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Based on in-depth field research conducted in China between 2019 and 2023, this book raises a concept of "rightful control" and demonstrates a new means of dispute resolution used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through digital technology and its impact on state-society relations.The author argues that when rightful control relies more on means beyond law and policy, it would not only fail to construct an image of a responsible state but also lead to the counterproductive result of creating new conflicts that may bring social instability and threaten regime legitimacy. The study explains why digital technology could only perform a limited role in strengthening social control, which adds a new dimension to state-society relations in China from the perspective of digital governance.The book will attract researchers and students studying law, political science and sociology, and government personnel who focus on digital governance.

Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mobilisation.This book delves into both the institutional and lived reality of the practice of feminist urban research via the insights of a transnational research project (GenUrb). Through reflection exercises based on real life examples, it covers research techniques and feminist methodologies, using NVivo, and knowledge mobilization, including utilizing social media, in the time of the Sustainable Development Goals. It guides readers through navigating the politics of decolonizing research, working across differences, and embracing feminist ethics and activism. The book also explores practices such as translation, professional standards of data management and EDI, collaboration with partners, engaging in teamwork, critically examining the 'field' through comparison and feminist geo-ethnographies, and handling crises, including pandemics. Accompanying web resources will assist scholars and students, with additional audio files and documents.This book's practical guidance will help those starting to contemplate and engage in qualitative feminist urban research as well as those teaching the practice and politics of research. It will appeal to and practitioners in urban studies, geography, gender and women's studies, sociology, anthropology, global studies, and development studies.

This timely book is the first to critically examine the doctrine of vicarious liability in the context of the sports industry.Drawing on theoretical, empirical and interdisciplinary research, the book focuses on the close connection test at stage two of vicarious liability, highlighting how vicarious liability could be used to hold sports employers strictly liable for a wide range of on-the-field and off-the-field harms committed by their athletes. It considers the extent to which vicarious liability might be applied to clubs and sporting organisations for personal injuries and racial abuse suffered by participants during competition, and examines whether employers in the sports industry ought to be held vicariously liable for the sexual assault of young athletes and women away from the field.This book is important reading for any student, researcher or practitioner interested in sports law, tort law, private law theory, socio-legal studies, jurisprudence, gender studies and sports ethics.

This edited book sheds new light on the understanding of solidarity, reciprocity and fairness from the perspective of European Union (EU) citizens and with this, how cohesion in the EU can be achieved.Drawing on extensive focus group research across nine countries, the book presents the results of this large project to assess what citizens think they owe their fellow Europeans in other parts of the EU. It brings together participants from different social milieus - highly qualified professionals, low paid and unemployed persons, and young adults - and reveals much about how average citizens think and talk about the issues and crises facing the EU, such as the reasons behind their beliefs and the statements they develop when discussing such issues, and therefore provides a deeper insight into how exactly EU citizens understand solidarity, reciprocity, and fairness when it comes to transborder relations and their attitudes towards EU cohesion.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in European studies/politics, and more broadly to comparative politics, international relations, civil society organisations, and the wider social sciences.

In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explore the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child.Moving beyond conventional depictions of the undead in popular culture as living dead monsters of horror and mad science that transgress the borders between life and death, rejuvenation, and decay, the authors present undeadness as a broader concept that explores how people, objects, customs, and ideas deemed lost or consigned to the past might endure in the present. The chapters examine nostalgic texts that explore past incarnations of childhood, mementos of childhood, zombie children, spectral children, images and artefacts of deceased children, as well as states of arrested development and the inability or refusal to embrace adulthood. Expanding undeadness beyond the realm of horror and extending its meaning conceptually, while acknowledging its roots in the genre, the book explores attempts at countering the transitory nature of childhoods.This unique and insightful volume will interest scholars and students working on popular culture and cultural studies, media studies, film and television studies, childhood studies, gender studies, and philosophy.

