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"In their study of social practices deemed traditional, scholars tend to use the concept and idea of tradition as an element of meaning in the practices under investigation. But just whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition or those whose traditions are being studied? In both cases, particular criteria for traditionality are employed, whether these are explicated or not. Individuals and groups will no doubt continue to uphold their traditional practices or refer to their practices as traditional. While they are in no way obliged to explicate in analytical terms their criteria for traditionality, the same cannot be said for those who make the study of traditions their profession. In scholarly analysis, traditions need to be explained instead of used as explanations for apparent repetitions and replications or symbolic linking in social practice, values, history, and heritage politics. This book takes a closer look at 'tradition' and 'folklore' in order to conceptualize them within discourses on modernity and modernism. The first section discusses 'modern' and 'traditional' as modern concepts and the study of folklore as a modern trajectory. The underlying tenet here is that non-modernity cannot be represented without modern mediation, which therefore makes the representations of non-modernity epistemologically modern. The second section focuses on the nation-state of Finland and the nationalistic use of folk traditions in the discursive production of Finnish modernity and its Others. The insights are applicable worldwide in discussions on cultural representation."

#VCV monografie 2005 ruil --- Folklore --- Scandinavians --- Ethnology

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De bijdragen in dit boek neemen vanuit verschillende invalshoeken de vraag op hoe alemene vorming gestalte kan krijgen. Het boek bevat twee historische, twee sociologische en twee opvoedingsfilosofische bijdragen - telens geschreven door één Nederlands en één Vlaams auteur. Die heterogeniteit is bewust gezocht. Algemene vorming is een thema dat over een breed front veel controverse ontlokt. In geen enkele bijdrage worden evenwel oplossingen gedicteerd of recepten voorgeschreven voor de pedagogigsche problemen die thans rijzen. Wel hebben alle bijdragen een kritische invalshoek gemeen. In dit boek gaat het om een poging anders te kijken, om dominante denkkaders te herijken. Het gaat erom nieuw licht te werpen op de opdracht van opvoeding en onderwijs in de hedendaagse samenleving. (Bron: covertekst)

Teaching --- #A0106A --- 710 Vorming --- #PBIB:2005.2 --- #PBIB:gift 2005 --- 37.013 --- Communicatie --- Filosofie --- Onderwijs --- Samenleving --- Sociologie --- Vorming --- Onderwijs en maatschappij

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"Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are instrumental in communities' resilience to natural and man-made disasters. But, despite national progress, the plans and processes for their involvement are not well-defined. This report summarizes three interrelated conference sessions that RAND researchers convened during the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations annual conference in August 2010. The purpose of the three sessions was to generate a national policy agenda that summarizes the challenges to involving NGOs in disaster response and recovery and to identify potential policy and program recommendations to address these challenges, with a specific emphasis on two types of populations, which were most in need after recent disasters: displaced and returning individuals and individuals with mental health needs. Panelists and conference attendees were asked to identify recommendations that would assist NGO involvement in disaster response and recovery. Those recommendations were then summarized by RAND researchers and were categorized into five areas: defining and formalizing roles for NGOs, structure and integration of governmental and nongovernmental organizations in common plans, information sharing, service capacity, and resource allocation. Based on the conference discussion, this report also contains RAND recommendations for future research to inform implementation of the policy agenda."--Publisher's website

Emergency management --- Disaster relief --- Non-governmental organizations. --- Hurricane Katrina, 2005. --- Government policy

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In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina, followed by multiple levee failures, devastated New Orleans and other parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast, inflicting major damage to commercial property, infrastructure, and housing. The failure of the levees and the subsequent flooding of New Orleans caused enormous damage and disruption to the city, its people, and its economy. Recovering from a disaster of this magnitude poses a major challenge to the city, the state, and the nation. The complexity of this challenge is compounded by the fact that New Orleans? population and economy had been lagging for several d

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An essential tool for those planning to undertake social research, this exceptional book tackles many of the specific concerns and issues that arise. A well structured text, it offers a comprehensive introduction to a range of important areas in project management, including: commissioning research preparing a tender or grant application risk and stakeholder analysis managing the field work and data analysis financial managementethics, confidentiality and copyright.This book provides a unique source of guidance for anyon

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