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International Perspectives on Inclusion within Society and
Education explores how the theme of inclusion in education and
society plays out across different nations and cultures. Covering
topics like dual citizenship, political loyalty, and migration, it
includes important discussions around poverty, educational
disadvantage, youth radicalisation and inequality. With
perspectives from a wide range of countries, including the USA, UK,
Finland, Kosovo, Albania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, the
Czech Republic, Slovakia and India, this book explores how issues
of inclusion are often decided by a majority for the majority,
which can lead to included minorities feeling disadvantaged and
paradoxically excluded. While setting up a strong case for
inclusion in society and education, it considers factors such as
poverty and mental health both nationally and internationally and
evaluates the effectiveness of additional financial resources and
educational support in creating an inclusive world. This book will
be of great interest for academics, researchers, and post graduate
students in the fields of comparative education, inclusive
education, sociology, political sciences and social work.
This volume examines the dynamics of socio-political order in
post-colonial states across the Pacific Islands region and West
Africa in order to elaborate on the processes and practices of
peace formation. Drawing on field research and engaging with
post-liberal conceptualisations of peacebuilding, this book
investigates the interaction of a variety of actors and
institutions involved in the provision of peace, security and
justice in post-colonial states. The chapters analyse how different
types of actors and institutions involved in peace formation engage
in and are interpenetrated by a host of relations in the local
arena, making 'the local' contested ground on which different
discourses and praxes of peace, security and justice coexist and
overlap. In the course of interactions, new and different forms of
socio-political order emerge which are far from being captured
through the familiar notions of a liberal peace and a Weberian
ideal-type state. Rather, this volume investigates how (dis)order
emerges as a result of interdependence among agents, thus laying
open the fundamentally relational character of peace formation.
This innovative relational, liminal and integrative understanding
of peace formation has far-reaching consequences for
internationally supported peacebuilding. This book will be of much
interest to students of statebuilding, peace studies, security
studies, governance, development and IR.
The Shifting Global World of Youth and Education explores how
increasing migration and population changes are having an
unprecedented impact on global education. Given that the number of
children of migrant background is growing internationally, there is
a need for increasing awareness of the educational attainment and
cultural integration of this population group. This book presents
international perspectives on migration and youth and analyses what
kinds of effects such demographic changes are having on educational
systems around the world. The chapters in this volume provide a
fascinating insight into how countries around the world are dealing
with loss or growth in their young population as well as changes to
their education systems. Written by specialist academics from the
relevant country, the book covers Cuba, Lithuania, the United
Kingdom, the United States, Finland, Greece, Germany, Austria,
Hungary, Latvia, China, Australia, India, Italy and Poland. Taking
into consideration the countries' social and political context, the
chapters discuss educational issues surrounding curriculum,
assessment and the opportunities available for the support of young
people. Conclusions are drawn about what could be done in the
future for the benefit of both the migrant and the existing
populations. The Shifting Global World of Youth and Education will
be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate
students in the disciplines of education, sociology, political
sciences and social work. The book will also give secondary
teachers, teaching assistants, social workers and youth workers the
opportunity to reflect on their role within a national and
international context.
The Shifting Global World of Youth and Education explores how
increasing migration and population changes are having an
unprecedented impact on global education. Given that the number of
children of migrant background is growing internationally, there is
a need for increasing awareness of the educational attainment and
cultural integration of this population group. This book presents
international perspectives on migration and youth and analyses what
kinds of effects such demographic changes are having on educational
systems around the world. The chapters in this volume provide a
fascinating insight into how countries around the world are dealing
with loss or growth in their young population as well as changes to
their education systems. Written by specialist academics from the
relevant country, the book covers Cuba, Lithuania, the United
Kingdom, the United States, Finland, Greece, Germany, Austria,
Hungary, Latvia, China, Australia, India, Italy and Poland. Taking
into consideration the countries' social and political context, the
chapters discuss educational issues surrounding curriculum,
assessment and the opportunities available for the support of young
people. Conclusions are drawn about what could be done in the
future for the benefit of both the migrant and the existing
populations. The Shifting Global World of Youth and Education will
be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate
students in the disciplines of education, sociology, political
sciences and social work. The book will also give secondary
teachers, teaching assistants, social workers and youth workers the
opportunity to reflect on their role within a national and
international context.
