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Schools play a vital role in safeguarding children and young
people, yet there has been little research into how schools
identify and respond to child protection concerns, and their
engagement with local authority children's services. This book
highlights the findings of a major ESRC-funded study on the child
protection role played by schools, their decision-making processes
and involvement in inter-agency working. Crucial reading for
academics, practitioners and managers in children's social care and
education, it evaluates the impact of recent policy developments,
including the Academies and Free Schools programme, as well as the
restructuring of local authority children's services.
Schools play a vital role in safeguarding children and young
people, yet there has been little research into how schools
identify and respond to child protection concerns, and their
engagement with local authority children's services. This book
highlights the findings of a major ESRC-funded study on the child
protection role played by schools, their decision-making processes
and involvement in inter-agency working. Crucial reading for
academics, practitioners and managers in children's social care and
education, it evaluates the impact of recent policy developments,
including the Academies and Free Schools programme, as well as the
restructuring of local authority children's services.
This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through
the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in
American culture as they have been shaped by work’s
transformations over the last century. Describing the complex
relations between cultural forms and the work practices, Art,
Labour and American Life explores everything from Fordism to
feminization, from white-collar ascendency to zero hours precarity,
as these things have manifested in painting, performance art,
poetry, fiction, philosophy and music. Labour, all but invisible in
cultural histories of the period, despite the fact most Americans
have spent most of their lives doing it, here receives an urgent
re-emphasis, as we witness work’s radical redefinition across the
world. Â
The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of
critical essays on Donald Allen's 1960 seminal anthology, The New
American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called
"the fountainhead of radical American poetics." The New American
Poetry is referred to in every literary history of post-World War
II American poetry. Allen's anthology has reached its fiftieth
anniversary, providing a unique time for reflection and
reevaluation of this preeminent collection. As we know, Allen's
anthology was groundbreaking-it was the first to distribute widely
the poetry and theoretical positions of poets such as Charles
Olson, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, and it was the first to
categorize these poets by the schools (Black Mountain, New York
School, San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beats) by which they are
known today. Over the course of fifty years, this categorization of
poets into schools has become one of the major, if not only way,
that The New American Poetry is remembered or valued; one certain
goal of this volume, as one reviewer invites, is to "pry The New
American Poetry out from the hoary platitudes that have encrusted
it." To this point critics mostly have examined The New American
Poetry as an anthology; former treatments of The New American
Poetry look at it intently as a whole. Though the almost
singularly-focused study of its construction and, less often,
reception has lent a great deal of documented, highly visible and
debated material in which to consider, we have been left with
certain notions about its relevance that have become imbued
ultimately in the collective critical consciousness of
postmodernity. This volume, however, goes beyond the analysis of
construction and reception and achieves something distinctive,
extending those former treatments by treading on the paths they
create. This volume aims to discover another sense of "radical"
that Perloff articulated-rather than a radical that departs
markedly from the usual, we invite consideration of The New
American Poetry that is radical in the sense of root, of harboring
something fundamental, something inherent, as we uncover and trace
further elements correlated with its widespread influence over the
last fifty years.
Presents a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social
function in the US. In 1934, the Marxist and Modernist poet Louis
Zukofsky was labelled a 'detached recorder of isolated events' by
his communist contemporaries, a writer who 'identifies life with
capitalism, and so assumes that the world is merely a wasteland'.
Crisis and the US Avant Garde charts the trajectory of this tension
between avant garde poetics and vanguard politics since the twin
legacies of Modernism and the Great Depression. The book's radical
reappraisal of twentieth century experimental poetry in the US
reads major figures including Charles Olson, Denise Levertov and
Amiri Baraka within a new approach to traditional notions of
historical context, exploring the ways in which poetry can properly
be said to respond to political crises. Opposing the current
critical focus on the politics of aesthetic form, Hickman explores
the direct and practical relationships avant garde poets have had
with power politics, social organization and cultural movements,
providing a timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play
in political struggle going forward into our own various
contemporary crises. Reassesses the US avant garde's relation to
political events; explains how we might talk about a 'context' for
avant garde art; provides detailed readings of major poets,
including Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, George
Oppen, Amiri Baraka and others and Key reference point for
experimental cultural politics today.
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