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Reclaiming social work
This book argues that social work is worth fighting for, since it has the potential to contribute to creating a more just society in which people can truly develop their lives.
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From edi policy to practice
This book explores how inclusivity, particularly gender equality and intersectional perspectives, can be meaningfully embedded in research and innovation policies and practices across Europe.
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Nbic technologies as weapons of modern warfare
What are implications of new technological possibilities in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC) have for new forms of warfare.
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Sustainability transitions in professional life trajectories
How adults incorporate sustainability into their professional lives.
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Sport from the perspective of peer groups
This book explores how communitisation emerges within adolescent peer groups and how it influences their engagement in physical education.
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Lives interrupted – the nazi takeover and autobiographical testimonies from the 1939 harvard prize competition
An examination of previously unexplored autobiographical manuscripts from emigrants escaping Nazi Germany.
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Dynamics of shame in residential care
In this book, the author uses an ethnographic approach to examine the topic of shame dynamics in residential care for adolescents.
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The pan-african ‘charter for african cultural renaissance’
This book focuses on the postcolonial preservation of cultural heritage and the restitution of colonial artefacts to African countries of origin within the framework of the Pan-African Charter for African Cultural Renaissance.
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Global trends: prospects for development and peace
Based on longer-term trends, the articles explain in which direction joint global problem-solving can develop in selected areas.
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How to be a superpower
How to Be a Superpower focuses on the role and self-perception of public intellectuals in 21st-century America. Drawing on a series of interviews conducted with the most prominent ‘professional thinkers’ in the field of foreign policy since 9/11, from Noam Chomsky via Francis Fukuyama to Michael ...
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Engendering transformation
Gender relations in post-socialist countries Even more than 20 years after turning away from socialism, Eastern European and Central Asian states are still characterized by the regime change in the fields of work, politics, and culture. What are the effects and implications that this change has ...
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Polish-german relations
The book constitutes a sociological analysis of the origins of the Polish-German antagonism in the nineteenth and twentieth century and of the process of overcoming it. The author discusses the role played by the religious and political leaders as well as intellectuals of both nations and present...
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The regional security puzzle around afghanistan
Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states’ ambitions and challenge the borde...
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Work-based learning in tertiary education in europe – examples from six educational systems
This research project investigates implementation of work-based learning elements in tertiary education programs in England, France, Ireland, Norway, Austria, and Poland, seeking to contribute to the greater visibility of such education and to facilitate a more critical debate about the issue of...
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Inclusive localities
The contributions in this book shed critical light on the shaping, negotiation, and creation of inclusive conditions.
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Translating student diversity within the german higher education system
Julia Mergner examines how differently universities translate the idea of student diversity into their local context.
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The european union – a global actor?
Is the European Union a unified actor in world politics? The world’s leading economic power is still struggling to find its role in shaping and maintaining global peace, free trade and commerce. How successful is the EU´s Common Foreign and Security Policy and its institutions really?
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Daphne and the centaurs – overcoming gender based violence
The authors of this volume look into the origins of gender based violence as well as ways to tackle this issue. They link systematic reflections unfold-ing a socio-cultural viewpoint and depictions of concrete action with psychological tools regarding the effect of interventions. The book is a re...
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Open borders, open society? immigration and social integration in japan
This volume examines the past and future trajectory of Japan’s immigration and integration policies and related institutions, taking a cross-disciplinary approach in social sciences.
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Why states rebel
Given the fact that two-thirds of all intrastate wars since 1945 have included foreign interventions, what drives sovereign states to support non-state conflict parties? In order to understand causes and calculations of this particular type of third party intervention, this book connects some of ...
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Political science and digitalization – global perspectives
This volume provides the first account of the influence of digitalization on the discipline of political science including contributions from twenty different countries. It takes stock of the challenges and opportunities of digitalization in most world regions.
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Teaching civics
Around the world, teaching civics is our most practical tool for learning about democracy. In Germany, the art of civics education is constantly being reconsidered and revised, in part because of the country’s history and the widespread awareness in German society of the dangers posed by educatio...
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Action research in organizations
This book examines organizational change processes based on collaboration between employers, employees, and action researchers in Europe and the United States. The authors offer important insights into participation and change in organizations for researchers and practitioners by identifying dile...
