The role of practitioners in seeking to make creative and critical

connections – between personal experience and political structures;

macro-level decisions and micro-level consequences; the potential

for personal agency within constraints of power – should be a core

feature of professional practice as well as of academic study.

The following chapters have been designed to work as one-o!,

freestanding sessions, or as a relatively coherent educational

programme. It goes without saying that they should be modified to

suit particular situations as required.