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Transitions to Sustainability
This book calls for the conditions of transition to sustainability: How to take into consideration new global phenomena such as and of the dimension of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, financial crises, demographic dynamics, global urbanization, migrations and mobility, while bearing in mind short-term or local place-based issues, such as social justice or quality of life? Meeting this challenge requires an inclusive approach of sustainability. It is a matter of designing a new social contract: Sustainability requires more than developing the right markets, institutions and metrics, it requires social momentum. To do so, many issues need a clear and complete answer: How to link social justice with sustainability policies? What governance tools to do so? What linkage between one decision-making level and the other? These are major issues to design sound transitions to sustainability.
The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil
Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates one of the sources of Brazil's "crisis of governance" in the nation's unique electoral system, a system that produces a multiplicity of weak parties and individualistic, pork-oriented politicians with little accountability to citizens. It explains the government's difficulties in adopting innovative policies by examining electoral rules, cabinet formation, executive-legislative conflict, party...
Partisan Publics
During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption scandals, political protest, and intense electoral contention. In the midst of this turmoil, Ann Mische argues in this remarkable book, youth activists of various stripes played a vital and unrecognized role, contributing new forms of political talk and action to Brazil's emerging democracy. Drawing upon extensive and rich ethnography as well as formal network analysis, Mische tracks the lives of young activists through intersecting political networks, including student movements, church-based activism, political parties, nongovernmental...
Ethnomathematics
In this book, Ubiratan D’Ambrosio presents his most recent thoughts on ethnomathematics—a sub-field of mathematics history and mathematics education for which he is widely recognized to be one of the founding fathers. In a clear, concise format, he outlines the aim of the Program Ethnomathematics, which is to understand mathematical knowing/doing throughout history, within the context of different groups, communities, peoples and nations, focusing on the cycle of mathematical knowledge: its generation, its intellectual and social organization, and its diffusion. While not rejecting the importance of modern academic mathematics, it is viewed as but one among many existing ethnomathematics. Offering concrete examples and ideas for mathematics teachers and researchers, D’Ambrosio makes an eloquent appeal for an entirely new approach to conceptualizing mathematics knowledge and education that embraces diversity and addresses the urgent need to provide youth with the necessary tools to become ethical, creative, critical individuals prepared to participate in the emerging planetary society.
Landscapes of Participatory Making, Modding and Hacking
This book describes maker culture as it is manifested in particular socio-cultural contexts, and describes some of the underlying narratives behind the emergence of such cultures and hackerspaces. With reference to case studies, it invites a recasting of long-standing academic notions of industrialization, industrial location, urbanization, and regional divides. The volume approaches this emergent socio-cultural phenomenon from an academic perspective, and, as such, differs from existing studies in this field as it is the first to approach maker culture and makerspaces by tracing trajectories from academic literature. This will provide teachers and researchers with a more grounded foundation upon which to base their own work in this nascent, yet rapidly growing, field.
Disciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Knowledge and Skills for an Uncertain Future: Are Educational Media up to It?
This volume collects some of the papers presented at the 16th IARTEM Conference held in Florence in April 2022. It was a ’difficult conference’, held at a time when the pandemic was still present, and therefore an important opportunity to resume a dialogue that seemed to have been interrupted. The richness of the content, which is the result of the reflections of authors from all over the world, allows us to provide a precise scenario of the research state of art in the field of textbooks and digital resources for teaching.
La transdisciplinarité et l’opérationnalisation des connaissances scientifiques
La recherche transdisciplinaire peut prendre plusieurs formes et s’inviter à l’insu du chercheur. Mais depuis les années soixante-dix, dans la foulée d’un rapport de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE), plusieurs recherches s’inscrivent à son enseigne de manière explicite. Ce livre s’intéresse aux enjeux épistémologiques, méthodologiques et organisationnels de ce type de recherche. Si la transdisciplinarité n’est pas toujours associée à la présence d’acteurs non académiques pour la coconstruction de savoirs, la présence de plusieurs disciplines est largement reconnue. Aussi, les concepts de multi-inter-pluri-circumdisciplinar...
Uma pedagogia da participação popular
Os movimentos de cultura e educação popular nascidos no início dos anos de 1960 operam um salto qualitativo em relação às campanhas e mobilizações governamentais contra o analfabetismo de jovens e adultos ou à educação rural dos anos de 1940 e 1950. São propostas qualitativamente diferentes das ações anteriores. E o que as faz radicalmente diferentes é o compromisso explicitamente assumido em favor das classes populares, urbanas e rurais, assim como o fato de orientarem sua ação educativa para uma ação política. Uma geração de jovens vindos da Ação Católica, principalmente de seus ramos estudantil e universitário, colabora na criação e lidera vários desses movime...
État des lieux sur la philanthropie subventionnaire québécoise
Considérant le peu de connaissances existantes sur les fondations québécoises en matière de philanthropie, cet ouvrage apporte un éclairage à la fois de base et spécialisé sur un secteur hétérogène. Il contribue à l’approfondissement des connaissances sur l’écosystème philanthropique québécois et introduit des perspectives nouvelles sur la philanthropie, dont le regard autochtone. Cet ouvrage intéressera principalement les personnes actives dans le secteur philanthropique, intéressées par ce dernier ou en interaction avec des organisations de bienfaisance ou des fondations subventionnaires.
