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Questioning Gender Politics
Questioning Gender Politics: Contextualising Educational Disparities in Uncertain Times showcases contemporary thinking on pressing aspects of gender equalities, such as patriarchal culture, sexual harassment, trans rights, queer pedagogies, and sex education in various educational settings and international contexts. This book illustrates how education is an important physical, material and ideological site for understanding and challenging stubborn gender inequalities. Questioning Gender Politics positions itself within existing theorisations and research outlining how gender issues and sexist power cultures have in many cases changed from plain to more insidious inequalities. The notion o...
Diversity and Diversity Management in Education
Globalisation and efforts for equality nowadays go together with the debate on differences and diversity within countries, societies and organisations. With regard to the educational system in most European countries similar trends can be observed recently: an increasing educational success of women and their growing participation in the labour force, the changing age structure of students due to the demographic change, efforts to improve the situation of handicapped people in education, and the consequences of international migration movements for the educational system. Thus 'diversity' and 'diversity management' have become very popular topics in educational research and policy all over Europe. This book is the documentation of an international workshop of researchers from Poland, Germany and France. It combines articles on 'diversity' from different disciplines. With its interdisciplinary and international, i.e. European, perspective, it leads to a better understanding of the phenomenon. It can improve the 'diversity competence' in research and training and is particularly appropriate for international study programmes.
Mastering the Market
The grain trade, a crucial sector of the French economy, caused enormous concern throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Bread was the staple of French diets, so harvest shortfalls triggered unrest. The royal government had only the most scattershot and ineffective means to draw foodstuffs into restless cities. Successive regimes developed strategies to dominate the baking trades, influence prices along vital supply lines, and amass emergency stocks of grain that could meet months-long demand. As free trade ideologies developed, French administrators at both the national and local levels sought to reconcile these ideologies with the perceived need to control the market. They created increasingly hidden, and effective, means to shape the grain trade. Thus, the French state played an instrumental role in establishing a viable form of free trade.
Pedagogical Responses to the Changing Position of Girls and Young Women
Academics and professionals working with young women face a series of paradoxes. Over the last 20 years, the lives of young women in the UK and Europe have been transformed. They have gained considerable freedom and independence, but at the very same time, new, less tangible forms of constraint and subordination now play a defining role in the formation of their everyday subjectivities and identities. Young women have come to exemplify the pervasive sensibility of self-responsibility and self-organisation. This new ‘gender regime’ demands both conceptualisation and practical response, drawing on educational research, social and cultural theory, and contemporary feminist thought. Within t...
Sexual Violence Against Men in Global Politics
Sexual violence against men is an under-theorised and under-noticed topic, though it is becoming increasingly apparent that this form of violence is widespread. Yet despite emerging evidence documenting its incidence, especially in conflict and post-conflict zones, efforts to understand its causes and develop strategies to reduce it are hampered by a dearth of theoretical engagement. One of the reasons that might explain its empirical invisibility and theoretical vacuity is its complicated relationship with sexual violence against women. The latter is evident empirically, theoretically, and politically, but the relationship between these violences conjures a range of complex and controversia...
Jungen-Pädagogik
Ergebnisse aus der Bildungs- und Jugendforschung haben in den letzten Jahren dazu beigetragen, dass Jungen und männlichen Heranwachsenden eine gesteigerte Aufmerksamkeit in der (Fach-)Öffentlichkeit entgegengebracht wird. In diesem Kontext hat ein Perspektivwechsel in der Auseinandersetzung um Fragen der Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in Bildungsinstitutionen eingesetzt: Jungen werden in der medialen Berichterstattung und öffentlichen Debatte dargestellt als gesellschaftliche Verlierer und Benachteiligte gegenüber den Mädchen. In diesem Band werden solche Verkürzungen aufgegriffen und es wird gefragt, was gute pädagogische Arbeit mit Jungen ausmacht und was von den Krisenszenarien zu halten ist, die gegenwärtig den Diskurs um die Situation von Jungen bestimmen.
Vermitteln
Vermitteln ist eine der Kernaufgaben der Sozialen Arbeit. In den Beiträgen des Bandes erfolgt eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Begriff des Vermittelns, seiner Reichweiten und Grenzen in den unterschiedlichen Handlungsfeldern. Dokumentiert werden nicht nur dessen Relevanz für die Soziale Arbeit, sondern auch Kritik an der allzu einfachen Rede von der Vermittlung zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Angesichts des Beschleunigungsdrucks, unter den die Erfüllung von Vermittlungserwartungen gerät, aber auch vor dem Hintergrund einer wachsenden Aufmerksamkeit für den Eigensinn von Beteiligung der Adressaten, wird gefragt, in welcher Weise sich die Ansprüche an Vermittlung verändert haben. Welche Rahmenbedingungen sind zu berücksichtigen? Wann werden die Potentiale des Vermittelns, z.B. durch sozialtechnologische Überformungen, verzerrt?
Children's Voices: Studies of interethnic conflict and violence in European schools
How are the processes of increasing ethnic and racial diversity reflected in European schools? How do children and educators experience and perceive interethnic relations in schools? This book examines the issues of interethnic coexistence, the management of ethnic diversity, xenophobic and racial attitudes and, in particular, the under-researched topic of interethnic violence among children in the school environment. Drawing together qualitative and quantitative data across five European countries it offers an insight into the views, personal experiences and responses of children from different ethnic backgrounds to interethnic violence in European schools. International contributors from E...
Handbook of Sports and Lottery Markets
Its basic empirical research and investigation of pure theories of investment in the sports and lottery markets make this volume a winner. These markets are simpler to study than traditional financial markets, and their expected values and outcomes are uncomplicated. By means of new overviews of scholarship on the industry side of racetrack and other betting markets to betting exchanges and market efficiencies, contributors consider a variety of sports in countries around the world. The result is not only superior information about market forecasting, but macro- and micro-analyses that are relevant to other markets. - Easily studied sports markets reveal features relevant for more complex traditional financial markets - Significant coverage of sports from racing to jai alai - New studies of betting exchanges and Internet wagering markets
The Economics of Gambling
This timely and comprehensive book covers all the bases of the economics of gambling and fulfils the increasing need for a study into this most important factor of gambling.
