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Bogen Døgninstittutioner Gentænkt tager udgangspunkt i Hvidovre Kommunes indsats med at nytænke vilkårerne for kommunens børn, unge og familier, der har brug for særlig støtte. Bogen beskriver nøje de ændringer, kommunen og særligt de to døgninstitutioner, Hvidborg og Porten, har gennemgået. Der redegøres for det teoretiske grundlag, der ligger til grund for forandringerne, som f.eks. ressourcebaseret pædagogik, løsningsfokuseret pædagogik, den narrative tilgang, positive afvigelser, mirakelspørgsmål, skalering og prøvehandlinger. Forfatterne opstiller desuden spørgsmål, der lægger op til refleksion hos læseren og som kan bruges i egen organisation.”Noget af det, der karakteriserer udsatte børn og unge-området i 2019 er bevægelse. Dels har en række reformer fra de sidste godt 10 år (kommunalreformen fra 2007, Barnets reform fra 2011 og ungdomskriminalitetsreformen 2018/2019) sat markante aftryk på rammer og indhold for den måde, vi anbringer på i Danmark - og for det værdisæt anbringelserne er baseret på. Dels har mange af områdets aktører - fra politikere, over embedsmænd og forskere til praksisfolk udvist stor opfindsomhed i bestræbelserne på både at forandre vilkårene for udsatte børn og unge og at udnytte ressourcerne mest effektivt. Nu foreligger der en bog fra Hvidovre Kommune, som handler om en gentænkning af døgnanbringelsesindsatsen på de to døgninstitutioner, Hvidovre og Porten for hhv. børn og unge.”Fra efterskriftet af Henrik Kaustrup, konsulent i FADD - foreningen af døgn- og dagtilbud for udsatte børn og unge.

I de byer, hvor der er et godt erhvervsklima, er der også vækst. Lokal vækst kræver, at offentlige aktører, private virksomheder og borgere med viden og ressourcer går sammen i en fælles retning.Lokal udvikling skal ledes aktivt og kompetent og i tæt samarbejde med dem, der har ressourcerne – på rådhuset, i de private virksomheder og ude hos borgerne.Bogen går tæt på løsningsmuligheder, udfordringer, faldgruber og potentialer i lokal vækstledelse. En række kommunale topledere fortæller, hvad der sker bag kulisserne og mellem de mennesker, som skaber forandringer, jobs og ny vækst.Vækst i lokalområderne er afgørende for vores fremtidige velstand!

The book is the result of a collective research work between the members of the team of the project "Over the Atlantic" (co-founded by the Erasmus + programme). A critical introduction presents the work, the content and the scope of the research, carried out with an interdisciplinary approach.This book consists of three main parts. The first discusses the institutionalization and normalization of paradiplomacy in some specific and well-documented case studies regarding the Latin America region. The second one refers to the relationship between paradiplomacy and cooperation in the context of international and regional relations. The third part analyses Cities and Parliaments as international diplomatic actors.The theme of Paradiplomacy, as a means of unofficial relationships that reacts differently to the pressure of the international system, and the role of the local authorities, despite its relevance and importance, is scarcely analysed by academia.

This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2019, both within itself and as an integral part of a larger region, as Chinäs economic development continues to improve in overall quality and regional coordination. A review of Chinäs regional economic development in 2019-2020 is followed by 11 chapters that cover Beijing¿s achievements and challenges in economic development, public services, social governance, building a national cultural center, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional development coordination, creative city construction and nighttime economic development.This book is a valuable reference for anyone trying to gain a better understanding of the what, how, and why with regard to one of the world¿s fastest growing mega-cities.

Mike Hixenbaugh delivers the story of Southlake, Texas, a district that seemed to offer everything parents would want for their children -- small classes, dedicated teachers, financial resources, a track record of academic success, and school spirit in abundance. All this, until a series of racist incidents became public, a plan to promote inclusiveness was proposed in response -- and a coordinated, well-funded conservative backlash erupted, lighting the fire of a national movement on the verge of changing the face of public schools across the country. They Came for the Schools pulls back the curtain on the powerful forces driving this crusade to ban books, rewrite curricula, limit rights for minority and LGBTQ students -- and, most importantly, to win what Hixenbaugh's deeply informed reporting convinces is the holy grail among those seeking to impose biblical values on American society: school privatization, one school board and one legal battle at a time. They Came for the Schools delivers a take on Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, as they demean public schools and teachers and boost the Christian right's vision. Hixenbaugh brings to light connections between this political and cultural moment and past fundamentalist campaigns to censor classroom lessons. Finally, They Came for the Schools traces the rise of a new resistance movement led by a diverse coalition of student activists, fed-up educators, and parents who are beginning to win select battles of their own: a blueprint, they hope, for gaining inclusive and civil schools for all.

