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Global Pathways to Abolishing Physical Punishment
Realizing Children’s Rights
Series: Routledge Research in Education
This book describes the unfolding of a global phenomenon: the legal prohibition of physical punishment of children. Until thirty years ago, this near-universal practice was considered appropriate, necessary and a parental right. But a paradigm shift in conceptions of childhood has led to a...
Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
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Women Remember
An Oral History
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
In this fascinating book, originally published in 1989, Anne Smith records interviews with a group of octogenerian women, covering all social classes and a great variety of experience. She allows the women to speak for themselves, bringing to light the submerged history of ordinary women's lives....
Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
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Connecting Inquiry and Professional Learning in Education
International Perspectives and Practical Solutions
How might inquiry enhance the professional practice of student and practising teachers, teacher educators and other practitioners? What effect might this have on the learning of young people in and outside of the classroom? Based on the findings of an international colloquium and drawing upon a...
Published July 8th 2009 by Routledge
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An Ethical Approach to Practitioner Research
Dealing with Issues and Dilemmas in Action Research
Practice based research is burgeoning in a number of professional areas. An Ethical Approach to Practitioner Research covers a comprehensive range of issues and dilemmas encountered in practitioner and action research contexts. While principally focused upon practitioner inquiry in education it...
Published August 22nd 2007 by Routledge