Paul Stephens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3935424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Stephens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephens |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stavanger |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6032-2405 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Percy Shelley in Context
Percy Shelley was a writer in the broadest sense – poet, pamphleteer, philosopher, translator, and correspondent – and one of the most eccentric, fascinating figures of his age. Yet he is emphatically of our age too, continuing to influence contemporary writers, to be referenced in popular culture, and to inspire social and political movements. Bringing together a wide range of contributors from different critical perspectives, this vivid and acc…
Social pedagogy and bullying in schools
This study explores the extent to which a social pedagogic perspective is evident in the views of bullying in schools held by a sample of university students in England, Greece and Norway studying in the area of the education, care and welfare of children. A total of 469 university students completed a questionnaire in which they were asked to rate their strength of agreement with 30 statements concerning bullying in schools. Twelve of these stat…
The last and greatest battle
The last and greatest battle: finding the will, commitment, and strategy to end military suicides." European Journal of Social Work, 19(6), pp. 1041–1042
Mutual Support and Mental Health
Mutual Support and Mental Health: a route to recovery Maddy Loat London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011 143 pp., £18.04 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 84310 530 5 In Mutual Support and Mental Health, M
Social pedagogy in schools
This study explored the views of student teachers in England and Norway regarding the extent to which they felt the school should take the lead role (in comparison to the roles played by parents and other professional agencies) in addressing the needs of pupils identified by the school as experiencing a problem. A questionnaire comprising 30 problem areas was developed and distributed to student teachers at two universities in England and at two …
Congruence and incongruence in the perception of ‘family’ among foster parents, birth parents and their adolescent (foster) children
Over recent decades, listening to children's voices and viewing children as competent actors has gathered momentum in research as well as in practice. Acknowledging children's perspectives requires sensitive listeners who are willing, deliberately and as realistically as possible, to reconstruct children's ways of seeing. In our study, based in Norway, we investigated the views of 22 adolescents in long‐term foster care and 15 of their birth pare…
Presentation of JCSW Issue 2011/1
Editorial: Presentation of JCSW Issue 2011/1
Emerging teachers and globalisation
by Gerry Czerniawski, Routledge, New York & London, 2011, 200 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN13: 978-0-415-87342-0 In this well-written and informative book, Gerry Czerniawski convincingly argues that
Preventing and confronting school bullying
Efforts to prevent and curb school bullying have resulted in a proliferation of anti‐school‐bullying programmes, many based on intuitive appeal rather than systematic evidence. This article presents a comparative analysis of two Norwegian programmes whose developers have demonstrated the effectiveness of their interventions: the Olweus Programme and the Zero Programme. By probing the key components of these programmes, the article provides school…
Self-Portrait in a Context Mirror
This essay explores the role of quotation in the writing of the poet-critic Craig Dworkin. Dworkin's "Dure," an ekphrastic prose poem concerning a Dürer self-portrait, is a complex meditation on selfhood, the representation of pain, and the nature of linguistic appropriation. "Dure" demonstrates that an appropriative, heavily quotational poetics can enact a process of therapeutic self-critique. To the postauthorial (and posthistorical) malaise of…
Q methodology in social work research
This article examines Q methodology as an empirical method for use in social work research. Q methodology applies statistical analysis to the qualitative study of human subjectivity such as attitudes, beliefs, feelings and opinions. Q methodology is effective for obtaining data from small samples, and it offers respondents a concise and valid way of expressing their viewpoints with minimal researcher interference. The article provides an overview…
The nature of social pedagogy
In this paper, I examine the nature of social pedagogy, a discipline with deep roots in Continental Europe but not in the UK. Things are changing, however. The politicians in Westminster are listening to the people at the Thomas Coram Research Unit in London. The message is unequivocal. It is time to learn from social pedagogical approaches to working with looked‐after children in other European countries. Why is this? The government wants to pre…
Agorachronotistics (Speculations on Market Time)