Dispelling the Shadow provides a context for navigating through the challenges and emotions that children may experience when discussing the cycle of life.Using a curriculum framework adaptable to many different settings and purposes, this book contains discussion prompts, activities and resources grounded in science, folklore, belief systems and creative expression to allow young people at varying age levels to begin to confront death and grief with compassion and curiosity. Each section covers a different age level and contains overarching themes and activities designed to inspire thoughtful conversation between adult and child. Each chapter includes downloadable expanded activities and additional age-appropriate readings to continue the conversation as needed.With its comprehensive view of universal themes and immediately implementable practical advice, this book is an essential tool for parents, social workers, educators, librarians, and child advocates to give young people perspective and hope for the future.

The Enduring Legacies of the Global Financial Crisis in East Asia challenges the assumption that the global financial crisis had a limited structural impact on East Asian political economies, arguing that the crisis has led to a significant, if uneven, reorganization of major national political economies within the region where, in response to the crisis, states have promoted domestic processes of financialization as a means of stimulating their economies.The major East Asian economies, bar Japan, enjoyed strong recoveries from the 2008-09 financial crisis. However, this success has been achieved by promoting domestic processes of financialization to maintain demand - more precisely, the rapid build-up of household debt (Malaysia, Korea, Taiwan, China) and asset price bubbles (China, Japan). In short, East Asia has employed precisely those practices that the global financial crisis itself illustrated the unsustainability of, to maintain growth in the post-crisis period. Using a post-Keynesian framework, the book argues that the dependency on these forms of financialization to support demand is a direct product of a failure to address the issue of inequality. High levels of inequality slow the growth of non-debt based domestic consumption. An alternative approach to supporting demand in the post-crisis period would need to focus on progressive redistribution through strengthening of labour rights and systems of social support, which would directly challenge the interests of economic and political elites. The structural vulnerabilities that accelerated financialization is creating in East Asia demonstrate the necessity of a post-Keynesian growth strategy based on redistribution and curbing financialization. The book also argues is that in certain Northeast Asian economies the crisis has led to a consolidation of systems of industrial activism/state control, which could have occurred without accelerated financialization and vice versa.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Political Economy and Asian Studies.

Being included in a meaningful and intentional sense is often the key that can unlock access to education, learning and the maximising of potential for many children and young people. However, an increasing number of pupils have a variety of strengths that are only shown when they are intentionally included, and their needs are well met.This book emphasises the key message that the adaptions we make to our daily practice are crucial for some but helpful for all. It provides the tools to unlock whole-school inclusion and ensure each child is given the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Chapters: Provide practical, impactful ideas that are easy and cost-effective to action, designed to help primary schools make active inclusion a reality. Explore the development of a dynamic, evolving whole school inclusive ethos and environment that is responsive to SEN needs. Consider how we create inclusive classrooms through environmental design and adaptive high-quality teaching. Are broken down into clear areas of SEN support and contain a wealth of tools to support each area. With self-evaluation tools to help readers identify and celebrate current successes and pinpoint next steps for improvement, this book is an essential resource for primary school teachers, SENCos and senior leaders who wish to ensure that their inclusive vision is embodied throughout their school.

This book challenges the predominant framing of US television as a writer's or producer's medium by suggesting that television directors are a vital component of TV artistry.Looking beyond a perspective that favors the narrative and economic aspects of television but undervalues the medium's formal elements, the book explores how directors use the visual and aural to contribute layers of meaning that add to the thematic development of television texts. Starting from the belief that television aesthetics partially reveal the ways in which directors (and their collaborators) contribute to the overall thematic development of a program, the author offers five case studies that map out the ways that directors have contributed to television drama throughout the medium's approximately 80-year history. By devoting special attention to the presence and voices of directors from marginalized backgrounds, the book creates opportunities to discuss television from perspectives that emphasize issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This original and insightful work will appeal to students and scholars of television studies, television production and media production, critical media studies, media authorship, gender studies, and race and media.

