This book explores the career paths of Australian women who have succeeded in achieving professorships and beyond, where for the most part, such positions are predominately occupied by males. It also explores the gendered culture that exists across faculties and universities as reported by participants in a survey questionnaire of 525 new professors (female and male), and nearly 30 interviews of women in Australian higher education, either in small focus groups or individually. Futher, it identifies catalysts for and inhibitors of success for women and looks in depth at "the boys' club" and how it impacts women's progression. The book also highlights how critical life decisions - doctoral study, work and family - shape the careers of academic women. It identifies five distinct career profiles for women academics and the pressure points and effective support for each profile. Thus, this book can assist women academics who are making life decisions and those supporting their career progression. It also provides insights into why affirmative action initiatives to improve the proportion of women in the professoriate have had minimal impact despite considerable investment over the past 30 years.

This book investigates the unique and dynamic approaches to key issues of changing images of child and childhood, by different countries in the Asia-Pacific. Key concepts considered are re-conceptualizing early childhood education and care, re-eaxming early learning standards and redefining professionalism. The Asia Pacific region includes countries belonging to both the Majority and Minority worlds and which vary widely in terms of their cultural geography, social-cultural beliefs, and levels of development, demographic profiles, political systems and government commitments to early childhood services. An international team of experienced researchers from different countries guarantees diverse perspectives. By examining different countries' policy choices and evidence-based practices, the authors show how best to provide for young children based on their countries' strategies.

Contents:
1. Parent and child conflict as a modernist understanding 2. Parent and child conflict as social control and regulation 3. Parent and child conflict as relationships of power 4. Researching with families 5. Gendered conflict 6. School is in 7. Tidying 8. Daily living as normalization and regulation

This book draws from Foucault's notion of power-knowledge-resistance and feminist poststructuralism to offer a re-theorisation of parent-child conflict that takes into account relationships between the individual and society. Employing this non-traditional perspective, Grieshaber studies four families and considers how issues such as race, class, gender and age, interact with daily domestic practice to produce parent-child conflict.

The American system of healthcare is rapidly changing. Today, more and more of an emphasis is being placed on management skills-organizing, coordinating and managing the resources required for providing quality patient care. Medical practitioners are now expected to be efficient administrators as well as skilled clinicians.
Although some may see this as a difficult hurdle, The Healthcare Practitioner's Handbook of Management shows that many healthcare providers are already well-prepared to perform management roles effectively. Through their education and clinical experience, most clinicians now have the problem-solving skills required for management - it's simply a matter of applying these skills to a different arena.
In keeping with this idea, each chapter of The Healthcare Practitioner's Handbook of Management links a management topic to a clinical analogy and presents diagnostic and treatment approaches to the issue at hand. In addition, the book introduces the healthcare professional to the vocabulary and basic theories of management and shows how to transform clinical skills into managerial skills. In today's complex health care environment, these management skills are not just helpful, but essential.

This book investigates the unique and dynamic approaches to key issues of changing images of child and childhood, by different countries in the Asia-Pacific. Key concepts considered are re-conceptualizing early childhood education and care, re-eaxming early learning standards and redefining professionalism. The Asia Pacific region includes countries belonging to both the Majority and Minority worlds and which vary widely in terms of their cultural geography, social-cultural beliefs, and levels of development, demographic profiles, political systems and government commitments to early childhood services. An international team of experienced researchers from different countries guarantees diverse perspectives. By examining different countries' policy choices and evidence-based practices, the authors show how best to provide for young children based on their countries' strategies.

Both traditional and progressive curricula are inadequate for the task of responding to the economic, political, social, and cultural changes that have occurred as a result of globalization. This book documents some of the ongoing work occurring in early childhood settings that is aimed at improving, and ultimately transforming, early childhood practice in these changed and changing times. The authors do not simply critique developmental approaches or the increasing standardization of the field. Instead, they describe how they are playing around with postmodern ideas in practice and developing unique approaches to the diverse educational circumstances that confront early childhood educators. Whether it is preparing teachers, using materials, or developing policies, each chapter provides readers with possibilities for enacting pedagogies that are responsive to the contemporary circumstances shaping the lives of young children.

