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  • Decolonising Social Work in Finland

    Racialisation and Practices of Care

    by Merja Anis, Fadumo Dayib, Holly Hatton-Bowers, Eveliina Heino, Joa Hiitola, Koko Hubara, Maija Jäppinen, Hanna Kara, Annika Lillrank, Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Enni Mikkonen, Wambui Njuguna, Camilla Nordberg, Nana Osei-Kofi, Priscilla Osei, Saana Raittila-Salo, Lena Sawyer, Inka Söderström, Kati Turtiainen, Michael Yellow Bird, Smarika KC ...
    Introduction and Chapter 10 available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book examines the contemporary social care realities and practices of Finland, a small nation with a history enmeshed in social relations as both coloniser and colonised.Decolonising Social Work in Finland:· Interrogates coloniality, racialisation and diversity in the context of Finnish social work and social care.· ... Read more

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    Sociology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and providing added-value features like summaries of key experiments and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam.The text is split into four ... Read more

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  • Habits of Inequality

    by Lorne Tepperman, Nina Gheihman ...
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  • Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy

    The Human Development Sequence

    by Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel ...
    This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behaviour. These changes are roughly predictable: to a large extent, they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernisation theory presented here. Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85 percent of the world ... Read more

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  • Human Rights and Social Work

    Towards Rights-Based Practice

    by Jim Ife, Karen Soldatić, Linda Briskman ...
    Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice helps students and practitioners understand how human rights concepts underpin the social work profession and inform their practice. This book examines the three generations of human rights and the systems of oppression that prevent citizens from participating in society as equals. It explores a range of topics, from ethics and ethical ... Read more

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  • The Finnish Education Mystery

    Historical and sociological essays on schooling in Finland

    by Hannu Simola ...
    Finnish education has been a focus of global interest since its first PISA success in 2001. After years of superficial celebration, astonishment and educational tourism, the focus has recently shifted to what is possibly the most interesting element of this Finnish success story: that Finnish schools have been effectively applying methods that go against the flow of global education policy with no ... Read more

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  • Essential Concepts in Sociology

    by Anthony Giddens, Philip W. Sutton ...
    Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to this endeavour is the use of core concepts and ideas which allow sociologists to make sense of societies, though our understanding of these ... Read more

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  • Dynamics in Education Politics

    Understanding and explaining the Finnish case

    by Hannu Simola, Jaakko Kauko, Janne Varjo, Mira Kalalahti, Fritjof Sahlstrom ...
    Dynamics in Education Politics: Understanding and Explaining the Finnish Case introduces a new theoretical framework characterised as Comparative Analytics of Dynamics in Education Politics (CADEP). Albeit the topicality of comparative research is obvious in the current era of global large-scale assessment, with its concomitant media visibility and political effects, comparative education is still ... Read more

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  • Informal Reckonings

    Conflict Resolution in Mediation, Restorative Justice, and Reparations

    by Andrew Woolford, R.S. Ratner ...
    The 'reparational turn' in the field of law has resulted in the increased use of so-called 'informal' approaches to conflict resolution, including primarily the three mechanisms considered in this book: mediation, restorative justice and reparations. While proponents of these mechanisms have acclaimed their communicative and democratic promise, critics have charged that mediation, restorative ... Read more

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  • Racialized Migrant Women in Canada

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  • Finland’s Famous Education System

    Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling

    Edited by Martin Thrupp, Piia Seppänen, Jaakko Kauko, Sonja Kosunen ...
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    This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric, myths, and commonly held ... Read more

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  • Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe

    Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging

    Edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Mia Liinason ...
    Interdisciplinary in perspective, this book explores contemporary struggles around ‘identity politics’ in Europe, offering a unique glimpse into contemporary tensions and paradoxes surrounding identities, belonging, exclusions and their deep-seated gendered, colonial and racist legacies. With a particular focus on the Nordic region, it provides insights into the ways in which people who find ... Read more

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