Beth Humphries
Biographic Data
| ID | 4193111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beth Humphries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Humphries |
| SIGNATURE | HUMPHRIES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Research and Inequality
Paradigm lost? the theory and practice of anti-discriminatory research, Carol Truman defining without discrimination? minority ethnic groups and social problems - the case of street youths in Canada, Shirley Roy and Jacques Rheaume an integrated approach to human rights and social research, Stanley Whitkin from critical thought to emancipatory action - contradictory research goals?, Beth Humphries needs assessment - crucial step in emancipatory w…
Re-thinking Social Research
From Immigration Controls to Welfare Controls
1. Locating the Debates 2. A History of Immigration Controls: Nationalism and the State 3. From Aliens to Asylum Seekers: A History of Immigration Controls and Welfare 4. Immigration Controls and Class 5. The 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act and Ways to Change it: A Legal View 6. From Shambles to a New Apartheid: Local Authorities' Involvement in Supporting Asylum Seekers 1996-1999 7. A Voice from the Town Hall: The Experiences of an Advice Worker…
Traditional’ and ‘Emancipatory’ Research
Welfare, Exclusion and Political Agency
Welfare, Exclusion and Politcal Agency develops key topics in social work and social policy relating to exclusion, social divisions and control in welfare. It provides theoretical tools for students, academics and professionals whose work involves them in supporting the political agency of excluded groups. At a time when there have been profound shifts in the organization of welfare and the underpinning theories of the associated professions, the…
An Unacceptable Role for Social Work
Social work has always had a role in policing the boundaries of welfare, and under New Labour there has been a decisive shift to an increasingly narrow and negative practice. This article takes social work’s involvement in internal immigration controls as an example of the profession’s complicity in implementing social policies that are degrading and inhuman. It argues that social work has adopted a reactionary and uncritical view of policy, and …
Unsettling the 'learning community
The focus of this article is adult learning theory and the concept of ‘communities of learning’. Drawing on the authors' experiences as educators, it offers a critique of liberal-humanist and critical ideas about pedagogy, and draws on feminist poststructuralism to disrupt notions of ‘dialogue’, ‘community’and ‘difference’. The aim is to interrupt critical pedagogies through recognition of partial knowledges, exclusionary practices, and differenc…
The Baby and the Bath Water
Reading Social Work Competing Discourses in the Rules and Requirements for the Diploma in Social Work
The dismantling of anti-discrimination in British social work
From Critical Thought to Emancipatory Action
This article results from reading Lather's Getting Smart (1991) and Hammersley's The Politics of Social Research (1995). The theme is the debates between 'traditional' research approaches and 'emancipatory' research approaches. It is argued that these debates are based on stereotypical views which obscure important characteristics held in common, and both require to be interrogated. The article examines two of these characteristics, appeals to a …
XVI. Representation and Difference in Cross-Cultural Research
Adult learning in social work education
Higher education, along with other strands of the welfare state, is under going revolutionary change under the Thatcher government. This article argues that traditional liberal values on which education is based are not adequate to withstand the nex right assault, suggests elements of a pro gressive radical education, and re-examines notions of academic freedom It focuses on values underpinning the process of learning in social work, but suggests…
An Unacceptable Role for Social Work
Social work has always had a role in policing the boundaries of welfare, and under New Labour there has been a decisive shift to an increasingly narrow and negative practice. This article takes social work’s involvement in internal immigration controls as an example of the profession’s complicity in implementing social policies that are degrading and inhuman. It argues that social work has adopted a reactionary and uncritical view of policy, and …
From Critical Thought to Emancipatory Action
This article results from reading Lather's Getting Smart (1991) and Hammersley's The Politics of Social Research (1995). The theme is the debates between 'traditional' research approaches and 'emancipatory' research approaches. It is argued that these debates are based on stereotypical views which obscure important characteristics held in common, and both require to be interrogated. The article examines two of these characteristics, appeals to a …
Unsettling the 'learning community