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United nations peace operations revisited
This book offers a critical assessment of the historical development, aims and performance of United Nations peace operations, as well as their controversial issues, contemporary challenges and future outlook.
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Modernizing the united nations system
This book contends that civil society must mobilize its capacities to bring a new will to national and international politics and oblige governments to act. It starts by demonstrating the need for institutional change at the UN and then shows how, both in the past and the present, leading individ...
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Professional-scientific education
This volume intends to reflect and to enhance the discourse on the relation and integration of professional and scientific education. In a series of contributions by well-known educational scientists from Germany and other countries, the theoretical, conceptual and practical design questions for ...
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Early science education – goals and process-related quality criteria for science teaching
Scientific contributions authored by distinguished experts from the field of early education are published periodically within the framework of the series Scientific Studies on the Work of the “Haus der kleinen Forscher” Foundation. This publication series serves to foster informed dialogue betwe...
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The eu as a children’s rights actor
This edited collection critiques, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the growing body of EU children’s rights activities in the light of broader global political, economic and legal processes. Specifically, it interrogates whether EU intervention effectively responds to what are perceived as ...
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Comparison
Comparison is an essential research method in political science. This book helps students to understand comparison as a scientific instrument, to grasp its necessity and its effective purpose for research. For that reason, it replies to three ‘simple’ questions: why compare, what to compare, and ...
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In the shadow of disability
How can one write the history of disability, and what are the consequences for the disabled themselves? This is the key question that Pieter Verstraete addresses in this pioneering book that tries to rethink the possible bonds between disability, history and politics. Since the 1990’s the concep...
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Political science: reflecting on concepts, demystifying legends
Rainer Eisfeld’s book highlights the merits of socio-historical research into topics infrequently covered by mainstream political science. Directing attention to the need for carefully scrutinizing the convenient “truths” of established - post-Nazi, post-Communist - political narratives, its chap...
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Political science in central-east europe
The book will survey the recent development and current “state of the art” of political science in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. It will comprise (a) three comparative overviews: Political Science and Regime Change in East-Central Europe from the 20th to the 21st Century; Analytical ...
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Flight and migration from africa to europe
This publication collects contributions to understanding and addressing migration flows from Africa to Europe and supporting social coexistence in the destination countries. Written by experts in psychology and social work, the articles approach the topic of immigration based on empirical researc...
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International perspectives on the history of early childhood education
In this volume, the authors analyse the historical and theoretical developments in early childhood education from an international perspective.
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Leadership in early education in times of change
The collection brings together the latest work of researchers from Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe focusing on early childhood leadership matters. It covers different aspects of leadership in early education: professional education and development, identity and leadership strategies as well a...
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India in the indo-pacific
In view of the fast-changing world order, emerging countries are increasingly influencing the dynamics of regional securities. This timely and in-depth book examines India’s reorienting strategic posture and describes how New Delhi’s security policy in the Indo-Pacific region has evolved and expa...
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The service user as a partner in social work projects and education
To become a competent social worker it is essential to know the perspective of the service users. Therefore, service users are more and more included in field research projects and the instruction of social workers to-be. However, they are usually reduced to the role of informants and not activel...
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Gender in focus
This book deals with the interplay between identities, codes, stereotypes and politics governing the various constructions and deconstructions of gender in several Western and non-Western societies (Germany, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Cameroon, Indonesia, Vietnam, and others). Readers are invited to...
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Managing expatriates
This volume examines the individual, social, and environmental factors that contribute to the success of expatriate employees. Using data from large-scale studies from both the public and private sectors, this volume provides valuable insights into expatriate success with implications for both th...
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Sustainability frontiers
Education for sustainable development, the educational offshoot of the concept of ‘sustainable development’, has rapidly become the predominant educational response to the global environmental crisis. The authors apply a critical lens to the field and find it wanting in many regards. Sustainabil...
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Art as a political witness
The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide va...
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Growing up in diaspora – education and family of east african refugees in germany
This book centers on the life experiences of young East African refugees in Germany.
