Product Description: 'Very funny and very honest... I can't recommend it highly enough' - Jonathan Ross'Frequent flashes of comic genius demonstrate why this waiter found fame' - The Sunday Times'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness was laughter and time...read more

Product Description: Considers the way we approach the complex the relationship between childhood, families and the state.>

Product Description: One of the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming hip-hop artists, Scroobius Pip, is a master of the spoken word lyric.From his childhood musings in the school playground to his feelings on the rat race, Pip has selected from his online fan collective artistic collaborations that bring the power of his lyrics to the printed page, creating an innovative multimedia collection of modern poetry...read more

Reflective practice has moved from the margins to the mainstream of professional education. However, in this process, its radical potential has been subsumed by individualistic, rather than situated, understandings of practice. Presenting critical perspectives that challenge the current paradigm, this book aims to move beyond reflective practice. It proposes new conceptualisations and offers fresh approaches relevant across professions. Contributors include both academics and practitioners concerned with the training and development of professionals. Definitions of reflection (which are often implicit) often focus on the individual's internal thought processes and responsibility for their actions. The individual - what they did/thought/felt – is emphasised with little recognition of context, power dynamics or ideological challenge. This book presents the work of practitioners, educators, academics and researchers who see this as problematic and are moving towards a more critical approach to reflective practice. With an overview from the editors and fourteen chapters considering new conceptualisations, professional perspectives and new practices, Beyond Reflective Practice examines what new forms of professional reflective practice are emerging. It examines in particular the relationships between reflective practitioners and those upon whom they practise. It looks at the ways in which the world of professional work has changed and the ways in which professional practice needs to change to meet the needs of this new world. It will be relevant for those concerned with initial and ongoing professional learning, both in work and in educational contexts.

Product Description: This book is an important practical resource for all professionals engaged with planning, implementing and evaluating multi-professional teamwork and practice in children's services. The first book to combine theoretical perspectives, research evidence from the 'real world' of children's services, and reflections on policy and practice in inter-agency services in England, this fully updated new edition retains its popular approach, while reflecting the numerous changes to policy, practice, and research...read more

Product Description: This collection focuses on child welfare in its specific sense: welfare and social interventions with children and young people undertaken by State bodies or NGO's. The term 'child welfare' is deployed differently in diverse international settings...read more

Product Description: This work aims to bring people together from the local authority, voluntary and academic worlds - an approach which is reflected throughout the book. It provides a range of materials outlining the theory, policy and practice. Part one contains six chapters from the editors which aim to provide the backdrop for the remaining more practice orientated content...read more

Product Description: Linking both theory and practice, this text examines the issue of how children are to be looked after if they cannot live in more traditional family units. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)