Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research
Anna Urbaniak;Anna Wanka;Anna Urbaniak;Anna Wanka
This Handbook presents established and innovative perspectives on involving older adul...
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Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research
2024
This Handbook presents established and innovative perspectives on involving older adults as co-creators in ageing research. It reorients research and policy toward more inclusive and adequate designs that capture the voices and needs of older adults. The Handbook: introduces types of participatory approaches in ageing research; highlights key methodological aspects of these approaches; gives insights from projects across different cultural contexts and academic disciplines, showing ways in which older participants can be involved in co-designing different stages of the research cycle; examines key issues to consider when involving older participants at each step of the research process; includes the voices of older adults directly; draws out conclusions and points ways forward for future research. This Handbook will be essential reading for researchers and students interested in the field of ageing and/ or participatory methods, as well as for those policy stakeholders in the fields of ageing and demographic change, social and public policy, or health and wellbeing who are interested in involving older adults in policy processes. It will be useful for third-sector advocacy organizations and international non-governmental and public agencies working either in citizen involvement/participation or the ageing sector.
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Gerontology--Methodology - Aging--Research--Methodology - Participant observation - Older peopleContent provider:
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Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment
Victoria Yaneva;Matthias von Davier;Victoria Yaneva;Matthias von Davier
Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment examines the use of na...
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Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment
2023
Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment examines the use of natural language technology in educational testing, measurement, and assessment. Recent developments in natural language processing (NLP) have enabled large-scale educational applications, though scholars and professionals may lack a shared understanding of the strengths and limitations of NLP in assessment as well as the challenges that testing organizations face in implementation. This first-of-its-kind book provides evidence-based practices for the use of NLP-based approaches to automated text and speech scoring, language proficiency assessment, technology-assisted item generation, gamification, learner feedback, and beyond. Spanning historical context, validity and fairness issues, emerging technologies, and implications for feedback and personalization, these chapters represent the most robust treatment yet about NLP for education measurement researchers, psychometricians, testing professionals, and policymakers. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Educational tests and measurements--Technological innovations - Natural language processing (Computer science)Content provider:
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Grammatical Theory
Müller, Stefan;Müller, Stefan
This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic th...
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Grammatical Theory
2023; Vol. 00001
This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, ConstructionGrammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured. This book is a new edition of http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/25, http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/195, http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/255, and http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/287.
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Language acquisition - Language and languages--Study and teaching - Germanic languages--Syntax - Computational linguistics - Grammar, Comparative and general - Generative grammar - Government (Grammar)Content provider:
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In Defense of Free Speech in Universities : A Study of Three Jurisdictions
Amy T.Y. Lai;Amy T.Y. Lai
In this book, Amy Lai examines the current free speech crisis in Western universities....
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In Defense of Free Speech in Universities : A Study of Three Jurisdictions
2023
In this book, Amy Lai examines the current free speech crisis in Western universities. She studies the origin, history, and importance of freedom of speech in the university setting, and addresses the relevance and pitfalls of political correctness and microaggressions on campuses, where laws on harassment, discrimination, and hate speech are already in place, along with other concepts that have gained currency in the free speech debate, including deplatforming, trigger warning, and safe space. Looking at numerous free speech disputes in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, the book argues for the equal application of the free speech principle to all expressions to facilitate respectful debates. All in all, it affirms that the right to free expression is a natural right essential to the pursuit of truth, democratic governance, and self-development, and this right is nowhere more important than in the university.
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Academic freedom - Education, Higher--Political aspects - Freedom of speech - Freedom of speech--Great Britain - Freedom of speech--United States - Freedom of speech--CanadaContent provider:
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Undoing Suicidism : A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide
Alexandre Baril;Alexandre Baril
In Undoing Suicidism, Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by wha...
