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Sociālais darbs ar jauniešiem ar īpašām vajadzībām

2018

Maģistra darbā “Sociālais darbs ar jauniešiem ar īpašām vajadzībām” aplūkots kā jaunieši ar dažādiem funkcionalitātes traucējumiem spēj apzināties, stiprināt un attīstīt savu rīcībspēju. Darbā tiek identificētas jauniešu ar invaliditāti ikdienas vajadzības un spēju šī vajadzības patstāvīgi apmierināt. Darba ietvaros tiek aplūkota sociālā darba nozīmība jauniešu ar īpašām vajadzībām motivēšanā būt patstāvīgiem un apzināties sevi kā līdzvērtīgu sabiedrības locekli. Apzinot intervijas ar jauniešiem un sociālajiem darbiniekiem, tiks vērtēta savstarpējā saskarsme un sadarbība jauniešu ar īpašām vajadzībām dzīves kvalitātes sekmēšanā. Nepieciešams izzināt jauniešu ar īpašām vajadzībām rīcībspējas…

Annales des travaux des auditeurs de l'IHEDN 2009 : "Y a-t-il un retour du "soft power" dans les relations internationales ?

2009

CD rom; International audience

Theoretical advancements on a recently proposed method to measure rainfall energy

2022

Soil erosion induced by rainfall is mainly due to the rainfall impact besides the consequent surface runoff. Rainfall kinetic energy is the most used variable to represent its erosivity. The latter represents the weathering attitude to erode soil and is a fundamental variable of the erosion process. Consequently, precise measurements of rainfall erosivity have to perform to develop a reliable prediction model of the erosive phenomenon. Currently, impact energy can be reliably measured only by disdrometers. These instruments measure the Drop Size Distribution (DSD) which, joined with the raindrop falling velocity, allow to calculate, by integration, the impact kinetic energy. However, disdro…

When feeling and action come together in educational practice. Relations between development education and service learning for a global citizenship

2016

Las problemáticas basadas en el desarrollo constituyen un tema recurrente eneducación. Tras resaltar la relevancia de la Educación para el Desarrollo (EpD) comoelemento fundamental en la construcción de una ciudadanía global, el objetivo de esteartículo consiste en relacionarla con una cultura educativa, el Aprendizaje Servicio(ApS). Éste pretende ser, así, un análisis teórico exploratorio e interpretativo sobre laspotencialidades que puede aportar el ApS en la consecución de las metas planteadaspor la EpD. Esta vinculación no sólo repercute en la mejora substancial de la prácticade ambas creando sinergias positivas, sino que su universalización constituye unaclara incidencia positiva en el…

Turning experience into expertise : technologies of the self in Finnish participatory social policy

2017

This article investigates the micro-level practices of subject-construction in Finnish participatory social policy. Through a governmental ethnography on projects that invite former beneficiaries to become ‘experts-by-experience’ in social welfare organizations, I discern the possibilities for freedom in the participants’ self-construction. By making use of Michel Foucault’s conceptual tools of care of the self and confession, I illustrate how, contrary to the projects’ emancipatory promise of providing the service users the freedom to reconstruct themselves, the projects entail practices that curb the participants’ way of ‘knowing themselves’. They require the service users to reframe thei…

‘The will to not be empowered (according to your rules)’: Resistance in Finnish participatory social policy

2018

Participation has increasingly become a means and an end for successful and ‘empowering’ social policy. Building on previous governmentality critiques of participatory initiatives, this article investigates practices of resistance in the context of Finnish participatory social policy. I adopt a Foucauldian counter-conducts approach as my lens to study critical speech as a form of resistance in initiatives that invite marginalised people as ‘experts-by-experience’ in social welfare organisations. I illustrate how practices of governing and resistance are intertwined and mutually dependent in a much subtler and more practical manner than allows the often-used analytical dichotomy between domi…

Kuntouttava sosiaalityö kunnallisessa perussosiaalityössä : etnografinen tutkimus kuntouttavan sosiaalityön määritelmistä ja käytännöistä

2006

Data practices and inequality in South African early childhood development policy: Technocratic management versus social transformation

2019

Background: In 1994, the African National Congress identified early childhood development as a potential strategy to redress the inequalities of apartheid, however, two and a half decades later, poverty still persists, and South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. Aim: This article explores how policy texts based on and with the use of certain data practices establish ‘truths’ about childhoods and society, construct families and communities, and determine forms of provision to address inequality. Setting: In 2015, the South African government published the National Integrated Early Childhood Policy (NIECDP) to continue to address poverty and inequality. Its implementat…

Hierarchies of knowledge, incommensurabilities and silences in South African ECD policy: Whose knowledge counts?

2017

AbstractPolicy for young children in South Africa is now receiving high-level government support through the ANC’s renewed commitment to redress poverty and inequity and creating ‘a better life for all’ as promised before the 1994 election. In this article, I explore the power relations, knowledge hierarchies and discourses of childhood, family and society in National Curriculum Framework (NCF) as it relates to children’s everyday contexts. I throw light on how the curriculum’s discourses relate to the diverse South African settings, child rearing practices and world-views, and how they interact with normative discourses of South African policy and global early childhood frameworks. The NCF…

The Industrial Applicability of PEA Space Charge Measurements, for Performance Optimization of HVDC Power Cables

2019

Cable manufacturing industries are constantly trying to improve the electrical performance of power cables. During the years, it was found that one of the most relevant degradation factors influencing the cable lifetime is the presence of space charge in the insulation layer. To detect the accumulated charge, the pulsed electro-acoustic (PEA) method is the most used technique. Despite the wide use of the PEA cell, several issues are still present. In particular, the PEA output signal is strongly disturbed by the acoustic waves reflections within the PEA cell. This causes the distortion of the output signal and therefore the misinterpretation of the charge profiles. This, in turn, may result…