Educational Research for Social Justice

This book presents a series of analyses of educational policies – largely in the UK, but some also in Europe – researched by a team of social scientists who share a commitment to social justice and equity in education. We explore what social justice means, in educational policy and practice, and how it impacts on our understanding of both ‘educational science’ and ‘the public good’.…

Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices

This edited volume consists of chapters celebrating the career of scholar Sjaak Kroon, who has produced ground-breaking work in the field of ethnography of education, immigrant minority language teaching and language politics. The chapters cover the use of immigrant minority languages in education and the development of policies at all levels and across the globe in this sometimes over-policed …

Researching Virtual Play Experiences

This book illuminates the lived experience of a group of primary school children engaged in virtual world play during a year-long after-school club. Shaped by post-structuralist theory and New Literacy Studies, it outlines a playful, participatory and emergent methodological approach, referred to as ‘rhizomic ethnography’. This ‘hybrid’ text uses both words and images to describe the fi…

Care in Mathematics Education

This book investigates the process of care in mathematics teaching. The author proposes transformative educational spaces in which learning mathematics, rather than consisting of a repetitive grind of exercises and facts, can become a part of learner identity. This book describes examples of mathematics teachings in a wide range of contexts and pedagogies, coordinated to identify common feature…

Gang Prevention in Schools

This book delves deep into the hidden population of former gang members who share their positive and negative experiences of being gang members. Their stories of violence, hopelessness, despair, and loneliness also offer a seed of hope – they contain the building blocks for prevention. By understanding why they each turned to gangs, how they turned to gangs, and what went wrong for some along…

Democracy, Social Justice, and the American Community College

This book provides scholars, educators, and legislators with a personal, classroom-level tour of daily life at a community college. Readers will accompany the author into the classroom as he goes about his work as an English teacher meeting with classes and corresponding with students on Blackboard and e-mail. Answering the call for ”student-centered scholarship,” this book blends tradition…

Ecology of Common Care

This book offers an ecological foundation for social work and for care provision in general. It presents the ecosocial approach according to its origins, distinguishing it from other theoretical social work approaches and applying it to various areas of care for welfare. The ecological anchoring of social welfare and common care is an emerging topic in political, organisational, and person-rela…

Preschool Peer Social Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder

This book presents the Preschool Peer Social Intervention (PPSI), a manualized comprehensive social curriculum to enhance peer-interaction for pre-schoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in three key domains: play, interaction, and conversation. The book outlines the PPSI’s transactional approach in each of the three intervention domains and incorporates developmental features and a…

Teaching and Learning for Social Justice and Equity in Higher Education

This book is the third in a four volume series that focuses on research-based teaching and learning practices that promote social justice and equity in higher education. In this volume, we focus on the application of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education outside of the classroom to maximize the effectiveness of student affairs programming. Specifically, authors focus on t…

PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY, SECOND EDITION

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-470-69713-9

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viii, 586p.; 25cm

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-

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616.89 Pri p

PARTISIPASI PASANGAN USIA SUBUR SEBAGAI AKSEPTOR DALAM PROGRAM KELUARGA BEREN…

Partisipasi pasangan usia subur sebagai akseptor dalam program keluarga berencana di Kampung KB Layang-Layang Kelurahan 29 Ilir pada masa pandemi covid-19 mengalami kenaikan. Objek dalam penelitian ini ialah Pasangan Usia Subur di Kampung KB Layang-Layang. Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan untuk mengkaji secara mendalam mengenai faktor dan bentuk partisipasi yang dilakukan oleh pasangan usia subur…

ANALISIS SENTIMEN TERHADAP PENGGUNA QRIS (QUICK RESPOND CODE INDONESIAN STAND…

Twitter is currently one of the social media that is widely used by the public. By utilizing Twitter, people can now easily express opinions on various matters, including the Quick Respond Code Indonesian Standard (QRIS). Based on this, an analysis of public sentiment towards QRIS was carried out on social media Twitter using the Naïve Bayes Classifier algorithm. With the aim of finding out wh…

