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  • Risk, Resilience, and Recovery Across Global Education Systems

    The Long-Term Impact of Pandemic Reforms

    Edited by Louis Volante, Kristof De Witte, Orazio Giancola, Luca Salmieri, Don A. Klinger ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    This book provides a critical review of the long-term effectiveness of education and social protection policies enacted by G10 countries in response to the global pandemic.The COVID-19 pandemic caused the most significant disruption to education systems since the devastation of World War II. Successive waves and variants of the coronavirus resulted in school closures and spurred a range of policy ... Read more

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  • Aging in Canada

    by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care

    by John Harris, Vicky White ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    This new edition has been fully revised and updated to provide over 1,800 A-Z definitions of terms from the field of social care, concentrating on social work as a significant area within this field. Covering social work theories, methods, policies, organizations, and statutes, as well as key terms from interdisciplinary topics overlapping with health and education, this is the most up-to-date ... Read more

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  • The Autism Industrial Complex

    How Branding, Marketing, and Capital Investment Turned Autism into Big Business

    by Alicia A. Broderick ...
    A 2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award WinnerAutism—a concept that barely existed 75 years ago—currently feeds multiple, multi-billion-dollar-a-year, global industries.In The Autism Industrial Complex: How Branding, Marketing, and Capital Investment Turned Autism into Big Business, Alicia A. Broderick analyzes how we got from the 11 children first identified by Leo Kanner in 1943 as “autistic” to the ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Marginalized Youth

    Not in Education, Employment, or Training Around the World

    Edited by Mark Levels, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Craig Holmes, Janine Jongbloed, Hirofumi Taki ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
    This book studies young people who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET); a prime concern among policymakers. Moving past common interpretations of NEETs as a homogeneous group, it asks why some youth become NEET, whereas other do not. The authors analyse diverse school-to-work patterns of young NEETs in five typical countries and investigate the role of individual characteristics, ... Read more

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  • Empirical Legal Research

    A Guidance Book for Lawyers, Legislators and Regulators

    by Frans L. Leeuw ...
    In 1788 John Adams created a sublime ambition for all nations - 'a government of laws and not of men'. In the intervening years we have come to learn that legislation itself works through the interpretations of the many men and women who work on the inside and the outside of the law. Effective regulation thus depends not only on scrupulous legal analysis, with its appeal to precedent, conceptual ... Read more

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  • Inherited Inequality

    Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families

    by Christina J. Cross ...
    A Foreword INDIES Award WinnerA groundbreaking study challenges basic tenets of US social welfare policy with proof that raising Black children in two-parent families does not close racial gaps in life outcomes.Ever since Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s controversial 1965 report on “The Negro Family,” the disadvantages of the single-parent household have been at the center of debates about racial ... Read more

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  • How to QuantCrit

    Applying Critical Race Theory to Quantitative Data in Education

    by Wendy Castillo, Kamden K. Strunk ...
    How to QuantCrit equips researchers and users of quantitative data with practices to alter how they collect and analyze quantitative data. Using Quantitative Critical Race Theory (QuantCrit) as a framework, this book develops the foundation for an iterative praxis to explore a range of questions that prompt practitioners and stakeholders to be engaged critics in working towards a more just and ... Read more

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  • Evaluating the Complex

    Attribution, Contribution and Beyond

    by Mita Marra ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    In the economic atmosphere following the crisis of 2008, not only have governments reacted by creating more complex policy initiatives, but they have also promised that all of these initiatives will be evaluated. Due to the complexity of many of the initiatives, the ways of evaluating are becoming equally complex.The book begins with a theoretical and conceptual explanation of the process and ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools

    Edited by Michael Howlett ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook provides a unique, systematic and comprehensive overview from leading experts in the field of the policy-making tools deployed at all the phases of the policy process. It covers the fundamentals of both new and established policy tools – from regulation and public enterprises to subsidies and information campaigns, as well as new tools, such as social impact investing, nudges, ... Read more

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  • Disability Management and Workplace Integration

    International Research Findings

    by Henry G. Harder ...
    Disability Management is perceived and understood to be an important approach to reducing the negative impact, for workers and the company, of absence due to illness and accidents, and to assisting those with disabilities to enter or re-enter the workplace. Disability Management has already become established in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Recently European countries have begun to ... Read more

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  • Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life

    Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves

    Edited by Dario Spini, Eric Widmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the universities of Lausanne and Geneva, within a single comprehensive and coherent publication on vulnerability across adulthood. The book is based on the idea that vulnerability is ... Read more

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