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Orang Asli Papua
  • Language: id
  • Pages: 238

Orang Asli Papua

Buku ini menyajikan data dan informasi tentang kondisi dan perubahan sosial demografi OAP di Provinsi Papua Barat. Sebagai lokasi kajian yang lebih mendalam adalah dua kabupaten, yaitu: (1) di Kabupaten Sorong yang merupakan daerah tujuan migrasi sehingga proporsi OAP kecil, (2) Kabupaten Tambrauw yang penduduknya didominasi oleh OAP. Penelitian dilakukan dengan menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan kualitatif.

Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty

This influential book describes the knowledge and skills teachers and school administrators need to recognize and combat bias and inequity that undermine educational engagement for students experiencing poverty. Featuring important revisions based on newly available research and lessons from the authors professional development work, this Second Edition includes: a new chapter outlining the dangers of grit and deficit perspectives as responses to educational disparities; three updated chapters of research-informed, on-the-ground strategies for teaching and leading with equity literacy; and expanded lists of resources and readings to support transformative equity work in high-poverty and mixed-class schools. Written with an engaging, conversational style that makes complex concepts accessible, this book will help readers learn how to recognize and respond to even the subtlest inequities in their classrooms, schools, and districts.

The Japanese in Colonial Southeast Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

The Japanese in Colonial Southeast Asia

This collection of essays by Japanese scholars deals with the role played by the Japanese in colonial Southeast Asia, particularly the economic impact of Japan on these nations before and after World War II. The introductory essay provides an overview of the Japanese presence in this region.

Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia

This book highlights the current issues, challenges, and priorities for climate change adaptation in the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The status of each country was prepared by a consortium of researchers in consultation with National Focal Points of the ASEAN Working Group on Climate Change (AWGCC). National documents on adaptation actions, including local scenario and priorities, were reviewed where available and supplemented with an assessment of scientific publications to identify vulnerable ecosystems and regions. Adaptation needs and priorities were determined through stakeholder consultation in the respective countries. This allows for local...

Spaces of Social Exclusion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Spaces of Social Exclusion

To varying extents in developed countries a minority of the population suffers from deprivation. Britain's Labour government in particular has sought to deal with this through the notion of 'social exclusion', and similar ideas have been developed in other countries. This important text explores the various forms of this contemporary economic and social disadvantage and, in particular, investigates its social and spatial causes and the role of space in policies addressing disadvantage. Arranged in three distinct parts, it: introduces contemporary and historical conceptualizations of social exclusion and poverty analyzes social exclusion's origins by examining the different spheres of disadva...

Coming of Age in the Other America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Coming of Age in the Other America

Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African Americans, still have difficulty entering the middle class, in part because of the disadvantages they experience living in more dangerous neighborhoods, going to inferior public schools, and persistent racial inequality. Coming of Age in the Other America shows that despite overwhelming odds, some disadvantaged urban youth do achieve upward mobility. Drawing from ten years of fieldwork with parents and children who resided in Baltimore public housing, sociologists Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin highlight the remarkable resiliency of some of the youth wh...

Generation NGO
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Generation NGO

A collection that provides glimpses to the journey begun when international development professionals touch down in foreign land

The World Economic Forum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

The World Economic Forum

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-01-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book explores the paradoxes and unique characteristics of the World Economic Forum, highlighting contemporary issues and debates on global governance, economic development and corporate social responsibility. The Forum is one of the most influential, but least understood, global institutions. Its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland and its regional summits held around the world attract a significant and powerful audience from the worlds of business, economics, politics and civil society. The participants, who include business and political leaders, representatives of international institutions and civil society organizations, academia and the media, meet to debate issues of global conc...