Guidance and counselling in the context of learning is an area that is growing rapidly and attracting a lot of interest within the field of education. This reader presents a range of different perspectives - those of the user, practitioner, professional, manager, policy-maker and academic. By offering these various tales, the book aims to encourage a more beneficial interchange of dialogue between the people involved, whether they be in the role of the counsellor or the counselled. Written for a new module on the Open University's MA in Education - E839
A definitive account of the UK's first - and until recently only - therapeutic community prison that deals with some of the most serious violent and sexual offenders in the UK - based upon unprecedented access to the prison that was granted to Waterside Press and Professor Ursula Smartt of Thames Valley University UK. An innovative and acclaimed account based on one-to-one interviews with staff and inmates - and 'living with' prisoners through their daily lives.
Sociologists’ Tales brings together the thoughts and experiences of key UK sociologists from different generations of British sociology in reflecting on why they have chosen a career in sociology, how they have managed to do it and what advice they would offer the next generation.
With numerous approaches to choose from, knowing where to start when doing qualitative data analysis (QDA) can be a challenge. This book gives you direction with an accessible and thorough introduction to nine different approaches to QDA, written by a multi-disciplinary team with years of experience teaching and analysing data using these methods. With a clear focus on the ‘how to’ of QDA, each chapter includes: •Step-by-step descriptions of how to apply each approach in your research •Online and in-text activities to help you practice your skills •Annotated reading lists so you can dig deeper into key topics •Case studies from a range of disciplines so you can see how each approach works in practice. The perfect companion on your journey through QDA, the book also offers a comprehensive introduction to the use of NVivo QDA software, helping both new and experienced researchers get to grips with the essentials.
This is a family story of 19th century migration, centered on an ancestor whose sense of adventure carried him to the furthest corners of the earth. Travelling from England to the gold fields of New Zealand and on to the Pampas of Argentina, John George Walker eventually, after some forty years, returned home. For him and his family, the general catastrophe of the First World War turned into personal tragedy by claiming the lives of two of his three surviving sons.
The war stories and combat narratives of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment during five-and-a-half years of combat in Vietnam. When the U.S. Army went to war in South Vietnam in 1965, the general consensus was that counterinsurgency was an infantryman’s war; if there were any role at all for armored forces, it would be strictly to support the infantry. However, from the time the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment arrived in the country in September 1966, troopers of the Blackhorse Regiment demonstrated the fallacy of this assumption. By the time of Tet ’68, the Army’s leadership began to understand that the Regiment’s mobility, firepower, flexibility, and leadership made a difference on the battlefield well beyond its numbers. Over the course of the 11th Cavalry’s five-and-a-half years in combat in South Vietnam and Cambodia, over 25,000 young men served in the Regiment. Their stories—and those of their families—represent the Vietnam generation in graphic, sometimes humorous, often heart-wrenching detail. Collected by the author through hundreds of in-person, telephone, and electronic interviews over a period of twenty-five-plus years, these “war stories” provide context for the companion volume, The Blackhorse in Vietnam. Amongst the stories of the Blackhorse troopers and their families are the tales of the wide variety of animals they encountered during their time in combat, as well as the variable landscape, from jungle to rice paddies, and weather. Blackhorse Tales concludes with a look at how the troopers dealt with their combat experiences since returning from Vietnam. “Without question, Donald Snedeker has paid a fitting tribute to this superb unit, its soldiers, and their families.” —Military Review
A diamond twice as large as the famous Kohinoor pledged to survive a financial crisis; meeting a 'relatively unknown young monk' who later went on to be known as Swami Vivekananda; a photograph that Kalpana Chawla carried along with her on her first mission into space; the fascinating story of the first-ever Indian team at the Olympics; how 'OK TATA' made its way to the back of millions of trucks on the Indian highways, and many more. #Tatastories is a collection of little-known tales of individuals, events and places from the Tata Group that have shaped the India we live in today.
Prepared by renowned Howard scholar Paul Herman with the assistance of Glenn Lord, this is the first new bibliography of Robert E. Howard since 1976. This massive volume contains more than twice as much information as the preceding biblio, The Last Celt. Robert E. Howard is considered the Godfather of Sword and Sorcery, and the creator of the international icon, Conan the Cimmerian, yet wrote successfully in numerous genres. The Neverending Hunt lists every story, poem, letter and publication in which a Howard work has appeared. It's more than you might think . . .
