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The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy
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Uses a multilevel structure to combine insights on family outcomes
Examines supra-national organisations such as the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Bank (WB), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations (UN)
Brings together representatives from various academic communities to form a coherent, interdisciplinary, cutting-edge collection

Subject:
Social Science
Social Work
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Rense Nieuwenhuis
Wim Van Lancker
Date Added:
12/21/2021
Parenting and Family Diversity Issues
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This book has been created for students and all individuals who work with children and families (e.g., educators, parents, caregivers, direct support workers, etc.) in diverse contexts. It is imperative to understand how and what factors may influence child outcomes across the lifespan. Therefore, key concepts related to parenting, child-rearing, care-giving, and parenting education are outlined in this textbook to provide historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives across vast settings and developmental domains.

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This book has been created for students and all individuals who work with children and families (e.g., educators, parents, caregivers, direct support workers, etc.) in diverse contexts. It is imperative to understand how and what factors may influence child outcomes across the lifespan. Therefore, key concepts related to parenting, child-rearing, care-giving, and parenting education are outlined in this textbook to provide historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives across vast settings and developmental domains.

Word Count: 75635

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Subject:
Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Psychology
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Iowa State University
Author:
Diana Lang
Date Added:
05/18/2020
Partnerships with the Community: Social Work Field Education during the Covid-19 Pandemic
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This edition of Partnerships with the Community: Social Work Field Education during the Covid-19 Pandemic emerged from RMIT’s Partnership Reference Group in response to the impacts of the global pandemic on field placement supply and delivery. There was collective agreement that the long-term relationships between RMIT Social Work and the field through field education and beyond allowed us to rapidly respond to the needs of students, agencies and the community and continue to provide social work field education over 2020 and 2021. This book is a testament to the strength of these relationships demonstrated in the trust, respect, shared vision, flexibility, and reciprocity exhibited during this period. The book brings together the narratives of the RMIT Field education team and eleven of our industry partners about their experiences of providing social work placements during a global pandemic.

Word Count: 32653

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Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Social Science
Social Work
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
RMIT University in partnership with Informit Open
Date Added:
07/01/2022
Penser les énergies depuis les Suds
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Une anthologie de textes d'Amulya K. N. Reddy (1930-2006)

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Amulya Kumar Narayana Reddy (1930-2006) a 43 ans, en 1973, lorsqu’il commence ses recherches sur les questions d’énergie et de « technologies appropriées » pour les pays en émergence et leurs nombreuses populations rurales. Membre de l’Institut Indien des Sciences depuis sept ans, il abandonne une carrière brillante de chercheur et de professeur en électrochimie. Il créera un centre de recherche expérimental dans un village du sud de l’Inde, sera un pionnier au niveau mondial des « centres énergétiques ruraux » et des petites centrales villageoises à méthanisation (biogaz), avant de devenir le premier grand spécialiste international des énergies renouvelables issu d’un pays des Suds. Figure iconique dans le monde anglo-saxon sur ces questions, précurseur de la notion de « mix » et de « systèmes » énergétiques, il défendra constamment une approche des énergies soucieuse des besoins des plus modestes, de la gouvernance par les populations concernées, et du respect des milieux naturels. Au long des quarante années de sa seconde carrière, il publie plus de trois cents articles en anglais. Le présent ouvrage présente la première traduction en français de sept d’entre eux.

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Amulya Kumar Narayana Reddy (1930-2006) a 43 ans, en 1973, lorsqu’il commence ses recherches sur les questions d’énergie et de « technologies appropriées » pour les pays en émergence et leurs nombreuses populations rurales. Membre de l’Institut Indien des Sciences depuis sept ans, il abandonne une carrière brillante de chercheur et de professeur en électrochimie. Il créera un centre de recherche expérimental dans un village du sud de l’Inde, sera un pionnier au niveau mondial des « centres énergétiques ruraux » et des petites centrales villageoises à méthanisation (biogaz), avant de devenir le premier grand spécialiste international des énergies renouvelables issu d’un pays des Suds. Figure iconique dans le monde anglo-saxon sur ces questions, précurseur de la notion de « mix » et de « systèmes » énergétiques, il défendra constamment une approche des énergies soucieuse des besoins des plus modestes, de la gouvernance par les populations concernées, et du respect des milieux naturels. Au long des quarante années de sa seconde carrière, il publie plus de trois cents articles en anglais. Le présent ouvrage présente la première traduction en français de sept d’entre eux.

