Robin Jackson Books

This book presents an examination of the historical, legal and philosophical contexts within which advocacy services have developed. It discusses the professional and practical issues and problems confronting those running and using advocacy services, the role of advocacy, and advocacy with families and people with communication difficulties. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Advocacy and learning disability, Barry Gray, King Alfred's College, Winchester and Robin Jackson, Camphill Scotland. 2. Principles and types of advocacy, Jan Walmsley, The Open University. 3. Integrity and advocacy, Michael Kendrick, Independent Consultant. 4. Exploring the role of values in the management of advocacy schemes, Tim Clement, The Open University. 5. Professional consciousness and conflict in advocacy Colin Goble, King Alfred's College, Winchester. 6. The legal context of the advocacy service, Deborah Baillie, The Open University and Veronica Strachan, Robert Gordon University. 7. Thoughts from a UK citizen advocacy scheme, Mike Pochin, Dorset Advocacy. 8. Self advocacy and research, Dorothy Atkinson, The Open University. 9. The role of self advocacy: stories from a self advocacy group through the experiences of its members, Fred Spedding, Elizabeth Harkness, Louise Townson, Andy Docherty, Niall McNulty and Rohhss Chapman, Carlisle People First. 10. The neglected dimension - advocacy and the families of children with learning difficulties, Nick Pike, Annie Lawson School, Berkshire. 11. Advocacy with people with communication difficulties, Janet Scott, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow and Janet Larcher, Independent Consultant. 12. Some observations on the American advocacy scene, Michael Kendrick, Independent Consultant. 13. Better and worse: overview of formal advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities in Australia, Dimity Peter, Flinders University of South Australia. 14. Advocacy - the last frontier in special education? Colleen Brown, Manakau Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. The Contributors. References. Index.

The book highlights the life and career of Hermann Gross, a talented German Expressionist painter who unexpectedly left major art centers for a Camphill community in Scotland in 1963. It chronicles his training under renowned masters, his controversial involvement with Nazi propaganda, and his experiences in America. Emphasizing his artistic evolution during his time in Camphill, the book features fifteen color plates of his significant works, showcasing his commitment to conveying powerful messages relevant to contemporary society while staying rooted in Expressionism.

The Roman 'small town' of Ariconium in southern Herefordshire has long been known as an important iron production centre but has remained very poorly understood.

This timely book provides an extensive account of national identities in three of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom: Wales, Scotland and England. In all three contexts, identity and nationalism have become questions of acute interest in both academic and political commentary. The authors take stock of a wealth of empirical material and explore how attitudes to nation and state can be understood by relating them to changes in contemporary capitalist economies, and the consequences for particular class fractions. The book argues that these changes give rise to a set of resentments among people who perceive themselves to be losing out, concluding that class resentments, depending on historical and political factors relevant to each nation, can take the form of either sub-state nationalism or right wing populism. Nation, Class and Resentment shows that the politics of resentment is especially salient in England, where the promotion of a distinct national identity is problematic. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology and politics, will find this study of interest.

Presents new evidence for Neolithic activity in the form of Grooved ware pits with important environmental data, and for Early-Middle Iron Age floodplain settlement represented unusually by over 100 four-post granaries and 130 pits in a floodplain location in the central Severn Valley.

A fascinating tour of Poole's pub scene, charting the town's taverns, alehouses and watering holes, from past centuries to more recent times.

An illustrated history of one of Britain's finest counties - Dorset. Using photographs taken from the unique Historic England Archive.

Drawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level.

Based on diaries, memoirs, letters, official accounts Graphic insight into the war experience of these local men New history of the men of East Lancashire who volunteered to fight in the Great War

A fascinating account of the music and epic social change of 1965, a defining year for Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, James Brown and John Coltrane.