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Undoing Suicidism : A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide
2023
In Undoing Suicidism, Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, until now, has been unnamed and under-theorized. Each year, suicidism and its preventionist script and strategies reproduce violence and cause additional harm and death among suicidal people through forms of criminalization, incarceration, discrimination, stigmatization, and pathologization. This is particularly true for marginalized groups experiencing multiple oppressions, including queer, trans, disabled, or Mad people. Undoing Suicidism questions the belief that the best way to help suicidal people is through the logic of prevention. Alexandre Baril presents the thought-provoking argument that supporting assisted suicide for suicidal people could better prevent unnecessary deaths. Offering a new queercrip model of (assisted) suicide, he invites us to imagine what could happen if we started thinking about (assisted) suicide from an anti-suicidist and intersectional framework. Baril provides a radical reconceptualization of (assisted) suicide and invaluable reflections for academics, activists, practitioners, and policymakers.
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Right to die--Moral and ethical aspects - People with disabilities--Suicidal behavior - Sexual minorities--Suicidal behavior - Suicide--Prevention--Moral and ethical aspects - Rational suicide--Moral and ethical aspects - Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspectsContent provider:
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Constitutions of Value : Law, Governance, and Political Ecology
Isabel Feichtner;Geoff Gordon;Isabel Feichtner;Geoff Gordon
Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses leg...
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Constitutions of Value : Law, Governance, and Political Ecology
2023
Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses legal constitutions of value. Global value production and transnational value practices that rely on exploitation and extraction have left us with toxic commons and a damaged planet. Against this situation, the book examines law's fundamental role in institutions of value production and valuation. Utilizing pathbreaking theoretical approaches, it problematizes mainstream efforts to redeem institutions of value production by recoupling them with progressive values. Aiming beyond radical critique, the book opens up the possibility of imagining and enacting new and different value practices. This wide-ranging and accessible book will appeal to international lawyers, socio-legal scholars, those working at the intersections of law and economy and others, in politics, economics, environmental studies and elsewhere, who are concerned with rethinking our current ideas of what has value, what does not, and whether and how value may be revalued. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Value - Law and economics - Sociological jurisprudenceContent provider:
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Game Changer : The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports
Rayvon Fouché;Rayvon Fouché
How has technology challenged the notion of unadulterated athletic performance?We like...
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Game Changer : The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports
2017
How has technology challenged the notion of unadulterated athletic performance?We like to think of sports as elemental: strong bodies trained to overcome height, weight, distance; the thrill of earned victory or the agony of defeat in a contest decided on a level playing field. But in Game Changer, Rayvon Fouché argues that sports have been radically shaped by an explosion of scientific and technological advances in materials, training, nutrition, and medicine dedicated to making athletes stronger and faster. Technoscience, as Fouché dubs it, increasingly gives the edge (however slight) to the athlete with the latest gear, the most advanced training equipment, or the performance-enhancing drugs that are hardest to detect. In this revealing book, Fouché examines a variety of sports paraphernalia and enhancements, from fast suits, athletic shoes, and racing bicycles to basketballs and prosthetic limbs. He also takes a hard look at gender verification testing, direct drug testing, and the athlete biological passport in an attempt to understand the evolving place of technoscience across sport. In this book, Fouché: • Examines the relationship among sport, science, and technology• Considers what is at stake in defining sporting culture by its scientific knowledge and technology• Provides readers and students with an informative and engagingly written studyFocusing on well-known athletes, including Michael Phelps, Oscar Pistorius, Caster Semenya, Usain Bolt, and Lance Armstrong, Fouché argues that technoscience calls into question the integrity of games, records , and our bodies themselves. He also touches on attempts by sporting communities to regulate the use of technology, from elite soccer's initial reluctance to utilize goal-line technology to automobile racing's endless tweaking of regulatory formulas in an attempt to blur engineering potency and reclaim driver skill and ability. Game Changer will change the way you look at sports—and the outsized impact technoscience has on them.
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Sports--Physiological aspects - Sports--Technological innovations - Performance technology - Sports sciences - Doping in sportsContent provider:
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Comics and Agency
Vanessa Ossa;Jan-Noël Thon;Lukas R. A. Wilde;Vanessa Ossa;Jan-Noël Thon;Luk...
This volume aims to intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue on comics and related pop...