Word Count: 63251

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Subject:
Anthropology
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Éditions science et bien commun
Date Added:
02/08/2024
Permanency through Adoptions (2020)
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This resource provides access to the archived materials from the Northern Academy's Permanency through Adoptions series.

Subject:
Social Work
Material Type:
Full Course
Author:
Northern Academy
Date Added:
09/04/2020
Photography’s Power and Potential for Teaching Psychology
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Photography can do something that text on its own often cannot – draw the learner in and evoke curiosity about deeper meaning. When connected to storytelling, photographs can release an emotional response, which educators can harness to help students remember content. I whole-heartedly believe images created through the means of photography can be useful for teaching concepts in psychology or management fields that are new to students or tend to be difficult for them to grasp. Furthermore, photos may be especially helpful to demonstrate the meaning and subjective nature of individuals’ experiences as related to these fields due to the emotions they often evoke.

I hope this collection of photographs will serve as a teaching aid for educators and source of learning for students. I thoroughly enjoyed taking all the photos, editing them, writing compelling stories for each, and designing the book. I particularly believe that visual arts such as photography can help students of varying abilities, prior experiences, and backgrounds learn psychological content a bit more easily than traditional text-heavy books and therefore it was a worthwhile endeavor. I expect the book to push students to explore how various fields can meaningfully be integrated to understand the world around us. This book is an example of how visual arts and the sciences can be paired together to break down some of the illusory silos students often perceive between disciplines. As we go about our days, we understand our experiences in numerous ways including what we notice around us beyond written word. Our environment can illuminate understanding if we let it. Let’s help our students do this purposefully through photography.

NOTE: The images in this text are extremely high-quality. As a result, it may take some time to download and open the file.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Education
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Higher Education
Management
Psychology
Social Science
Sociology
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Textbook
Unit of Study
Author:
Justina M. Oliveira
Date Added:
12/12/2023
Plain Language Best Practices
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Sexualized Violence Policies and Procedures

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This plain language resource is a model for how British Columbia post-secondary institutions can craft and review their policies on sexualized violence and misconduct.

Word Count: 9936

ISBN: 978-1-77420-110-7

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Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Social Science
Social Work
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Author:
West Coast Editorial Associates
Date Added:
05/03/2021
Planning Communication
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This three-week module, centered on a focal case, represents the second part of the Department’s introduction to the challenges of reflection and action in professional planning practice. As such, it builds on the concepts and tools in 11.201 and 11.202 in the fall semester. Working in teams, students will deliver a 20-minute oral briefing, with an additional 10 minutes for questions and comments, in the last week of the class (as detailed on the assignment and posted course schedule). The teams will brief invited guests (“briefees”) taking the roles of decision makers. DUSP faculty and fellow students may also be in attendance.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Communication
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Briggs, Xavier
Keyes, Langley
Kobes, Deborah
Silberberg, Susan
Date Added:
02/01/2007
Politics and Religion
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This graduate reading seminar explores the role of religious groups, institutions, and ideas in politics using social science theories. It is open to advanced undergraduate students with permission of the instructor.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Political Science
Religious Studies
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Tsai, Lily
Date Added:
09/01/2006
Política, Cultura y Sociedad en la España Contemporánea
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El objetivo principal de este manual es ofrecerle al alumno de español como lengua extranjera (LE) una visión panorámica de la sociedad española contemporánea, con un énfasis en los fenómenos históricos, políticos, sociales y culturales más relevantes.

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El objetivo principal de este manual es ofrecerle al alumno de español como lengua extranjera (LE) una visión panorámica de la sociedad española contemporánea, con un énfasis en los fenómenos históricos, sociales y culturales más relevantes.

Word Count: 167329

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Subject:
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Inma Raneda-Cuartero
Date Added:
10/25/2021
Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy
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This course covers topics and questions such as: What is poverty? How is it defined and measured in the United States and other countries? What are the different program designs that countries use to relieve poverty? To answer these questions, the course examines the main public policy frames that guide theory, research, policy, and practice. How do the definition and policies to deal with poverty change over time? What are the economic, political, and social forces that contribute to the persistence of poverty and its periodic reframing? Can social science to help to resolve the public policy debates that make poverty and its relief so controversial?

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Cultural Geography
Economics
Philosophy
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Rein, Martin
Date Added:
09/01/2003
Poverty and Economic Security
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This course explores the evolution of poverty and economic security in the United States, within a global context. It examines the impact of recent economic restructuring and globalization, and reviews the current debate about the fate of the middle class, sources of increasing inequality, and approaches to advancing economic opportunity and security. In this class, students will study the topic of poverty and economic security through the lens of the lived experience of Americans: individuals, families, and households; exploring the history, geography, and forces shaping the likelihood of being poor in America.

