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Thinking seriously about youth work
If we consider the 50 states having ratified the European Cultural Convention of the Council of Europe or the member states of the European Union, the multiple and divergent nature of the realities, theories, concepts and strategies underlying the expression “youth work” becomes evident. Across Europe, youth work takes place in circumstances presenting enormous differences with regard to opportunities, support, structures, recognition and realities, and how it performs reflects the social, cultural, political and economic context, and the value systems in which it is undertaken. By analysing theories and concepts of youth work and by providing insight from various perspectives and geogra...
Youth as Architects of Social Change
This edited collection outlines the issues central to youth engagement in research and social innovation. Youth-driven innovation for social change is increasingly recognized as holding potential for the development of sustainable strategies to tackle some of the most pressing global challenges of our time. The contributors provide additional knowledge concerning what actually constitutes an enabling environment, as well as the most effective approaches for engaging youth as architects of change. While sensitive to the need for contextual appropriateness, the volume contributes to the development of shared understandings and frameworks for engaging and spurring youth-driven innovation for social change worldwide. Youth-Driven Social Innovation showcases examples of youth engagement in frugal and reverse innovation worldwide, alongside examples which demonstrate the tremendous potential of South-South learning, but also learning and youth innovation in the Global North. It will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including education, sociology, anthropology, public health, and politics.
A dialogue between a christian an a Hindu about religion
The “Dialogue between and Christian and a Hindu about Religion” (Javābasvāla aika krīstīān aura aika hīṃdu ke bīca mo imāna ke upara) was written in about 1751 by Giuseppe Maria da Gargnano with help from his Capuchin friend and colleague, Cassiano da Macerata, and from an unnamed Brahmin teacher. This teacher apparently taught Giuseppe Maria to read Hindustani and some Sanskrit, instructed him in the basics of Hindu religion, and corrected the Hindustani text of the “Dialogue”. A copy of the Hindustani text was first presented to the raja of Bettiah in 1751. Subsequently, an undetermined number of hand-made copies were distributed among persons in the Bettiah area. A copy ...
Research as Accompaniment
This volume expands conversations about participatory, community-engaged, and action-oriented research that inspires social change. The authors contend that long-term community partnerships, inspired by solidarity and characterized by equality and reciprocity, result in a deep understanding of community concerns and increase the likelihood that research findings will have an impact on both the community partners and the broader society. Such research relationships, the authors maintain, are best understood as accompaniment. This book recognizes the potential as well as constraints of conceptualizing research as accompaniment and emphasizes that this approach is both a continuum and a process. Suitable for students and scholars of ethnographic and qualitative methods (and professionals using those methods, such as those in non-government organizations), it will appeal to those interested in research with communities in a wide variety of social science and other disciplines, including anthropology, nursing, and public health, amongst others.
Digital Workplace Learning
This book aims to provide insight into how digital technologies may bridge and enhance formal and informal workplace learning. It features four major themes: 1. Current research exploring the theoretical underpinnings of digital workplace learning. 2. Insights into available digital technologies as well as organizational requirements for technology-enhanced learning in the workplace. 3. Issues and challenges for designing and implementing digital workplace learning as well as strategies for assessments of learning in the workplace. 4. Case studies, empirical research findings, and innovative examples from organizations which successfully adopted digital workplace learning.
Education in Ghana
This volume arises from a cooperation between Ghanaian and German academics. It answers the need to have a more comprehensive and up to date volume which addresses key topics, areas and problems of the Ghanaian education system with a focus on history, policy, and curriculum-related issues. For many years now there have not been new comprehensive publications in this field, and it is necessary to introduce a lot of recent changes in Ghanas education system and reflect about their challenges. The information and positions collected in this volume will be of interest to Policy Makers, Educators, Lecturers, Scholars, Students, Teachers, Parents and other interested people of Ghana and other (We...
Who Invented Hinduism
Who Invented Hinduism? presents ten masterly essays on the history of religious movements and ideologies in India by the eminent scholar of religious studies, David N. Lorenzen. Stretching from a discussion on the role of religion, skin colour and language in distinguishing between the Aryas and the Dasas, to a study of the ways in which contact between Hindus, on the one hand, and Muslims and Christians, on the other, changed the nature of the Hindu religion, the volume asks two principal questions: how did the religion of the Hindus affect the course of Indian history and what sort of an impact did the events of Indian history have on the Hindu religion. The essays cast a critical eye on s...
Il raggio dei fumetti
Il principale raggio d’azione dei fumetti consiste nell’incamerare i fermenti culturali e le linee espressive provenienti da altri media – il cinema, la fiction, la pubblicità, la grafica, i videogiochi – per influenzare in modi non sempre visibili, ma comunque operanti, l’immaginario condiviso collettivamente. Questo libro esplora le qualità attuali dei fumetti: i trasferimenti dei suoi personaggi e delle saghe da medium a medium, ossia quella transmedialità che oggi dà ai fumetti una posizione produttiva centrale nella cultura audiovisiva contemporanea; il loro decisivo e complesso rapporto con le tecnologie digitali; la concentrazione di temi emergenti del XXI secolo, quali le diversità, la sostenibilità ambientale, l’educazione al rispetto e alla legittimità delle singolarità viventi. I fumetti non mancano, infine, di essere un oggetto decisamente interessante per la riflessione teorica su un medium versatile e dalle molteplici valenze.
Il volto acustico della voce
L’opera di Herta Herzog si inscrive nella storia della sociologia delle comunicazioni, non soltanto come modello di ricerca, punto di svolta teorico e metodologico di un’intera disciplina, ma anche per la formulazione di alcuni quesiti fondamentali riguardanti l’importanza delle motivazioni psicologiche nei comportamenti dell’audience. È stata la prima studiosa della radio e del suo pubblico e i suoi scritti sulle ascoltatrici delle soap radiofoniche sono stati fondativi dei Communication e Reception Studies: sua fu l’invenzione del focus group. Quella di Herzog è anche una storia che svela la frattura di genere sulla quale si sono costruiti i canoni della sociologia e la sua comunità. Il suo nome è quasi sconosciuto: non si trova nei manuali ed è raro scorgerlo in testi specialistici. Obiettivo di questo libro, dunque, è strappare il prezioso contributo di Herzog dall’oblio forzato, nella consapevolezza che sia una valida guida per comprendere i processi comunicativi dei mass media.
Il continuum dell'educazione
Il volume offre un contributo all'interpretazione sociologica dell'educazione in una prospettiva di continuità endemica tra contesti formali, non formali e informali. Alla luce della ricostruzione delle teorie, delle politiche e delle pratiche, il tentativo è di superare definitivamente le logiche di pura dilatazione policentrica dell'educazione, le quali alimentano una concettualizzazione dei contesti informali e non formali come situati al di fuori dell'intenzionalità dell'educazione. Il "continuum dell'educazione" è una proposta teorico-empirica che il volume mette a fuoco in chiave radicata e comunicativa, in cui i processi di interazione che si sviluppano nei contesti formali, informali e non formali decostruiscono e ricompongono le scelte educative senza soluzione di continuità, potenziando e valorizzando gli effetti di inclusione e democratizzazione dell'educazione.