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Comics and Agency
2022; Vol. 00001
This volume aims to intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue on comics and related popular multimodal forms (including manga, graphic novels, and cartoons) by focusing on the concept of medial, mediated, and mediating agency. To this end, a theoretically and methodologically diverse set of contributions explores the interrelations between individual, collective, and institutional actors within historical and contemporary comics cultures. Agency is at stake when recipients resist hegemonic readings of multimodal texts. In the same manner, “authorship” can be understood as the attribution of agency of and between various medial instances and roles such as writers, artists, colorists, letterers, or editors, as well as with regard to commercial rights holders such as publishing houses or conglomerates and reviewers or fans. From this perspective, aspects of comics production (authorship and institutionalization) can be related to aspects of comics reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization), including their potential for transmedialization and making contributions to the formation of the public sphere.
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Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism - Comic books, strips, etc.--Social aspects - Comic books, strips, etc.--AuthorshipContent provider:
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Handbook on Participatory Action Research and Community Development
Randy Stoecker;Adrienne Falcón;Randy Stoecker;Adrienne Falcón
This Handbook is a critical resource for carefully considering the possibilities and c...
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Handbook on Participatory Action Research and Community Development
2022
This Handbook is a critical resource for carefully considering the possibilities and challenges of strategically integrating participatory action research (PAR) and community development (CD). Utilizing practical examples from diverse contexts across five continents, it looks at how communities are empowering themselves and bringing about systemic change.Chapters provide models for sustainably integrating the two practices and explore the transformative potential of decolonizing innovations and incorporating community organizing. With contributions by leading scholars and practitioners from the global south and north, the Handbook explores ways to build infrastructure to bring PAR and CD together, how to use PAR and CD to build people's power and capacity, and how to integrate PAR and CD in relation to community and organizational capacity building. It further gives practical advice and academic analysis on youth PAR, how to use PAR and CD in crisis situations such as earthquakes and pandemics, and envisions radically alternative PAR and CD approaches.This is a timely resource for social science scholars looking to better understand PAR as an important research method. It rethinks the theories underpinning both PAR and CD, offering important lessons for community development practitioners and non-profit professionals, as well as higher education professors interested in community engagement.
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Animals, Plants and Afterimages : The Art and Science of Representing Extinction
Valérie Bienvenue;Nicholas Chare;Valérie Bienvenue;Nicholas Chare
The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issu...
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Animals, Plants and Afterimages : The Art and Science of Representing Extinction
2022
The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issues of our time. Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in art and visual culture, with a special emphasis on museums. Engaging with celebrated cases of vanished species such as the quagga and the thylacine as well as less well-known examples of animals and plants, these essays explore how representations of recent and ancient extinctions help advance scientific understanding and speak to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.
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Extinct plants--Exhibitions - Art and biology - Museum techniques--Moral and ethical aspects - Extinct animals in art - Extinct plants in art - Extinct animals--ExhibitionsContent provider:
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Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization : New Perspectives on Music History in the 20th and 21st Century
Christian Utz;Christian Utz
Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural c...
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Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization : New Perspectives on Music History in the 20th and 21st Century
2021; Vol. 00043
Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, it has become necessary for music history to be conceived globally - a challenge that musicology has hardly faced yet. This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the 20th and 21st century. Christian Utz provides the foundations of a global music historiography, building on new models such as transnationalism, entangled histories, and reflexive globalization. The relationship between music and broader changes in society forms the central focus and is treated as a pivotal music-historical dynamic.
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Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Beth Schaefer Caniglia;Andrew Jorgenson;Stephanie A. Malin;Lori Peek;David ...
This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to p...
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Handbook of Environmental Sociology
2021
This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline. It offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of environmental sociology and its role in this era of intensified national and global environmental crises. Its timely frameworks and high-impact chapters will assist in navigating this moment of great environmental inequality and uncertainty. The handbook brings together an outstanding group of scholars who have helped redefine the scope of environmental sociology and expand its reach and impact. Their contributions speak to key themes of the subdiscipline—inequality, justice, population, social movements, and health. Chapter topics include environmental demography, food systems, animals and the environment, climate change, disasters, and much more. The emphasis on public environmental sociology and the forward-thinking approach of this collection is what sets this volume apart. This handbook can serve as an introduction for students new to environmental sociology or as an insightful treatment that current experts can use to further their own research and publication. It will leave readers with a strong understanding of environmental sociology and the motivation to apply it to their work.