Agorachronotistics (Speculations on Market Time)" explores the specters of time that haunt conceptions of market exchange. Bringing Marx into contact with a range of contemporary scholarship, "Agorachronotistics" attempts a Benjamin-inspired ideology critique of the movements of speculative capital. "Agorachronotistics" breaks with direct scholarly exposition and makes its argument concerning the phantom character of market relations using the pr…
Free Time
Free Time is a collection of collaboratively written experimental prose fragments on topics primarily involving labor and leisure. The form of the project (Denkbilder) is taken from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Included in this selection is a theorization of the form (“Denkbild Denkbild”). A Denkbild can range from an aphoristic fragment to a mini-essay. Although these Denkbilder experiment with critical form and challenge conventional mod…
Teacher training and teacher education in England and Norway
In this paper, we examine the complementary and differing state‐defined roles of beginning schoolteachers in England and Norway by investigating centrally mandated initial teacher preparation programmes in both countries. Through comparative analysis, we get to see the roles that the policy‐makers in London and Oslo seek to confer upon the educators of future generations of schoolchildren, as well as exploring opportunities for cross‐cultural pol…
Congruence and incongruence in the perception of ‘family’ among foster parents, birth parents and their adolescent (foster) children
Over recent decades, listening to children's voices and viewing children as competent actors has gathered momentum in research as well as in practice. Acknowledging children's perspectives requires sensitive listeners who are willing, deliberately and as realistically as possible, to reconstruct children's ways of seeing. In our study, based in Norway, we investigated the views of 22 adolescents in long‐term foster care and 15 of their birth pare…
Q methodology in social work research
This article examines Q methodology as an empirical method for use in social work research. Q methodology applies statistical analysis to the qualitative study of human subjectivity such as attitudes, beliefs, feelings and opinions. Q methodology is effective for obtaining data from small samples, and it offers respondents a concise and valid way of expressing their viewpoints with minimal researcher interference. The article provides an overview…
Teacher training and teacher education in England and Norway
In this paper, we examine the complementary and differing state‐defined roles of beginning schoolteachers in England and Norway by investigating centrally mandated initial teacher preparation programmes in both countries. Through comparative analysis, we get to see the roles that the policy‐makers in London and Oslo seek to confer upon the educators of future generations of schoolchildren, as well as exploring opportunities for cross‐cultural pol…
The nature of social pedagogy
In this paper, I examine the nature of social pedagogy, a discipline with deep roots in Continental Europe but not in the UK. Things are changing, however. The politicians in Westminster are listening to the people at the Thomas Coram Research Unit in London. The message is unequivocal. It is time to learn from social pedagogical approaches to working with looked‐after children in other European countries. Why is this? The government wants to pre…
Preventing and confronting school bullying
Efforts to prevent and curb school bullying have resulted in a proliferation of anti‐school‐bullying programmes, many based on intuitive appeal rather than systematic evidence. This article presents a comparative analysis of two Norwegian programmes whose developers have demonstrated the effectiveness of their interventions: the Olweus Programme and the Zero Programme. By probing the key components of these programmes, the article provides school…
Social pedagogy in schools
This study explored the views of student teachers in England and Norway regarding the extent to which they felt the school should take the lead role (in comparison to the roles played by parents and other professional agencies) in addressing the needs of pupils identified by the school as experiencing a problem. A questionnaire comprising 30 problem areas was developed and distributed to student teachers at two universities in England and at two …
Teacher training and teacher education in England and Norway
In this paper, we examine the complementary and differing state‐defined roles of beginning schoolteachers in England and Norway by investigating centrally mandated initial teacher preparation programmes in both countries. Through comparative analysis, we get to see the roles that the policy‐makers in London and Oslo seek to confer upon the educators of future generations of schoolchildren, as well as exploring opportunities for cross‐cultural pol…
Free Time
Free Time is a collection of collaboratively written experimental prose fragments on topics primarily involving labor and leisure. The form of the project (Denkbilder) is taken from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Included in this selection is a theorization of the form (“Denkbild Denkbild”). A Denkbild can range from an aphoristic fragment to a mini-essay. Although these Denkbilder experiment with critical form and challenge conventional mod…