Emerging concerns and contexts of geological thinking seek to bring out how energopolitical interventions into the geokinetic 'unfolding' of the Earth assume new dimensions and directions, owing to the complex and evolving intersections between 'folds' and 'fluxes' of energy in the context of oceans. Written in negotiation with the notion of energopolitics articulated by Dominic Boyer, Remapping Energopolitics calls for ruling out any epistemic attempt to structure the becomings of energy through the transformations of oceans. Aiming to delve deeper into the complex junctures among energy, ocean and earth(ing), epistemic ends of blue humanities are reworked with the help of geophilosophical reading of some Sri Lankan minor writings and in doing so, Remapping Energopolitics makes a series of attempts to reconceptualize 'energy thinking' in line with the differential and deterritorial grammatology of Deleuzo-Guattarian micropolitics, thereby offering a critique of the structured and stratified understandings of 'energy linkages.'

This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for living well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concerning character development and moral agency.In both Eastern and Western traditions, the complexities of shaping an individual's moral agency focus on sustained processes of inner self-cultivation. The chapters in this volume highlight the ways in which one is to manage and direct one's desires and aspirations, and what is to count as the source of guidance for a well-lived life. They engage with key figures and traditions in the history of Eastern and Western philosophy including Confucian, Buddhist, and western sources from Aristotle to Kant. The juxtaposition of sources from the different parts of the world highlights striking similarities and significant contrasts and provides rich conceptual resources for further exploration of these issues. The volume provides a broader, deeper pursuit of central issues of moral psychology and ethics in ways that highlight the inexhaustible resources in these traditions. The focus on character is a way to draw together perspectives on ethical life, theories of human agency, views of fundamental, life-guiding values, and relations between individuals and society and how persons see their place in the world.Moral Agency in Eastern and Western Thought will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on virtue ethics, moral psychology, comparative philosophy, and history of philosophy.

Following the approach developed by Alexis de Tocqueville, this volume views democracy as a cultural phenomenon. It starts from the assumption that if we are to adequately address concerns about the current state and future of modern Western democracies, we need first to tackle the cultural preconditions necessary for the functioning of a democracy.Since Tocqueville's time, the book takes the most crucial change in the West to be 'double secularization'. Here, this concerns, first, the diminished influence of organized Christianity. Even though secularity was partly a product of Christianity, secularization is highly significant in terms of the cultural underpinnings of Western democracy. Second, it involves a decreased interest in and knowledge of classical philosophy. Chapters on secularity, family life, civic life, and public spirit focus on central elements of the changed cultural foundation of democracy exploring issues such as identity politics, the public space, and the role of human rights and natural law in a pluralistic and resilient democracy. The volume concludes with a closer look at the implications of current presentism, that is, the view that only the present counts for the legitimacy and effectiveness of democratic systems. Finally, it asks if double secularization can also offer fresh opportunities for promoting the conditions of a viable democracy.The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Law and Religion, Constitutional Law, Political Science, History and Philosophy.

The Impact of UNESCO on States' Cultural Policies focuses on the impact of the 2005 Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions on the cultural policies of eight states and substates, examining how they have integrated it into their own cultural policy.Cultural diversity presents a challenge for all governments. As migration increases and technology makes access to worldwide cultural products easier, governments seek to maintain a vibrant culture within their states or substates so that their populations can keep a strong sense of identity. Cultural policies become key to balance cultural diversity and national identity, or to promote them in parallel. The book addresses three main themes: how governments deal with cultural diversity, especially in their cultural policies; what the impact of an international convention on individual states' policies is; and how different states' status (i.e. size) on the international scene affects their implementation of an international convention.Providing a systematic comparative analysis, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of public policy, cultural policy, and international organizations. It will also be useful to policy makers involved in cultural policy.