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Innovaciones metodológicas con TIC en educación.
Verdú Vázquez, Amparo;Buzón García, Olga;Romero García, Carmen;Verdú Vázque...
En la sección I de este libro, denominada “Metodologías innovadoras y prácticas educat...
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Innovaciones metodológicas con TIC en educación.
2021
En la sección I de este libro, denominada “Metodologías innovadoras y prácticas educativas” se presentan una serie de experiencias basadas en nuevos modelos de enseñanza y aprendizaje como el modelo Flipped classroom, así como, en diferentes metodologías activas, como el Aprendizaje basado en Proyectos, Aprendizaje Servicio, Desing Thinking, Aprendizaje basado en juegos, Gamificación, Aprendizaje colaborativo y cooperativo, muchas de ellas impulsadas por las tecnologías, mostrando a otros docentes el posible camino a seguir en la mejora e innovación en la docencia.En la sección II, “Enseñanza, aprendizaje e investigación con tecnologías emergentes”, se recogen experiencias didácticas desarrolladas en diferentes niveles educativos, en las que se incorporan tecnologías emergentes (simuladores, realidad aumentada, 3D, robótica, APP lúdico-educativas, etc.), que ofrecen la posibilidad de una educación más personalizada. La utilización de estas tecnologías pretende tener un impacto no solo en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje sino también en la investigación creativa en educación.En la sección III, “Innovación docente, metodologías y prácticas educativas en las Ciencias Experimentales y Enseñanzas Técnicas”, se presentan nuevas tendencias de educación en las carreras técnicas, la importancia de la enseñanza de sistemas BIM en el ámbito universitario, las diferentes metodologías docentes en enseñanzas técnicas, estudios sobre el rendimiento y/o abandono en ingenierías/arquitectura; todo ello apoyado de diferentes líneas de investigación docente (Aula Invertida, Gamificación, Aprendizaje basado en Retos (Design Thinking), Aprendizaje basado en Investigación y Colaboración virtual).Finalmente, en la sección IV, denominada “Competencias profesionales en educación”, se exponen diferentes iniciativas, propuestas y reflexiones que abordan como eje vertebrador la necesidad de tener una amplia gama de competencias profesionales para el ejercicio de la función docente en diferentes áreas y disciplinas.
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Planned Obsolescence : Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
Kathleen Fitzpatrick;Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013A bold approach to re-envisioning the...
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Planned Obsolescence : Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
2011
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013A bold approach to re-envisioning the future of academic publishingAcademic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them.Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy's future and an argument for re-conceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changes—especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimedia—necessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in origin.Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick's own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through MediaCommons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, Planned Obsolescence explores these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university. Written in an approachable style designed to bring administrators and scholars into a conversation, Planned Obsolescence explores both symptom and cure to ensure that scholarly communication will remain relevant in the digital future.Related Articles:'Do'the Risky Thing'in Digital Humanities'—Chronicle of Higher Education'Academic Publishing and Zombies'—Inside Higher Ed
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Scholarly publishing--United States - Scholarly electronic publishing--United States - Communication in learning and scholarship--Technological innovations--United StatesContent provider:
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Simplified Signs : A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations, Volume 1.
John D. Bonvillian;Nicole Kissane Lee;Tracy T. Dooley;Filip T. Loncke;John ...
Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special p...
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Simplified Signs : A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations, Volume 1.
2020; Vol. 00001
Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Volume 1 outlines the research underpinning and informing the project, and places the Simplified Sign System in a wider context of sign usage, historically and by different populations. Volume 2 presents the lexicon of signs, totalling approximately 1000 signs, each with a clear illustration and a written description of how the sign is formed, as well as a memory aid that connects the sign visually to the meaning that it conveys. While the Simplified Sign System originally was developed to meet the needs of persons with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism, or aphasia, it may also assist the communication needs of a wider audience – such as healthcare professionals, aid workers, military personnel, travellers or parents, and children who have not yet mastered spoken language. The system also has been shown to enhance learning for individuals studying a foreign language. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike.
