Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter moss

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  • MANAGING MOTHERS
    JULIA BRANNEN / PETER MOSS
    First published in 1991, Managing Mothers (now with a new preface by the authors) provides a detailed, authoritative inside story of the lives of parents, and particularly mothers, who return to work after the birth of a first child. It is based on a study of couples who have combined the transition to parenthood with two full-time jobs in the labour market. The authors provide...

    $860.00

  • NEOLIBERALISM AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
    GUY ROBERTS-HOLMES / PETER MOSS
    Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has ‘sunk its roots deep’ into Early Childhood Education and Care. This book considers its deeply detrimental impacts upon young children, families, settings and the workforce. Through an exploration of possibilities for resistance and refusal, and r...

    $980.00

  • GUIDELINES FOR DESIGN OF LOW-RISE BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO LATERAL FORCES
    AJAYA KUMAR GUPTA / PETER JAMES MOSS
    Guidelines for Design of Low-Rise Buildings Subjected to Lateral Forces is a concise guide that identifies performance issues, concerns, and research needs associated with low-rise buildings. The book begins with an introduction that discusses special problems with low-rise buildings subjected to wind and earthquakes. Chapter 2 examines probabilistic methods and their use in ev...

    $6,500.00

  • PROGRESS IN MECHANICS OF STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS
    PETER J. MOSS / RAJESH P. DHAKAL
    This is a collection of peer-reviewed papers originally presented at the 19th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials by academics, researchers and practitioners largely from Australasia and the Asia-Pacific region. The topics under discussion include: composite structures and materials; computational mechanics; dynamic analysis of structures; earth...

    $8,400.00

  • ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
    PETER MOSS
    Challenging dominant discourses in the field of early childhood education, this book provides an accessible introduction to some of the alternative narratives and diverse perspectives that are increasingly to be heard in this field, as well as discussing the importance of paradigm, politics and ethics. Peter Moss draws on material published in the groundbreaking Contesting Earl...

    $1,060.00

  • TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE AND REAL UTOPIAS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
    PETER MOSS
    Early childhood education and care is a major policy issue for national governments and international organisations. This book contests two stories, both infused by neoliberal thinking, that dominate early childhood policy making today - ‘the story of quality and high returns’ and ‘the story of markets’, stories that promise high returns on investment if only the right technolo...

    $1,540.00

  • BEYOND QUALITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
    GUNILLA DAHLBERG / PETER MOSS / ALAN PENCE
    Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden and Italy, including the world famous nurseries in ...

    $1,540.00

  • RADICAL EDUCATION AND THE COMMON SCHOOL
    MICHAEL FIELDING / PETER MOSS
    What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic society affect our responses to these questions? Addressing these fundamental issues, Fielding and Moss contest the curr...

    $1,540.00

  • CARE WORK IN EUROPE
    CLAIRE CAMERON / PETER MOSS
    Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European countries, this book: explores the context and emerging policy agendas provide...

    $960.00

  • FROM CHILDREN'S SERVICES TO CHILDREN'S SPACES
    PETER MOSS / PAT PETRIE
    More than ever before, children are apparently being recognised as social actors and citizens. Yet public policy often involves increased control and surveillance of children. This book explores the contradiction. It shows how different ways of thinking about children produce different childhoods, different public provisions for children (including schools) and different ways o...

    $1,600.00

  • ETHICS AND POLITICS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
    GUNILLA DAHLBERG / PETER MOSS
    The early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the ‘Reggio approach’, and others, this book explores the ethical and political dimensions of early childhood services and argues the importance of these dimensions at a time when they are often reduced to technical and managerial projects, without informed c...

    $1,540.00

  • MEN IN THE NURSERY
    CLAIRE CAMERON / PETER MOSS / CHARLIE OWEN
    Highly Commended (Third prize) in the Standing Conference on Studies in Education book prize for books published in 1999. `It was a breath of fresh air to see ′contentious′ issues dealt with in an enlightened and informative way. We are certain it will move the debate on years!′ - Chrissie Meleady, Sheffield Childrens′ Centre `Looks most interesting and will certainly be very u...

    $1,880.25

  • TRANSFORMING NURSERY EDUCATION
    PETER MOSS / HELEN PENN
    `This is an important publication, which I urge colleagues to read and to consider carefully all the implications′ - Early Years `... This provocative analysis with its clear examples is worth reading for its fresh look at where we could be headed come the 21st century′- Nursery Equipment Early childhood services in the UK have been badly neglected. The consequences are serious...

    $1,880.25