Peter Smyth: 10 books
Working with High-Risk Youth
A Relationship-based Practice Framework
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
In the child welfare system some youth do well in their lives, but far too many do not experience positive outcomes by the time they are leaving government services. The youth often feel marginalized and that they were not involved in decisions about their own lives, leaving them with a sense of hopelessness...
Doing Critical Educational Research
A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
John Smyth’s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from...
Reflective Leaders and High-Performance Organizations
How Effective Leaders Balance Task and Relationship to Build High Performing Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
An organization operating in the twenty-first century is different from one that operated during the Industrial Revolution. Todays focus is on optimizing human potential; people are the enablers of most aspects of intangible value. People develop relationships with suppliers, customers, distributors,...
Becoming Educated
Young Peoples Narratives of Disadvantage, Class, Place and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ‘disadvantaged’ contexts. The book argues that because the focus has been obdurately and willfully on the wrong things – blaming students; measuring, testing and comparing them; and treating families and...
Living on the Edge
Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education—the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living...
From Enlightenment to Rebellion
Essays in Honor of Christopher Fox
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book is a collection of essays and a short story written to honor Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish Studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Professor Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions, and subjects...
by Stuart J. Smyth, William A. Kerr, Peter W. B Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security. The first section of the book establishes the context of the conflict, discussing the...
by Alan F. Collins, Philip Levy, Peter E. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1994
This revised textbook is designed for undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology. It approaches cognitive psychology by asking what it says about how people carry out everyday activities: how people organize and use their knowledge in order to behave appropriately in the world in which they live.;...
The Socially Just School
Making Space for Youth to Speak Back
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most marginalized and at an educational disadvantage. Social justice is a key theme as the book examines the needs of youth,...
Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas
Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires critically examine the current understanding of relationality in the Americas, covering a diverse range of topics from Indigenous cosmologies to the life-world of the Inuit dog. The contributors to this wide-ranging...