International Perspectives on Inclusion within Society and
Education explores how the theme of inclusion in education and
society plays out across different nations and cultures. Covering
topics like dual citizenship, political loyalty, and migration, it
includes important discussions around poverty, educational
disadvantage, youth radicalisation and inequality. With
perspectives from a wide range of countries, including the USA, UK,
Finland, Kosovo, Albania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, the
Czech Republic, Slovakia and India, this book explores how issues
of inclusion are often decided by a majority for the majority,
which can lead to included minorities feeling disadvantaged and
paradoxically excluded. While setting up a strong case for
inclusion in society and education, it considers factors such as
poverty and mental health both nationally and internationally and
evaluates the effectiveness of additional financial resources and
educational support in creating an inclusive world. This book will
be of great interest for academics, researchers, and post graduate
students in the fields of comparative education, inclusive
education, sociology, political sciences and social work.
Exploring Childhood in a Comparative Context meets an increasing
need for students focusing on early childhood to be familiar with
alternative practices in other countries. Providing a ready-made
source of information about a wide range of countries including
Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, New Zealand, Japan,
South Africa and many more, the book clearly describes the way each
country understands and conceptualises childhood. Each chapter
includes contextual information about the country, an introduction
to the theory that has shaped practice and describes the curriculum
for pre-school and primary education. Including vignettes from
practitioners working in each country to illustrate practice, the
chapters explore key themes such as: Child development Parental
involvement Teaching and learning Professionalism Assessment Pupil
experience. Accessibly written and including opportunities for
reflection, this timely new book will give students a valuable
insight into alternative education systems that is essential if
they are to become practitioners with a current and global
approach.
From Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.
Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: when your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create.
This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and new approaches are needed to manage an era defined by even more powerful inventions like artificial intelligence. Companies that create technology must accept greater responsibility for the future, and governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and catching up with the pace of innovation.
In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a captivating narrative from the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no pre-existing playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges for democracy, far and near. While in no way a self-glorifying "Microsoft memoir," the book pulls back the curtain remarkably wide onto some of the company's most crucial recent decision points as it strives to protect the hopes technology offers against the very real threats it also presents. There are huge ramifications for communities and countries, and Brad Smith provides a thoughtful and urgent contribution to that effort.
In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith takes us behind the scenes on some of the biggest stories to hit the tech industry in the past decade and some of the biggest threats we face. From Edward Snowden's NSA leak to the NHS WannaCry ransomware attack, this book is essential reading to understand what's happening in the world around us.
A new interpretation of Celtic Christianity, supported by images of
Christ taken from manuscripts, metalwork and sculpture, and showing
how it departed from continental practice largely due to a
differing perception and application of Pelagianism. Christ in
Celtic Christianity gives a new interpretation of the nature of
Christianity in Celtic Britain and Ireland from the fifth to the
tenth century. The written and visual evidence on which the authors
base their argument includes images of Christ created in and for
this milieu, taken from manuscripts, metalwork and sculpture and
reproduced in this study. The authors challenge the received
opinion that Celtic Christians were in unity with Romein all
matters except the method of Easter reckoning and the shape of the
clerical tonsure. They find, on the contrary, that the strain of
the Pelagian heresy which rooted itself in Britain in the early
fifth century influenced the theology and practice of the Celtic
monastic Churches on both sides of the Irish Sea for several
hundred years, creating a theological spectrum quite distinct from
that of continental establishments. MICHAEL W. HERRENis Professor
of Classics and Distinguished Research Professor at York University
(Toronto), a member of the Graduate Faculty at the Centre for
Medieval Studies in the University of Toronto, and an Honorary
Member of the Royal Irish Academy; SHIRLEY ANN BROWN is Professor
of Art History and a member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at
York University.
