Los artículos compilados en el presente libro son un conjunto de miradas y reflexiones sobre el proceso de formación, son un conjunto de preguntas, experiencias compartidas, indagaciones y búsquedas, más que recetas o fórmulas sobre cómo enseñar.
From time to time, into the news burst accounts of regular people who commit crimes that seem totally out of character according to those who know them well.
In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe.
As many as 20 to 25 percent of American adultsor one in every four peoplehave been victimized by, witnesses of, or perpetrators of family violence in their lifetimes.
Although there has emerged a huge interest in the Muslim communities in Britain since 9/11 and 7/7, few academic studies have focused on the political processes within Muslim communities and the impacts these have on civic engagement.
This book provides an overview of the field of Equine-Assisted Therapy and Learning and gives a powerful account of a research study charting the experiences of seven 'at-risk' young people attending a pioneering Therapeutic Horsemanship centre in the UK.
Grassroots Advocacy and Health Care Reform places a detailed account of how the Health Care for America Now campaign in Pennsylvania carried out contemporary issue advocacy in the context of an understanding of American politics.
This collection brings together international contributors from multiple disciplines to discuss the current public, social and governmental understandings and responses to sexual violence.
Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of childhood and children's experiences.
Using narrative accounts from a sample of 69 New York City-based musicians of various genres who are self-acknowledged heroin users, the book addresses the reasons why these musicians started using heroin and the impact heroin had on these musicians' playing, creativity, and careers.
In the early 1970s 'baby battering' accounted for an estimated 700 child deaths a year in Britain, while a further 4-5,000 children were seriously injured - all this in spite of the knowledge gained from the research done both in Britain and in the United States.
The Online Journalism Handbook offers a comprehensive guide to the ever-evolving world of digital journalism, showcasing the multiple possibilities in researching, writing, and storytelling provided by new technologies.
This book addresses the relevance of the case study research methodology for enhancing urban planning research and education in Africa and the global South.
As more and more people and organisations are affected by the austerity agenda and cuts to public services, there is increased risk that the person-centred nature of safeguarding practice will be consumed by procedure and managerialism.
Containing state-of-the-art contributions on the various domains of European media policies, this Handbook deals with theoretical approaches to European media policy: its historical development; specific policies for film, television, radio and the Internet; and international aspects of the fragmented policy domain.
This is the first book to examine how effectively American and supranational EU governments have regulated innovative pharmaceuticals during the last 30 years regarding public health.
La politique des droits humains menée en Algérie par l'ONG CISP (Comité International pour le Developpement des peuples) repose sur le tissage des liens de proximité entre les familles frappées par les violences (séismes, violences politiques) et les professionnels concernés réunis autour de la "Clinique de Concertation" associée à la mobilisation de leurs droits civils et humains.
Alors que la sphère publique contemporaine est traversée par des clivages profonds, comment rendre compte des articulations entre émotions collectives, mobilisations politiques et participation citoyenne ?
Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled 'inexplicable' - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful.
Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled 'inexplicable' - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful.
Examining essential aspects of American life, John Budd investigates how informational sources (print and broadcast media and other resources) fall short when it comes to informing citizens, failing our democracy and damaging the public good.
This book examines how the war crime legacy resulting from the Yugoslav war of the 1990s on political and military transformation in Serbia was an impediment to security reform, democratization and the achievement of Western standards in the Belgrade armed forces.
Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change medicine itself.
Das Buch untersucht und identifiziert sexualisierte Gewalt gegen Bewohnerinnen der stationären Altenhilfe als bislang kaum beachtetes soziales Problem.
This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there.
Climate Change Adaptation and Human Capabilities explores learning, health, mobility, and play as climate capabilities and produces new insights into the depth of climate change impact on social life.
This book examines the relationship of belonging and social policy in a historical-comparative perspective reconstructing individual arguments in favour of or opposed to the expansion of solidarities.
This book argues that Americans' belief in post-racialism, rooted in both ideology and material progress among racial minorities, is wrong because both old and new patterns of racism continue to hinder the acceptance of African Americans as true equals in American society, despite the recent mobility of the black middle class.
Bringing together leading academics and practitioners from across the globe, this unique collection explores the emerging field of heritage crime studies.