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Gesture - Sign languageContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Bullying (7 Volume Set)
Silje C. Vestergaard;Silje C. Vestergaard
This 7-volume set is a compilation of important research on bullying. Some of the topi...
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Encyclopedia of Bullying (7 Volume Set)
2020
This 7-volume set is a compilation of important research on bullying. Some of the topics addressed include: cyberbullying, a form of bullying carried out using electronic communication; violent behavior; homophobia and its role in bullying; bullying prevention programs; predictors of school bullying; coping strategies and efforts to counter bullying behavior.
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The Age of Sustainability : Just Transitions in a Complex World
Mark Swilling;Mark Swilling
With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examin...
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The Age of Sustainability : Just Transitions in a Complex World
2020
With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment. Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting evidence that deeper transitions are underway that suggest we may be entering another period of great transformation equal in significance to the agricultural revolution some 13,000 years ago or the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This book helps readers make sense of our global crisis and the dynamics of transition that could result in a shift from the industrial epoch that we live in now to a more sustainable and equitable age. The global renewable energy transition that is already underway holds the key to the wider just transition. However, the evolutionary potential of the present also manifests in the mushrooming of ecocultures, new urban visions, sustainability-oriented developmental states and new ways of learning and researching. Shedding light on the highly complex challenge of a sustainable and just transition, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with establishing a more sustainable and equitable world. Ultimately, this is a book about hope but without easy answers.
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Sustainable development--Social aspects - Social justiceContent provider:
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Reflecting on Our Past and Embracing Our Future : A Senate Initiative for Canada
Serge Joyal;Judith Seidman;Serge Joyal;Judith Seidman
Since 1967, the centennial of Confederation, numerous political crises, economic chall...
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Reflecting on Our Past and Embracing Our Future : A Senate Initiative for Canada
2019
Since 1967, the centennial of Confederation, numerous political crises, economic challenges, and international events have helped to transform Canadian society, and will continue to shape its future. Taking these various challenges and opportunities of the past into account, how does the future look for Canada? In Reflecting on Our Past and Embracing Our Future diplomats, politicians, scientists, and human rights leaders including Phil Fontaine, Michaëlle Jean, Ellen Gabriel, Paul Heinbecker, Bob Rae, Jean Charest, and David Suzuki have come together to share their wisdom and experience of events that have marked the country over the last fifty years. Reflecting on the role of the Senate in Canada as complementary to the House of Commons, they consider central issues such as the condition of indigenous peoples, the obligations of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the recognition of two official languages, and the national unity referendums. Contributors also discuss the transformation of the economy in a globalized and digital world, the role of Canada on the world stage at a time of growing tension and an increasing flow of refugees, climate change and the uncertain future of the Arctic, scientific and cultural competitions on the international market, and the future of parliamentary democracy. Correcting misconceptions about the contemporary role of the Senate, and providing a counterargument for radical Senate reform, Reflecting on Our Past and Embracing Our Future offers rich perspectives and fascinating insights about Canada's likely development in the coming years.
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Borders and Margins : Federalism, Devolution and Multi-Level Governance
Guy Lachapelle;Pablo Oñate;Guy Lachapelle;Pablo Oñate
The theory and concept of multi-level governance (MLG) is a fairly recent one, emergin...
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Borders and Margins : Federalism, Devolution and Multi-Level Governance
2018
The theory and concept of multi-level governance (MLG) is a fairly recent one, emerging from the deepening integration of the European Union in the early 1990s and the development of free trade agreements around the world. MLG enlarges the traditional approaches, namely those of neo-institutionalism and multinational federalism, by offering a better understanding of the role of the state, regions and provinces. The book analyses the changes that have taken place as well as those that might take place in the future.
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Decentralization in government - Comparative government - Central-local government relationsContent provider:
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THE CURRENT AND EVOLVING LANDSCAPE OF BIBLIOMETRIC TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES.
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Open Data and the Knowledge Society
Bridgette Wessels;Rachel Finn;Kush Wadhwa;Thordis Sveinsdottir;Bridgette We...
