Социология
Различные книги в жанре СоциологияEconomic Evaluation in Education
The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their “return on investment” in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges. Economic Evaluation in Education: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods and Applications in its previous editions) is the only full-length book to provide readers with the step-by-step methods they need to plan and implement a benefit-cost analysis in education. Authors Henry M. Levin, Patrick J. McEwan, Clive Belfield, Alyshia Brooks Bowden, and Robert Shand examine a range of issues, including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs; how to measure effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and how to incorporate cost evaluations into the decision-making process. The updates to the Third Edition reflect the considerable methodological development in the evaluation literature, and the greater empiricism practiced by education researchers, to help readers learn to apply more advanced methods to their own analyses.
Карманное счастье
У каждого человека бывают моменты депрессии и прокрастинации. Как с этим бороться и что с этим делать? Именно такие вопросы и вынесены на обсуждение в данной книге, или, другими словами – подручные способы сделать себя счастливым не завтра, а сейчас.
Tri-level Identity Crisis
This text captures the profound unacknowledged crisis that is unique to children of first-generation immigrants, by virtue of their being caught in a world of their parents' culture of origin and their social experience in the United States. The book makes the case for three levels of adolescent crisis unique to this population, namely, the general developmental crisis experienced by all adolescents as articulated by developmental theories; the cultural identity crises experienced by ethnic minority persons as they encounter the layered racialization of American history; and, finally, the unique crisis that arises from conflicting cultural values and morals when first-generation immigrant parents, wanting to preserve native values, clash with their children, who seek belonging in the Western context in which they currently reside. The book traces the psychological, emotional, and social roots of the crisis. The authors, representing immigrants from different continents, portray the unique, ethnic minority challenges they encounter in coming to the US, exemplifying further the tri-level crisis. Finally, the book offers ways that parents can be proactive in helping their children navigate the potential tri-level crisis through ITAV (It Takes a Village) camps and family palavers.
In the Name of the People
In the Name of the People is an analysis and reflection on the global populist surge, written from the local forms it takes in the places we inhabit: the United States, Catalonia, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Quebec, Russia, and Ukraine. The upheaval and polarizations caused by populist policies around the world indicates above all the urgency to develop a series of planetary revolutionary interpretations, and to make the necessary connections in order to understand and act in the world. The ghost of the People has returned to the world stage, claiming to be the only force capable of correcting or taking charge of the excesses of the time. The relationship between the collapse of certain orders, the multiplication of civil wars, and the incessant appeal to the People is clear: as the liberal mode of governance experiences a global legitimation crisis, different forms of right and left populism gain strength within the fractures of ever expanding ruins. Populism has now become familiar as a global phenomenon: from the eruptions of the far right in the West to the populist capture of the movement of the squares—Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain, the Five Star Movement in Italy, or Our Revolution in the United States—to the electoral victories of Rodrigo Duterte, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Narendra Modi, Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Brexit, all alongside large populist gains in every European country. While disparate in many ways, these dynamics all share an appeal to combat the rule and sensibility of the elites, with the help of a figure that can channel the affective energies of discontent through operations of identification and exclusion. And yet, from the Narodniki to the Black Panthers and Zapatistas, to the emancipatory political movements which expressed themselves as the authentic people—Nuit Debout, the 99%, the indignados—history reminds us of revolutionary populisms. How do we distinguish the new from the old? What are their limits and potentials? What is the nature of the affective flows that characterize their relations? How do we address the indeterminacy inherent in mass movements and mobilizations, as well as their confusions, fears, and hesitancies? Friends: we pose the question of populism to you because it is the question our time poses to us.
My Grandmother's Hands
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze. My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for Americans to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body. Author Resmaa Menakem introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
Understanding Mental Health and Counselling
Understanding Mental Health and Counselling provides a critical introduction to key debates about how problems of mental health are understood, and to the core approaches taken to working with counselling and psychotherapy clients. In drawing out the differences and intersections between professional and social understandings of mental health and counselling theory and practice, the book fosters critical thinking about effective and ethical work with mental health service users and therapy clients. With chapters by noted academic writers and service-user researchers, and content enlivened by activities, first-person accounts and case material, the book provides a key resource for both counselling and psychotherapy trainees and those interested in the broader field of mental health.
Honest Endings
Meet Robbie, a forty-two-year-old with heart disease; Esther, a woman in her late fifties with metastatic breast cancer; and Matt and Janet, a very loving couple facing his extremely painful illness bravely together. All have one thing in common: they are dying. All the patients you will meet here are the dying patients of a caring, attentive hospice social worker, Katherine Cullen.
This memoir is full of heartwarming stories of patients and their families. It is the story of one social worker navigating the ways of hospice work without much training or support. Learn about the hospice team and the stresses and pressures they face daily as patients come and go at an alarming rate.
Watch a social worker’s journey of life through death, maturing from a fear of dying to a sense of ease and comfort with the dying process. She faces her anxieties with courage, never shortchanging those who depend on her for strength, support, and emotional comfort. Katherine also shares about her conflict when her own parents health began to fail, and the irony involved in working at a hospice agency while her parents needed hospice care.
This book is a simple, direct telling of a professional social worker’s experience in a nonprofit hospice agency. It is a helpful read for professionals and the public alike, given its honest report of daily life in the field of hospice.
Geopolítica latinoamericana
En la presente obra, buscamos analizar diferentes aspectos de las visiones sobre las dinámicas de la política mundial desde los espacios latinoamericanos, bajo el enfoque de la geoplítica crítica, entre otros, buscamos desconstruir enfoques geopolíticos realizados, los cuales parecen estar todavía en el orden del día. De hecho podríamos decir que incluso la definición de geopolítica precisada como el estudio de la especialización de la política mundial desde potencias centrales sobre todo desde el Norte, podría ser todavía considerada una de ellas. A nuestros lectores planteamos la siguiente reflexión: ¿Por qué sería menos relevante la especialización del mundo por parte de determinado pueblo indígena de la Amazonia que una desde Washington?