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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “reetta toivanen”
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  • Young People, Wellbeing and Sustainable Arctic Communities

    Edited by Florian Stammler, Reetta Toivanen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Polar Regions
    Youth are usually not (yet) decision makers in politics or in business corporations, but the sustainability of Arctic settlements depends on whether or not youth envision such places as offering opportunities for a good future. This is the first multidisciplinary volume presenting original research on Arctic youth.This edited book presents the results of two research projects on youth wellbeing ... Read more

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  • Towards Openly Multilingual Policies and Practices

    Assessing Minority Language Maintenance Across Europe

    by Dr. Johanna Laakso, Anneli Sarhimaa, Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Reetta Toivanen ...
    Series Book 11 - Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
    This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and minority languages in 12 different minority communities across Europe, all of which are underrepresented in international minority language studies. The book presents a number of case studies covering a broad range of highly diverse minorities and languages with different historical and socio-political backgrounds. Despite current ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Decolonizing the Sustainable Development Goals

    Community Perspectives, Social Justice, and the Challenges of Pluralism

    Edited by Reetta Toivanen, Vladislava Vladimirova, Carl-Gösta Ojala ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book presents innovative and international research critically examining the effects of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation on Indigenous and local peoples and linguistic minorities in the Arctic – and elsewhere, with a comparative focus. It includes anthropological studies and authors from different social and human sciences who engage synergistically with ... Read more

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  • Linguistic Genocide or Superdiversity?

    New and Old Language Diversities

    Edited by Reetta Toivanen, Janne Saarikivi ...
    Series Book 14 - Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
    Are we facing an immense wave of language death or a period of remarkable new linguistic variation? Or both? This book answers this question by analysing studies of language endangerment and loss along with those of language change, revitalization and diversity. Using case studies from Russia and the EU, the authors compare historical language variation to that of the present day, arguing that ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Cultural and Linguistic Minorities in the Russian Federation and the European Union

    Comparative Studies on Equality and Diversity

    Edited by Heiko F. Marten, Michael Rießler, Janne Saarikivi, Reetta Toivanen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This is the first comprehensive volume to compare the sociolinguistic situations of minorities in Russia and in Western Europe. As such, it provides insight into language policies, the ethnolinguistic vitality and the struggle for reversal of language shift, language revitalization and empowerment of minorities in Russia and the European Union. The volume shows that, even though largely unknown to ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Schools and Societies

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    by Steven Brint ...
    Schools and Societies provides a synthesis of key issues in the sociology of education, focusing on American schools while offering a global, comparative context. Acknowledged as a standard text in its first two editions, this fully revised and updated third edition offers a broader sweep, stronger theoretical foundation, and a new concluding chapter on the possibilities of schooling. Instructors, ... Read more

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  • After Work

    A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

    by Helen Hester, Nick SRNICEK ...
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  • Dynamics in Education Politics

    Understanding and explaining the Finnish case

    by Hannu Simola, Jaakko Kauko, Janne Varjo, Mira Kalalahti, Fritjof Sahlstrom ...
    Dynamics in Education Politics: Understanding and Explaining the Finnish Case introduces a new theoretical framework characterised as Comparative Analytics of Dynamics in Education Politics (CADEP). Albeit the topicality of comparative research is obvious in the current era of global large-scale assessment, with its concomitant media visibility and political effects, comparative education is still ... Read more

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  • Gender, Politics and Society in Ukraine

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  • Spatial Justice and Cohesion

    The Role of Place-Based Action in Community Development

    Edited by Matti Fritsch, Petri Kahila, Sarolta Németh, James W. Scott ...
    Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments of economic and community development. In terms of the European debate, the local level – cities, towns and neighbourhoods – has recently come under increased scrutiny as a potentially decisive actor in Cohesion Policy. As understandings of socio-spatial and economic cohesion evolve, the idea that spatial justice requires a ... Read more

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