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Bedingungslose Kinder- und Jugendhilfe
(2024-02-28)
Die Kinder- und Jugendhilfe gilt als öffentliche Infrastruktur der Erziehung und Bildung. Einer Inanspruchnahme von Hilfen zur Erziehung im Rahmen der KJH geht die Feststellung eines erzieherischen Bedarfs voraus. Demnach steht häufig eine Defizitdiagnose elterlicher Erziehung und Bildung am Beginn einer Hilfe, mit nicht selten stigmatisierender Wirkung. Der vorliegende Schwerpunkt beschäftigt sich mit den Perspektiven einer „Bedingungslosen Kinder- und Jugendhilfe“, womit nach den Möglichkeiten einer breiten und ...
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Conditional Freedoms: Non-State Labour in Cuba between Institutional Delegitimisation and Civic Recognition
(2023-09-11)
During the height of its power over everyday life, between 1968 and 1993, the Cuban Communist Party outlawed virtually all non-state labour and exchange. Since then, however, its continuity in power has increasingly depended on devolution: shifting responsibility for the provision of basic goods and services from failing state enterprises back to the self-employed. The latter now produce the majority of food and basic products; receive most of the national income from tourism, remittances and foreign investment; and ...
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Imagined publics - On the structural transformation of higher education and science. A post-Habermas perspective
(2023-10-03)
Referring to Habermas’ groundbreaking book ‘The structural transformation of the public sphere’, the article discusses contemporary transformations of higher education and science. In order to do so, in a first step a post-Habermas perspective will be developed, which implies two changes to the theoretical foundations guiding Habermas’ analysis: On the one hand, we are in the midst of a social transformation that has led to a pluralization of the understandings of the public – that is, publics. The representation of ...
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Legal Struggles: A Social Theory Perspective on Strategic Litigation and Legal Mobilisation
(2023-03-08)
Social movements, NGOs and other political actors often mobilise the law for social change. Strategic litigation and collective legal mobilisation can be key instruments to face current political challenges like the climate crisis, human rights violations against refugees or the exploitation of workers along global supply chains. Although these struggles are framed by a societal context and have impacts on the political and juridical fields, the literature about legal mobilisation still does not decidedly engage with ...
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Health promotion for the unemployed: the evaluation of the JOBS Program Germany from the trainers’ perspective
(2023-11-17)
Background
The JOBS Program Germany is a labor market integrative and health promotion intervention for unemployed people. This study examines JOBS Program Germany trainers’ view of (1) the theoretical concept of the JOBS Program, (2) its practical implementation in Germany on-site, (3) its acceptance by participants, and (4) the training effects. The study aimed at identifying potential for adaption allowing adjustments to improve the practical implementation and the training effectiveness.
Methods
JOBS Program ...
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Challenges in Solid Waste Management: Insights Into the Disposal Behavior of Suburban Consumers in Guatemala City
(2021-07-09)
Help, I need to get rid of it! In suburban areas of Guatemala City, inhabitants dispose of their household waste by burning it on their private property. Garbage collection coverage in the capital is inadequate, with only 85% of the generated waste being collected and collection rates in suburban areas lag far behind. This study examines the critical events, decisions and emotions linked with the disposition of household items of impoverished consumers living in the suburban area of Cumbre de San Nicolás near Guatemala ...
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New Skills Unlocked
(Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, 2024)
Wie kommunizieren die »Lego«-Spiele mit uns ganz ohne Sprache? Spielen wir in »Die Sims« wirklich Gott, wie es die Werbung verspricht? Was macht historische Spiele authentisch und wie lenkt die Kamera unseren Blick auf Körper in Videospielen?
Diesen und noch vielen anderen Fragen geht der Sammelband nach und zeigt damit Verbindungen von Game Studies und fachwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven auf. Dafür werden Theorien, Methoden und Impulse aus den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften und angrenzenden Gebieten (u.a. ...