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The issue of ECEC services is recently receiving greater attention in the EU framework. This subject has long been an important part of the EU's social and economic policy and gender equality policy. At the Barcelona Council of 2002, it was agreed to establish a common target to be reached by the EU States, which was specifically the coverage of 33% of places in ECEC services for children from birth to 3 years as well as 90% for 3 to 6-year-olds. Such a decision shows an important commitment that the EU States agreed to undertake, however, this quantitative goal was not accompanied by any qualitative specifications. Also for this reason the European Network of National Observatories on Childhood (ChildONEurope) decided to promote a discussion focusing on the provision of the ECEC services in the EU countries, in particular by organizing a Seminar on the subject and by requesting information on its partners' policies. The present publication is composed of two parts: the first is made up of the proceedings of the ChildONEurope Seminar on ECEC services held on 28th January 2010 at the Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence. The second is an integrated review of the most important findings emerging from some key reports by international organizations on ECEC services and was commissioned to the Istituto degli Innocenti – as body performing the functions of ChildONEurope Secretariat – by the Belgian Presidency of the EU (July – December 2010) that made the ECEC services one of its priorities. The ChildONEurope Seminar on early childhood education and care services and promotion of social inclusion aimed at providing a forum for knowledge exchange among the ChildONEurope partners and other key international governmental and non-governmental bodies involved in this field, in particular concerning a comparative analysis of the EU situation focusing both on qualitative and quantitative aspects. More specifically, the Seminar is aimed at promoting reflection on the impact that such services can have in nurturing social inclusion and fighting the risk of social exclusion of socially disadvantaged children as well as migrant children in a framework of universal access to services. The proceedings reproduced in this publication gather the speakers' interventions as well as the working groups' reports, focusing on children's identity and the quality of ECEC services, access to ECEC services, costs and fees for families with special attention to migrant and socially disadvantaged children and promotion of children's rights, development of services and prevention of social exclusion. The second part is made up of a review of the most important European reports on the subjects drafted by the international organizations. This review has the aim of facilitating the discussion on ECEC services policies during the meeting of the Intergovernmental Group L'Europe de l'Enfance, to be held in Antwerp on 8-10 September 2010 and the Meeting of Ministers responsible for childhood, to be held in Brussels on 15-16 November 2010. Fulfilling this objective, the second part of this publication was elaborated with the intention to provide policy- makers and governmental representatives with concise indications regarding, from a qualitative point of view, the main challenges that European governments face today when setting up effective ECEC services and integrated policies.

In my project "Restless Bodies, Unquiet Minds: Poetry, Performance, and Power in the Andean Avant-Gardes" I argue that the avant-garde is not a discrete historical moment that has passed but rather a rhizomatic response to colonial legacies that have turned complex human beings into legible political subjects. Said transformation is part of an exclusionary method that privileges an enlightened, male criollo subject while depriving indigenous, poor, female, or queer persons of discursive agency. I examine how marginalized artists transgress normative conventions by incorporating embodied sentiments into their work, considering both the performative interruptions of avant-garde poetry and the linguistic disruptions of public stagings and installation art. Situating myself theoretically between a vitalist school that might conceive of the body as a source of limitless agency and Foucault's constructivist reading of it as a passive inscriptive surface, I first look at the 1930s work of Peruvian poet César Vallejo, who uses neologisms to make visible the vulnerability of indigenous and working class bodies in Peru and Spain. I then engage José María Arguedas's work from the 1960s in Peru to explore how his confrontation with the abject aspects to being human calls for a new community through oral tradition and literature. Turning to Bolivia, my latter two chapters consider the performance art, television programs, and poetry of Bolivian feminist Julieta Paredes and the multimedia work of artist Alejandra Dorado. I analyze the way that their anagrams, parody, and laughter reconfigure structures that limit the conditions of gendered and sexual intersubjectivity in the Andes. The work I undertake in the project makes four principal contributions to the study of Latin American literatures and cultures. First, I theorize the avant-gardes as rhizomatic phenomena that continuously engage the theme of community across space, time, and bodies. While the term "avant-garde" is most commonly associated with the 1920s and 1930s in Europe and Latin America and the 1960s and 70s in the Americas, I revise such a linear genealogy to consider rhizo-gardes as part of an underground left that is in a perpetual state of becoming. Second, within my analysis of the rhizo-gardes, I demonstrate the way that the space of art enables the production of a desiring community outside of the "operability" of capitalism. This goal entails undertaking an analysis of how art produces and communicates desires that are aberrant to those of the ideal capitalist sovereign individual. Third, I come to understand the "common" as stemming from a subject's confrontation with the abject, objective, and finite aspects to being human. I consider the transformative implications of such an encounter on the current emphasis on visuality as it fuels biopolitical distinctions between subjects based on class, race, gender, and sexuality. How might the other senses - touch, taste, smell, and hearing - catalyze community in a different way? Lastly, particularly through my work in Bolivia, I aim to expand the archival corpus of the Andean avant-gardes by looking at understudied female artists as working in alliance with other historical avant-garde artists. Drawing on the Deleuzian concept of repetition, whereby repetition is not mimetic but is a mode of production characterized by difference and transformation, I open up the avant-gardes to a new temporal and spatial configuration.

