In Understanding the Boundary between Disability Studies and Special Education through Consilience, Self-Study, and Radical Love, the authors explore what it means to engage in boundary work at the intersection of traditional special education systems and critical disability studies in education. The book consists of fifteen groundbreaking accounts that challenge dominant medicalized discourses about what it means to exist within and around special education systems that create sp...

Reflective practice is at the heart of probation training and the continuing professional development of practitioners. This edited collection provides practitioners with an opportunity to explore and develop their own reflective practice, considering diversity and organisational challenges, with real-world examples of reflection in the probation context.In addition to probation specialists, its contributors include those from prison, third-sector organisations and mental health pe...

Dr Catherine Steele is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester. She is a chartered psychologist and a registered occupational psychologist. Catherine teaches undergraduate and postgraduates in this area and her own research interests lie in the area of career management and personal development.Series Editor, Professor Dominic Upton is Head of Psychological Sciences at the University of Worcester. In 2007 he was awarded a National Teaching...

Dominic Upton, University of WorcesterHolly Andrews, University of WorcesterCatherine Steele, University of Worcester

This volume narrates and shares the often-unheard voices of students, parents, and educators during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through close analysis of their lived experiences, the book identifies key patterns, pitfalls, and lessons learnt from pandemic education.Drawing on contributions from all levels of the US education system, the book situates these myriad voices and perspectives within a prismatic theory framework in order to recognise how these views and experiences interconnec...