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Equality of Opportunity: Welfare and Public Policies
This chapter is devoted to discussing the relationship that exists between welfare and public policy through the measurement of inequality. Our...
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Potentials of Collaborative Educational Welfare Research - Theorizing Voice Plurality and Social Empowerment
Childhood marginalization is the result of complicated processes that appears difficult to address for policymakers worldwide. Neo-institutional...
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Children, Childhood and Well-Being: A Theoretical Consideration of Welfare
This article discusses the correlations between childhood and welfare against the historical background of the development of welfare states as a...
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Equality of Opportunity: Welfare and Public Policies
This chapter is devoted to discussing the relationship that exists between welfare and public policy through the measurement of inequality. Our...
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Changing School Policies in Italy: From Welfare Equity Model to the New Public Management Instrumentations
By drawing on a socio-material perspective, the chapter describes the processes of alignment of school policies in Italy to transnational regimes. It...
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Responsible Digital Transformation of Social Welfare Organizations
Digitalization will extensively change what kind of social services social welfare states will provide in the future and how these services are...
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Quality Assurance in Nordic Higher Education: Relevance and Quality for the Welfare State?
Quality assurance (QA) has become an important feature in higher education governance in Europe, with policies for increased harmonization and...
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Adult Education as a Means to Social Inclusion in Nordic Welfare States: Denmark, Finland and Sweden
Denmark, Sweden and Finland are Nordic welfare states that historically have put a high value on both basic and adult education. Citizens should have...
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Three Case Studies on Participatory Procedural Personalization in Local Youth Labor Market Policy with Different Degrees of Coordination with Youth Welfare Services
In the next sections, further results of the interview analysis with the help of qualitative content analysis are presented. First, the interview...
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In education we trust: on handling the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Swedish welfare state
Kee** schools open was an active strategy in Sweden to meet the threats of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article we analyze how a collection of...
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Authenticity, Accuracy, and Respect in Picturebooks About Africa: Implications for Pedagogy in the United States
This is a conceptual paper that explores critiquing picturebooks set in Africa. The paper is grounded in BlackCrit (Black Critical Theory) and Racial...
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Reflections on States, Schools, and National Literacies
In this chapter, Stanford professor emeritus David Labaree contemplates on the main themes and topics running through this book. Using the various...
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Vocational Education in the United States of America (U.S.A.): The Case of the United States of America (U.S.A.)
This chapter begins by providing a history of youth and work in the U.S.A.. Next, it offers a brief history of V.E. in the United States. It...
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Teacher Resilience During COVID-19: Comparing Teachers’ Shift to Online Learning in South Africa and the United States
The Covid-19 pandemic created the largest global disruption of education in recorded history. This unique qualitative study examined teacher...
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“I wish I could say, ‘Yeah, both the same’”: Cultural stereotypes and individual differentiations of preservice teachers about different low socioeconomic origins
Previous studies have shown that (preservice) teachers have more negative stereotypes toward students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds than...
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Racial Bias as an Explanatory Factor for Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in Child Welfare
Race continues to permeate all facets of the child welfare system and is especially problematic for children of color involved in this system. There...
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The Institutional Analysis: A Tool for Diagnosing Structural Contributors to Racial Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare
Similar to what families of color experience in the society at large, families of color—particularly American Indian, Alaskan Native, African...
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Racial Disproportionality and Disparities Among African American Children in the Child Welfare System
Black children currently make up 23% of the out-of-home care population, which is disproportionate to the number of Black children in the U.S....
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The Context of Civic Education in the United States Around 1900
This chapter will provide an overview of civic education in the United States around 1900. It will draw upon existing literature to situate city...