"Wherever Texas and cattle are mentioned in the same breath, the name of Charles Goodnight is bound to crop up...renowned as the man who opened the Texas Panhandle to ranching." -Kerrville Mountain Sun, Aug. 27, 1942"Goodnight's own story of...ventures in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, and...hazards of driving cattle to the market...is recounted in 'Pioneer Days in the Southwest.'" Kerrville Times, July 23, 1942"Charles Goodnight is perhaps more extensively known than any other western ranchman, cattle owner, and pioneer."Our imagination has been fired by such pioneer names as Boone, Kenton and the Wetzels in the pioneer days in Kentucky, and later farther west on the great plains and the Rocky Mountains we have other historical names, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill (Cody), Payne and others, but very little has ever been written about the great southwest, where the Indian tribes of the prairie made their last struggle for supremacy, and where they had conflict with the first settlers and pioneers, who with all they held dear on earth, hewed out homes for themselves and the coming generations amid the most indescribable dangers from their foes.Pioneer Days is written by the rank and file who were the true heroes and heroines, who suffered and gave their lives and the lives of those near and dear to them, in order to lay the foundation for future happy homes, peace and prosperity. The writers of this book were the small remnant yet left who were the actual participators in these early struggles, and they give their experiences, unadorned, without any claim to literary merit; for the writers were by then old.When you read their simple statements of facts of Indian conflicts, of terrible suffering and privations, so unassumingly told by them, it is only fitting that those who have had the advantage of schools and Christianity, and refinement, of which they were almost entirely deprived, to cover their rough and often ungrammatical sentences with the cloak of Christian charity, and interline them with garlands of flowers and chivalry which truly belongs to them.With contributions from Charles Goodnight (1836-1929), Emanuel Dubbs (1843-1932), and John A. Hart (1790-1840), the 1909 book "Pioneer Days in the Southwest" gives unadorned truths and conditions that fortunately have passed out forever.A great portion is devoted to the life of Charles Goodnight the first pioneer of the Texas Panhandle.

Sprachbarrieren sind in öffentlichen Einrichtungen keine Seltenheit. Um sie abzubauen, werden Sprachmittlerinnen und Sprachmittler benötigt. In diesem Buch wird aufgezeigt, wie eine flächendeckende, effektive und rechtskonforme Versorgung mit Sprachmittlung etabliert werden kann. Hierfür wird erstmals der Bedarf an Sprachmittlung in öffentlichen Einrichtungen realistisch eingeschätzt. Organisationsmodelle für eine bedarfsgerechte Vermittlung von Sprachmittlungsleistungen werden ebenso vorgestellt wie rechtliche Aspekte und Qualifikationsprofile. Die formulierten Handreichungen sind wissenschaftlich fundiert und an der Praxis orientiert. Das Buch richtet sich vor allem an diejenigen, die an innovativen Konzepten für den systematischen Umgang mit Sprachbarrieren in Deutschland interessiert sind.

Some of the many problems South Africa now faces¿such as the conflict over land ownership¿predate apartheid, but by far the majority can be traced to that era. Most obviously: the impoverished townships and weak educational system are the result of decades of spending policies that deliberately left black South African communities underdeveloped. However, the current style of governance and the normalization of corruption began during the apartheid era as well. Those legacies have been difficult to escape and continue to bedevil the country today.South Africäs problems defy easy solutions. Since Mandeläs death in 2013, reappraisals of his presidency have tempered his saintly legacy; Mandela himself had admitted that he had not done enough to combat the AIDS epidemic. That he could have solved the entrenched problems in five years as president seems unlikely, and South Africa continues to grapple with them today.