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Digitalisierung in der Hochschulbildung für Soziale Arbeit
No full textDie Digitalisierung verändert möglicherweise die Hochschulbildung für Soziale Arbeit in vielfältiger Weise. Dabei können neue oder veränderte Strukturen, Bildungsformate und Prüfungsmodalitäten in Erscheinung treten. Was potentiell neue Anforderungen und Erwartungen an Bildungsprozesse sowohl für Lehrende als auch Lernende und Dritte nach sich zieht. In diesem Sammelband befassen sich Autor:innen aus Wissenschaft und Forschung mit aktuellen und zukünftigen Entwicklungen, Konzepten und Perspektiven von digitaler Hochschulbildung
Enseñar, aprender e investigar la Planificación Territorial
No full textThis book is composed of a general introduction followed by 18 chapters written by teachers and researchers from TU Delft, as well as frequent collaborators, each describing an issue or tool used in Spatial Planning, as it is taught and researched at our university. The book aims to give readers around the world an introduction to how spatial planning is conceived at TU Delft. Spatial planning is a highly idiosyncratic discipline and is conceived differently around the world. In most places, spatial planning is part of an architectural approach to the city, in which design exists almost autonomously, while in other places it is part of a political-economical approach to the city. What distinguishes Delft is the bridge we have managed to build between design and politics, and the way we understand space as foundational for the understanding of socio-economic processes. This is anchored on a Dutch tradition of city-making in which issues of “maakbaarheid” (roughly translated by “feasibility”), a guiding concept in Dutch society, which was built upon an exceedingly difficult territory to plan, design and manage. Spatial planning in the Netherlands is hence a combination of planning, design and management that is unique. Simultaneously, spatial planning as a discipline in the Netherlands is rather forward-thinking and uniquely equipped to deal with the great societal challenges of our time (climate change, pandemics, growing inequality, etc) and may be useful for students and teachers elsewhere seeking to learn from other traditions. Each chapter addresses issues that we see as central to the way of teaching and researching spatial planning
Chapter Introduction
No full textExamining the lives and work of feminist thinkers throughout history, this book explores their struggles with politics, intellectual work, and material and existential conditions of femininity. A new introduction to this second edition resituates these themes in contemporary feminist literature and theory. Feminist autobiographical accounts exploring multiple lives and loves, encounters with political comrades and enemies, and frustrations with social expectations about feminine respectability, offer tastes of feminist lives across history and situation. But the stories are not always inspirational or exemplary. How do feminists survive and thrive in situations marked by intersecting harms of sexism, racism, and colonial and capitalist extraction? Thinking beyond representation and empathy as ways to connect, this book features disorienting and disruptive examples from feminist experiments in living and explores the uncomfortable feelings they invite in readers. Insisting that feminists should read the autobiographies and memoirs of feminist actors alongside their theoretical contributions, the volume features the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Ida B. Wells, Audre Lorde, Azar Nafisi, Ana Castillo, Carolyn Kay Steedman, Germaine de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft, and more. Written for students and scholars of Women’s History, and everyone who “feels like a feminist,” this book embodies and electrifies the feminist insight that the personal is political
Fear the Future
No full textAfter centuries of contemplating utopias, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers began to warn of dystopian futures. Yet these fears extended beyond the canonical texts of dystopian fiction into postwar discourses on totalitarianism, mass society, and technology, as well as subsequent political theories of freedom and domination. Fear the Future demonstrates the centrality of dystopian thinking to twentieth century political thought, showing the pervasiveness of dystopian images, themes, and anxieties.
Offering a novel reading of major themes and thinkers, Fear the Future explores visions of the future from literary figures such as Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell; political theorists such as Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, and Michel Foucault; and mid-century social scientists such as Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, David Reisman, C. Wright Mills, and Jacques Ellul. It offers a comparative analysis of distinct intellectual and literary traditions, including modern utopianism and anti-utopianism, midcentury social science, Frankfurt School critical theory, and continental political philosophy. With detailed case studies of key thinkers from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century, the book synthesizes secondary literature and research from a range of disciplinary areas, including in political theory, intellectual history, literary studies, and utopian studies. This wide-ranging reconstruction shows that while dystopian thinking has illustrated the dangers of domination and dehumanization, it has also illuminated new possibilities for freedom
The 21st Century Ladz
No full textThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.