Self-Portrait in a Context Mirror
This essay explores the role of quotation in the writing of the poet-critic Craig Dworkin. Dworkin's "Dure," an ekphrastic prose poem concerning a Dürer self-portrait, is a complex meditation on selfhood, the representation of pain, and the nature of linguistic appropriation. "Dure" demonstrates that an appropriative, heavily quotational poetics can enact a process of therapeutic self-critique. To the postauthorial (and posthistorical) malaise of…
Q methodology in social work research
This article examines Q methodology as an empirical method for use in social work research. Q methodology applies statistical analysis to the qualitative study of human subjectivity such as attitudes, beliefs, feelings and opinions. Q methodology is effective for obtaining data from small samples, and it offers respondents a concise and valid way of expressing their viewpoints with minimal researcher interference. The article provides an overview…
The nature of social pedagogy
In this paper, I examine the nature of social pedagogy, a discipline with deep roots in Continental Europe but not in the UK. Things are changing, however. The politicians in Westminster are listening to the people at the Thomas Coram Research Unit in London. The message is unequivocal. It is time to learn from social pedagogical approaches to working with looked‐after children in other European countries. Why is this? The government wants to pre…
Agorachronotistics (Speculations on Market Time)
Agorachronotistics (Speculations on Market Time)" explores the specters of time that haunt conceptions of market exchange. Bringing Marx into contact with a range of contemporary scholarship, "Agorachronotistics" attempts a Benjamin-inspired ideology critique of the movements of speculative capital. "Agorachronotistics" breaks with direct scholarly exposition and makes its argument concerning the phantom character of market relations using the pr…
Social pedagogy in schools
This study explored the views of student teachers in England and Norway regarding the extent to which they felt the school should take the lead role (in comparison to the roles played by parents and other professional agencies) in addressing the needs of pupils identified by the school as experiencing a problem. A questionnaire comprising 30 problem areas was developed and distributed to student teachers at two universities in England and at two …
Congruence and incongruence in the perception of ‘family’ among foster parents, birth parents and their adolescent (foster) children
Over recent decades, listening to children's voices and viewing children as competent actors has gathered momentum in research as well as in practice. Acknowledging children's perspectives requires sensitive listeners who are willing, deliberately and as realistically as possible, to reconstruct children's ways of seeing. In our study, based in Norway, we investigated the views of 22 adolescents in long‐term foster care and 15 of their birth pare…
Presentation of JCSW Issue 2011/1
Editorial: Presentation of JCSW Issue 2011/1
Emerging teachers and globalisation
by Gerry Czerniawski, Routledge, New York & London, 2011, 200 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN13: 978-0-415-87342-0 In this well-written and informative book, Gerry Czerniawski convincingly argues that
Preventing and confronting school bullying
Efforts to prevent and curb school bullying have resulted in a proliferation of anti‐school‐bullying programmes, many based on intuitive appeal rather than systematic evidence. This article presents a comparative analysis of two Norwegian programmes whose developers have demonstrated the effectiveness of their interventions: the Olweus Programme and the Zero Programme. By probing the key components of these programmes, the article provides school…
Mutual Support and Mental Health
Mutual Support and Mental Health: a route to recovery Maddy Loat London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011 143 pp., £18.04 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 84310 530 5 In Mutual Support and Mental Health, M
The last and greatest battle
The last and greatest battle: finding the will, commitment, and strategy to end military suicides." European Journal of Social Work, 19(6), pp. 1041–1042
Social pedagogy and bullying in schools
This study explores the extent to which a social pedagogic perspective is evident in the views of bullying in schools held by a sample of university students in England, Greece and Norway studying in the area of the education, care and welfare of children. A total of 469 university students completed a questionnaire in which they were asked to rate their strength of agreement with 30 statements concerning bullying in schools. Twelve of these stat…
Percy Shelley in Context
Percy Shelley was a writer in the broadest sense – poet, pamphleteer, philosopher, translator, and correspondent – and one of the most eccentric, fascinating figures of his age. Yet he is emphatically of our age too, continuing to influence contemporary writers, to be referenced in popular culture, and to inspire social and political movements. Bringing together a wide range of contributors from different critical perspectives, this vivid and acc…
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