This three volume set concentrates on Henry James, Edith Wharton
and Oscar Wilde, all born into wealthy society and who spent their
literary careers documenting and satirising this millieu. This
collection includes digitally cleaned facsimile reprints and a wide
range of documents written by the authors' contemporaries.
Whether you're visiting the park for a day hike or spending a long
weekend under the stars, escape to the great outdoors with Moon
Best of Yosemite. Inside you'll find: * Easy itineraries for one to
three days in Yosemite National Park, from a morning drive along
the Tioga Pass Road, to a day hike along the Panorama Trail, to a
full weekend exploring the park * The top hikes in Yosemite:
Whether you're looking to stretch your legs for a couple hours or
challenge yourself to an epic trek, you'll find trailheads,
detailed trail descriptions, individual maps, mileage, and
elevation gains * Can't-miss experiences: Make it the perfect
getaway for you with lists of the best waterfalls, scenic drives,
views, picnic spots, and more. Ride the open-air tram through
Yosemite Valley or hike downhill from Glacier Point past roaring
waterfalls. Admire the towering trees in the Mariposa Grove of
Giant Sequoias, or spot black bears and bighorn sheep. Find outdoor
recreation suggestions for every season, from rafting to
snowshoeing, and discover lesser-known spots for avoiding crowds *
Stunning full-colour photos and maps throughout, plus a full-colour
foldout map * Essential planning tips: Find out when to go, where
to stay, and what to pack, plus up-to-date information on entrance
fees, reservations, and safety advice * Know-how from outdoorswoman
and Yosemite expert Ann Marie Brown Make the most of your adventure
with Moon Best of Yosemite. Visiting more of North America's
incredible national parks? Try Moon USA National Parks.
In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates
why so many science fiction writers have turned to Shakespeare when
imagining humanity's future. He and his works become a kind of
touchstone for the species in much science fiction, both
transcending and exemplifying what it means to be human. Writers
have used Shakespeare in a range of often contradictory ways. He is
associated with freedom and with tyranny, with optimistic visions
of space exploration and with the complete destruction of the human
race. His works have been invoked to justify the existence of
humanity, but have also frequently been coopted for their own
purposes by alien life forms or artificial intelligences.
Shakespeare and Science Fiction is the first extended study of
Shakespeare's influence on the genre. It draws on over a hundred
works across different science fiction media, identifying recurring
patterns - and telling contradictions - in the way science fiction
engages with Shakespeare. It includes discussions of time travel,
alternate history, dystopias, space opera, posthuman identity and
post-apocalyptic fiction.
This volume examines the dynamics of socio-political order in
post-colonial states across the Pacific Islands region and West
Africa in order to elaborate on the processes and practices of
peace formation. Drawing on field research and engaging with
post-liberal conceptualisations of peacebuilding, this book
investigates the interaction of a variety of actors and
institutions involved in the provision of peace, security and
justice in post-colonial states. The chapters analyse how different
types of actors and institutions involved in peace formation engage
in and are interpenetrated by a host of relations in the local
arena, making 'the local' contested ground on which different
discourses and praxes of peace, security and justice coexist and
overlap. In the course of interactions, new and different forms of
socio-political order emerge which are far from being captured
through the familiar notions of a liberal peace and a Weberian
ideal-type state. Rather, this volume investigates how (dis)order
emerges as a result of interdependence among agents, thus laying
open the fundamentally relational character of peace formation.
This innovative relational, liminal and integrative understanding
of peace formation has far-reaching consequences for
internationally supported peacebuilding. This book will be of much
interest to students of statebuilding, peace studies, security
studies, governance, development and IR.
