This is a collection of all 12 'Action Annie' stories. Annie is an imaginative and very active seven-year-old whose mind and body is always on the go. She never seems to stop. Even as she sleeps, she is dreaming about the things she plans to do tomorrow. Annie is always thinking up new ideas and inventing things. There's a little bit of Annie in every child. Are you like Annie in any of her ways?
How do contemporary teenagers experience and understand religious, spiritual, gender and sexual diversity? How are their experiences mediated by where they go to school, their faith and their geographic location? Are their outlooks materialist, religious, spiritual, or do they have hybrid identities? Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity offers powerful insight into how teenagers make sense of the world around them. Drawing on rich data from a major national study, this book creates new ways of understanding the complexity of young people's lives and how school education covering diversity best addresses their world. This book argues that school education focused on worldviews is founded on ways of thinking about young people that do not reflect the complexities of Generation Z's everyday experiences of diversity and their interactions with each other. It argues that certain kinds of education in schools can play a significant role in developing religious literacy, tolerance and positive attitudes to diversity.
Video provides unprecedented opportunities for social science research, enabling fine-grained analysis of social organisation, culture and communication. Video in Qualitative Research provides practical guidance for students and academics on how to use video in qualitative research, how to address the problems and issues that arise in undertaking video-based field studies and how to subject video recordings to detailed scrutiny and analysis. Heath, Hindmarsh and Luff consider the ethical and practical issues that arise in recording and gathering data as well as how video enables new and distinctive ways of presenting insights, observations and findings to both academic and practitioner audiences. The book is illustrated throughout with a wide range of case material drawn from the authors own research projects, and these cases serve to situate the practical and methodological guidance offered by the book into real research scenarios. Video in Qualitative Research is an invaluable guide for students and researchers across the social sciences thinking of using video as part of their research. Christian Heath is Professor of Work and Organisation, Kings College London Jon Hindmarsh is Reader in Work Practice and Technology, Kings College London Paul Luff is Professor in Organisations and Technology, Kings College London
Four new candidates for positions as Observers in the Metaphysical Time Travel (MTT) Organization arrive at the organizations principal facility. They come under the influence of the primary management team at the facility and begin their training. This novel is about the people involved in the facility and its satellite organizations. As the candidates progress through the learning process their development reflects the paths being carved by their linear choices. These choices are impacted by a mixture of rational and irrational decisions and the resultant interactions with each other and the existing facility staff. Everyone has a past, a present and a future. The facility staff includes, Dr. Anne Cleary, the founder of the MTT organization. Her life is extensively intertwined with the other staff members and the novel allows us to examine some of the key moments in the life of Dr. Cleary and her staff. A crucial time in the future is discovered. It changes everything about how the MTT organization will have to function. It also impacts each of the individuals by forcing them to consider their own mortality. These are mostly good people in a challenging environment. Humor is their salvation in most cases. Anne Cleary has created an organization of caring and committed individuals. This novel lets you meet the key players and a selection of the more individual walk on parts.
