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Reflection in Action
This guidebook aims to stimulate student affairs professionals and higher education faculty alike to adopt new approaches when discussing sensitive or controversial topics with their students. It provides teachers and professionals with a critical social understanding of social justice, social agency, reflection, and actionable knowledge to develop new and effective skills, practice them in safe spaces, and apply them in the field. It offers tools that are equally applicable in a classroom or cocurricular setting. The exceptional teachers, scholars, and professionals contributing to this volume provide a diverse and alternative lens through which to examine the intersection of social justice education and professional practice. The text is organized in three overarching themes: Part One, \"Existing Theories, Examining Claims, and Proposing New Understandings\"; Part Two, \"Concrete Tools and Safe Spaces for Practicing Difficult Dialogues in Professional Practice\"; and Part Three, \"Professional Development, Action Research, and Social Agency.\" In Part Four, \"Moving Forward,\" the book concludes with a chapter on implications for daily life and practice. The action-oriented research model provides strategies and frameworks for using social science research to engage in critical social and educational problem solving. The emphasis is on moving colleges and universities to widen their moral and ethical lenses, beyond understanding diversity, to developing multicultural competence and enriching their campus communities. Written for faculty in higher education and student affairs professionals, along with master's and doctoral students in these fields, this book provides a framework that is grounded in research and sound pedagogies and theories.
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Functions, methods and concepts in evaluation research
\"Evaluation research has been subject to a tremendous boom in recent years advancing to become an important instrument for analysing the effectiveness of government programmes as well as reviewing the performance of and auditing both public and private sector organisations. The purpose of this book is to explore the advances that have taken place in evaluation research and to place these advances in their correct context thus providing a comprehensive and impelling overview of the subject. As well as exploring various concepts, theories and methods used in evaluation, this volume also presents the societal function of evaluation and the social processes associated with performing effective evaluations. By using examples from all over the world the books shows the typical way in which evaluations are processed and how they can be used in a variety of policy fields. It is a must-read for students and scholars with a background in evaluation as well as newcomers to the subject who will find this new contribution to the literature on the subject an invaluable tool\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ernest Weissmann’s Architectural and Planning Practices
Architect Ernest Weissmann (1903-1985) dedicated his career to improving the living conditions of the deprived population - before and immediately after World War II in Europe and the United States and, starting from the 1950s and owing to senior positions he held at the United Nations Department of Social Affairs [UN DESA], also in underdeveloped countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The means by which he tried to achieve it were type projects flexible enough to respond to each individual case, education, teamwork, and self-help approach. The latter was thought to strengthen the local communities, their experts, resources, and production. Relying on the research on Weissmann’s pre-UN DESA career, this paper argues that Weissmann formulated most of his ideas, in particular self-help, and the above-mentioned methods, and put them into practice and an international perspective, before 1951 thanks, to his collaboration with Le Corbusier, the School of Public Health in Zagreb, the International Congress of Modern Architecture [CIAM], New York-based Structural Study Associates [SSA] group, Board of Warfare, and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration [UNRRA].
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Equity and health sector reforms: can low-income countries escape the medical poverty trap?
The economic effect of ill health has long been a cause of bankruptcies in the USA,23 but in the 1990s, ill health became a leading cause of household impoverishment in transitional economies, such as rural China,13 and some of the Asiatic republics of the former USSR.15 Poor households reporting illness in a rural area in northern Vietnam, spent an average 22% of their household budget on health-care costs, whereas rich households spent 8%.14 Moreover, poor people tended to pay more than rich people at a health centre, and poor communes charged more than rich communes.24 In Thailand, poor people also pay proportionally more for health care than rich people.25 So-called free maternity services in Dhaka, Bangladesh, have hidden and unofficial payments that necessitate more than a fifth of families spending the equivalent of 50-100% of their monthly income on maternity care.16 In Vietnam, the average cost of hospital admission is the equivalent of 2 months' wages,14 and in rural China, hospital care costs up to seven times the net monthly income of a poor household.26
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The road to collaborative governance in China
\"China's transformation from a planned regime to a marketized and liberalized society has created unprecedented socioeconomic changes and challenges as well as new resources, capacities, and solutions. Collaborative governance (CG), the sharing of power and discretion between and within public, private, and nonprofit sectors for public purposes, has been increasingly adopted in China in response to daunting service demands and governance deficits. Using primary data and rigorous analysis, contributors offer perspectives on frontier developments of CG in China in areas such as elderly service delivery, environmental protection, disaster response, and infrastructure building with solid data and up-to-date analytical methods. In addition to a general theoretical examination of CG, this volume explores particular characters of CG as it's been adopted in China, contextual effects and consequences, and implications for future governance in China\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Debunking the Myth of Job Fit in Higher Education and Student Affairs
Emerging from the ACPA Commission for Social Justice, this book opens a conversation about the use of job fit as a tool for exclusion that needs to be critically investigated from multiple standpoints, including legal aspects, employer definitions, and communication barriers, as well as from the perspectives of class, race, gender, and sexual orientation.
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The resilience dividend : being strong in a world where things go wrong
\"New York. Athens. Boston. Tohoku. Newtown. Oslo. West. Wenzhou. New Orleans. Dhaka. Moore. Nairobi. These communities are just a few among the many that have been hit hard by one of the \"wicked problems\" of today's world: natural catastrophe, disease and contagion, systems or social collapse. If you haven't been directly touched by one of these disruptions yourself, you are sure to have been affected by them in some way. They harm people, destabilize communities, and threaten organizations and even whole societies. These problems have become such a part of our world that knowing how to prepare for them, how to respond when they happen, and how to recover from them should be essential skills of modern life for all of us. We have certainly made progress in this regard, especially in the years since 9/11, but we are still at greater risk than we should be. We can't anticipate every disruption that might come our way, but we can develop an overall approach for dealing with the wicked problems, and formulate specific plans for areas where we and our communities are particularly vulnerable. The Resilience Dividend is both timely and important important as both the severity and frequency of disruptions are increase. It develops both a way of thinking and practical tools for taking action for protecting the world's people and communities and shows how to create a blueprint for change. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cannabis Use and Treatment Challenges in Israel: Overview and Personal Perspective
Widespread cannabis use is a concern in Israel, and its popularity continues to grow despite government and non-government prevention, education, and treatment efforts. The National Service for Treatment of Addiction (Service), Israel Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services maintains a fundamental position that cannabis is an illegal, harmful, and addictive substance. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of cannabis use in the country and provide insight of the challenges being faced resulting from use of the substance. Particular attention is given to the Negev region of the country, Israel’s arid southern region that has been referred to as the country’s “barn for drugs.” Concern is expressed about the investment of limited resources needed for cannabis problem management, outreach service, prevention, and treatment when there are other national priorities to address such as security, education, health care, and employment opportunities to address.
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