The focus of this article is adult learning theory and the concept of ‘communities of learning’. Drawing on the authors' experiences as educators, it offers a critique of liberal-humanist and critical ideas about pedagogy, and draws on feminist poststructuralism to disrupt notions of ‘dialogue’, ‘community’and ‘difference’. The aim is to interrupt critical pedagogies through recognition of partial knowledges, exclusionary practices, and differenc…
Reading Social Work Competing Discourses in the Rules and Requirements for the Diploma in Social Work
XVI. Representation and Difference in Cross-Cultural Research
Adult learning in social work education
Higher education, along with other strands of the welfare state, is under going revolutionary change under the Thatcher government. This article argues that traditional liberal values on which education is based are not adequate to withstand the nex right assault, suggests elements of a pro gressive radical education, and re-examines notions of academic freedom It focuses on values underpinning the process of learning in social work, but suggests…
The dismantling of anti-discrimination in British social work
Adult learning in social work education
Higher education, along with other strands of the welfare state, is under going revolutionary change under the Thatcher government. This article argues that traditional liberal values on which education is based are not adequate to withstand the nex right assault, suggests elements of a pro gressive radical education, and re-examines notions of academic freedom It focuses on values underpinning the process of learning in social work, but suggests…
XVI. Representation and Difference in Cross-Cultural Research
Reading Social Work Competing Discourses in the Rules and Requirements for the Diploma in Social Work
The dismantling of anti-discrimination in British social work
From Critical Thought to Emancipatory Action
This article results from reading Lather's Getting Smart (1991) and Hammersley's The Politics of Social Research (1995). The theme is the debates between 'traditional' research approaches and 'emancipatory' research approaches. It is argued that these debates are based on stereotypical views which obscure important characteristics held in common, and both require to be interrogated. The article examines two of these characteristics, appeals to a …
The Baby and the Bath Water
Unsettling the 'learning community
The focus of this article is adult learning theory and the concept of ‘communities of learning’. Drawing on the authors' experiences as educators, it offers a critique of liberal-humanist and critical ideas about pedagogy, and draws on feminist poststructuralism to disrupt notions of ‘dialogue’, ‘community’and ‘difference’. The aim is to interrupt critical pedagogies through recognition of partial knowledges, exclusionary practices, and differenc…
An Unacceptable Role for Social Work
Social work has always had a role in policing the boundaries of welfare, and under New Labour there has been a decisive shift to an increasingly narrow and negative practice. This article takes social work’s involvement in internal immigration controls as an example of the profession’s complicity in implementing social policies that are degrading and inhuman. It argues that social work has adopted a reactionary and uncritical view of policy, and …
Welfare, Exclusion and Political Agency
Welfare, Exclusion and Politcal Agency develops key topics in social work and social policy relating to exclusion, social divisions and control in welfare. It provides theoretical tools for students, academics and professionals whose work involves them in supporting the political agency of excluded groups. At a time when there have been profound shifts in the organization of welfare and the underpinning theories of the associated professions, the…
Traditional’ and ‘Emancipatory’ Research
From Immigration Controls to Welfare Controls
1. Locating the Debates 2. A History of Immigration Controls: Nationalism and the State 3. From Aliens to Asylum Seekers: A History of Immigration Controls and Welfare 4. Immigration Controls and Class 5. The 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act and Ways to Change it: A Legal View 6. From Shambles to a New Apartheid: Local Authorities' Involvement in Supporting Asylum Seekers 1996-1999 7. A Voice from the Town Hall: The Experiences of an Advice Worker…
Re-thinking Social Research
Research and Inequality
Paradigm lost? the theory and practice of anti-discriminatory research, Carol Truman defining without discrimination? minority ethnic groups and social problems - the case of street youths in Canada, Shirley Roy and Jacques Rheaume an integrated approach to human rights and social research, Stanley Whitkin from critical thought to emancipatory action - contradictory research goals?, Beth Humphries needs assessment - crucial step in emancipatory w…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (4 works) · Welfare (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)