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  • Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights

    Lessons from Norway in the Development and Contestation of Children’s Rights

    by Neil Datta, Tarja Pösö, Raija Huhtanen, Claire Fenton-Glynn, Mary Burns, Gabriela Serra, Kerry Shea, Katrin Križ, Daniela Reimer, Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Rachel Cichowski, David Archard, Marius Emberland, Elaine Sutherland, Kirsten Sandberg, Elizabeth Chrun, Jill Marshall ...
    Article 1 of the European Convention of Human Rights gives children the same protection of their fundamental rights and freedoms as adults. However, there is a notable absence of specific provisions for their rights. What does this imply in practice?This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading scholars in political science, law, social work and more to examine how the European Court of ... Read more

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  • Adoption from Care

    International Perspectives on Children’s Rights, Family Preservation and State Intervention

    by Sveinung Hellesen Nygård, Conor O’Mahony, Esther Abad Guerra, Ana Cristina Gomez Aparicio, Sagrario Segado, Marit Skivenes, Hege Stein Helland, Ina Bovenschen, Thomas Meysen, Pia Eriksson0, Katrin Križ1, Jenny Krutzinna2, Simone Mccaughren3, Judit Strömpl4, Katre Luhamaa5, Jill Duerr Berrick8, Kenneth Burns9 ...
    Series series Research in Social Work
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND.This book explores how children’s rights are practised and weighed against birth and adoptive parents’ rights and examines how governments and professionals balance rights when it is decided that children cannot return to parental care.From different socio-political and legal contexts in Europe and the United States, it provides an in-depth ... Read more

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  • Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy

    A Comparative Network Analysis

    Edited by Berit Karseth, Kirsten Sivesind, Gita Steiner-Khamsi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected to review best practices, learn from experiences from elsewhere, and apply international standards propelled by international organizations. Do they do so? What counts, for ... Read more

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  • Childhood in a Global Perspective

    by Karen Wells ...
    This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously being radically re-shaped.Taking children seriously as active participants in society, the book explores key social issues such as how children are ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Language and Learning in Multilingual Classrooms

    A Practical Approach

    by Dr. Elizabeth Coelho ...
    Series Book 16 - Parents' and Teachers' Guides
    This book is a research-based practical guide for educators who work with students whose linguistic and cultural background is different from their own. Illustrated with many practical examples of classroom activities, projects, and teaching strategies, the book is also an introduction to immigrant education for school administrators and educational planners in communities or regions that are in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • In Praise of Skepticism

    Trust but Verify

    by Pippa Norris ...
    A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating governments, and facilitating collective action. Any signs of its decline are, and should be, a matter of serious concern. Yet, In Praise of Skepticism recognizes that trust has two faces. Confidence in anti-vax theories has weakened herd immunity. Faith in Q-Anon ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence

    Revisited

    by Prof. Michael Byram ...
    2nd edition of a classic text that has been used around the world in teacher training.This revised edition of Michael Byram’s classic 1997 book updates the text in light of both recent research and critiques and commentaries on the 1st edition. Beginning from the premise that foreign and second language teaching should prepare learners to use a language with fluency and accuracy, and also to speak ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Surviving Field Research

    Working in Violent and Difficult Situations

    Edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram, John C. King, Julie A. Mertus, Olga Martin-Ortega, Johanna Herman ...
    In recent decades there has been increasing attention to mass atrocities such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other gross human rights violations. At the same time, there has been a vast increase in the number of academics and researchers seeking to analyze the causes of, and offer practical responses to, these atrocities. Yet there remains insufficient discussion of the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Researching Society and Culture

    Edited by Clive Seale ...
    Written by internationally renowned experts, each chapter provides a full introduction to a key aspect of research methodology. From starting out to generating, analysing, and presenting data, this new edition covers foundational concepts in social research while also keeping students on the pulse of topics like digital social research, social surveys, and big data. Packed with international ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

  • Qualitative Approaches to the Social Psychology of Populism

    Unmasking Populist Appeal

    Edited by Inari Sakki ...
    Series series Explorations in Social Psychology
    This edited volume presents a social psychological exploration of populism and provides a unique qualitative understanding of the phenomenon’s appeal, bringing together an international mix of experts to interrogate populist attraction worldwide.Featuring contributions from Finland, Greece, and Switzerland, the book offers nuanced theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches for ... Read more

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  • Empirical Legal Research

    A Guidance Book for Lawyers, Legislators and Regulators

    by Frans L. Leeuw ...
    In 1788 John Adams created a sublime ambition for all nations - 'a government of laws and not of men'. In the intervening years we have come to learn that legislation itself works through the interpretations of the many men and women who work on the inside and the outside of the law. Effective regulation thus depends not only on scrupulous legal analysis, with its appeal to precedent, conceptual ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice

    An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics

    by Ingrid Piller ...
    Understanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time. This book explores the ways in which linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to high levels of migration and economic globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD