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Collaborating against child abuse : exploring the Nordic Barnahus model
This edited collection explores the background and implementation of the Nordic Barnahus (or 'Children's House') model – recognised as one of the most important reforms related to children who are the victims of crime in the Nordic region. This book discusses both its potential to affect change and the challenges facing it. The model was introduced as a response to a growing recognition of th…
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- 9783319583884
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- xxxii, 384p. : ill.
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- 362.767 COL c
Trauma-informed school practices : building expertise to transform schools
This textbook represents the combined insight and experience of Morton, a k12 educator, and Berardi, a psychotherapist, both of whom are also university educators with extensive work experience serving districts and their teachers seeking to incorporate trauma-informed principles into their school culture and classroom. The authors identify that the field of education is now ready to deepen its…
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- 9780999829226
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- 318p. : ill.
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- 371.7 BER t
Delivering policy reform
Predictable and unpredictable challenges continually confront the policy settings and policy frameworks of governments. They provide a constantly changing dynamic within which policy-making operates. Governments at all levels are asking their public services to identify innovative and workable reforms to anticipate and address these challenges. Public service leaders around the world are strugg…
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- 9781921862199
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- 320.6 DEL d
Private world(s) : gender and informal learning of adults
This book is the third production from the ESREA Gender network and, once more, an opportunity to let the readers discover, or to know more, for a better understanding of questions related to gender and adult learning. It shows how researchers can be deeply involved in this specific field of adult education. The notion of informal learning has already been treated as a chapter in the 2003s book…
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- 9789462099715
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- viii, 194 p.
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- Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 3
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- 374 OST p
Nordic mediation research
This open access book presents twelve unique studies on mediation from researchers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, respectively. Each study highlights important aspects of mediation, including the role of children in family mediation, the evolution and ambivalent application of restorative justice in the Nordic countries, the confusion of roles in court-connected mediation, and the chal…
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- 9783319730196
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- x, 269p. : ill.
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- 347.09 NOR n
Convergence culture reconsidered : media - participation - environments
Taking media scholar Henry Jenkins’s concept of ‘convergence culture’ and the related notions of ‘participatory culture’ and ‘transmedia storytelling’ as points of departure, the essays compiled in the present volume provide terminological clarification, offer exemplary case studies, and discuss the broader implications of such developments for the humanities. Most of the contribu…
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- 9783863952174
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- 224 p.
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- 303.4833 GEO c
Disability human rights law 2018
Disability human rights law is a rapidly growing field. It merges critical disability studies, disability rights, and human rights to inform, identify, analyse, and create solutions to help protect the human rights of people with disabilities. This is the second volume of the Disability Human Rights Law edited collection. This volume delves deeper into this emerging field and begins to explore …
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- 9783038972518
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- ix, 217p.
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- 346.41013 DIS d
Hidden rituals and public performances : traditions and belonging among the p…
Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev attempt to answer such questions by analysing the recreation of religious traditions, myths, and songs in public and private performances. Their work is based on long term field…
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- 9789522228123
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- 365 p.
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- Studia Fennica Folkloristica, 19
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- 390.089945 SII h
Frame by frame : a materialist aesthetics of animated cartoons
For most of the twentieth century, the making of animated cartoons was mechanized and standardized to allow for high-volume production: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called "cels") and then photographed in succession, a labor-intensive process that was divided across scores of artists and technicians, most of them anonymous. In order …
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- 9780520972773
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- xlix, 222 p.
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- 791.433409 FRA f
Continuity and discontinuity in learning careers : potentials for a learning …
Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World focuses on the continuities and discontinuities of the learning careers and identities of non-traditional adult students in diverse learning contexts. Readership: All those interested in adult education and the challenges facing adult education today such as researchers in education and social …
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- 9789004375475
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- XV, 198 p.
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- Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 6
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- 374.94 CON c
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