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Promoting Infant and Family Mental Health and Wellbeing: Early Relationships, Family Support and Professional Practice
No full textThis informative and accessible text invites readers to engage with the latest developments and debates in the field of infant and family mental health and wellbeing from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
Bringing together a rich collection of knowledge and experience, unique insights are provided into aspects of family life, from attachment, attunement and bonding to therapeutic interventions and compassion. Each chapter shines a light on the importance of respectful early interventions and provides ethical and evidence-based strategies to promote healthy development and to empower parents and caregivers to support their child's (and their own) emotional and psychological needs. Spotlights on research and practice, reflective questions, and case studies weave throughout to further consolidate knowledge and to bring theory to life.
Critically reflecting on current policy and practice, this book advocates for an inclusive approach and underscores the significance of early experiences in shaping a child's mental health and overall development. It will be key reading for early childhood students, educators, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in supporting families during the crucial early years
Shifting landscapes of war: Rome and twentieth century disillusionment
Get PDFThe First World War inspired artworks in which lived experiences were reimagined through visions of the classical world and while some of these guarded against despair others explored feelings of disillusionment. Painting and writing during the Second World War and beyond, and looking back past his own service in Ireland to his years in the trenches, David Jones (1895–1974) turned to ancient Rome to consider modern warfare. By reflecting upon the experience of Roman soldiers Jones attempted to come to terms with his own disillusionment with the British Empire and with the justifications made for the necessity of the First World War. His work provides complication to narratives of commemoration which support a fixed or stable vision of the past. Instead, Jones's memories of conflict gave transhistorical depth to his imagined Roman Empire – a creative landscape in which he could examine the causes and the costs of war
The collective use of the discipline of noticing to inform pedagogic actions
Get PDFProfessional development depends on enriching and expanding the range of professional actions that become available to be enacted either during preparation, or in-the-moment in a session. The Discipline of Noticing was articulated to support this process. Noticing involves both attention and awareness. The Discipline of Noticing provides a method for exploring, researching, or exploiting not only what one is currently sensitised to attend to, but also the nature and form of that attention, together with associated awarenesses which provide access to actions. In this paper, we provide examples of how professionals, in this case mathematics education researchers who are also mathematics teacher educators, located changes in what they were sensitised to notice, and how that became part of their professional repertoire by the process that Gattegno called “educating awareness”. These changes arose and were noticed through joint reciprocal reflections, and the subsequent planning and teaching of future professional development sessions. Among the aspects that contributed to the researchers’ / teacher educators’ development and engagement in the Discipline of Noticing, we emphasise communication with oneself and with others in group discussions
‘The Scheme which Began the Calamities of Europe’: Scottish Writers on the First Polish Partition
No full textCrimes of their Brothers
No full textThis novel is an adaptation of several medieval manuscripts that contain samtíðarsögur (contemporary sagas).
Sturlunga saga is a collection of Icelandic sagas, written in Old Norse, by various authors from the 12th and 13th centuries. it details the history of Iceland of Iceland between 1117 and 1264.
The account is a creative, and narrative heavy, account of the events pertaining to the civil war in Iceland as various members of the Sturlung family attempted to vie for control of the region as Norway made inroads.
This novel is a fictionalised account of the internal power struggle which ended in Iceland's loss of sovereignty and submission to Norway in 1262–64
Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context
No full textThis new edition of Exploring World Englishes surveys varieties of English existing within the world today, and the debates and controversies surrounding its present forms, functions and status in diverse world contexts.
This book examines how English evolved to become ‘the global language’ and looks at the political and cultural history that influenced this evolution. Now in its second edition, this popular text has been substantially revised and updated to reflect the rapid developments in this area, including areas such as decolonisation, multilingualism and translanguaging, along with English as a Lingua Franca and its consequences for education. Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to World Englishes that are faced by language professionals – particularly in the contexts of language education and language planning – the book explores and illustrates the ways in which the actual use and management of English, as well as the beliefs and ideologies associated with it, play an increasingly important role in contemporary globalised society.
Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates. Titles in the series are also ideal for language professionals returning to academic study
Introduction
No full textThis chapter outlines the need for this publication, the dedication to using research to inform practice as well as providing additional information about the two co-authors and the range of contributors included in it. In this chapter the style and format of the rest of the chapters will also be explained; including the pondering questions and professional reflections included to prompt next steps planning
Prime area
No full textThis chapter explores all aspects of physical development, including gross motor and fine motor skills, including the progression of key knowledge and skills. It includes examples of how practitioners have included quality first teaching opportunities to support this prime area, reinforcing the importance of developing a secure pedagogy. This chapter finishes with a summary of the key points to provide a takeaway for readers
Creatively applying professional dangerousness to improve practice responses to risk situations
No full textThis chapter outlines professional dangerousness patterns and characteristics that have been identified over time and provides tools to help practitioners to analyse their intuitive feelings to support professional curiosity and challenge stereotypes, assumptions and biases. The author of this chapter argues that well-resourced teams working together to develop multi-agency plans are necessary to effectively provide positive outcomes for children, families and the social work profession