Product Description: Every day brings news about so-called Islamic State and its seduction of young people in the West. The radicalization of young Muslims causes alarm; even the desirability of multiculturalism is questioned in troubled cities where racism and Islamophobia are on the rise...read more

Product Description: Critical reflection helps professionals to learn directly from their practice experience, so that they can improve their own work in an ongoing and flexible way – something essential in today’s complex and changing organisations...read more

Product Description: In this volume, academics and researchers across disciplines including education, psychology and health studies come together to discuss personal, political and professional narratives of struggle, resilience and hope. Contributors draw from a rich body of auto/biographical research to examine the role of narrative and how it can be constructed to compose a life story, considering the roles of significant others, inspirational, educational and fictional characters, and those in myth and legend...read more

Product Description: This title explores the current educational system from a psychodynamic perspective. The papers collected here cover a broad range of topics, from papers on the results of research with art students with a history of mental health problems, using the techniques of Donald Winnicott with adults; self-respect, self-confidence and self-esteem: psychoanalytic and philosophical implications for higher education; learning through ourselves: the supervision group as a training tool; to the research findings of a primary school teacher working with a little girl in her class...read more

Product Description: This original study, guided by feminist and critical theories, examines the organizational structure and culture of university colleges and the dynamics of the personal experience of diverse individuals (diverse by race, gender, class, sexual orientation, religion, and ability) in such institutions...read more

Product Description: This timely book focuses on the work, well-being and lives of doctors during a period of constant change and crisis in the National Health Service in England This book shows how GPs are responding to their changing roles in a changing society; and how such responses may be understood in a context of whole life histories as well as within the norms of medical culture...read more

Product Description: Adults now constitute the majority of students in higher education; what they bring to it, want and need are important questions in the development of a more responsive higher education. The author discusses The Relationship Between Motives, Education, And Life History To Explore how culture and history shape people and their motives for learning, taking into account variations in gender, social background and ethnicity, challenging the orthodox view that non-traditional students enter higher educational for vocational/material reasons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)