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Understanding youth civic engagement: debates, discourses and lessons from practice
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-07-24)
While civic engagement provides a rich rationale for intervention, the array of discourses urging a focus on youth engagement or action means that the concept can be confusing, cluttered, and lacking consistent operationalization. ...
Connecting research and practice: Perspectives on the role of manualised programmes in youth work
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-05-12)
While there is a strong movement in favour of the use of manual based programmes in the arena of social care, there is a view that such programmes are not applicable in the more fluid setting of youth work, which operates ...
Dangerously Empty? Hegemony and the construction of the Irish Entrepreneur
(SAGE Journals Online, 2012-03)
In this paper we build on Jones and Spicer's (2009) conceptualisation of the entrepreneur as an empty signifier. We explore the function of the signifier 'entrepreneurship' within a social context marked by crisis: Ireland ...
The roles of financial threat, social support, work stress and mental distress in dairy farmers' expectations of injury
(Frontiers Media, 2016-06-21)
Farming is dangerous, with fatalities among the highest in any occupation. Farmers often work alone, for long hours, with unreliable equipment and in difficult weather conditions with hazardous chemicals and livestock. In ...
'And like the sea God was silent': Multivalent water imagery in Silence
(Bloomsbury, 2015-02-26)
[No abstract available]
Slavery on the frontier: the report of a French missionary on mid-seventeenth-century Tunis
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This document is a report sent in 1654 by Jean Le Vacher, member of the Congregation of the Mission, vicar apostolic of the Holy See and acting French consul in Tunis, to the cardinals of the Congregation for the Propagation ...
Using a collective intelligence scenario-based design approach to develop a collaboration ecosystem supporting the authorship of pedagogically valuable e-books for children
(The Journal of Literacy and Technology, 2017)
Literacy is a universal public good, essential to the overall, effective functioning of civil society through its foundational contribution to personal well-being and active citizenship. The extant research shows that ...
Ireland and Biafra: hunger, history, politics and public opinion
(Cambria Press, 2012)
[No abstract available]
Does the work role of Catholic clergy contribute to the disenfranchisement of their grief?
(Sage, 2015-09-01)
While bereavement-related compassion fatigue and burnout have been studied in many helping professions, this researcher
has found no peer-reviewed articles based specifically on bereavement experiences of Roman Catholic ...
'He told me to calm down and all that': a qualitative study of forms of social support in youth mentoring relationships
(Wiley, 2017-02-22)
The worldwide growth in formal youth mentoring programmes over the past two decades is partly a response to the perception that young people facing adversity do not have access to supportive relationships with adults and ...