The book deals with a historically unique case of international transfer of professional knowledge and techniques in social care and social work. Principles of modern social work were introduced to the Jewish Jishuv (pre-state community) in Palestine largely by German-Jewish welfare experts who immigrated in the 1930s. These social workers, mostly women and trained at the schools for social work in Weimar Germany, used the experiences they had gained in Germany and modified them according to the conditions in Palestine. This book outlines the steps that have led to the establishment of a modern system of social welfare (social policy, social work, social pedagogy) in Germany, in the Jewish community in Germany and finally in Jewish Palestine. The beginning of this process can be traced back to the late nineteenth century and extends to the late 1940s.

Economic Lessons from the Transition focuses on major transitions in the 1990s: the transition from central planning and communism to market capitalism and the global integration of national financial systems. The transitions were supposed to raise most peoples' standard of living; instead they dramatically worsened the lives of most people in the countries involved. While most attempts to explain this failure focus on policies, the authors of this book argue that failure of economic theory to fully understand these transitions has led to bad policies that made the transitions unnecessarily painful and costly. The book suggests answers to the following questions: How should basic economic theory as taught in introductory economics courses be revised in light of the failure of market-oriented economics to effect a successful transition in so many former communist economies? Could the theory be revised and presented in a different manner? How can basic economic theory be used to help explain the past failures in understanding transition problems and to avoid future mistakes? This volume is a must read for all who teach economics or apply economics to the real world. The lessons in

Economic Lessons from the Transition focuses on major transitions in the 1990s: the transition from central planning and communism to market capitalism and the global integration of national financial systems. The transitions were supposed to raise most peoples' standard of living; instead they dramatically worsened the lives of most people in the countries involved. While most attempts to explain this failure focus on policies, the authors of this book argue that failure of economic theory to fully understand these transitions has led to bad policies that made the transitions unnecessarily painful and costly. The book suggests answers to the following questions: How should basic economic theory as taught in introductory economics courses be revised in light of the failure of market-oriented economics to effect a successful transition in so many former communist economies? Could the theory be revised and presented in a different manner? How can basic economic theory be used to help explain the past failures in understanding transition problems and to avoid future mistakes? This volume is a "must read" for all who teach economics or apply economics to the real world.

Die Literatur zu den etablierten Methoden der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung ist zahlreich. Was bislang fehlt, ist eine Grundlegung dieser Forschungsmethoden mit Blick auf die spezifischen Gegebenheiten und Bedurfnisse der Erziehungswissenschaft. In diesem Band wird auf aktuellstem Stand in alle gangigen Forschungsmethoden der Erziehungswissenschaft eingefuhrt. Knappe wissenschaftsgeschichtliche und wissenschaftstheoretische Hinweise erleichtern die Einordnung. Das Buch stellt die texthermeneutischen Methoden ebenso vor wie die qualitativ- und die quantitativ-empirischen Methoden. Die zahlreich eingestreuten Beispiele stammen alle aus der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Forschung. Ziel ist es, dass nach der Lekture kleine Forschungsprojekte eigenstandig geplant und durchgefuhrt werden konnen - von der Problemstellung uber die Hypothesenbildung und Datengewinnung bis zur Auswertung und Interpretation der Daten.