Migration and the Education of Young People 0-19 investigates
migration from a number of perspectives to consider the changing
dynamics of society within different countries. Examining the data
associated with global migration by focusing on case studies from a
wide range of countries, it provides detailed and balanced coverage
of this politically sensitive topic to explore the educational
needs of migrant young people, the impact of large-scale migration
to and from countries and the policy challenges that individual
countries face when ensuring adequate provision for migrant young
people within their education systems. Chapters cover: The reasons
why people might move Social and emotional learning in Britain: a
tool to guard against cultural pollution? Migration into a global
city: the economic and educational success of London Latvian people
on the move and the impact on education People's movement - Greece
Return migration in Lithuania: incoming challenges for children's
education The United States, Latin America, immigration and
education Tanzanian street children: victims, ordinary lives or
extraordinary survivors? This book explores the changing social
dynamics through an extensive range of case studies and will be an
essential resource for students taking undergraduate and
postgraduate courses in education, sociology and international
relations.
Migration and the Education of Young People 0-19 investigates
migration from a number of perspectives to consider the changing
dynamics of society within different countries. Examining the data
associated with global migration by focusing on case studies from a
wide range of countries, it provides detailed and balanced coverage
of this politically sensitive topic to explore the educational
needs of migrant young people, the impact of large-scale migration
to and from countries and the policy challenges that individual
countries face when ensuring adequate provision for migrant young
people within their education systems. Chapters cover: The reasons
why people might move Social and emotional learning in Britain: a
tool to guard against cultural pollution? Migration into a global
city: the economic and educational success of London Latvian people
on the move and the impact on education People's movement - Greece
Return migration in Lithuania: incoming challenges for children's
education The United States, Latin America, immigration and
education Tanzanian street children: victims, ordinary lives or
extraordinary survivors? This book explores the changing social
dynamics through an extensive range of case studies and will be an
essential resource for students taking undergraduate and
postgraduate courses in education, sociology and international
relations.
Wild animals survive in a variety of complex environments; they are
exposed to predictable and unpredictable changes in their
particular environment on a daily or seasonal basis. However, we
live in a time when almost all natural environments are undergoing
relatively rapid change, and many of these changes, such as the
pollution of air and water, removal of natural food sources,
environment fragmentation, and climate change, are the result of
human activity. Animal Physiology: an environmental perspective
shows how an understanding of the physiology of animals in their
natural habitats helps us to understand not only how and why
animals evolved the way they did, but how we can act to protect at
least some of them from the extreme effects of the changes
affecting their environments. Part One sets the foundation for the
topics covered in the remainder of the book by introducing a range
of fundamental processes that are essential to life. It considers
the diversity of habitats on Earth in which animals live, and
examines animal groups and their evolutionary relationships. It
then explores the different feeding strategies used by animals to
obtain the energy they require to carry out all the essential
functions of life, and how animals convert the chemical energy in
food molecules into the energy they need to power all body
functions. Finally, it explores the general properties of animal
cells, and how animals maintain a suitable internal environment in
which their cells are protected from external influences. We then
examine those fundamental principles governing the main exchanges
between the cells within animals, and between an animal and its
environment. Parts two to four of the book explore how different
organ systems - respiratory and circulatory systems, excretory
organs and endocrine systems - enable animals to interact with
their environment, and how environmental temperature profoundly
affects the physiology of animals. Part five considers how the
sensory and nervous systems provide animals with information on
their internal as well as their external environment, and how they,
together with the endocrine system, are involved in the control and
co-ordination of muscles, reproduction, salt and water balance, and
the cardio-respiratory systems. Digital formats and resources
Animal Physiology: an environmental perspective is supported by
online resources and is available for students and institutions to
purchase in a variety of formats. The e-book offers a mobile
experience and convenient access along with functionality tools,
navigation features and links that offer extra learning support:
www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks The book's online resources
include: For students: - Original articles: a list of original
articles consulted during the writing of each chapter so that you
can explore the original research for yourself. - Additional case
studies and experimental approach panels to augment those in the
printed book. - Answers to numerical questions: full solutions to
numerical questions so that you can verify your working. For
registered adopters of the text: - Digital image library: Includes
electronic files in JPG format of every illustration, photo, graph
and table from the text
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