http://hdl.handle.net/2173/31600 Sat, 25 May 2013 09:00:04 GMT 2013-05-25T09:00:04Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/198529 Title: Working life in rural micro-enterprises: old forms of organisation in the new economy Authors: Baines, Susan; Wheelock, Jane; Oughton, Elizabeth Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/198529 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/198289 Title: Can online discussions help student social workers learn when studying communication? Authors: Domakin, Alison Abstract: Research shows that despite the potential of online discussions to stimulate meaningful debate, locating evidence of complex engagement with ideas in online discussions has proved difficult. This paper explores student social workers' perceptions of learning from participation in online discussions and analyses how these can be used most effectively to develop understanding about interpersonal communication. The research context was a communication unit on a social work degree in which online discussions were used regularly. Student questionnaires were analysed and compared with a grounded theory analysis of online postings. The results suggest that using online discussions is an emotive experience for students. A model of using online discussion to teach communication skills is proposed, building on the work of Gunawardena et al., in which the links between ‘process knowledge’ (how students experience online discussion) and ‘content knowledge’ (the curriculum) are used as learning material. It is argued that deeper learning may result from examination of this dynamic. Further research to investigate applications of this model in social work education is needed. Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Social Work Education, published by and copyright Routledge. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/198289 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/97589 Title: Critical psychology and revolutionary Marxism Authors: Parker, Ian Abstract: This paper addresses the intersection between Marxism and psychology, focusing on `critical' approaches that have emerged in the discipline in the last 15 years. The paper traces the way that elements of Marxism that are diametrically opposed, and in some cases dialectically opposed, to mainstream psychology are evaded, misrepresented or systematically distorted by ostensibly `critical' psychologies in the English-speaking world. Elements of Marxist analysis—the human being as an ensemble of social relations, the materiality of the family, private property and the state, surplus value and cultural capital, alienation and exploitation and ideological mystification—are contrasted with the standard disciplinary notions of the psychological subject, society, utilitarian transparency, unhealthy experience and false beliefs. Specifications of the position of the researcher in Marxism—standpoint, reflexive location, class consciousness, institutional space and social revolution—are set against the dominant notions in mainstream psychology of neutrality, rationalism, individual enlightenment, scientific knowledge and adaptation and amelioration. Change in Marxism—as permanent change, an engagement with relatively enduring structures, theoretical practice, materialist dialectics and prefigurative politics—is pitted against the standard procedures of ratification, pragmatism, empiricism, positivism and the drawing up of blueprints. This analysis of the discipline and its `critical' variants is designed to clear the way for revolutionary Marxist work in and against the domain of psychology. Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Theory & Psychology, published by and copyright SAGE Publications. Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/97589 2009-02-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/97542 Title: On linking Lacan and Foulkes: commentary on Dieter Nitzgen's 'The location of sexuality in group analysis' Authors: Burman, Erica Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Group Analysis, published by and copyright SAGE Publications. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/97542 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z