrogance by showing how teachers, students, parents, communities, and researchers can develop narratives that amount to working with and for those who are increasingly ... Read more

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  • Transforming Social Work Practice

    Postmodern Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Jan Fook, Bob Pease ...
    Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human ... Read more

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  • Gender and Social Psychology

    by Vivien Burr ...
    Series series Psychology Focus
    Explaining theory and research in an accessible but thorough manner, Gender and Social Psychology critically evaluates the contribution that psychology has made to the study of gender, examining key issues such a family roles and parenting, inequalities in education, jobs and pay, and the effects of media representation of the sexes. ... Read more

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  • Woman's Relationship with Herself

    Gender, Foucault and Therapy

    by Helen O'Grady ...
    Series series Women and Psychology
    Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how this relationship is often dominated by debilitating practices of self-surveillance. Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady illuminates the link between this kind of self-surveillance and the broader mechanisms of social control, arguing that these negative practices ... Read more

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  • Education, Philosophy and the Ethical Environment

    by Graham Haydon ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    How much can we reasonably expect from education? This book, written by a philosopher of education, casts new light on this question by seeing values education, not as a separate activity within schools, but as an aspect of education that both reflects the surrounding climate of values and can help to change it. Graham Haydon argues that all of us – whether as teachers, parents, students or ... Read more

    $69.99 USD