OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS (UK)

(P/B) CHILDREN, MEDIA AND CULTURE
Childhood and children's culture are regularly in the forefront of debates about how society is changing - often, it is argued, for the worse. This book addresses the continuing concerns around media 'effects' and critically examines the view that technology has dramatically changed modern children?s lives. This book engages with and seeks to broaden the public debate about the role of popular media in children's lives. It considers how public anxieties regarding the harmful influences of the media are heightened at times of rapid technolo...
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COUNSELLING IN THE WORKPLACE (P/B)
Work dominates our lives, particularly in Britain where it appears we work the longest hours of all. Freud indeed summed up the aim of adult life as "to love and to work", although he paid far less attention to work than he did to love. And this has been generally true of the development of psychotherapy and counselling - it has concentrated on relationships, largely those of the family and the home, and has by and large ignored the dynamics of work and work relationships, which form a major part of most people's daily lives. People probab...
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(P/B) DOING ACTION RESEARCH IN EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES
- Are you worried about doing your early years action research project? - Does the thought of choosing the right research question feel daunting? - Are you concerned about the challenges you might face? If you answer 'yes' to any of these questions, then this is the book for you! Written in a lively and accessible style, this is the essential step-by-step guide to conducting your own action research project. The book introduces and evaluates different approaches to action research and explores how they can be applied in early childhood ...
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(P/B) RETHINKING LEARNING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
This exciting book considers the nature of young children's lives and how this can, and should, inform early childhood education in practical ways. It examines: - What is it like for young children to learn in the 21st century? - How can we link this to new and innovative ways of providing relevant and engaging learning contexts for young children? - What it means to be multiliterate in the 21st century The book explores how learning and engagement with ideas can be extended through the use of new technologies, describing how informati...
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(P/B) DEVELOPING REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN THE EARLY YEARS
Reflective practice is a vital aspect of working with young children and enables a deeper understanding of their learning and development. Whilst there is a long tradition among early childhood practitioners of closely observing children's learning so as to nurture and stimulate their development, they are increasingly expected to reflect on their own practice in a variety of ways, in order to enhance their professional development and improve their practice. This book supports early years practitioners in articulating and understanding ...
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(P/B) MEDIA CONVERGENCE
Rapid changes in technology and the media industries have led to new modes of distributing and consuming information and entertainment across platforms and devices. It is now possible for newspapers to deliver breaking news by email alerts or RSS feeds, and for audiovisual content to be read, listened to or watched at a convenient time, often while on the move. This process of 'media convergence', in which new technologies are accommodated by existing media industries, has broader implications for ownership, media practices and regulation...
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(P/B) CULTURES OF POPULAR MUSIC

(P/B) ANALYSING MEDIA TEXTS (WITH DVD)
This book provides an engaging introduction to analysing media texts. Students learn how to do semiotic, genre and narrative analysis, content and discourse analysis, and engage with debates about the politics of representation. Each chapter provides readings and worked examples, from the classic 1959 film melodrama by Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life, to contemporary television ads. The book has an accompanying DVD-ROM for PC users. (from the publisher)...
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(P/B) CRITICAL ISSUES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
This book challenges long-established beliefs about early childhood education. It offers readers the opportunity to think about the aspects of their profession that are fundamental to providing effective and equitable educational opportunities for young children in the 21st century. Well-known contributors explore issues that are not only critical in terms of being fundamental to early childhood education, but also critical in that they present alternative ideas and use frameworks that are not traditional to the field. Organized in three p...
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(P/B) CLASS ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
". . . a tour de force. The style is engaging, quite an achievement for such a complex analysis." - Professor Steve Edgell, University of Salford - Do we now live in a classless society? - How is it possible for us to live in a more class-divided society when people's awareness of class is relatively weak? - What implications do contemporary social and cultural transformations have for understanding the relevance of social class? Academic discussions about social class tend to be increasingly specialized and have found it difficult to un...
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(P/B) RACE, CULTURE AND COUNSELLING
Can therapy involving a therapist and client from differing cultural, ethnic and racial origins work? What are the main barriers to this relationship working well? What knowledge, skill and attitudes are required by therapists to enhance their work with different clients? Therapists are inevitably affected by their own backgrounds, experiences and prejudices, which may manifest negatively within therapeutic relationships with clients of different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds to their own. This book strives to explore these are...
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(P/B) WORK, CONSUMERISM AND THE NEW POOR
It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employment; it is quite a different thing to be poor in a society of consumers, in which life projects are built around consumer choices rather than on work, professional skills or jobs. Where 'being poor' was once linked to being unemployed, today it draws its meaning primarily from the plight of a flawed consumer. This has a significant effect on the way living in poverty is experienced and on the prospects for redeeming its misery. Work, Consumerism and the New Poor trac...
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UNDERSTANDING MEDIA (VOLUME ONE) (P/B)

PLAY TODAY IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL PLAYGROUND

(P/B) AN INTRODUCTION TO FAMILY THERAPY

STUDYING POPULAR MUSIC (P/B)

SOCIAL EXCLUSION (P/B)
"Social Exclusion" is a key phrase in social policy and social politics across most of contemporary Europe. It is a description of the condition of individuals, households, neighbourhoods, ethnic and other "identity" groups who can be identified as being excluded from society. (. . .) The second edition of this widely read book explores developments in social theory, social experience and social policy in relation to Social Exclusion. (. . .) This is important reading for students on social sciences courses including sociology, social theo...
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DOING EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH

(P/B) MORAL PANICS AND THE MEDIA

KEY THEMES IN MEDIA THEORY