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A united nations renaissance
This short introduction to the United Nations analyzes the organization as it is today, and how it can be transformed to respond to its critics. John Trent and Laura Schnurr combine essential information about its history and workings with practical proposals of how it can be strengthened.
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International perspectives on school settings, education policy and digital strategies
Since 2015, the Office for International Cooperation in Education at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education has organized international sessions on education research, providing a floor for transatlantic exchange on current research topics. The volume gives an overview...
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Social policy and social dimensions on vulnerability and resilience in europe
There are two tendencies in present public discussions.Social problems have their causes in the individual, and are thus not a problem of socio-economic inequality. Consequently, we find an increasing policy in Europe of selfactivation and self-help as substitutes of social work. On the other han...
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Social policies and institutional reform in post-covid cuba
The economic crisis in the wake of the COVID pandemic is putting Cuban socialism to a severe test. The government in Havana has added a fundamental reform of the economy, institutional structures, and social policies to the agenda. This volume brings together contributions from leading internatio...
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Logistical chokepoints, precarious work, and social reproduction
Examining the spatial-historical narrative of logistics in Portugal and Brazil, this book asks why working conditions in ports and airports are still predominantly precarious.
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Female social entrepreneurship
This book examines social entrepreneurship through a gender lens by portraying German female social entrepreneurs and their political, social, and economic contexts. It features analysis of different dimensions of the social entrepreneurship system and twenty-five in-depth interviews with social ...
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How sentiment matters in international relations: china and the south china sea dispute
The rise of China represents a major challenge for regional stability in Southeast Asia. This book contends that experiences of perceived disrespect by the Chinese side have contributed to its increasingly bold stance toward the South China Sea dispute. However, conflict is not inevitable and the...
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Gendering european integration theory
The authors engage a dialogue between European integration theories and gender studies. The contributions illustrate where and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. The chapters are designed to make gender scholars...
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Civil strife against local governance
This book connects the critical issue of community protests to the equally precarious issue of political trust in local governance in South Africa by using comparative analysis of grassroots activism in predominantly black communities and predominantly white communities.
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Pluralism
The book focuses on the study of democratic processes. Special emphasis is put (1) on the existence of a diversity of (e. g. socio-economic, ethno-cultural,.) interests and the transformation of this diversity into public policies, (2) on the participatory features of democracy and on barriers to...
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Political psychology
The book Political Psychology provides detailed information about the development of the field of political psychology, a subfield of both political science and psychology. It describes the evolution of concepts and theories within political psychology, international influences in the field, curr...
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Global perspectives on social work in transition
With perspectives from 12 countries, this book delves deep into a diverse array of topics that are relevant to current international social work.
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Status and ethnic identity
This book examines the role of social status in migrants’ identification with their origin group and the majority population. It focuses on intergenerational differences, migrant visibility, status mismatch, and exposure in the receiving country.
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Violence and genocide in kurdish memory
Kurdish memories of the Armenian Genocide challenge the systematic denialism of the Turkish state and foster new possibilities of coming to terms with the past. This book explores the dynamics of intertwined remembrance concerning political violence against Armenian and Syriac Christian Ottoman i...
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Migration and social pathways
The landscape of European migration has changed considerably over the past decades, in particular after the fall of the iron curtain and again after the EU enlargement to the east. The author researches the phenomenon of highly qualified migration using the example of migration between the Czech ...
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Principles of distributive justice
Is there one simple, all-encompassing governing principle that automatically yields the ‘fairest‘ results in the ‘just‘ distribution of goods? In this book Grzegorz Lissowski argues that three types of principles need to be distinguished according to three requirements of justice: • equality, • ...
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Handbook of direct democracy in central and eastern europe after 1989
This book examines direct democracy in twenty central and eastern European countries after 1989. Through a comparative and interdisciplinary political analysis, it diagnoses the state of democratic processes and the institutions of direct democracy. The case studies emphasize the significant role...
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China’s self-conception and the security environment in east asia
This book discusses the concepts and strategies that the international community might adopt in response to China's growing self-confidence.
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Women political leaders in rwanda and south africa
This book considers the successes, challenges, and controversies of women’s post-conflict political leadership. Through interviews with women who have held significant leadership positions, it explores the relationships between their educational, professional, activist, and personal backgrounds.
