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Educational policy; Early childhood systems; Aims of early childhood education; Education reform

Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits early- to mid-twentieth-century ethnographic studies, arguing that their focus on marginal subcultures—ranging from American hobos, to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to hippies, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California—helped produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly in the United States. Irvine demonstrates how the social scientists who told the stories of these marginalized groups represented an early challenge to then-dominant narratives of scientific racism, prefiguring the academic fields of gender, ethnic, sexuality, and queer studies in key ways. In recounting the social histories of certain American outsiders, Irvine identifies an American paradox by which social differences are both despised and desired, and she describes the rise of an outsider capitalism that integrates difference into American society by marketing it.

Olga Neuwirth's works are characterised by socio-political statements and great artistic openness. With installations, videos, operas, theatre music, films, vocal, instrumental and electronic music, she serves a wealth of genres whose boundaries are constantly being expanded and transcended. From Neuwirth's earliest works onwards, film, video, electronics and installation elements have found their way into genres such as chamber music, oratorio and opera. Neuwirth's works call for an examination of identity and memory, stability and processuality as well as utopia and dystopia. Many current aesthetic and philosophical discussions are thus reflected in her artistic work. The contributions in this volume aim to illuminate the artist's oeuvre in all its complexity and richness of relationships and to explore different - intermedial, music-historical and socio-critical - contexts.

Two leading feminist lawyers reflect on gender in international law to set out what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on international law in this open access book. In order to challenge orthodoxies, the book takes an unconventional approach, merging personal reflections, expert essays, and interviews. It throws the disciplinary net wide, drawing on international law, gender studies, international relations and history. The authors, undisputed global leaders in the field, challenge the reader to unlearn international law, in order to relearn it in a way that makes it more fit for purpose in the contemporary world. This seminal work is a clarion call to think about international law in a new and transformative way. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the London School of Economics & Political Science. For additional material on Gendered Peace Through International Law visit https://www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/gendered-peace-through-international-law

In the second century AD Aelius Aristides wrote eight prose hymns to Greek gods. This volume presents a new edition of the Greek text of four of these hymns (focusing on Asclepius), a new English translation with notes, and a number of essays shedding additional light on these texts from various perspectives.

Laminated Segment Timber (LST) consists of mutually glued trapezoidal lamellas made of Spruce. Due to the optimization of process parameters the wood yield can be increased to an average of 85 %. LST and layered LST are regulated in ETA-19/0832. Simulation studies deal with the characteristic bending strength at variing member depth and height as well as modifications in the production process.

Transport: general interest

Our modern legal system is based on the principle of equality. But is equality perhaps not also a concept that inadequately describes the complexity of normative orders? Highly differentiated societies with a multitude of collective identities and functional rationalities are in a permanent state of tension with this legal postulate. The contributions to this volume examine how this tension has developed in Europe and Latin America over the last 200 years

Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on the underlying ontologies and epistemologies of this paradigm remain scarce. This edited volume aims to strengthen the paradigmatic reflections about the social construction of death in thanatology and contribute to a theoretical reinforcement of the field. It also puts death and dying more explicitly on the agenda of social constructionist and social constructivist research in general, arguing that the study of death is important for these approaches. The thirteen contributions gathered in this volume, written by well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences), theorise the social construction of death and dying, and deploy it to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.

In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read from a feminist perspective? How do films, comics, and TV series depict the newly fashionable gunwomen between objectification and feminist empowerment? The contributions to this volume ask this question from different vantage points in cultural and literary studies, film and visual culture studies, history, and art history. They examine military and civic gun cultures, the rediscovery of historical armed women and revolutionaries, cultural phenomena such as gangsta rap, narcocultura and US politics, Bollywood and French cinema, and distinct genres such as the graphic novel, the romance novel, or the German police procedural Tatort.

In den letzten Jahren wurde eine Vielzahl von Konzepten zur Messung der konjunkturellen Wirkungen des öffentlichen Haushalts entwickelt. Diese Massstäbe werden ausführlich dargestellt und kritisch gewürdigt Darüber hinaus gelingt es mit Hilfe eines einfachen analytischen Rahmens, die grundsätzlichen Unterschiede bzw. Übereinstimmungen der Budgetindikatoren aufzuzeigen sowie die quantitative Bedeutung der strukturellen Unterschiede deutlich zu machen. Schliesslich werden die Möglichkeiten weiterer Verbesserungen erörtert.

