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Title: Adult Learning & the Challenges of the 21st Century

By (author): Ove Korsgaard

ISBN10-13: 8778382785 : 9788778382788

Adult Learning & the Challenges of the 21st Century was the title of Theme One at the fifth UNESCO conference on Adult Education in Hamburg July1997. The theme had the following keywords: Adult learning for democracy and human rights; Promoting a culture of peace; Encouraging active citizenship; The Role of NGOs; Poverty alleviation; Adult learning and gender issues; Cultural diversity/minority issues; Indigenous peoples. The Association for World Education was asked by UNESCO to be responsible for Theme One. This book is based upon lectures on this theme given at various AWE conferences.

Pages: 137 Size: 150x210mm

Published: Odense University Press (DK) - January 1997

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Education

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Title: 1 of: 58

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Title: Advancing Frontier of Survival

By (author): Väinö Kannisto

ISBN10-13: 8778381851 : 9788778381859

This volume is an additional contribution to the description of the mortality of the oldest-old in the post-war era, begun with volume 1 by the same author. While the first publication was essentially a time series studies, the present one is a life table analysis of the same countries in the same period, less precise on timing and more sharply focused on age. Instead of annual fluctuations in 5-year or broader age groups, dealt with in the former, the present study examines mortality by single years of age. To do it successfully, the data are combined into 10-year periods in order to secure meaningful numbers of observations at ages where they are few. This has, in fact, allowed calculation of fairly robust death rates up to age 109 for an aggregate of several countries.

Pages: 145 Size: 180x260mm Illustrations: colour & b/w tables

Published: Odense University Press (DK) - January 1996

Format: Hardback

Subjects: Age groups: the elderly : Denmark

List Price: 14.25 Pounds Sterling

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Title: 2 of: 58

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Title: Amsterdam Treaty

Sub-title: National Preference Formation, Interstate Bargaining & Outcome

Edited by: Finn Laursen

ISBN10-13: 8778386195 : 9788778386199

This publication examines the Amsterdam Treaty negotiated by the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) 1996-97. It looks at the preferences of the main actors, the Member States, the Commission and the European Parliament, as well as the negotiation process that produced the Treaty. The book includes chapters on each of the main actors as well as the most important substantive issues: the changes in the Union's first pillar, mainly in respect to environment and employment policies, changes in the second pillar, the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the creation of a new Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) as well as the introduction of new provisions on 'closer co-operation' or flexibility. Concluding chapters seek to confront the Treaty reform process with leading integration theories.

Pages: 655 Size: 180x260mm Illustrations: tables

Published: Odense University Press (DK) - January 2002

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Regional studies : Politics & government : EU (European Union)

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Title: 3 of: 58

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Title: Anonymous Leader

Sub-title: Appointed CEOs in Western Local Government

Edited by: Kurt Klaudi Klausen Klausen, Annick Magnier

ISBN10-13: 8778384133 : 9788778384133

Local government takes upon itself important tasks and are prime movers in the implementation of new developments in most welfare societies. How it has managed itself is clearly not an unimportant matter, but it is something we know comparatively little about. This volume is concerned with the top civil servants in local government, the Chief Executive Officers, those who form the link between the political and the administrative system. Based on a statistical survey, this is a comparative study which looks at fifteen countries: Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Israel (the only country not to conduct the survey), Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and USA. Potentially, the CEO holds an important position in local administrative and political life, yet we know little about them, how they are recruited, how they regard their own role and particularly their position vis-á-vis the political system. This is what the contributors set out to explore country by country, and the results are discussed in two overview chapters.

Pages: 312 Size: 155x230mm Illustrations: tables

Published: Odense University Press (DK) - January 1998

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Politics & government

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Title: Charitable Women

Sub-title: Philanthopic Welfare, 1780-1930

Edited by: Birgitta Jordansson, Tinne Vammen

ISBN10-13: 8778383390 : 9788778383396

The crisis of the welfare state in present days in Scandinavian countries is a major inspiration behind this collection of papers by nine scholars specialising in intellectual and social history, in women's studies and the history of gender in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. By tracing the varied role of women as producers and distributors of welfare during the period 1780-1930 in both metropolitan and provincial contexts, this collection argues that philanthropy predated, shaped and co-existed with the formation of the "classical" welfare state. Women had a crucial role to play in the making and implementation of philanthropic policies as an alternative to state sector strategies and provisions. This collection highlights the bias of gender and class in social work. It reveals little-known aspects of gender history in Scandinavian countries and indicates the need to revise our traditional notions of the absence of women from the public sphere before their political emancipation at the beginning of this century.

