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Throughout their careers, social work students and practitioners need to demonstrate an understanding of critical and reflective practice. The Professional Capabilities Framework sets out how newly-qualified social workers can achieve this, and become 'critical...
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‘Was ist eine Witwe mehr als … ein aufgewärmtes Essen?’ According to politician and statesman Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (1741-1796), widows were superfluous beings and second-hand goods, but they were also perceived by theologians and moralists of the nineteenth and...
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Experiment and Experience is a collection of critical essays on twenty-first-century women-authored literature in France. In particular, the volume focuses on how contemporary women’s writing engages creatively with socio-political issues and real-life experiences....
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This interdisciplinary volume aims to deepen and enrich the reader’s understanding of children’s lives in the Global South. At a time when provision for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is expanding across the globe, this book highlights issues around early...
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Shifts in America’s socioeconomic geography have been documented since the 1960s, demonstrating the reversal of white flight and the reshaping of a nation, evidenced by the growing divide between underprivileged citizens and the wealthy. As state and local governments...
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Notfall-, Gefängnis-, Alters- oder Krankenhausseelsorge: Wer in Deutschland in Situationen gerät, die die Seele verletzen, kann die Unterstützung psychologisch geschulter, meist in christlichem Kontext tätiger Seelsorgerinnen und Seelsorger in Anspruch nehmen. Doch wie...
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Welche Rolle spielt die Gruppensprache bei der kollektiven Identitätskonstruktion in der Migration? Das Beispiel der Wolgadeutschen in Argentinien, die nach über 250 Jahren seit der ersten Auswanderung die ursprüngliche Sprache und Kultur aufrecht erhalten haben, eignet...
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This book is a theological reflection on the broken state of faith within the Catholic Church in Ireland following more than two decades of revelations about institutional and child sexual abuse and the Church’s now acknowledged failure to respond to the abuse in an...
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Die 68er-Generation, die einst mit ihren in den Nationalsozialismus verstrickten Eltern abrechnete, wird nun von ihren eigenen Kindern vor Gericht gestellt.Die Studie untersucht ausgewählte Texte von Joachim Bessing, Sophie Dannenberg, Jess Jochimsen, Bettina Röhl,...
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Diese Festschrift anlässlich des 70. Geburtstags von Claudia von Werlhof enthält deutsch- und englischsprachige Beiträge von langjährigen FreundInnen, WeggefährtInnen, Geistesverwandten aber auch KritikerInnen der Jubilarin. Sie verdeutlichen, aus welchem...
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The focus of «Fusion Fashion» is on Orientalism as a sartorial practice, which has to be differentiated from the common knowledge of Orientalism by means of its organization, constitution and reception.The book offers historic as well as systematic perspectives. On the...
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This book examines the attitudes of tertiary students in Melanesia and Timor-Leste to national identity and key issues of nation-building. Their views are pivotal to understanding the challenges of building a more cohesive sense of national identity and political...
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Colonization has imposed drastic changes on indigenous societies in North America. This process has reverberated through cultural conceptions and constructions of social roles, particularly affecting the roles of elders and the old. This book charts these changes by...
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This book showcases some of the papers presented at the 9th Annual ESPAnet Conference «Sustainability and Transformation in European Social Policy», held in Valencia, Spain from the 8th to 10th of September 2011. The selected papers present a double perspective within...
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In 2012, the ERASMUS programme celebrated its 25th anniversary. As one of the best-known initiatives of the EU, it has already enabled almost three million students to spend a part of their studies abroad. But ERASMUS is more than just a simple academic exchange...
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Trauma and Resilience in American Indian and African American Southern History explores the dual process of a refusal to remember, that is, the force of active forgetting, and the multiple ways in which Native Americans and African Americans have kept alive memories of...
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Spätestens seit dem ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert sind Nationen bestimmende Faktoren der europäischen Geschichte. Trotz aller Tendenzen zur Bildung suprastaatlicher Organisationen gilt dies bis in unsere Gegenwart. Die Weiterentwicklung und Neubildung von Nationen geht...
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Tweening the Girl challenges the argument that the tween market began in the mid-1990s. It was actually during the 1980s that young girls were given the label «tweens» and were heralded by marketers, and subsequently the news media, as one of «capitalism’s most valuable...
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Zu Hause schmecke es am besten – meint der Volksmund. Zugleich wirken die ungewohnten Speisen und Mahlzeitenformalitäten anderer Kulturen oft besonders befremdlich und exotisch. Als ein – sehr anpassungsfähiges – Stück mobiler Heimat nimmt das Essen einen wichtigen...
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Im Rahmen einer deskriptiven Darstellung wird in dieser Arbeit das Recht der Arbeitnehmerüberlassung in Japan analysiert. Die Leiharbeit wird in Japan weitgehend durch das JAÜG geregelt, welches zuletzt am 28. März 2012 überarbeitet wurde. Die wichtigste Neuerung war...
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