Introducing Pharmacology provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to pharmacology for nursing and healthcare students - and anyone needing to refresh their knowledge of this important area.Fully updated, the fourth edition is clearly written and includes features throughout to help readers understand and absorb the knowledge they need. It includes: - Clear explanations of how drugs work (and sometimes cause side-effects) - The physiology and pathophysiology needed to understand how drugs work - Extensive coverage of the drug groups that nurses and other healthcare professionals are likely to encounter in clinical practice - 'Test Yourself' feature to help with understanding and learning - 'Beyond the Basics' sections for those studying at a higher level - Case-studies, relating pharmacological theory to clinical practice - An extensive glossary of key terms and definitionsNew to this edition: - A new chapter on drug development and clinical trials - New sections on pharmacogenomics and skin complaints - Expanded coverage of pharmacokinetics and the effect of renal and hepatic disease on drug metabolism - Extended sections on viruses and vaccinations, heart failure, anticancer drugs and the management of post-menopausal symptoms - Updated content that reflects latest guidelines and recently licensed drugs.This textbook is an essential companion for nursing, midwifery students and other healthcare professions, as well as those on post-registration courses, studying to become independent prescribers.

Can the genie be returned to the bottle? This book investigates the pursuit by states, civil society groups, and international organisations of nuclear abolition. Detailing the evolution of the institutional architecture for multilateral nuclear disarmament from the 1960s onwards, The Struggle for Abolition tells a story of high hopes, broken promises, and clashing views of history, security, and the future.Global nuclear politics deals in material power and security but is also shot through with contests over prestige, justice, and mutual recognition. Waves of innovation in multilateral nuclear disarmament diplomacy have typically come about on the back of crises of legitimacy within the broader nuclear order.The book concludes with a discussion of policy implications and a reflection on successes and failures in the history of multilateral nuclear disarmament. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of diplomacy, history, and politics and international relations.

Written by an experienced teacher and teacher educator with widespread experience of teaching mathematics in the UK and internationally, the best-selling Understanding and Teaching Primary Mathematics combines pedagogy and subject knowledge to build confidence and equip you with all the skills and know-how you need to successfully teach mathematics to children of any age.This fifth edition has been completely updated to include the latest developments in learning and teaching mathematics including mastery approaches, a Singapore approach and the use of manipulatives in the primary classroom. There are new activities for you to use in your teaching and links to the dedicated website which contains materials to develop a personal portfolio, more activities to use in your classroom and presentations and podcasts to support your further professional development to reflect the latest research developments and covers all areas of the mathematics curriculum and will allow you to become a confident teacher of mathematics through developing your own subject knowledge.Tony draws on his many years of experience teaching mathematics and working with early career teachers to share classroom activities which will support you in learning mathematics through engaging in mathematical activity with your learners.

This volume provides an in-depth examination of the role of sexuality in consumers' life course and in the marketing of products and services.Leading scholars in the field define the most up-to-date picture of theories of sexuality in marketing and consumer research, mapping the topic through diverse theoretical lenses, addressing queer and feminist research, and putting sexuality and consumption in context. The book brings together leading international marketing scholars to build on the growing interest in theories of sexuality, queer theory, and intersectionality, which are gaining more interest among institutions and researchers interested in equality and diversity. While this book builds on existing expertise in consumer culture scholarship, it is the first time a marketing book focuses on sexuality, adding value to the existing repertoire in gender and feminist literature. Chapters are organised into three key sections: part 1 maps the marketing and consumer research field, discussing how sexuality can be studied through different lenses; part 2 focuses on queer and feminist theorising, drawing on LGBTQIA+ theory, queer theory and theories of intersectionality to analyse how overlapping social categories interact to influence consumer behaviour, identity and experiences in the marketplace; and part 3 explores the personal and social aspects of sexuality, offering a broad overview of issues of gender and sexuality, digitalisation, and the sexual body.This text will be of direct interest to scholars and researchers within the fields of marketing, consumer research, sociology and media studies. The aim of this book is to help scholars and students to develop a broader understanding about the interplay between sexuality, society and the market.

