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Negotiating Responsibility: Professionals' Perspectives on Separated Parents' Protective Duties in the Swedish Context

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how social workers perceive and enact informal protective arrangements in the context of Swedish child protection. Drawing on group interviews with practitioners, the findings reveal that social workers underline parents' legal obligation and duty to protect their children, which means that the safe parent is expected to ...
Emma Rindeskog, Lupita Svensson
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Nonviolence: An Analysis of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thich Nhat Hanh [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper will look at the role religion played in shaping the individual movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh. “History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges ...
Campbell, Meghan
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Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post‐Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in
Vasudha Chhotray, David Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Educational Pacifism and Montessori

open access: yesJournal of Montessori Research
Educational theory and practice is dominated by mass formal schooling systems, which routinely and unjustly harm many students. I call this stance “educational pacifism,” and in this paper argue that Montessorians ought to be educational pacifists. That
Nicholas Parkin
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Prize Winning Essays - 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
To promote The Season of Nonviolence, Citizens for Peace once again sponsored an essay contest for Michigan high school and college students. Their essays had to address the topic Peaceful Relationships through Active Nonviolence.
Abdoo, Ann
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Education for Civil Disobedience in the Context of Democratic Decline

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I discuss the educational relevance of civil disobedience as a form of political dissent in contemporary democracies demonstrating signs of significant democratic decline. The article challenges the plausibility of the impactful Rawlsian understanding of civil disobedience in societies in a state of democratic backsliding.
Anniina Leiviskä
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Restructuring Dentistry Studies on Student Stress and Satisfaction Regarding the Curriculum and Educational Methods

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the potential impact of the hospital‐university restructuring implemented since 2016 on students' stress levels and their satisfaction with teaching, while considering other factors that might influence the results.
Camille Bergoin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonviolence in social sciences: towards a consensual definition

open access: yesRevista de Paz y Conflictos, 2015
Non violence, non-violence or nonviolence? Nonviolence can be defined as a methodology, an ethical-political doctrine, a way to build peace that is oriented towards a coherent philosophy, seeking a love of knowledge, experimentation and life.
Mario López Martínez
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EIGENSINN AND DOMINATION IN LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL SOCIETIES

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article is a posthumously published text that was written by Alf Lüdtke and Alexandra Oeser but was left unfinished when Lüdtke died in February 2019. It examines two central notions—and their articulations—that Lüdtke and Oeser use differently in their work: domination and Eigensinn. On domination, it focuses on perspectives of Max Weber'
Alf Lüdtke, Alexandra Oeser
wiley   +1 more source

Q&A: Privilege and Allyship

open access: yes, 2016
Question: I’ve always wondered about this: as a white, heterosexual male person who cares about the way minorities and marginalized populations are treated, what gives me the right to feel offended or call someone out on something they say that’s a ...
Anonymous,
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