Welche Rolle die Berufsbildung in Österreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz übernehmen kann, war Thema der 5. Österreichischen Berufsbildungsforschungskonferenz 2016. Diskutiert wurden die Erwartungen an die Berufsbildung: ob sie die soziale Integration und Mobilität fördert, Innovationsmotor ist und Beschäftigungsimpulse setzen kann.
Die Schwerpunkte sind in diesem Tagungsband zusammengefasst: historische Betrachtungen und aktuelle Tendenzen, Curriculum und Outcome, Lehre und Lernen in der beruflichen Bildung, Genderaspekte, betriebliches Ausbildungsverhalten und Ausbildungsqualität. Den Abschluss bilden internationale Analysen.

"Examines the work of three nineteenth-century utilitarian feminist philosophers: Catharine Beecher, Frances Wright, and Anna Doyle Wheeler. Focuses on methodological questions in order to recover their philosophy and categorize it as feminist"--Provided by publisher

Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1 Hintergrund; 1.1 Zielsetzungen; 1.2 Methodische Vorbemerkung; 1.3 Zeitlicher Ablauf im tabellarischen Überblick; 1.4 Gliederung des Berichts; 2 Modelle der Teilzeitbeschäftigung; 2.1 Grundformen der Teilzeitbeschäftigung; 2.2 Modellbeschreibung; 2.3 Einbindung der Teilzeitbeschäftigung in andere Modelle; 3 Juristische Aspekte der Teilzeitbeschäftigung; 3.1 Europarechtliche Rahmenbedingungen; 3.2 Österr. Rechtslage unter Berücksichtigung der Neuerungen AZG-Novelle 2007; 3.3 Sondermodelle der Teilzeitbeschäftigung; 4 Sichtweise der ArbeitnehmerInnen zur Teilzeitbeschäftigung; 4.1 Nutzung von Teilzeitbeschäftigung; 4.2 Literaturanalyse zu den Effekten von Teilzeitbeschäftigung; 5 Sichtweise der ArbeitgeberInnen zur Teilzeitbeschäftigung; 5.1 Einleitung; 5.2 Literaturanalyse zu den Effekten von Teilzeitbeschäftigung; 5.3 Betriebswirtschaftliches Bezugssystem; 5.4 Empirische Überprüfung; 6 Internationale Aspekte der Teilzeitbeschäftigung; 6.1 Niederlande; 6.2 Schweden; 7 Gesamtauswertung; 7.1 Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten Ergebnisse; 7.2 Schlussfolgerungen und Kriterienkatalog; 8 Appendix; 8.1 Literaturverzeichnis; 8.2 Sonstige Quellen; 8.3 Tabellen- und Abbildungsverzeichnis; 8.4 Leitfaden für die Unternehmensbefragung

