Comparing Welfare States

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• This accessible, broad-ranging textbook provides a critical introduction to British and comparative social policy. Drawing on the comparative analysis... Lees meer

Identity

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editor... Lees meer

Markets, Hierarchies and Networks

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• This interdisciplinary reader provides a distinctive introduction to the way social, political and economic life is coordinated. It brings together th... Lees meer

Knowledge and Practice

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• Longstanding cultural heritages about the nature of knowledge continue to dominate Western education. Yet the ways of knowing represented through teac... Lees meer

Effective Educational Leadership

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• This book is an essential for providers and students of postgraduate level courses in educational management resource and for leadership development p... Lees meer

Public Sector Management

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• Provides an overview of the theory and practice of public service management. Using a number of key contributions to the field, the text outlines the ... Lees meer

Restorative Justice

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• ′The book embodies a timely collection of restorative justice topics and is well structured with some of the most learned authorities in the field′ - ... Lees meer

Geographies of Globalisation

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• Geographies of Globalization explores the geographies of proximity and distance that shape globalization, and considers the politics of responsibility... Lees meer

Knowledge, Power and Learning

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• New technologies are altering the relationship between knowledge, power and learning. This book considers the influence of 'information age' on changi... Lees meer

Systems, Management and Change

Ruth Carter, John N T Martin, Bill Mayblin, Michael C R Munday

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• This introduction to organizational analysis and change is written in a lively, pictorial and concise style. It starts from the belief that one cannot... Lees meer

Information Technology and Society

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• The social, political and technological implications of the information revolution are the focus of this textbook. It explores the major social and te... Lees meer

The Media Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• `Alertness to the changing terms of debate, familiarity with the latest scholarship and a shrewd, practical sense of what works in teaching make this ... Lees meer

Changing Practice in Health and Social Care

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• Designed to lay sound foundations for continuing professional development in a world of rapid change, this Reader draws together key articles explorin... Lees meer

Leading Work with Young People

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• Leading Work with Young People provides a selection of writing from a complex and dynamic field of work. The editors bring together key readings and n... Lees meer

Primary Teaching Assistants

Carrie Cable, Ian Eyres, Roger Hancock, Mary Stacey

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• Teaching Assistants are uniquely placed to support children's involvement with learning. The role of those who work alongside teachers in the classroo... Lees meer

Improving Educational Management

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• `This reader is certainly worth a place in any consultant′s start-up kit, and offers useful refreshment for all but the most expert′ - Education Syste... Lees meer

Research Skills for Policy and Development

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• This book is a critical guide to conducting investigations under time- and resource-pressured conditions, equipping readers with the key skills and ap... Lees meer

Understanding the Family

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• An introductory textbook in family studies. The contributors demonstrate how "the family" is constituted in the public and private spheres, and outlin... Lees meer

Creative Management and Development

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• Creative Management and Development has been updated with newly commissioned and leading edge chapters on intuitive cognition, complexity, emotion, te... Lees meer

Understanding Research with Children and Young People

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• Useful strategies and guidance for anyone needing to explore the practical and ethical issues around researching with children and young people. Lees meer

New Managerialism, New Welfare?

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• New Managerialism, New Welfare? Lees meer

Human Resource Strategies

• Paperback | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• Examines the significance of human resources management for effective organizational and competitive strategy and considers such issues as the develop... Lees meer

Understanding Mental Health and Counselling

• Hardcover | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• A critical introduction to key debates about how problems of mental health are understood, and to the core approaches taken to working with counsellin... Lees meer

Doing Postgraduate Research

• Boek | Engels | Published in Association with the Open University
• Shows you how to undertake your research better, quicker, and with as little hassle as possible. This book offers a comprehensive guide to better rese... Lees meer