Collaborative housing projects are becoming increasingly popular and are considered to be of high societal relevance. At the same time, a scientific and political discourse on the orientation towards the common good in the housing sector is taking place, increasingly highlighting collaborative housing projects. In this context, there are various actors who support collaborative housing projects in different ways. This paper investigates the role of these actors using the case study of Berlin. It examines the understanding of the actors of collaborative housing projects, their ways of working as well as the collaboration of these actors among themselves and with politics and administration. Relevant actors in Berlin have been identified with the help of desk research and subsequently, expert interviews have been conducted with five different actors. The analysis of the results shows that the actors are part of a tight network which is very much based on ideational beliefs and personal relationships. Despite their common goal, the actors differ in their course of actions, target groups and strategic orientation. However, in light of challenging political and economic conditions for collaborative housing projects and their supporting actors, their scope of action remains limited. While some of them try to influence political and administrative decision making, given the current circumstances the question as to what quantitative significance this form of housing can have in the future remains.

The monograph answers questions about the perception and viewpoints of languages and language varieties among high school students from Slovakia and Slovenia. With the help of surveys and language cards general linguistic, socioand psycholinguistic knowledge, stereotypes, preferences and identifications with languages and language varieties are analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The analyses show the following results: Slovene and Slovak as L1 of most high school students have a prestigious position, with high school students from Slovene strongly identifying with (traditional) regions. Neighboring countries and languages are less important in the linguistic world of high school students, although at the same time, a kind of hidden multilingualism can be observed. High school students from both countries share the same stereotypes about some European languages, and they agree with the same prejudices, even Eurocentric ones. Aesthetically, they prefer Romance languages, and they have little general linguistic and psycholinguistic knowledge as well as relatively little sociolinguistic knowledge. Based on all the results, recommendations for language and school policy in both countries have been made.

Quarante ans après la création de la série des Documents linguistiques de la Suisse romande, ce volume neuchâtelois fait suite au premier volume de la série paru voilà vingt ans : Ernest SCHÜLE, Rémy SCHEURER, Zygmunt MARZYS, Documents en langue française antérieurs à la fin du XIVe conservés dans les cantons du Jura et de Berne, 2002. Il contient la publication de 182 documents émis entre 1238 et le milieu du XIVe siècle, principalement des chartes, conservés dans les fonds d’archives neuchâtelois. Or, malgré des documents conservés essentiellement dans le canton de Neuchâtel, les actes publiés ici concernent pour une part importante les domaines bourguignon et franc-comtois. Cet état de fait est la conséquence non pas de l’émission de documents diplomatiques entre la Bourgogne et Neuchâtel, mais bien de la réception d’actes patrimoniaux par les Neuchâtel ou les seigneurs de Valangin suite à l’héritage ou l’inféodation de quelque seigneurie. Aussi, ce volume, consacré au canton de Neuchâtel, territoire historiquement francoprovençal, n’offre que rarement l’occasion de découvrir, mêlée d’ancien français, cette langue historique de la Suisse romande. Néanmoins, c’est par la présence d’un riche glossaire et d’index onomastiques fournis et fouillés qu’il est possible d’y découvrir quelque trésor patrimonial.

Marine ecosystems, a very wide topic, includes many different processes, groups of organisms and geographical peculiarities. The objective of this book is to present various topics of great importance for understanding the marine ecosystems, what they are, how they work and how we can model them in order to forecast their behaviour under changing conditions. They have been thoroughly reviewed and accepted for publication. The chapters cover aspects such as: Threats to ultraoligotrophic marine ecosystems (Ch. 1); Modelling the pelagic ecosystem dynamics: the NW Mediterranean (Ch. 2); The marine ecosystem of the Sub-antarctic, Prince Edward Islands (Ch. 3); Meiofauna as a tool for marine ecosystem biomonitoring (Ch. 4); Chemical interactions in Antarctic marine benthic ecosystems (Ch. 5); An Interdisciplinary Approach on Erosion Mitigation for Coral Reef Protection- A Case Study from the Eastern Caribbean (Ch. 6); A revisit to the evolution and ecophysiology of the Labyrinthulomycetes (Ch. 7); Seabed mapping and marine spatial planning: a case-study from a Swedish marine protected area (Ch. 8); Management strategies to limit the impact of bottom trawling on VMEs in the High Seas of the SW Atlantic (Ch. 9); Hydrocarbon contamination and the swimming behavior of the estuarine copepod Eurytemora affinis (Ch. 10), and Interactions between marine ecosystems and tourism on the Adriatic and Mediterranean (Ch. 11).