Spain Transformed

Spain Transformed

Author: N. Townson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-07-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0230592643

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Spain Transformed addresses the sweeping social and cultural changes that characterized the late Franco regime. This wide-ranging collection reassesses the dictatorship's latter years by drawing on a wealth of new material and ideas, using an interdisciplinary approach.


History of Special Education

History of Special Education

Author: Anthony F. Rotatori

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2011-01-25

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0857246291

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Examines the history of special education by categorical areas (for example, Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation, and Autistic Spectrum Disorders). This title includes chapters on the changing philosophy related to educating students with exceptionalities as well as a history of legal and legislation content concerned with special education.


The Ethics of Special Education, Second Edition

The Ethics of Special Education, Second Edition

Author: Kenneth R. Howe

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2018-06-08

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0807758957

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Updated to include changes in the field, this new edition addresses ethical issues that are most pressing to special education teachers and administrators. Using a case-based approach, students are encouraged to reason and collaborate about due process, the distribution of educational resources, institutional unresponsiveness, professional relationships, conflicts among parents and teachers, and confidentiality.


Distributive Justice in Transitions

Distributive Justice in Transitions

Author: Morten Bergsmo

Publisher: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher

Published: 2010-08-01

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 8293081120

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The chapters of this book explore, from different disciplinary perspectives, the relationship between transitional justice, distributive justice, and economic efficiency in the settlement of internal armed conflicts. They specifically discuss the role of land reform as an instrument of these goals, and examine how the balance between different perspectives has been attempted (or not) in selected cases of internal armed conflicts, and how it should be attempted in principle. Although most chapters closely examine the Colombian case, some provide a comparative perspective that includes countries in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe, while others examine some of the more general, theoretical issues involved.


Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela

Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela

Author: Allan R. Brewer-Carías

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-09-20

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1139492357

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This book examines the process of dismantling the democratic institutions and protections in Venezuela under the Hugo Chávez regime. The actions of the Chávez government have influenced similar processes and undemocratic manoeuvrings in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Honduras. Since the election of Hugo Chávez as president of Venezuela in 1998, a sinister form of nationalistic authoritarianism has arisen at the expense of long-established democratic standards. During the past decade, the 1999 Venezuelan Constitution has been systematically attacked by all branches of the Chávez government, particularly by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, which has legitimized the Chávez-ordered constitutional violations. The Chávez regime has purposely defrauded the Constitution and severely restricted representative government, all in the name of a supposedly participatory democracy controlled by a popularly supported central government. This volume illustrates how an authoritarian, nondemocratic government has been established in Venezuela.


Archaeology in Latin America

Archaeology in Latin America

Author: Benjamin Alberti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-16

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1134597835

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This pioneering and comprehensive survey is the first overview of current themes in Latin American archaeology written solely by academics native to the region, and it makes their collected expertise available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The contributors cover the most significant issues in the archaeology of Latin America, such as the domestication of camelids, the emergence of urban society in Mesoamerica, the frontier of the Inca empire, and the relatively little known archaeology of the Amazon basin. This book draws together key areas of research in Latin American archaeological thought into a coherent whole; no other volume on this area has ever dealt with such a diverse range of subjects, and some of the countries examined have never before been the subject of a regional study.