Subject:
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Author:
Amy Glasmeier
Date Added:
02/03/2022
Poverty and Economic Security
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This course explores the evolution of poverty and economic security in the United States, within a global context. It examines the impact of recent economic restructuring and globalization, and reviews the current debate about the fate of the middle class, sources of increasing inequality, and approaches to advancing economic opportunity and security. In this class, students will study the topic of poverty and economic security through the lens of the lived experience of Americans: individuals, families, and households; exploring the history, geography, and forces shaping the likelihood of being poor in America.

Subject:
Cultural Geography
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Glasmeier, Amy
Date Added:
09/01/2016
Power: Interpersonal, Organizational and Global Dimensions
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Using examples from anthropology and sociology alongside classical and contemporary social theory, this course explores the nature of dominant and subordinate relationships, types of legitimate authority, and practices of resistance. The course also examines how we are influenced in subtle ways by the people around us, who makes controlling decisions in the family, how people get ahead at work, and whether democracies, in fact, reflect the “will of the people.”

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Philosophy
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Silbey, Susan
Date Added:
09/01/2005
Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development
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This workshop provides an introduction to urban environmental design and explores the potential of information technology and the Internet to transform public education, city design, and community development in inner-city neighborhoods. Integration of comprehensive (“top-down”) and grassroots (“bottom-up”) approaches to design and planning is a major theme.
Students will work in a real neighborhood with real people on a real project, putting theory into practice and reflecting on insights gained in the process. We will study environmental and community history and devise designs for vacant land near a middle school in West Philadelphia within the context of planning for the larger community and watershed.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Education
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Spirn, Anne
Date Added:
02/01/2001
Practical Knowledge: A Beginning Guide to Social Work Practice
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Word Count: 2450

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Subject:
Social Science
Social Work
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Tucker Hardy
Date Added:
06/14/2020
Practice of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
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This course introduces students to the techniques of participatory action research (PAR) and the practice of case study research. PAR processes are place or case-specific, place a premium on local ways of knowing, and gauge the success of research in terms of what partner-communities do with the knowledge that is co-produced. The objective of PAR is to generate the ideas, information, and understandings that ought to inform efforts to promote social change. By focusing on ways of co-producing knowledge using various forms of data collection and analysis, students will learn how the people and communities who are often university partners in applied social science research can use findings or results from PAR case studies to address the challenges they confront in their communities.
Learn more about Participatory Action Research at MIT.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Cunningham, Dayna
Susskind, Lawrence
Date Added:
02/01/2016
Practicing and Presenting Social Research
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This open-access textbook is for those who want to write exemplary social research. It provides an extensive outline of each step of the research process: outlining practical tools for conceptualizing its beginnings, generating proposals, getting ethics approval, relaxing from the stresses of research, writing academically, conducting a literature review, drafting a methods section, collecting the right data, formulating the findings, and sharing the results. Woven throughout each chapter are testimonies of other students who have likewise persevered through the research process, relating their obstacles, solutions, and motivations to each stage of the research process to illuminate not only the technical goals of research, but also the emotional maturity that research entails.

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This open-access textbook is for those who want to write exemplary social research. It provides an extensive outline of each step of the research process: outlining practical tools for conceptualizing its beginnings, generating proposals, getting ethics approval, relaxing from the stresses of research, writing academically, conducting a literature review, drafting a methods section, collecting the right data, formulating the findings, and sharing the results. Woven throughout each chapter are testimonies of other students who have likewise persevered through the research process, relating their obstacles, solutions, and motivations to each stage of the research process to illuminate not only the technical goals of research, but also the emotional maturity that research entails.

Word Count: 84578

ISBN: 978-0-88865-486-1

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Subject:
Anthropology
Applied Science
Information Science
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of British Columbia
Date Added:
08/31/2022
Principles of Sociological Inquiry – Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
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The author of Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Amy Blackstone, started envisioning this textbook while sitting in her own undergraduate sociology research methods class. She enjoyed the material but wondered about its relevance to her everyday life and future plans (the idea that one day she would be teaching such a class hadn't yet occurred to her).

Subject:
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
The Saylor Foundation
Provider Set:
Saylor Textbooks
Author:
Amy Blackstone
Date Added:
02/20/2015
Problem Solving in Teams and Groups
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Word Count: 115660

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Subject:
Business and Communication
Communication
Psychology
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
01/26/2024