Practice and the Human Sciences

Practice and the Human SciencesArgues that the technical model of practice has limited applicability for the practices of care (teaching, nursing, social work, and psychotherapy). Teachers, nurses, psychotherapists, and other practitioners of care are under pressure to substitute specific, prescribed techniques in place of using their own judgment. Donald E. Polkinghorne assembles the case for the return to judgment based practice for the professions that engage in direct person to

in order to map the emerging virtual and ecological territories of the twenty-first century "electropolis

Provocative in its perspective

Encourages practice in writing in different contexts and with different audiences to prepare readers for working in any social work venue

sleep disorders

The edited collection Drawing Processes of Life is the product of artists

demanding a huge seasonal workforce in rural areas around the world

Steven Hoffman

trauma studies

chestnut management as coppice forest or orchards

this book provides a theoretical framework that considers the extent to which fundamental ethical obligations arise from the fact of individuals' intercorporeality and sociality

and the Sadat and Mubarak eras

the Mediterranean to British Colonial Africa and on to Southeast Asia