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This expansive reference examines the many types of Family Life Education (FLE) programs being offered around the world, reflecting a myriad of cultures and contexts. Coverage identifies core FLE content areas including parenting education, human sexuality, and interpersonal relationships, and details their programming in various countries over six continents, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Contributors discuss complex challenges of program design, implementation, and evaluation, as well as connections between FLE and family prevention and intervention services. This knowledge is of great theoretical and practical utility across various fields, and is of particular interest to those dev...
El quinto volumen de la serie Emociones e interdisciplina: Emociones y juventudes desde la perspectiva sociocultural, gira en torno a una temática social relevante: la vida de las y los jóvenes en México. En este tomo se presenta un mosaico de las realidades de ese grupo de población que habita distintos escenarios sociales y culturales, y nos acerca a comprender la diversidad de las distintas expresiones y experiencias de las emociones en esta etapa de la vida de las personas. Encuentra la versión impresa en www.publicaciones.iteso.mx.(ITESO) (ITESO Universidad)
Dimensión emocional: abordajes analíticos y exploraciones empíricas socioantropológicas e historiográficas es el noveno volumen de la Colección Emociones e lnterdisciplina de la Red Nacional de Investigación en Estudios Socioculturales de las Emociones. El propósito de este proyecto editorial es colocar en el centro del análisis a las dimensiones emocional y afectiva para explicar los fenómenos sociales en contextos del presente y el pasado, para lo cual se requiere de abordajes que rebasen las fronteras disciplinares y pongan en diálogo distintos saberes. El estudio sociocultural de las emociones es un campo legítimo de conocimiento y en ascenso en México y América Lat...
La gran multiplicidad de relaciones que emergen y se establecen a través de los estudios de género, las masculinidades y la coeducación nos enfrentan a un importante reto: conectar analítica, crítica y propositivamente estas tres grandes temáticas. Con este reto en nuestras mentes os presentamos este libro. Un libro pensado para reflexionar, aprender y compartir los saberes que nos han dejado un gran número de compañeras y compañeros. Un libro en el cual encontraréis una amplia variedad de estudios, investigaciones, actividades y propuestas de acción que esperamos os ayudaren a reflexionar, conocer y profundizar en el importante trabajo que se está desarrollando alrededor de la i...
Drawing on the best scholarship and their own years of professional experience, Stephen F. Duncan and H. Wallace Goddard provide a practical, how-to guide to developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining effective family life education programs. This thoroughly updated Third Edition of Family Life Education: Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach begins by discussing the foundations of family life education and encourages readers to develop their own outreach philosophies. Readers then learn principles and methods for reaching out to the public and how to form and use community collaborations and -principles of social marketing to promote programs.
Transitions from authoritarian to democratic governments can provide ripe scenarios for the emergence of new, insurgent political actors and causes. During peaceful transitions, such movements may become influential political players and gain representation for previously neglected interests and sectors of the population. But for this to happen, insurgent social movements need opportunities for mobilization, success, and survival. This book looks at Mexico's Zapatista movement, and why the movement was able to mobilize sympathy and support for the indigenous agenda inside and outside of the country, yet failed to achieve their goals vis-à-vis the Mexican state.
This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date synopsis of fathering and father-child relationships in diverse regions of the world, helping students and practitioners alike understand cultural variations in male parenting. Interest in the role of the father and his influence on children's development and economic well-being has grown considerably. This edited volume uses detailed accounts to provide culturally situated analysis of fathering in cultures around the world. The book's contributors, a multidisciplinary group of scholars, bring together the most recent theoretical thinking and research findings on fatherhood and fathering in cultural communities across developed, recently develop...
Family Life Education with Diverse Populations is a T2 for courses in Family Life Education. Family Studies and Social Work students often go through the additional certification of becoming Family Life Educators (FLEs). As a family life educator, the student will help educate families in and outside the traditional classroom environment on how to strengthen relationships in the home and foster positive individual, couple and family development. Such education comprises many topics, including marriage education, parenting skills, anger management, to strategies in adjusting to divorce. This book takes the content delivered in courses on FLE a step further by examining and presenting key stra...
Family policy holds a particular status in the quest for a more equitable world as it intersects the rights of women, children, and workers. But despite local and global efforts and initiatives, the state of family policy in different areas of the world varies widely. Through a cross-section of countries on six continents, Family Policies Across the Globe offers the current state of the laws concerning family life, structure, and services, providing historical, cultural, and socioeconomic context. Lucidly written chapters analyze key aspects of family definition, marriage, child well-being, work/family balance, and family assistance, reviewing underlying social issues and controversies as th...