Music Composition in Contexts of Early Childhood

This book explores the narratives of a group of four-year-old children in a composition project in an Australian early learning centre. The participants, centre staff and a composer, Stephen Leek, contributed a number of music sessions for the children, including five original songs. The book showcases young children’s communicative ability and sensitivity to wider issues. The staff in the ce…

Community College Students in Hong Kong

This book presents a comprehensive account of the educational experiences of community college students in Hong Kong, analyzed through a theoretical lens that intersects sociological theories of inequality, including Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital. The student narratives featured in this book reveal the interweaving personal, academic, and professional considerations and challenges affe…

Educational Leadership through a Practice Lens

This book provides the theoretical and analytical resources for an urgent rethinking of the social project of educating and educational leading. It examines what educational leadership is, namely the politics and power of leadership as a practice, and what it can and should be, offering a pedagogical and praxis-informed approach to educational practice. Drawing on research conducted at vari…

Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education

This open access book critiques real world learning across both the curriculum and extracurricular activities. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as business, health, fashion, sociology and geography, the editors and authors employ a cross-disciplinary approach to examine how this concept is being applied in higher education. Divided into three parts, the authors and contributors analyse broader…

Complex Networks & Their Applications IX

This book highlights cutting-edge research in the field of network science, offering scientists, researchers, students and practitioners a unique update on the latest advances in theory and a multitude of applications. It presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the IX International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020). The carefully selected papers cov…

Theories and Simulations of Complex Social Systems

Research into social systems is challenging due to their complex nature. Traditional methods of analysis are often difficult to apply effectively as theories evolve over time. This can be due to a lack of appropriate data, or too much uncertainty. It can also be the result of problems which are not yet understood well enough in the general sense so that they can be classified, and an appropriat…

Social Internet of Things

The aim of this book is to stimulate research on the topic of the Social Internet of Things, and explore how Internet of Things architectures, tools, and services can be conceptualized and developed so as to reveal, amplify and inspire the capacities of people, including the socialization or collaborations that happen through or around smart objects and smart environments. From new ways of n…

Trends and Applications of Serious Gaming and Social Media

This book highlights the challenges and potential of educational learning or industry-based training using serious games and social media platforms. In particular, the book addresses applications used in businesses and education-related organizations in Asia, where the framework and experience of serious games have been used to address specific problems in the real world. The topics that will b…

Japanese Contractors in Overseas Markets

This book explores the differences in cultural attributes and management factors to enable managers working for Japanese contractors to reduce misunderstandings and misinterpretations when communicating with project team members from different cultural backgrounds. It focuses on Japanese contractors operating in Singapore, since the Singapore construction industry has, for many years, been one …

Social Networking

With the proliferation of social media and on-line communities in networked world a large gamut of data has been collected and stored in databases. The rate at which such data is stored is growing at a phenomenal rate and pushing the classical methods of data analysis to their limits. This book presents an integrated framework of recent empirical and theoretical research on social network analy…

SOCIAL MARKETING AND SOCIAL CHANGE : Strategies and Tools for Improving Healt…

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-470-93684-9

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xxiii, 564p.; ill.; 24cm

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-

Call Number

362.10688 Lev s

The Practice of Social Research, TWELFTH EDITION

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12

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-495-59842-8

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xxiv, 110p.; ill.; 23 cm

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Call Number

303.4 Bab t

HYDROLOGY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF WATERSHEDS, Third Edition

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3rd

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-8138-2985-2

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xv, 533 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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-

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627 Bro h

introduction to social research

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2

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-035776-5

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xii, 147 p. ; 21 cm

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300.72 Lab i

EXTENDING SOCIAL RESEARCH : Application, Implementation and Publication

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-

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978-0-335-21529-4

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xiii, 169 p.; 22 cm

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300.72 Ext e

Need to Know : Social Sceince Research Methods

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-7674-1317-2

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xiii, 293 p.; 24 cm.

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300.72 McI n

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ITEM RESPONSE THEORY

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ISBN/ISSN

978-1-59385-869-8

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xiii, 98 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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-

Call Number

150.28 Aya t

Need to Know : Social Science Research Methods

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-

ISBN/ISSN

007-123258-3

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xv, 303 p.; 23 cm.

Series Title

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300.072 Mcl n