School-to-work transition studies have a rich sociological history that has traditionally focused on marginalised young men, until recently. Returning the focus to the most marginalised working-class young within a contemporary context, The 21st Century Ladz explores changing ideas of manhood, masculinities and social class identity.
Drawing on a qualitative study, Gater studies the school-to-work transition and formation of masculinity of a group of marginalised working-class young men from the South Wales Valleys. Filling a gap in the literature by challenging the notion that marginalised working-class young men are synonymous with protest masculinity and historically associated behaviours and views including anti-learning, manual employment aspirations, homophobia, sexism, suppression of emotion and avoidance of physical tactility, this work identifies key continuity and changes in young men's views and behavior. The author offers a new concept to masculinities studies in the form of amalgamated masculinities, which is understood as a fusion of locally constructed protest masculine characteristics and softer masculine attributes adopted through external cultural influence. Chronicling a “rupturing process” or the destabilisation of masculine beliefs associated with protest masculinity, Gater highlights softer displays of masculinity in this sub-group.
Delving into the intersections of marginalised working-class young men, social class, education, employment and masculinities, this era-defining text offers a fresh perspective on the study of working-class young men
Narrativas sobre la preparación del abono afrobalseño
No full textPublishedUna noche clara inició a oscurecer y la luna apareció resplandeciente en el firmamento claro porque el astro está presente, de repente salen los abuelos Gumercindo Mina e Isabel, cada noche el escenario era salir con su familia al patio de la casa, luego se escucha la voz del abuelo —¡Gumercindo, Henry, Nidia, Yolanda y Edier! Vengan a buscar la leña para que encendamos la fogata, ustedes saben que la leña debe colocarse una sobre otra, dejando espacio entre cada palo de leña seca para que el fuego no se ahogue y actúe el oxígeno
Historische und bildungshistorische Perspektiven auf Inklusion und Heterogenität in Erziehung, Bildung und Schule
No full textDie Beiträge in diesem Band brechen im Sinne einer Zeitkapsel aus der bildungswissenschaftlichen Perspektive der letzten 25 Jahre aus und eröffnen explizit historische Einsichten in die Auseinandersetzung mit Inklusion und Heterogenität. So werden Konzepte, Modelle, Theorien und Entwicklungen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert sowie neuzeitliche, aufklärerische und humanistische Verständnisse präsentiert. Die historische Betrachtung von Inklusion und Heterogenität erfolgte bislang nahezu ausschließlich in der Erziehungswissenschaft, den Fachwissenschaften und den zugehörigen Fachdidaktiken. Der Band überwindet disziplinäre Grenzen und beleuchtet Inklusion und Heterogenität aus historischer und bildungshistorischer Perspektive sowie trans-, inter- und intradisziplinär. Damit würdigt er einen bislang eher randständig betrachteten historischen Diskursabschnitt
Preventing Violence
No full textAvailable open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Preventing Violence argues that we can move towards safer and better societies by advancing holistic public health approaches to violence prevention.
It explores the serious limitations of contemporary public health approaches and proposes an alternative path forward. Based on data from a three-year, ESRC-funded project 'Public Health, Youth and Violence Reduction', it also examines in-depth the work of 20 Violence Reduction Units in England and Wales.
The book makes clear recommendations for policy makers, practitioners and researchers working to prevent violence and improve the lives of children and young people
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
No full textThe open access book set LNCS 15696, 15697 and 15698 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2025, which was held as part of the International Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2025, during May 3-8, 2025, in Hamilton, Canada. The 46 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. The proceedings also include 14 papers from the Software Verification competition which was held as part of TACAS. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Program analysis, ATP and rewriting; model checking; LTL; verification; Part II: SAT and SMT solving; proofs and certificates; synthesis; equivalence checking; games; Part III: Verification; quantum and GPU; 14th Competition on Software Verification, SV-COMP 2025
Case Studies of Linguistic Representations of Motion
No full textHow languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. Based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in almost 20 languages, Motion Event Descriptions from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective provides new descriptions and proposals on this fascinating topic. Volume 1 discusses individual languages in Europe, Africa, and Asia