"Der vorliegende Bericht stellt die Ergebnisse der Evaluation der Pilotphase des ARIADNEmed-Mentoring-Programms der Medizinischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg vor. Dieses erste Mentoring-Programm für promovierte Wissenschaftlerinnen an der Medizinischen Fakultät begann am 24. Juni 2008 mit einer Einführungsveranstaltung. Seitdem begleiteten 47 habilitierte WissenschaftlerInnen und ProfessorInnen insgesamt 48 Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen aus verschiedenen Bereichen der Medizinischen Fakultät auf deren Weg in Richtung Habilitation, unterstützt von einem Rahmenprogramm, das die Mentoringpartnerbeziehungen begleitete und sie optimieren sollte. Die Abschlussveranstaltung der Pilotphase fand am 30. November 2009 statt. Die nachfolgenden Ausführungen geben einen Einblick in das Programm und seine Ausgestaltung. Im Mittelpunkt steht allerdings die Darstellung der Ergebnisse dreier Befragungen aller 95 Beteiligten zum Rahmenprogramm und zur eingegangenen Mentoringbeziehung sowie zu ihren Erwartungen an das Programm und zu ihrer Bewertung der Realisierung des Programms." (Textauszug)

Yugoslavia was a union of countries at the crossroads of cultures, rich in diversity, bringing together heterogeneous populations with very different demographic transition pathways, particularly with respect to fertility. This paper studies the trends and patterns of cohort fertility in former Yugoslav countries, similarities and differences between the countries, and their possible clustering. Do former Yugoslav countries exhibit persistent diversity to this day, or is there convergence in terms of cohort fertility behaviour? If so, what might account for this homogeneity within Yugoslavia's heterogeneity? We trace how fertility behaviour changed from the turn of the twentieth century, when Yugoslav countries began their progression from agrarian into industrial capitalist societies. We consider the factors related to a rapid transformation to socialist modernity after 1945 and proceed to investigate the federation's breakup and the successor states' transitions to market economies in the early 1990s. Our study thus covers a century of socioeconomic and fertility developments within the region. We analyse census data on children born by means of the completed cohort fertility rate, parity progression ratios, and parity composition. Our results show that while fertility levels decreased in all former Yugoslav republics, this happened at different speeds and taking different paths. Parity progression to higher birth orders was particularly responsible for this development, as well as for the differences and similarities between the respective republics. Former Yugoslav republics are clustered into three groups, where Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia form the low fertility group, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, and Montenegro belong to a higher fertility group. Kosovo remains a special case with exceptionally high fertility in the European context. We conclude that this clustering stems from a complex interplay of historical, political, economic and social factors.

In Western society, having the "ideal" body image and size is a societal issue. It is advertised throughout media outlets that the "ideal" body is what should be desired, and any other body type is "abnormal". This capstone thesis focused on the effectiveness of dance as therapy and changing the perspectives of all body types, to support and empower all bodies including plus-sized bodies. The use of individual interviews, in an open dialogue model, with a select few members (3) of Soul thru Sole, including the CEO of the dance company; which focuses on empowering women no matter their age, race, or size was incorporated in this thesis. Observations were noted and discussed after every rehearsal for the showcase. Individual interviews with the participants highlighted increased body satisfaction, improved outlook on personal body image, increased confidence, and improved overall well-being. The author of this capstone thesis noted gaps in the literature pertaining to the exploration into the lasting effects of increased representation of all body types, including "plus sized", in dance. Limited resources are available regarding empowering and embracing other sizes outside the "ideal" thin body type. There is an urgent need for more research on the lasting effects of being inclusive about size and showing more representations on all body types.

