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This book examines the American Quaker educational enterprise in Palestine since its establishment in the late nineteenth century during the Ottoman rule and into the British Mandate period. Quaker education intersected with national and social forces and allowed for Palestinian girls' negotiation of multiple discourses about nationalism, womanhood, and motherhood.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Narratives of the City -- 1 The Background to South Asian Settlement -- 2 Constructions of Whiteness -- 3 Transitions -- 4 The Household -- 5 The Neighbourhood -- 6 Education and the Workplace -- 7 Conclusion: Complexities and Connections -- Appendix: Biographical Details of Interviewees -- Bibliography

1. Introduction -- 2. Experience, failure, and thinking -- 3. The incorporation and transmission of traumatic experience -- 4. Misunderstood and repeated experience in Le Malentendu -- 5. Experience and control in higher education -- 6. Aloneness and its opposites -- 7. Hikikomori : deprived, isolated, and disfigured selves -- 8. 'Natural' experience and the state of nature.

FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. In-depth assessments reflect on the complexities of student activism, its impact on national and university governance, and offer provocative analyses of the power of the revolt

A personal note -- The meaning of development -- Meaning of sustainable development -- Culture and society -- Development of human societies -- Economy and society -- Economy and globalization -- Perspectives on development -- Cultural theory of development -- Obstacles to development -- Education and development -- Stages of sociocultural transformation -- Toward sustainable development -- A world in transition -- Concluding remarks

This book presents an intercultural perspective of social work education, practice, and research with culturally-linguistically-relationally underprivileged minority groups in the local and global communities, to show how the synthesis of theories from postmodern social constructionism, multiculturalism, and international organization empowerment can be applied when working with Asian immigrant families

This book discusses the causes of women's marginalization in Africa, addressing issues such as time poverty, lack of education, poor governance, human trafficking, and cultural practices such as early marriages and bride price. It provides recommendations on policies and initiatives that would elevate women's livelihood and societal standing in African countries.

In his new book, Ian Goldin considers the contributions that education, health, gender, equity and other dimensions of human well-being make to development, and discusses why it is also necessary to take into account the role of institutions and the rule of law as well as sustainability and environmental concerns

Guardians of tradition -- Native American spirituality -- First encounters with the Spaniards -- First encounters with the English -- First encounters with the French -- A young nation in the nineteenth century -- The education of Native American children -- Origins of modern mass entertainment -- American Indian women in Hollywood -- Epilogue: the resistance of Native American women

Momentum changes the conversation from how others are holding higher education accountable to why colleges and universities need to embrace the need to demonstrate their own responsibility. The responsibility paradigm that emerges fundamentally shifts the dialogue from fixing to preventing, from reacting to creating, from surviving to thriving.

Brendan O'Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis--incentives, equilibrium, optimization--to bear on racial issues. From health care, housing, and education, to employment, wealth, and crime, he shows how racial differences powerfully determine American lives, and how progress in one area is often constrained by diminishing returns in another.

Introduction -- Scale of the problem -- Young people's attitudes towards domestic abuse -- Preventative education -- Social marketing as domestic abuse prevention -- Young men's accounts of victimisation -- The impact of exposure to domestic violence on boys -- Young men's accounts of domestic abuse perpetration -- Under responsiveness to young men involved in domestic violence -- Conclusion.

Culture, understood broadly, lay at the heart of contrasting right-wing strategies for government in France during the pivotal decade of 2002-2012. Looking at issues of secularism, education, televisual performance, public memory and nation-branding Ahearne analyses how presidents Chirac and Sarkozy sought to redefine contemporary French identity.

Rapid and uneven change to the fabric of rural life is widespread in modern Middle Eastern countries. Modernisation, usually in the Western model, has often brought major improvements in agricultural technology, education and public health but has also had the effect of weakening the traditional rural economy of many villages and encouraging the.

State Profiles 2014 provides a ten-page profile for each U.S. state plus the District of Columbia provides reliable, up-to-date information on a wide range of topics, including: population, labor force, income and poverty, government finances, crime, education, health insurance coverage, voting, marital status, migration, and more.