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Focus on Meaning: Talking to Some Purpose with Young Children
1st Edition
By Joan Tough
November 02, 2026
The young child depends on talking with adults to gain an understanding of the world around him and Focus on Meaning (originally published in 1973) helps the teacher, the parent, and all concerned with growing children to gain insight into the part that language plays during the early years of ...
For Freedom and Dignity: Historical Agency and Class Structures in the Coalfields of NSW
1st Edition
By Andrew W. Metcalfe
November 02, 2026
First published in 1988, For Freedom and Dignity is a highly original and sophisticated study of the social history of the Coalfields of the Hunter Valley, renowned as the heart of Australian political radicalism for much of the twentieth century. The book evokes without sentimentality a deep ...
Individual Development and Social Experience
1st Edition
By Sonja Hunt, Jennifer Hilton
November 02, 2026
What elements in our psychological make-up direct our behaviour, and what social influences mould our reactions from day to day? In Individual Development and Social Experience (originally published in 1975, reissuing the revised 1981 edition now with a new preface by the authors), two experienced ...
Industrialization and Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Alan B. Mountjoy
November 02, 2026
First published in 1963 as Industrialization and Under-Developed Countries (reissuing the fourth edition of 1975 here), Industrialization and Developing Countries discusses the importance of geographical factors affecting industrialization and developing countries and their relationship to economic...
Joseph Parkes of Birmingham: and the Part Which He Played in Radical Reform Movements from 1825 to 1845
1st Edition
By Jessie K. Buckley
November 02, 2026
First published in 1926, the original blurb reads: “Joseph Parkes – a descendant of Joseph Priestley, the great scientist and divine – was a notable man during the Reform Era in the nineteenth century. He played an important part in the agitation for the extension of the franchise in 1832; he was ...
Mirrors of Work: Work Simulations in Schools
1st Edition
By Ian Jamieson, Andrew Miller, A. G. Watts
November 02, 2026
In the 1980s work simulations were receiving considerable attention in schools as ways of enabling students to experience aspects of the world of work within a controlled environment. They were also seen as vehicles for the development of a wide range of knowledge, concepts and skills. Such ...
Relative Deprivation and Social Justice: A Study of Attitudes to Social Inequality in Twentieth-Century England
1st Edition
By W. G. Runciman
November 02, 2026
Originally published in 1966, Relative Deprivation and Social Justice is a study of attitudes to social inequality in twentieth-century England. It was an important contribution both to the social history and psychology of contemporary England and to political theory at the time. Using ideas drawn ...
Rethinking Work Experience
1st Edition
By Andrew Miller, A. G. Watts, Ian Jamieson
November 02, 2026
The 1980s saw the rapid growth of work-experience programmes in schools and colleges. This development was in response to central government initiatives, such as TVEI, as well as developments in courses with a compulsory work-experience element. Many of the improvements in the quality of ...
Social Relations and Innovation: Changing the State of Play in Hospitals
1st Edition
By David J. Hall
November 02, 2026
David Hall spent several months studying the introduction of play therapy in children’s hospitals – the ways in which it is organized and introduced, and the way in which hospital staff, characteristically therapeutic in their orientation and disciplined in their approach, react to the deliberately...
Teaching Clever Children, 7–11
1st Edition
By N.R. Tempest
November 02, 2026
First published in 1974, Teaching Clever Children, 7–11, a pioneer of its kind in Great Britain, is an account of the experience gained in teaching and observing a group of clever children in a primary school over a period of four years. Professor Tempest looks at the problem of identifying clever ...
Teaching Poor Readers in the Secondary School
1st Edition
By Christine Cassell
November 02, 2026
First published in 1982, Teaching Poor Readers in the Secondary School presents a means of devising an individual teaching programme for children from the beginning of their secondary school career, enabling them to overcome a basic educational disadvantage likely to affect every subject in the ...
The Analysis of Social Interactions: Methods, Issues, and Illustrations
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert B. Cairns
November 02, 2026
First published in1979, The Analysis of Social Interactions examines advances in methodologies for studying social interactions and explores their implications. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, Design, Techniques, and Analysis, focuses on the methods themselves. Part II, Illustrations,...