This volume examines the ontology of music groups. It connects two fascinating areas of philosophical research: the ontology of social groups and the philosophy of music.Interest in questions about the nature of music groups is growing. Since people are widely familiar with music groups, the topic is particularly well-suited for introducing issues in social ontology. Being comparably small-scale and temporary, music groups also provide an excellent case-study for those who think that social groups are analyzed best by considering small groups. The present volume provides a comprehensive overview of the topic and seeks to establish the ontology of music groups as a distinct field of philosophical research. The chapters, written by leading scholars working on social ontology, revolve around four core themes: The identity of music groups Variations between different kinds of music groups The persistence and longevity of (different kinds of) music groups Various characteristics of music groups, including their rational and emotional aspects, as well as their creative abilities The contributors consider these themes across a wide range of music groups, including popular music groups, rock bands, alternative acts, hip hop crews, choirs and classical orchestras.The Ontology of Music Groups will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in social ontology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of music.

Using ethnographic materials and documents from East Tibetan villages, this book addresses the impact of modernization on everyday life and the ways in which it melds with traditional forms of knowledge to create a new Tibetan identity and scientific rationality.Including cases centred on meteorology, geography, and seismology the book assesses a wide range of traditional local activities, including foraging, farming and domestic practices and argues that and demonstrates how science, technology, and ideas about modernity have all influenced these activities. It highlights that when inconsistencies among different knowledges emerge, modernization can create inconsistent hybrids of modern and traditional practises, reveal the multiplicity of everyday life.Using these examples of everyday life to portray the complexity of day-to-day existence in Tibet, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Tibet, China, human geography, anthropology and the sociology of science and technology.

This book takes degrowth theorising in the direction of honouring collaboration, creating new dialogues, emphasising growth and human capacities.Traditionally, degrowth theorising has focussed on reduction and non-growth. While the ecological concerns of degrowth scholarship are felt acutely by many, the suggestion of 'less' can be experienced as undesirable, going against who we are as humans, and even be false in some industries and spaces. Indeed, for a degrowth society to come into being, unprecedented (though not materialistic) growth is needed. This book unpicks the business and sustainability framework rooted in degrowth scholarship and proposes a gentler approach to business for a sustainable society living harmoniously with nature. Drawing on case studies from Finland, Sweden and Denmark, Iana Nesterova reflects on how degrowth manifests in imperfect and nuanced ways and examines the ways in which businesses navigate creatively and cautiously challenging socio-economic landscapes, and why they do this. She puts forward a new framework for growth within degrowth, centred around humanism and hope, which celebrates empathy, care, solidarity and connectedness with human and non-human others and nature.Presenting an empowering and liberating view on sustainable business, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of business ethics, ecological economics, business organisation and management.

If children are to access all phonics teaching effectively, they first need to know how to tune into and manipulate the sounds specifically needed for reading. The Right Start to Phonics shows readers how they can support children in gaining the skills they need to listen with accuracy, to differentiate between, manipulate and understand the sounds we hear. This experience will give them the knowledge and understanding needed to hear letter sounds and blend them together to eventually read words.Drawing on the latest research, the book shows how Early Phonics can be embedded across your provision and fit into the daily routine of any setting or school. Part One explores the role of play, the adult and the learning environment in supporting early phonics and listening skills. This is followed by a wealth of easy-to-use activities to support the development and refinement of these hugely important skills in our youngest children. All the activities are simple to implement with easily sourced resources and cover a range of early phonic skills.Full of playful, active and fun ideas to help young children develop the auditory skills they need to access the phonic code, this is essential reading for all early years and primary educators and parents.

The pandemic wave of Covid 19 made many organizations in different sectors rethink their business strategy. The pandemic wave soon became an endemic and the organizations adapted themselves to the new ways of doing business. Endemic situation indicates that the Covid virus is here to stay but with limited impact. The book provides deeper research on how organizations adapted themselves to the post Covid situation and how they look at the future. The book covers studies from the areas of marketing, finance, human resource, operations, healthcare and education.

