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Chapter 1. The importance of mental capacity for self-reliance -- Chapter 2. Self-reliance in everyday life -- Chapter 3. Determinants of capacity to act -- Chapter 4. Self-reliance and situational influences -- Chapter 5. Training and intervention -- Chapter 6. Mental capacities, self-reliance and policy -- Bibliography

The CPIE (Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering) Conference Series, from which this eBook has been derived, was started by the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar (India), in March 2007. CPIE 2013 (March 29-31, 2013) was the third conference which attracted renowned academicians/ researchers, noted industry representatives and the delegates from all across the globe. In all, about 225 papers were presented on various aspects of latest issues related to Industrial and Production Engineering

The authors of this volume address multiple questions involving the nature of youth protest in the twenty-first century. Through their use of a case study approach, they comment upon the ways in which youth protest has been influenced by the electronic and social media and evaluate the effectiveness of protest activities, many of which were framed in reaction to neo-liberalism and state authoritarianism. A number of the authors further comment upon the utility of employing social movement theory to analyze the nature and character of protest actions, while others situate such events within specific political, social and cultural contexts. The case studies focus upon protest activities in Bahrain, Turkey, Iran, Cambodia, South Africa, China, Russia, Chile, Spain, and the U. S., and together, they offer a comparative analysis of an important global phenomenon. In so doing, the authors further address issues involving the changing nature of globalized protest participation, its immediate and long-term consequences, and the ways in which protests have encouraged a re-evaluation of the nature of inequality, as constructed within educational, social, and political spheres

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Politics of Social Sector Reforms, Subnational Governance, and the Prospects for Policy Diffusion -- Chapter 2: Theoretical Debates on Policy Diffusion -- Chapter 3: Diffusion Trends in Education and Health Policy Reforms -- Chapter 4: Education Reform -- Chapter 5: Health Reform -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The book is designed for faculty and doctoral students in education who are interested in understanding diverse frameworks for policy analysis, and for those in the general public who are interested in the policies we analyze here. This book originated in a policy analysis class at Michigan State University taught during 2010. Using Professor Tatto's unique approach to teaching policy analysis, the professor and students agreed to construct a class that represented a reflective and grounded experience in the policy analysis of a current and relevant issue with global ramifications; we began exploring policies that were developed at the global level and that were implemented locally. We investigated the surge of globally developed standards and regulations in an effort to improve education. Our goal was to learn cross-nationally about policies that seek to reform curriculum and instruction under efficiency and global competitiveness arguments, such as Education for All (EFA) and its USA cousin No Child Left Behind (NCLB). We knew our work would be bounded by the time available in a one-semester class, and by resource constraints. We did exploratory inquiry supported by literature reviews, reports on rigorous research studies, and in one case an exploratory case study. The policies we chose to explore, such as EFA and NCLB, offered us the opportunity to examine current reform tendencies that are intended to provide access to quality education for all children, the preparation of teachers to support diverse populations, the organization of schools to accommodate these children in response to vague policy mandates, and power issues affecting the different constituencies and stakeholders. The effects of these and other policies were difficult to track because research is scant and decisions are frequently made based on ideology or political persuasion. Our purpose was to explore the critical issues that originated such policies, and to search for documented evidence regarding policy implementation and effectiveness. We investigated the factors that seemed to interfere with successful implementation, from conceptual, theoretical, and methodological perspectives. In this class we learned that there are not ready-set frameworks for policy analysis, but rather that these have to be constructed according to the issues that emerge as policies are conceptualized and implemented to fit local contexts and needs. The book pays particular attention to the contexts of policy, including the evolving conceptualization of global and local systems of governance, knowledge regimes, and policy spaces

Preliminary Material /Birgit Brock-Utne , Zubeida Desai , Martha A.S. Qorro and Allan Pitman -- English as Language of Instruction in Africa /Allan Pitman , Suzanne Majhanovich and Birgit Brock-Utne -- Expressing Oneself Through Writing – A Comparative Study of Learners' Writing Skills in Tanzania and South Africa /Birgit Brock-Utne and Zubeida Desai -- English as a Medium of Instruction in Post-Primary Education in Tanzania /George A Malekela -- English-Medium Primary Schools in Tanzania /Casmir M Rubagumya -- In Defence of Continued use of English as the Language of Instruction in Secondary and Tertiary Education in Tanzania /Michael Kadeghe -- English as the Language of Instruction or Destruction – How do Teachers and Students in Tanzania Cope? /Birgit Brock-Utne -- Salient Policy Issues in the Choice of Language of Instruction in Tanzania /Justinian Galabawa -- Terminology and School Books in Southern African Languages /Babazile Mahlalela-Thusi and Kathleen Heugh -- Mother Tongue Instruction and Understanding of Natural Science Concepts in a South African Primary School /Keith Roy Langenhoven -- Implications of Changing the Language of Instruction in Secondary and Tertiary Education in Tanzania /Justinian Galabawa and Fikeni Senkoro -- Testing Students' Ability to Learn Through English During the Transition from Primary to Secondary Schooling /Martha Qorro -- Parents' Choice of the Medium of Instruction in Science /Vuyokazi Nomlomo -- Reflections on the Loitasa Project in South Africa /Zubeida Desai.

This book vividly traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. Hyaeweol Choi shows that what it meant to be a ""modern"" Korean woman was deeply bound up in such diverse themes as Korean nationalism, Confucian gender practices, images of the West and Christianity, and growing desires for selfhood. Her historically specific, textured analysis sheds new light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity

Alexander Pfänder's classical phenomenological logic, a masterwork of unmatched clarity, is presented here for the first time in English. The book unfolds the general essence of logic, its object, not acts of thinking but objective ""thoughts"", meanings and higher unities formed by them: the nature and kinds (1) of judgments (propositions) and their truth and truth claims, (2) of concepts, and (3)of inferences; (4)the first foundational principles of logic (the principles of identity, contradiction, excluded middle, and sufficient reason) and of valid inferences, their foundation in ontologic.

This e-book comprises a selection of articles from leading experts in the food safety field relating to global trends and their application to local operations. The collection reflects on the whole food production process from growing, harvesting and production to processing, transport, retailing and consumption. It also reflects on the importance of publicity - good and bad - on the food export industry