Various endogenous and environmental challenges of homoiostasis have resulted in the evolution of apparently quite different mechanisms for the same or similar functions in individual representatives of the animal kingdom. One of the prominent achievements of comparative physiology over the last few decades has been the description of regula- tory features common to many studied species beyond the extreme diversity of their morphological forms. Delineation offunctional princi- ples universally applicable to the physiology and biochemistry of living systems became often possible through technical advances in the devel- opment of numerous new techniques, in many cases modified and adopted from other fields of science, but also by approaching certain problems using multifactorial analysis. The advance in technology has facilitated studies of minute functional details of mechanisms, which finally lead to better understanding of generally similar functions, covered by the multiple developments of Nature as a response to an extreme variety of different conditions. Improved understanding of specific mechanisms, however, has presented new problems at the level of system integration. The importance of the integrative aspect became particularly apparent during an international symposium on 'Mecha- nisms of Systemic Regulation in Lower Vertebrates: Respiration, Circu- lation, Ion Transfer and Metabolism' (organized in 1990 by Norbert Heisler and Johannes Piiper at the Max-Planck-Institut fUr experimen- telle Medizin at Gottingen/Germany).

This book questions some of the ideas about play that are held dear by many in early childhood education. For many early childhood professionals play is viewed as the essential aspect of children?s development and learning and play is often promoted as a universal and almost magical `fix? in the early years. Although play does have many benefits for children, there are other sides to play that are not so romantic, natural, or even particularly educational. 'The Trouble with Play' challenges such taken-for-granted understandings of play in early childhood education and shows how play is not always innocent or fun, that it can be unfair and unjust in the interactions children have with each other and with staff in early childhood settings.In addition to encouraging early years professionals to have new ways of seeing and thinking about play, the book also explores new approaches to pedagogy and the role for the teacher, including the use of 'play' as a powerful strategy for teaching and learning, as well as practical and productive strategies for bringing a critical perspective to issues around play.

Originally published in 1991, this book reviews the various metabolic and functional mechanisms that animals possess in order to live successfully in their own particular, often unique, environments. The book's purpose is to demonstrate both the diversity of responses that are shown (be they biochemical, physiological or behavioural) and to demonstrate the underlying principles of gas exchange and transport for a wide range of diverse organisms. What results is a useful review and analysis of our modern understanding of the respiratory physiology of helminths, crustacea, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The approach taken by the editors is essentially comparative and the individual authors were chosen so as to provide a useful, complementary view of the subject.

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Sozialpadagogik / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,0, Katholische Fachhochschule Freiburg im Breisgau (Soziale Arbeit), Veranstaltung: Sozialpolititk - Soziologie Vorlesung SS 2008, 9 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Industriegesellschaft wandelt sich in einem unumkehrbaren Prozess zu einer Dienstleistungs- und Wissensgesellschaft. Diese Arbeit mochte die Determinanten der Wissensgesellschaft aufzeigen, danach auf den gleichzeitig stattfindenden Familienwandel eingehen, sowie die aktuelle Familienpolitik in Deutschland kurz erlautern. Am Ende der Arbeit werden in einem Ausblick die familienpolitischen Leistungen den Herausforderungen der Wissensgesellschaft gegenubergestellt. Der 7. Familienbericht der Bundesregierung fordert eine nachhaltige Familienpolitik," welche sich vor allem dadurch auszeichnen soll, dass sie die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf fordert. Die Familienpolitik der Zukunft mochte dem Trend hin zu einer eher weiblich besetzten Dienstleistungs- und Wissensgesellschaft gerecht werden und gut qualifizierten Frauen die Moglichkeit einraumen trotz Erwerbskarriere ihren Kinderwunsch zu erfullen. Diese Arbeit erhebt keinen Anspruch auf Vollstandigkeit, sie versteht sich als Uberblick uber die aktuelle politisch und gesellschaftlich gefuhrte Familiendiskussion. Die wichtigsten Eckpunkte der geforderten nachhaltigen Familienpolitik" werden etwas ausfuhrlicher besprochen.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Sozialpadagogik / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,0, Katholische Fachhochschule Freiburg im Breisgau (Soziale Arbeit), Veranstaltung: Binationales Seminar Deutschland - Niederlande, 10 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit soll zu Beginn einen kurzen Uberblick uber die Sozialversicherungssysteme der beiden Lander Deutschland und Niederlande geben. Des weiteren wird vor allem auf die Problematik der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit naher eingegangen. Anhand aktueller Daten und Entwicklungen sollen danach die Institutionen und Integrationsmassnahmen der beiden Lander verglichen werde