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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “valerie wright”
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  • The Impact of New Health Imperatives on Educational Policy and Schooling

    Edited by Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood ...
    Series series Woodhead Fibre Series
    Currently a great deal of public discourse around health is on the assumed relationship between childhood inactivity, young people’s diets, and a putative steep rise in obesity. Children and young people are increasingly being identified as a population at ‘risk’ in relation to these health concerns. Such concerns are driving what might be described as new ‘health imperatives’ which prescribe the ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic'

    Governing Bodies

    Edited by Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ is the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the 'obesity epidemic.' The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different individuals, social groups and institutions. Contributors from the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Glasgow

    High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period

    by Lynn Abrams, Ade Kearns, Barry Hazley, Valerie Wright ...
    Series series Built Environment City Studies
    In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the technologies of modernity they built into the sky, developing high-rise estates on vacant sites within the city and ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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  • Social Work Theories and Methods

    Edited by Mel Gray, Stephen Webb ...
    The second edition of this celebrated book by two of the world′s leading researchers in social work introduces readers to the main theories, theorists and perspectives that contribute to the debate on social work theory and social work methods. It brings together some outstanding international researchers in social work to challenge the reader to critically question how they think about social ... Read more

    $97.59 CAD

  • Obesity in Canada

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Deborah McPhail, Wendy Mitchinson, Jenny Ellison ...
    Medical professionals, social policy makers, and the media have all declared that Canada is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Conceptualizing obesity as a biological condition, these experts insist that it needs to be “prevented” and “managed.”Obesity in Canada takes a broader, critical perspective of our supposed epidemic. Examining obesity in its cultural and historical context, the book’s ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Social Research

    by Tim May ...
    This text successfully bridges the gap between theory and methods in social research, bringing understanding of the dynamics of social relations. ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Irregular School

    Exclusion, Schooling and Inclusive Education

    by Roger Slee ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Should disabled students be in regular classrooms all of the time or some of the time? Is the regular school or the special school or both the solution for educating students with a wide range of differences?Inclusive education has been incorporated in government education policy around the world. Key international organisations such as UNESCO and OECD declare their commitment to Education for All ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Fat Lives

    A Feminist Psychological Exploration

    by Irmgard Tischner ...
    Series series Women and Psychology
    Ever caught somebody – or yourself – checking out the content of a ‘fat’ person’s supermarket trolley? Ever wondered what lies behind this behaviour, or what it might be like to be at the receiving end of this judging gaze?Within the context of the current ‘obesity debate’, this book investigates the embodied experience of ‘being large’ from a critical psychological perspective. Using ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Feminism and 'The Schooling Scandal'

    by Christine Skelton, Becky Francis ...
    Feminism and ‘The Schooling Scandal’ brings together feminist contributions from two generations of educational researchers, evaluating and celebrating the field of gender and education. The focus throughout is on the years of compulsory schooling, examining key concepts in gender and education identified and developed by international thinkers in educational feminism. Topics covered include ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • 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

    $83.99 CAD

  • Health Education

    Critical perspectives

    Edited by Katie Fitzpatrick, Richard Tinning ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    Health Education: Critical perspectives provides a socio-cultural and critical approach to health education. The book draws together international experts in the fields of health and education who deconstruct contemporary discourses and practices, and re-imagine a health education that both connects with young people and offers a way forward in addressing issues of health and wellbeing.Chapters ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Medical Sociology and Old Age

    Towards a sociology of health in later life

    by Paul Higgs, Ian Rees Jones ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Health and Society
    The nature of health in later life has conventionally been studied from two perspectives. Medical sociologists have focused on the failing body, chronic illness, infirmity and mortality, while social gerontologists on the other hand have focused on the epidemiology of old age and health and social policy. By examining these perspectives, Higgs and Jones show how both standpoints have a restricted ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD