Aonghus Gordon's Books

Place, Craft and Neurodiversity

Re-imagining Potential through Education at Ruskin Mill

By: Aonghus Gordon,Laurence Cox

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Place, Craft and Neurodiversity

Re-imagining Potential through Education at Ruskin Mill

By: Aonghus Gordon,Laurence Cox

For over four decades, Ruskin Mill Trust has worked with young people with special educational needs and behavioural issues who learn traditional crafts and organic farming as part of an integrated curriculum of therapeutic education, overcoming barriers to learning and re-engaging with the wider world. This accessible and inspiring book showcases how an appreciation of place, traditional crafts, farming and transformative education offers a wider route to human well-being for all. The authors outline the different fields of the “Practical Skills Therapeutic Education” method, which includes developing practical skills, learning the ecology of the farm and understanding therapeutic education, holistic care, health and self-leadership. Taking the reader on a tour of Ruskin Mill’s many extraordinary provisions across Britain, and going deeper in conversation with its founder, Aonghus Gordon, this book is an outstanding story of creative thinking in an age of narrow focus on classrooms and written examinations, presenting a transformative perspective on education and care. Being grounded in work supporting young people with complex additional needs, it provides a rare insight into the work of one of the world’s leading charities working with neurodiversity. With its non-specialist language, Place, Craft and Neurodiversity offers ideas and resources for work in different areas of education and therapy. It will inspire parents, educators and care workers around the globe.

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271

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Taylor & Francis

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1003848699

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9781003848691

Scotch Baronial

Architecture and National Identity in Scotland

By: Miles Glendinning,Aonghus MacKechnie

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Scotch Baronial

Architecture and National Identity in Scotland

By: Miles Glendinning,Aonghus MacKechnie

As the debate about Scottish independence rages on, this book takes a timely look at how Scotland's politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring how the architecture of Scotland – in particular the constantly-changing ideal of the 'castle' – has been of great consequence to the ongoing narrative of Scottish national identity. Scotch Baronial provides a politically-framed examination of Scotland's kaleidoscopic 'castle architecture', tracing how it was used to serve successive political agendas both prior to and during the three 'unionist centuries' from the early 17th century to the 20th century. The book encompasses many of the country's most important historic buildings – from the palaces left behind by the 'lost' monarchy, to revivalist castles and the proud town halls of the Victorian age – examining their architectural styles and tracing their wildly fluctuating political and national connotations. It ends by bringing the story into the 21st century, exploring how contemporary 'neo-modernist' architecture in today's Scotland, as exemplified in the Holyrood parliament, relates to concepts of national identity in architecture over the previous centuries.

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313

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474283489

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9781474283489

A History of Scottish Architecture

From the Renaissance to the Present Day

By: Miles Glendinning,Ranald MacInnes,Aonghus MacKechnie

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A History of Scottish Architecture

From the Renaissance to the Present Day

By: Miles Glendinning,Ranald MacInnes,Aonghus MacKechnie

This compact yet comprehensive history of Scottish architecture combines factual description of the vast & fertile range of visual forms & key architects in each period with a wide-ranging analysis of their social, ideological & historical context.

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0748607412

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9780748607419

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Place, Craft and Neurodiversity

Place, Craft and Neurodiversity

Scotch Baronial

Scotch Baronial

A History of Scottish Architecture

A History of Scottish Architecture

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