The pornography industry is expanding exponentially as a result of ongoing technological advances. The ability to stream videos over the internet and the ubiquity of the smart phone have meant that pornography producers are able to use algorithms to target potential consumers, to cultivate new sexual tastes and to deliver content to a more diverse audience over mobile devices. The advent of virtual reality pornography with interactive sex toys and sex robots imbued with artificial intelligence promises to unleash a further step-change in the extent to which pornography influences 'real-world' sexual culture. The critical analysis of pornography undertaken over decades largely by feminist academics and activists has produced a compelling account of how pornography serves to manipulate ordinary sexual interests and direct consumers towards more extreme content. The objectification of pornography performers and the promotion of the idea that they are consenting are both essential strategies to allow normal men (and, though less often, women) to feel comfortable with their pornography viewing. Drawing on interational academic literature from a range of disciplines, together with evidence from popular culture, contemporary news, and criminal law cases, this paper examines the growing body of evidence that pornography plays a pivotal and causal role in shaping real-world sexual behaviours and expectations. As the increasingly brutal fantasies represented in pornography continue to inform expectations for sexual experiences, the evidence for the detrimental consequences of this also proliferates. The nature and extent of these detrimental consequences are explored particularly with reference to three population groups: women, adolescents, and children. Having described the nature of modern pornographic content and isolated pornography as an important agent of change in sexual culture, this paper then explores the connection between the the behaviours celebrated in gonzo porn and real-world sexual violence towards women. The promotion of sexually risky practices to adolescents through pornography has a material impact on sexual health as well as social wellbeing. The long-term effects of this can only be guessed at, since no generation has previously been saturated with such extreme sexual content available through such a variety of media. Measurable health outcomes as well as self-reported effects on teenagers highlight the dangers of the current trajectory. Finally, the dangers to children are emphasised in a discussion of how the fantasies encouraged by 'pseudo child porn' genres engender a sexual interest in genuine child exploitation material (CEM), which in turn increases the risk of contact abuse for children. CEM is also used by paedophiles to groom future victims and forms 'currency' within online communities of men with paedophilic interests. The rise of child-on-child sexual assault can, in many cases, be causally linked to children's access to pornography or to previous experience of sexual abuse, which is very often filmed.

In Europe it is now out of the question to express any doubts regarding the prevention of violence against women. The majority of the Latvian population also condemns the physical abuse of women; however, the Istanbul Convention which deals with this matter was not ratified here. A number of factors were at play, the most significant of which was pressure exerted through the direct influence of a campaign that had been organised by opponents of the broadest understanding of human rights. Such pressure was exerted on decision makers (MPs and political parties), with indirect impact on the population via social media and the news media outlets. Campaigns by interest groups which spread opposing views are not unusual in a democratic society; however, in this case there was no discussion between the opposing parties. The public domain was not open to an interaction of views and beliefs based on arguments and critical thinking, as the argument of the opponents rested entirely upon their beliefs, whereas the supporters of the convention relied upon valid proof. This article looks at the reasons behind the failure in terms of group communication to establish a constructive discussion on a topic that was so essential to Latvian society: one which served to combat and eradicate violence against women. It also seeks to establish whether the use of an irrational form of convincing technique contradicts the logic of critical thinking, and whether the emergence of unfamiliar and/or incomprehensible concepts on the agenda of a public discussion may serve to put the brakes on the constructive discussion of women's rights issues which is so essential today to Latvian society as a whole.

for several decades, the area of development has been striving to promote women's empowerment. It is tempting to contrast different visions of the concept according to its ideological and political foundations, from radical approaches focused on collective struggle and social change to neoliberal approaches based on individual empowerment and market integration. The analysis of the daily reality of the struggles calls on us to recognise the ambivalent, sometimes paradoxical and always complex, dimension of the pathways to emancipation. This analysis of daily struggles does not hide their material, although essential, but also calls on us to disguise the diversity and capillarity of the processes of access to power, as well as their emotional, emotional, emotional and physical dimension. Emotions and influences shape and express power: a better understanding of them is essential if we want to think about possible ways of reversing or reversing it. ; International audience ; for several decades, the area of development has been striving to promote women's empowerment. It is tempting to contrast different visions of the concept according to its ideological and political foundations, from radical approaches focused on collective struggle and social change to neoliberal approaches based on individual empowerment and market integration. The analysis of the daily reality of the struggles calls on us to recognise the ambivalent, sometimes paradoxical and always complex, dimension of the pathways to emancipation. This analysis of daily struggles does not hide their material, although essential, but also calls on us to disguise the diversity and capillarity of the processes of access to power, as well as their emotional, emotional, emotional and physical dimension. Emotions and influences shape and express power: a better understanding of them is essential if we want to think about possible ways of reversing or reversing it. ; Depuis plusieurs décennies, le champ du développement s'évertue à promouvoir l'empowerment des ...