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Decolonizing enlightenment
Do norms of justice, human rights and democracy enable disenfranchised communities? Or do they simply reinforce relations of domination between those who are constituted as dispensers of justice, rights and aid, and those who are coded as receivers? Critical race theorists, feminists and queer an...
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Social work in the changing welfare state
Alban Knecht analyses the changes in political discourses and social-political measures with regards to employment promotion for disadvantaged young people in Austria.
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Keeping autonomous driving alive
In Keeping Autonomous Driving Alive, Göde Both studies the relationships between researchers and artifacts held together by contested visions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pioneering research project in Germany, he argues that we can make sense of technological visions only if we simult...
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Family, ties and care
Families international – the new milestone How may care be secured—particularly in ageing societies, how may families, relatives and friends support each other and live together beyond market reasons? How can social welfare be secured? How do different countries and different cultures solve the ...
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Political power
Although the concept of power is central to the study of politics, there is no agreement as to what exactly power is. Power is often viewed negatively, as domination, though it is also the case that power is created by people acting in concert, in which case it can have positive effects. Making s...
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Russia, the european union and nato
Russia, the European Union, and NATO still share some important common interests that need to be given greater attention. A return to strategic partnership is not conceivable without resolving the Ukraine confl ict, but prudent management of the antagonism in order to keep open the prospect of a ...
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The end of welfare as we know it?
During the last 30 years, the governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of contemporary social science research assumes that, in fact, the end of the welf...
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Work-based learning as a pathway to competence-based education
This book provides a rich collection of research and practice perspectives around central topics in the field of work-based learning (WBL). Key themes of interest are discussed by researchers and experts from around the world.
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Civil society and gender relations in authoritarian and hybrid regimes
Is civil society’s influence favorable to the evolvement of democratic structures and democratic gender relations? While traditional approaches would answer in the affirmative, the authors highlight the ambivalences. Focusing on women’s organizations in authoritarian and hybrid regimes, they cove...
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Divergent pathways: turkey and the european union
Should Turkey become a part of the European Union? This heated debate has been going on for many years now, always under the assumption that it is the membership candidate alone who needs to adjust to the EU’s influence. The book’s main argument is precisely that the Turkish accession needs to ...
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A community in transition
Jewish life and welfare The development and collapse of the Jewish community is described using the example of its welfare and social activities in Breslau/Wroczaw. The author focuses on the time from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1940s, when the city was awarded to Poland, in order t...
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The influence of economic interdependence on us-china relations
U.S.-China tensions have escalated in recent years, increasing the likelihood of a future conflict. However, an open conflict would have costly consequences for both sides due to the countries’ deep interconnectedness. This book addresses the incentives for both sides to avoid conflict and contin...
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Blurring boundaries – ‘anti-gender’ ideology meets feminist and lgbtiq+ discourses
This book offers an analysis of the blurring boundaries between political positions known as ‘anti-gender’ and feminist and LGBTIQ+ strands.
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The world of political science
How well is the field of political studies doing and where is it headed? These questions are answered by this broad world overview of political science, its advances and shortcomings, along with prescriptions for the future in the first decades of the 21th century. The volume includes three world...
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Family diversity
Family in all its aspects Familienbande International experts provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art of European family research and outline the multiple formations, structures and configurations of family in Europe. Four aspects are discussed in depth: family images, sex/gender rol...
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Vocational education and training in the age of digitization
The increasing digitalization of work is associated with accelerated structural changes. This book focuses on the diverse demands placed on teachers, learners, and educational institutions in vocational education and training and provides up-to-date results on learning in the digital age.
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Parents in the spotlight
Children and parents have become a focus of debates on ‘new social risks’ in European welfare states. Policymaking elites have converged in defining such risks, and they have outlined new forms of parenting support to better safeguard children and activate their potential. Increasingly, parents a...
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The politics of parliamentary procedure
Currently, parliament as a political institution does not enjoy the best reputation. This book aims to recover less known political resources of the parliamentary mode of proceeding. The parliamentary procedure relies on regulating debates in a fair way and on constructing opposed perspectives on...