While there is a lot of talk about how we now live in a knowledge society, the reality...
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Open Data and the Knowledge Society
2017
While there is a lot of talk about how we now live in a knowledge society, the reality has been less impressive: We have yet to truly transition to a knowledge society-in part, this book argues, because discussion mostly focuses on a knowledge economy and information society rather than on ways to mobilise to create an actual knowledge society. That all may change, however, with the rise of open data and big data. This book considers the role of the open data movement in fostering transformation, showing that at the heart of any successful mobilisation will be an emerging open data ecosystem and new ways for societal actors to effectively produce and use data.
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Historical Dictionary of Popular Music
Norman Abjorensen;Norman Abjorensen
This book seeks to trace the rise of popular music, identify its key figures and track...
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Historical Dictionary of Popular Music
2017
This book seeks to trace the rise of popular music, identify its key figures and track the origins and development of its multiple genres and styles, all the while seeking to establish historical context. It is, fundamentally, a ready reference guide to the broad field of popular music over the past two centuries. It has become a truism that popular music, so pervasive in the modern world, constitutes a soundtrack to our lives – a constant though changing presence as we cross thresholds and grow from children to teenagers to adults. But it has become more than a soundtrack; it has become a narrative. Not just an accompaniment to our daily lives but incorporating our lives, our sense of identity, our lived experiences, into it. We have become part of the music just as the music has become part of us.The Historical Dictionary of Popular Music contains a chronology, an introduction, an appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on major figures across genres, definitions of genres, technical innovations and surveys of countries and regions. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about popular music.
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Encyclopedia of Local History
Amy H. Wilson;Amy H. Wilson
The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, incl...
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Encyclopedia of Local History
2017
The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, including everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field. This encyclopedia provides both the casual browser and the dedicated historian with adept commentary by bringing the voices of over one hundred experts together in one place.Entries include:·Terms specifically related to the everyday practice of interpreting local history in the United States, such as “African American History,” “City Directories,” and “Latter-Day Saints.”·Historical and documentary terms applied to local history such as “Abstract,” “Culinary History,” and “Diaries.”·Detailed entries for major associations and institutions that specifically focus on their usage in local history projects, such as “Library of Congress” and “Society of American Archivists”·Entries for every state and Canadian province covering major informational sources critical to understanding local history in that region.·Entries for every major immigrant group and ethnicity.Brand-new to this edition are critical topics covering both the practice of and major current areas of research in local history such as “Digitization,” “LGBT History,” museum theater,” and “STEM education.” Also new to this edition are graphics, including 48 photographs.Overseen by a blue-ribbon Editorial Advisory Board (Anne W. Ackerson, James D. Folts, Tim Grove, Carol Kammen, and Max A. van Balgooy) this essential reference will be frequently consulted in academic libraries with American and Canadian history programs, public libraries supporting local history, museums, historic sites and houses, and local archives in the U.S. and Canada.This third edition is the first to include photographs.
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Returning Markets to the Center of Corporate Law.
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Journal of Corporation Law. Summer2023, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p663-718. 56p.
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Tingle K. C., Bryce C.
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Journal of Corporation Law. Summer2023, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p663-718. 56p.
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This Article examines how the two blind spots of economics--markets and the interior o...
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Returning Markets to the Center of Corporate Law.
Journal of Corporation Law. Summer2023, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p663-718. 56p.
This Article examines how the two blind spots of economics--markets and the interior of firms--combined over the past 40 years to create the modern corporate governance regime. The focus of corporate law reformers over the past four decades on achieving ex-post welfare outcomes ignored the traditional centrality of supporting ex-ante market behaviors in corporate law. Corporate law was originally designed from the bottom up to promote the activities of bargaining, experimentation, and competition. None of these activities are currently much in evidence around the governance of public companies. The current corporate governance regime has not succeeded, even on its own terms, and it has seriously damaged the relevant markets. This Article joins a trend in recent legal scholarship of pointing out the intrinsic social value of market activities and their importance in making sense of legal doctrine. Economic efficiency arises from market activities like bargaining and experimentation that are, themselves, inefficient. The modern corporate governance regime has forgotten this fact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
