Recent crises relating to non-governmental aid organisations have brought into sharp focus the need for a greater understanding of the safeguarding challenges which the international aid and development sector faces, and how to respond to them in a consistent, systematic and effective way.
This book examines young men's precarious education-to-employment transitions as they navigate educational, occupational and emotional challenges in the shadow of deindustrialisation and austerity.
Architectures of Ageing in Place provides curated critical perspectives, from a practice-based research point of view, of buildings that are purpose built and/or refurbished to accommodate housing and care needs of older people ageing in place in high rise/medium rise integrated communities.
'Houses do not simply represent a form of shelter; in addition they embody the dominant ideology of a society and reflect the way in which that society is organised.
Originally published in 1980, this comprehensive study of stuttering in Britain in the nineteenth century was the first detailed examination of one speech problem as manifested in a particular time and place.
How can public policy support the growing population providing unpaid care to people with disabilities, older people, or people with dementia, and what are the policy implications of the growing need for caregivers?
This comprehensive handbook provides therapists, social workers, educators, and mental health professionals with effective clinical interventions for working affirmatively with disabled clients and their families.
The Economics of Immigration provides students with the tools needed to examine the impact of immigration and immigration policies over the past century.
Originally published in 1990, this title asks, what has been the role of the state vis-a-vis housing policy in developing countries over the last few years?
Amidst rising global inequality, intensifying geopolitical frictions, and the renewed force of colonial logics, this volume offers a critical interrogation of coloniality, decolonial practices, global capitalism, and the technologies of governance that entrench social and environmental injustice.
Chapter 1 explores how unions prioritize political agendas over individual protections, with a specific focus on the prevalence of antisemitism within organized labor.
Originally published in 1982, Housing and Identity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives represents an attempt by scholars in a number of different disciplines to bring a common social-psychological perspective to bear on the study of the house and its relation to the self and the nature of the social order.
The Economics of Immigration provides students with the tools needed to examine the impact of immigration and immigration policies over the past century.
Recent crises relating to non-governmental aid organisations have brought into sharp focus the need for a greater understanding of the safeguarding challenges which the international aid and development sector faces, and how to respond to them in a consistent, systematic and effective way.
This book examines the UK's enduring 'permacrisis'-austerity policies, Brexit, climate change, inflation, and the rising cost of living-through the lens of the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic as part of a policy continuum.
Since the peak of school desegregation in the late 1980s, schools across the nation have been resegregating such that schools are now as segregated as they were during the late 1960s.
This book provides a set of testimonies that bring into focus the children and adolescents who have been driven from their lands as subjects with rights who have different ways of envisioning the world.
This book is divided into three parts: integrating the non-work context into theories of organizational justice; non-work reactions to injustice; and commentary.
In this book we are interested in patterns of education, rehabilitation service, socialization, and ideas about blindness that in large part produce the above-mentioned distinct patterns.
The volume 3 of this series is designed to present educators with current research and emerging issues in teaching, learning and motivation in a multicultural context.
Fourteen American and Canadian academics contribute 13 chapters placing race at the center of an understanding of social studies practices in education.
In seinem satirischen Sachbuch-Debut Alpha-Boys geht Comedian Aurel Mertz dorthin, wo wenig geweint und noch weniger gelacht wird: zu den Brutstatten der neuen Mannlichkeit.
As a result of the AIDS epidemic, many nations around the world have faced the demands of caring for a particularly vulnerable population of children, the orphans of parents who have died of AIDS or whose caregivers are terminally ill from the disease.
This volume covers topics including: translation issues in cross-cultural research; African American teachers for African American students; the social mediation of metacognition; and cross-cultural similarities and differences in affective meaning of achievement.
Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Authors Going Deeper with Holistic Education is a collection of essays and poems offering testimony to the holism of original traditional Indigenous ways of knowing, teaching and learning.
Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Authors Going Deeper with Holistic Education is a collection of essays and poems offering testimony to the holism of original traditional Indigenous ways of knowing, teaching and learning.
This book recounts the dramatic story of the transformation of the Iowa Commission for the Blind from a verifiably ineffective service agency to perhaps the most outstanding and effective adult service program in the nation in the span of 10 short years.
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field is comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education.
The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on dif-ferent aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world.