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Gender and politics
This timely collection offers a fresh look on the impact of gender perspectives in the discipline of political science at the beginning of the 21st century. Jane Bayes combats the Eurocentric focus that has characterised both fields and suggests viable alternatives for the future of the disciplines.
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Perspectives on transitions in refugee education
This book covers how refugee transitions on an individual, social, and cultural level intersect with educational experiences.
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The study of ethnicity and politics
The book analyses the study of the growing field of ethnicity and politics from a number of different angles. These include the nature of the subject itself, different theoretical approaches, ways of addressing political issues the relationship gives rise to, the impact of major global challenges...
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Workforce profiles in early childhood education and care
This book offers a systematic insight into the development of early childhood professionals in Europe.
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The need to belong in secondary school
This book contributes to explaining the social mechanisms influencing students' “need to belong” fulfilment at school. The theoretical framework is informed by human needs understood as cognitive mechanisms of neural processes that regulate human behaviour and bio-values.
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The vignette as an exercise in perception / η βινιέτα ως άσκηση αντίληψης
This book offers a gentle approach to important steps towards professionalization in the teaching profession, in Greek and English.
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Czech politics: from west to east and back again
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the Czech political past and present. Giving first an overview of Czech history before 1989 and the Velvet Revolution, the authors then analyze the political system and culture that has formed since 1989 against the historical background of politic...
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Revisiting regionalism and the contemporary world order
This book critically analyzes the ongoing changes in regional, intra-regional, and global dynamics and world order. It proposes a truly global IR understanding of the post-hegemonic world, weaving together the pluralist and multidisciplinary perspectives of scholars located all around the world.
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Migration and refugee policies in germany
International migration is one of the most controversial political topics today which demands innovative approaches of global and regional governance. The book provides a fresh theoretical framework to understand European responses to the international migration of people and explains the dynamic...
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Democracy under scrutiny
Values – elites and ordinary people This book reveals the diverse worlds of history, civic culture and values of South Africa, South Korea, Chile, Poland, Turkey, Germany and Sweden. It explores the similarities and contrasts between the values of the elites and the ordinary people. Written from...
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The politics of us and them – the migration politics nexus
Friederike Alm presents a comparative-historical analysis which sheds light on the historical trajectory of migration politics in Canada, France, and Germany since 1945.
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Power, alliances, and redistribution
This book systematically examines the long-term development of social security for low-income earners in Argentina and analyzes the key political, social, and economic factors influencing it.
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Tyranny of the majority?
This book develops ways to design direct democratic votes that support Oppressed Groups.
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Higher education research – what else?
The founder of higher education research in Germany, Ulrich Teichler, looks back on more than five decades of higher education research.
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Social consequences of labour market marginalisation in germany
The book examines the social consequences of labor market marginalization for close social relations and social participation in Germany.
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Meritocratic beliefs and the persistence of educational inequality
An examination of meritocracy in education how such beliefs are shaped by experiences and what consequences they have for the reproduction of educational inequality.
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Enterprise social policy as a means of development of social work
Since its professional beginnings, social work has been a major actor and instrument of social policy. This study is a reconstruction of the development of social work in enterprises implemented as part of enterprise social policy in the territory of Bohemia and Moravia between the years 1876-198...
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Marriage migrants' way out of intimate partner violence
How can migrant women whose residence status depends on marriage find a way out of domestic violence? This book explores how this problem challenges public policies in Germany, France, and Italy, detailing how effective aid institutions deal with this problem and how affected people find their ow...
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The role of local political elites in east central europe
This book considers local leadership in the countries of East-Central Europe. It uses a comparative method to examine the profile and the role of the local political elites (such as members of municipal councils) in six towns in six transitional democracies of the region.
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The state-building dilemma in afghanistan
This book critically reviews the US/NATO military, peace- and statebuilding interventions in Afghanistan since 2001. It presents Afghan perceptions and discourse on topics such as democracy, Islam, women’s rights, formal and informal governance, ethnic divides, and democratic governmental design ...
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Quality teacher education in cameroon
The book highlights how actors’ sociocultural backgrounds influence the quality of teacher training within a pedagogical reform project involving participants from Cameroon and Germany.
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