Government attempts in recent years to create a national system of vocational education and training have marked a profound shift both in educational policy and in underlying concepts of what education is for. Relations between schools and the working world are changing all the time and the implementation of ideas of vocationalism has forced a blurring of the time-honoured boundaries between educations concerned with concepts and training, or with skills. The challenge now is to define how...

Solution Focused Coaching in Practice is a practical ‘how-to’ guide that provides an invaluable overview of Solution Focused Coaching skills and techniques.Reflecting upon published research on the solution focused approach, Bill O’Connell, Stephen Palmer and Helen Williams bring their own experiences of Solution Focused Coaching together with others in the field to cover topics such as:the coach-coachee relationshipthe role of technology in coachin...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.This book shares insights from the Healthy Ageing Challenge, bringing research, business, policy and practice together to create age-friendly homes, workplaces and communities.Spanning co-design with older people, business collaboration and innovations in design, work, housing, culture and health, it explores the real-world impact of ageing research and the possibilities for business in developing an ageing market....

Lösungsorientierte Skills für Coachs Dieser Band bietet einen Überblick über Techniken und Skills des lösungsorientierten Coachings. Die Autoren führen Erkenntnisse aus der Literatur und eigene Erfahrungen zusammen und reflektieren u.a. welche Rolle Ethik im Coaching spielt, Besonderheiten des Gruppen- und Team-Coachings oder die Beziehung zwischen Coach und Coachee. Fallbeispiele, Arbeitsblätter, Praxistipps und Fragen zur vertiefenden Reflexion und Diskussion führen direkt in die Praxis....

Aunt: *calling loudly from sitting room* Helen, can you help me?Me: *drops everything, rushes to front room, expecting her to have fallen*Aunt: The cat's on my lap, could you pour me a small Jameson?Cocooning with my ninety-year-old Aunt is not the life I'd imagined when I came back to live in Dublin after 30 years of being a high-flying media executive in London.From the Groucho Club to our North Dublin coastal cocoon, it was back to earth with a bump. Funn...

Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific. Despite this, there are few longitudinal studies of any great depth and sophistication in the region.The contributors to this book have all conducted long-term research in the islands of the Pacific. During their visits and revisits they have witnessed first-hand the many changes that have occurred in their fieldsites as well as observing element...

"Der schmale String des Tangas schnürte in ihre feuchte Scheide und schickte Wellen aus Wohlbehagen durch den Körper. Die nackten Pobacken streckte sie in die Luft und als sie sah, was er aus dem Sack zog, reckte sie sich noch mehr..." Als Susannas Sohn beschließt, das Weihnachtsfest dieses Jahr mit der Familie seiner Lebensgefährtin zu verbringen, wird Susanna bewusst, dass ihr einsame Feiertage bevorstehen. Doch das ändert sich schlagartig, als sie von einem ungewöhnlichen Weihnachtsbrin...

"Alles ist lebendig und in Bewegung, mit Stimmen und Gelächter – aber niemand weiß, was sie tun. Das ist ihr verbotenes Geheimnis. Der Rock verdeckt ihre Mitte und sie bewegt sich ganz, ganz sanft, sodass man extra stehenbleiben und genau hinsehen müsste, um zu verstehen, was das vor sich geht. Und das macht keiner, alle Menschen sind mit sich selbst beschäftigt." Eddie und Alice sind unterwegs zum Park, werden aber immer wieder durch ihr gegenseitiges Gefinger aufgehalten. Es ist schwer, ...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Groups most severely affected by COVID-19 have tended to be those marginalised before the pandemic and are now largely being ignored in developing responses to it.This two-volume set of Rapid Responses explores the urgent need to put co-production and participatory approaches at the heart of responses to the pandemic and demonstrates how policymakers, health and social care practitioners, patients, service users, carers...