What are the challenges and potential of complex and emergent urban systems? This book answers this question by shedding new light on the topics of emergence, complexity, and self-organisation and showing their interconnectedness with other concepts, such as property and beauty, which are usually considered separately. It contributes to the discussion by interpreting and explaining the nature of emergent urban phenomena and suggesting more appropriate design and planning measures.The book explores and untangles these crucial topics in a compact and accessible way by offering fresh interdisciplinary perspectives on the themes of action and interaction, self-organisation, property, neighbourhood adaptability, urban beauty, and suitable public planning and design interventions. It provides novel and crucial insights for students, researchers, and academics in Urban Studies, Planning Theory, Planning Ethics, Planning Law, Legal, Political and Human Geography, Urban and Regional Economics, Urban Sociology, and Urban Design. It is essential for anyone interested in exploring the emergent dynamics of complex urban contexts, as well as for those involved in developing various projects and measures who aim to consider the spontaneous nature of cities seriously.

This collection spotlights the authentic voices of plurilingual learners, bringing together autoethnographies of over twenty graduate students toward deepening current understandings of lived experiences of plurilingualism. The volume begins with outlining foundational work on plurilingualism in language education up to this point, with the body of work on plurilingual subjectivities historically focusing on researchers' and practitioners' gazes, rather than students. The book moves into short autoethnographies of graduate students at the University of Toronto enrolled in a graduate education course over three years. Employing autoethnography as the primary methodology allows the space for privileging authentic voices of plurilingual learners in their own words, learners whose individual lived experiences are uniquely contextualized within the lens of plurilingual theory. The volume and diversity of perspectives showcased offer a unique window into the diversity and commonalities among plurilingual learners, offering opportunities for reflection on directions for future research. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in applied linguistics, language teaching and learning, and language education.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, including analysis of its current trade and innovation strategies.Opening with a survey of the global pharmaceutical and medical device industry, Bhardwaj outlines the growing trade and trade interdependence among countries in the global supply chain. He adopts a trade competitiveness approach to analyse patterns of product specialisation, and examines the drug discovery process and its challenges in translating bioscientific knowledge into lifesaving products. Bhardwaj argues that further economic integration, collaborative R&D and digital technologies may help accelerate productivity and address global challenges of escalating drug costs, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and pandemic risks. The book also considers how the industry may further green its supply chain, and thus contribute to SDG Goals 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing) and 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), before closing on a review of China and India, major players who have the potential to become drivers of low-cost medical products and innovations.With its evidence-based analysis, this book will be of great interest to researchers in pharmaceutical studies, supply chain management, global health and health economics, as well as policy makers and professionals interested in the global issues facing the industry.

Learn how to thoughtfully embed the tenants of peace education into your own life, classroom, curriculum and school culture with this practical and timely guidebook that features action steps across developmental levels. Rooted in hope, empowerment, culturally relevant pedagogy and trauma informed care, this book provides an overview of peace education and the peace actions; sample lessons and practices; and resources for supporting you in implementing these ideas across content areas, with an emphasis on literacy, language, and social emotional learning. The book details how creating a culture of peace is an opportunity for all students and educators to flourish, to create the space to meet students where they are, bringing their assets to the forefront and building culturally affirming systems. Providing kind, practical recommendations in an accessible and eye-opening way, Empowering Peace and Justice Education is an essential read for any teacher or school leader who wants to move from vision to action in co-creating brave democratic spaces and realizing a more just and peaceful world.

