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Education in Asia Pacific countries is being transformed by globalisation and the market economy. Most economies within the region have flourished due to increased regional capital flow, trade and other forms of economic and political interaction. The Asia Pacific also has rich and unique traditions, which create cultural diversity as well as common challenges, including obstacles of language and geographical separation. Additionally, there is a growing reaction to the predominance of Western social theories that is fuelling recognition of and movement towards theories that reference the wide range of contextual and cultural perspectives available in the East.Contributors offer Eastern-oriented perspectives on teacher education, parent participation, government withdrawal, textbook content, uses of modern technology, the challenges of migrating families and tertiary students who travel from overseas for study. Their commentaries highlight issues of equity, identity and social justice.

Disability Welfare Policy in Europe:Cognitive Disability and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemicanalyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persons with cognitive disabilities and their families, including its effects on education, employment, social and health care services.

Cyberculture is a dominating cultural paradigm. This interdisciplinary study provides a wide spectrum of the most important current problems connected with networked life and emerging social behaviours, global sharing of data, loss of privacy and new meanings of community.

"The social work profession calls on its members to strive for social justice. It asks aspiring and practicing social workers to advocate for political change and take part in political action on behalf of marginalized people and groups. Yet this macro goal is often left on the back burner as the day-to-day struggles of working directly with clients take precedence. And while most social workers have firsthand knowledge of how public policy neglects or outright harms society's most vulnerable, too few have training in the political processes that created these policies. This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work-and what they can do to help their clients and their communities. Helping readers develop sustainable strategies at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, this book is a hands-on manual to contemporary American politics, showing social workers and social work students how to engage in effective activism. Stephen Pimpare, a political scientist with extensive experience as a social work practitioner and instructor, offers informed, practical grounding in the mechanics of policy making and the tools that activists and outsiders can use to take on an entrenched system. He distills key research and insights from political science and related disciplines into a practical resource for social work students, instructors, and practitioners looking to deepen their policy knowledge and capacity to achieve change"--

Les concepts et travaux récents de la recherche en psychologie de l'identité peuvent permettre de mieux comprendre la formation et la dynamique des préférences économiques. Dans cette perspective, nous proposons une traduction française du questionnaire Aspects of Identity IV (AIQ-IV) qui mesure l'orientation individuelle de l'identité subjective selon ses dimensions personnelle, relationnelle, publique et collective (Cheek et Briggs [1982], [2013]). Cette étude de validation psychométrique teste les validités interne et externe de l'échelle sur un échantillon représentatif de jeunes adultes français (N = 1 118). Les analyses factorielles exploratoires et confirmatoires révèlent une structure à quatre facteurs qui correspond bien aux aspects personnel, relationnel, public et collectif de l'identité. Les réponses individuelles sont stables dans le temps. De plus, tout en étant modérément corrélée à des construits psychologiques connexes (estime de soi, estime de soi sociale, conscience de soi), les dimensions de l'AIQ-IV prédisent, à des degrés variés, les préférences pour le risque et le temps ainsi que les préférences sociales, mesurées grâce à des échelles de Likert ou des choix hypothétiques.

This book brings together two traditions of thinking about social ties: sociological theory on solidarity and anthropological theory on gift exchange. The purpose of the book is to explore both how theoretical traditions may complete and enrich each other, and how they may illuminate transformations in solidarity. The main argument, supported by empirical illustrations, is that a theory of solidarity should incorporate some of the core insights from anthropological gift theory. The book presents a theoretical model covering both positive and negative - selective and excluding - aspects and consequences of solidarity. It is concluded that over the past century solidarity has undergone a fundamental transformation, from Durkheim's 'organic' solidarity to a type of solidarity which can be called 'segmented': separate, autonomous social segments connecting with other segments, no longer out of necessity and mutual dependency but on the basis of individual choice. Solidarity has, thereby, become more noncomittal

SummaryA Guardian Newspaper survey of social workers in the UK published in 2015 suggested that 'The happiest social workers are in Wales'. In exploring why this may be so, the authors undertook an in-depth national online survey in 2017 of all social workers in Wales registered ( n = 5564) as employed at that point and from which some 997 responded. The survey sought a wide field of information about the occupational experience, and this article reports on selected aspects of knowledge, evidence-base, aims, competence and quality as perceived by respondents.FindingsThe workforce, durable, mostly white, aging and female, consider their services of good quality despite insufficiencies in staff capacities and material resources. While most acknowledged the influence on their practice of psycho-social, cognitive and systems paradigms, they also cited as major sources of knowledge, their clients, work experience, colleagues, case-procedures and in-house training. There seemed much less affirmation of evidence-based techniques and relatively little use of social work journals, books and professional magazines once qualified and in practice.ApplicationsThe emphasis by many upon the bureau or department as both 'habitus' and heuristic for much everyday practice raises important questions for how we understand and enhance practitioner knowledge and ensure equivalent social worker competence across the workforce.

Cover -- Series page -- Meta-Scientific Study of Artificial Intelligence -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PART I: META-SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO THE BALANCED USE OF HUMAN AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -- CHAPTER 1: Challenges of the Modern Global World -- CHAPTER 2: Socio-Philosophical Understanding of Artificial Intelligence -- CHAPTER 3: Philosophical and Epistemological Factors of Artificial Intelligence -- CHAPTER 4: Research Philosophy as Tools of Cross-Disciplinary Framing

This text is a defense of political liberalism as a feminist liberalism. The first half of the work develops and defends a novel interpretation of political liberalism. It is argued that political liberals should accept a restrictive account of public reason and that political liberals' account of public justification is superior to the leading alternative, the convergence account of public justification. In the second half of the text, it is argued that political liberalism's core commitments restrict all reasonable conceptions of justice to those that secure genuine, substantive equality for women and other marginalized groups.

The #ActuallyAutistic Guide to Advocacy takes an in-depth look at the key elements of effective, respectful, inclusive advocacy and allyship. Every topic was chosen, shaped, and informed by #ActuallyAutistic perspectives. The step-by-step guide discusses various aspects of how autism is perceived, explores how best to speak up for individual needs, and introduces advocacy for the wider autistic community. Each step outlines one vital aspect of advocacy and allyship, such as emphasizing acceptance, avoiding assumptions and assuming competence. The advice and strategies laid out in this guide center the wisdom and experiences of Autistic people and enable the reader to confidently speak up with insight and understanding

"As all social segments are in the revival mode and trying to deal with resilience after the crises of the pandemic researchers are proposing different solutions, focusing on the different segments of society and its normal routine that has been affected by the pandemic"--

This book analyzes the causes and long-term social and economic effects of overseas emigration from Southeastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author argues that such emigration has repeatedly attracted the attention of policymakers who exploit it for state development goals.

1. Philosophical racial essentialism : Hume and Kant -- 2. Geography and ideas of race -- 3. Phenotypes and ideas of race -- 4. Transmission genetics and ideas of race -- 5. Genealogy and ideas of race -- 6. Race and contemporary anthropology -- 7. Philosophical and social implications.