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Schools may be particularly challenged in the building of relationships with immigrant families because of a potentially heightened mutual lack of knowledge or understanding about the other party's cultural norms (e.g. Crozier & Davis, 2007). In the context of increased immigration from Eastern and Central European states, this study seeks to initiate the development of model of multi-cultural family-school interaction drawing on existing frameworks drawn from the fields of education, psychology and sociology. With the intention of establishing the nature of migrant parents' constructions of their relationships with their children's schools, we carried out in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 10 parents of school age children who had migrated to the UK from Eastern and Central Europe within the past 10 years. The key themes from the interviews indicated that the parents' expectations of their children's schooling appear to clash with those of the UK school system and that this is amplified by perceptions of poor communication, inadequate school-parent cooperation & marginalisation. Through the use of existing theoretical frameworks it was established that there is potential for improved practice though development of a model though this must take account of the full contextual complexity of the relationships.

This article presents a close reading of gothic features in Simone Atangana Bekono's novella Zo hoog de zon stond ('As high as the sun stood', 2022). This analysis serves as a way to comment on recent academic debates about the end, or ends, of critical theory, more specifically about ways of reading: surface reading or symptomatic reading. Supporting Esther Peeren's recent plea for a return to symptomatic reading, I argue that a clearcut opposition between surface and depth is untenable.

This book traces the development of international water law that has come to privilege and the water utilisation rights of sovereign states over the environment. It argues that existing mechanisms in international law can be applied to improve environmental protection.

1.Social movements in Eastern Europe: problems of understanding non-Western contexts -- 2.External integration as internal force: middle class politics and the "politics of backwardness" in Eastern Europe -- 3.Crisis, regime change, movement: comparing mobilization cycles in Hungarian and Romanian constellations of global integration after 1973 and 2008 -- 4.Long-term middle class politics and contemporary new left initiatives in Hungary and Romania.

Introduction: making animals relevant in education / Agnes Trzak -- Dismantling the human/animal divide in education: the case for critical humane education / Sarah Rose Olson -- Our bodies, complex and connected: analyzing interconnected oppressions as a methodological basis for a liberating pedagogy / Beti Scott Brown -- Modeling dissent: teachers as protectors, activists, and public intellectuals / Jacqueline Adamescu -- Including an anti-speciesist practice in my work with neurodiverse youth / Riley J. Taylor -- Learning about animals: how we are taught to ignore animal oppression / Susan M. Roberts -- What zoos teach us: speciesism, colonialism, racism, and capitalism in the captive animal industry / Liz Tyson and Nicola O'Brien -- Ecocriticism in the classroom and at home: generating a new ethical and ecological consciousness through fairy tales / Tanja Badalic̆ -- Including non-vegans in developing and delivering an anti-speciesist pedagogy to children / Tânia Regina Vizachri, Adriana Regina Braga, and Luís Paulo de Carvalho Piassi -- "The things we choose to teach are political decisions. So, embrace that.": neoliberalism, the academy, and critical animal studies educators / Heather Fraser and Nik Taylor -- What we can learn about vegan education from anarchist philosophy and animal liberation activists / Will Boisseau -- Teaching men: what men (and all of us) need to consider when communicating for veganism / Agnes Trzak -- Muscles, meat, and masculinity: obstacles to a vegan teaching practice in the sports sciences / Blane Abercrombie -- Working with the imagination and a corporeal pedagogy to foster interspecies empathy / Terry Hurtado

Nachdem die Hochbegabung ihrer Tochter erkannt wurde, entschliesst sich Agnes Imhof ebenfalls zu einem Test, mit eindeutigem Ergebnis. In diesem Erfahrungsbericht schildert sie ihr früheres Leben als unerkannte Hochbegabung und ihren Weg, mit dem Wissen um ihren hohen IQ, glücklich zu werden

Megastructure proposals by the Japanese Metabolism group are commonly identified with the concept of utopia. Beyond this partial understanding, the author suggests that rather than being merely utopian, the Megastructure of Metabolism represents a uniquely amalgam genre: the myth camouflaged as utopia. Although its Megastructure seemingly describes a desirable future condition as utopia does, it also comprises certain cultural images rooted in the collective (un)conscious of Japanese people, in accordance with the general interpretation of myth. The primary narrative of the book thus follows the gradual unfolding of the myth-like characteristics of its Megastructure. Myth is dealt here as an interdisciplinary subject in line with contemporary myth theories. After expounding the mechanism underlying the growing demand for a new myth in architecture (the origin of the myth), Part I discovers the formal characteristics of the Megastructure of Metabolism to give a hint of the real intention behind it. Based on this, Part II is a reexamination of their design methods, which aims to clarify the function of the myth and to suggest the meaning behind it. Finally, Part III deals with the subject matter of the myth by disclosing the meaning unfolding in the story, and suggests a new reading of Metabolism's urban theory: as an attempt to reconsider the traditional Japanese space concept

In 2010, I began a PhD study to examine how professionals and patients talked to, and about, each other in mental health institutions in Denmark. One year later, I found myself chain-smoking, dressed in baggy clothing, and slouching on a sofa in a closed psychiatric ward. I had not myself been hospitalized, but to get inside the contemporary psychiatric institution and to participate in the social world of patients and professionals, I had to experiment with different ethnographic approaches. Ethnographies of mental health have become increasingly rare, and much research on language in psychiatric institutions is done by interview research. My study involved observing and participating in the day-to-day life at two mental health facilities: an outpatient clinic and an inpatient closed ward. The case study provides an account of some of the specific methodological problems and unanticipated events that emerged in the course of the study. It discusses the particular challenges involved in negotiating access in a hierarchical and conflict-ridden setting with tangible power differences between professionals and patients. I pay particular attention to the positions that became available to the researcher during the study, and I discuss different strategies of access. The case also contains some practical advice and lessons learned to consider for new researchers and students looking to do ethnographies in institutional settings.

1. Introduction -- 2. Theories of welfare state and work-family policy reform -- 3. Design and evolution of work-family policies: a European comparative overview -- 4. Policy developments in Germany and Italy : from a shared focus on the male-breadwinner model to diverging paths after the 1990s -- 5. How normative beliefs and voting behavior shape party competition on work-family policies -- 6. Women's descriptive representation : the more, the better? -- 7. Work-family policy reform processes in Germany : continuous change towards dual-earner model support -- 8. Italy : no consensus for change -- 9. Conclusion.