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalisation and sustainability. Amid escalating environmental crises, some of which are now irreversible, there is a noticeable commitment within both international and domestic policy agendas to employ digital technologies in pursuit of sustainability goals.This collection gathers a multitude of voices interrogating the premise that increased digitalisation automatically contributes to greater sustainability. By exploring the planetary links underpinning the global digital economy, the book exposes the extractive logics ingrained within digital capitalism and introduces alternatives like digital degrowth and the circular economy as viable, sustainable paths for the digital era. Through a combination of theoretical reflections and detailed contextual analyses from Italy, New Zealand, and the UK--including initiatives in participatory planning and technology co-design--it articulates the dual role of digital technology: its potential to support socio-economic and environmental sustainability, while also generating conflicts and impasses that undermine these very objectives. Offering fresh insights into power disparities, exclusionary tactics, and systemic injustices that digital solutionism fails to address, this volume also serves as a reminder that sustainability extends beyond climate-related issues, underscoring the inseparability of environmental discourse from wider social justice considerations.Aimed at a diverse readership, this volume will prove valuable for students, researchers, and practitioners across various fields, including Geography, Urban Studies, Sustainability Studies, Environmental Media Studies, Critical AI Studies, Innovation Studies, and the Digital Humanities.

Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 provides practitioners with the knowledge and skills they need to support young children as they learn to write. This fully updated second edition offers new guidance on all aspects of writing, from building children's vocabulary and creating multimodal texts to providing support for children who find writing particularly challenging. All chapters have been revised and updated with increased emphasis on engaging with families and catering for children from diverse communities. A new chapter focuses on the Draw, Talk, Write, Share (DTWS), pedagogical approach to teaching writing.The book discusses the role of oral language in early mark-making and writing in detail and explores the key relationships between 'drawing and talking', 'drawing and writing' and 'drawing, talking and writing'. Each chapter also features practical strategies and samples of writing and/or drawing to illustrate key points, as well as reflective questions to help the reader apply the ideas to their own setting. Further topics covered include: - progressions in children's writing- writing in the pre-school years- developing authorial skills- developing phonological awareness, phonics and spelling- handwriting and keyboarding skills- teaching writing to plurilingual learners- assessing writingUnderstanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 is a contemporary and unique resource that will help early childhood educators, early years school teachers, specialist practitioners working with very young children, and students enrolled in Early Childhood or Primary Studies courses to boost their confidence in teaching young learners as they become writers.

The business, commercial and public-sector world has changed dramatically since John Oakland wrote the first edition of Statistical Process Control in the mid-1980s. Then, people were rediscovering statistical methods of 'quality control' and the book responded to an often desperate need to find out about the techniques and use them on data. Pressure over time from organizations supplying directly to the consumer, typically in the automotive and high technology sectors, forced those in charge of the supplying production and service operations to think more about preventing problems than how to find and fix them. Subsequent editions retained the 'tool kit' approach of the first but included some of the 'philosophy' behind the techniques and their use.Now entitled Statistical Process Control and Data Analytics, this revised and updated 8th edition retains its focus on processes that require understanding, have variation, must be properly controlled, have a capability, and need improvement - as reflected in the five sections of the book. In this book the authors provide, not only the instructional guide for the tools, but communicate the management practices which have become so vital to success in organizations throughout the world. The book is supported by the authors' extensive consulting work with thousands of organisations worldwide. A new chapter on Data Governance and Data Analytics reflects the increasing importance of 'Big Data' in today's business environment.Fully updated to include real-life case studies, new research based on client work from an array of industries, and integration with the latest computer methods and software, the book also retains its valued textbook quality through clear learning objectives and online end of chapter discussion questions. It can still serve as a textbook for both student and practicing engineers, scientists, technologists, managers and for anyone wishing to understand or implement modern statistical process control techniques and data analytics.

Jungian Counseling and Play Therapy is a textbook for graduate-level counseling students and supervisees. It is both an introduction to Jung's theory and a practical guide to Jungian-informed practice.Readers journey through the development of the mental health crisis of the digital age (which Jung foresaw) and are presented with solutions he suggested that are still being met with resistance, despite compelling facts. This book not only advocates for a more widespread integration of Jungian ideas into clinical practice, but for greater acknowledgement of the integrity, creativity, and intersecting identities of clients, professional counselors, and play therapists. Integrating historical theory with contemporary research, this book helps students to weave creative techniques into their online and in-person clinical work. This is an ideal text for a psychodynamic theory, or methods class, or to support counseling students and supervisors becoming interested in, or familiar with, the work of Carl Jung.