Pages: 288 Size: 180x260mm Illustrations: b/w photos

Published: Odense University Press (DK) - January 1998

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Gender studies: women : Social welfare & social services : Denmark : Norway : Sweden

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Title: 5 of: 58

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Title: Childhood & Old Age

Sub-title: Equals or Opposites?

Edited by: Ning de Coninck-Smith, Signe Mellemgaard, Jorgen Povlsen

ISBN10-13: 8778384907 : 9788778384904

Who hasn't heard of elderly people "in their second childhood" -- or of children who "grow old before their time"? Expressions such as these bear witness to the fact that a variety of images and expectations attach themselves to biological age. When various ages are set side by side in contrast to each other, these images and expectations become apparent. "Childhood and old Age" lies at opposite ends of life's trajectory and so are quite distinct. The child finds itself at life's starting-point, the old person at its close. And yet there are in many areas more similarities than differences. Both children and old people live an institutionalised, economically unproductive and sheltered life and, in our late modern society, are completely dependent on middle-aged adults. Both age groups are objects of commercial, medical-scientific and pedagogical interest. The aim of this anthology is to confront expectations of childhood with expectations of old age. The focus is not, then, on age as a biological phenomenon, but on preconceptions of age and on the ways in which man, at different times and in different cultures, has dealt with age. The articles view their subject from both historical and contemporary standpoints, and there is an attempt to answer questions about age in the society of the future, where biological lifespans will be challenged by gene technology and improved living conditions.

Pages: 213 Size: 155x230mm Illustrations: colour & b/w illus

Published: Odense University Press (DK) - January 1999

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Age groups: children : Age groups: the elderly : Population & demography

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Title: 6 of: 58

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Title: Cold War -- & the Nordic Countries
Sub-title: Historiography at a Crossroads
Edited by: Thorsten B Olesen
ISBN10-13: 8778388570 : 9788778388575
Research into the impact of the Cold War in the Nordic countries has boomed since the end of the Cold War itself. The end of the conflict has made it possible for historians to see the Cold War period as a full epoch with a beginning and an end. In the Nordic countries the increased interest in and emphasis on Cold War history has been accompanied by heated public debate over revelations of Cold War skeletons in the cupboard or polemics on Cold War guilt and betrayal. In five national chapters covering each of the Nordic countries and supplemented by a joint introduction and conclusion, this book aims at providing an overall picture of how post-Cold War historiography has affected and changed our view and understanding of the Cold War in the Nordic countries.
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The Cold War -- and the Nordic Countries; Post-Cold War Historiography in Denmark; Post-Cold War Historiography in Finland; Post-Cold War Historiography in Iceland; Post-Cold War Historiography in Norway; Post-Cold War Historiography in Sweden; 'We Now Know'-- The Nordic Countries and the Cold War: An Assessment.
Pages: 194 Size: 155x230mm
Published: Odense University Press (DK) - January 2004
Format: Paperback
Subjects: Historiography : Northern Europe, Scandinavia
List Price: 21.00 Pounds Sterling
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Title: 7 of: 58

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Title: Cross-Cultural Protection of Nature & the Environment

Edited by: Finn Arler, Ingeborg Svennevig

ISBN10-13: 8778383471 : 9788778383471

Over the last few decades, various international and cross-cultural partnerships have been established, often with impressive speed, to facilitate the protection of natural resources and the environment. However, many problems exist within these partnerships: international declarations and conventions are not binding in the same ways as national laws; the motivations behind the involvement of a country or culture are not always easy to identify and are often understood differently in different places; environmental obligations are often interpreted and implemented differently in different places; and common aims are often not mutual at all. These difficulties surrounding the establishment and implementation of workable international and cross-cultural environmental policies form the basis of this book.

Pages: 248 Size: 180x260mm

Published: Odense University Press (DK) - January 1998

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Cultural studies : Conservation of the environment

List Price: 23.50 Pounds Sterling

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Title: 8 of: 58

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Title: Custom, Culture & Community in the Later Middle Ages

Sub-title: A Symposium

Edited by: Thomas Pettitt, Leif Sondergaard

ISBN10-13: 8778380219 : 9788778380210

Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Odense University on 16-18 November 1992.

Pages: 126 Size: 150x220mm Illustrations: b/w illus

Published: Odense University Press (DK) - January 1994

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval : Cultural studies : c 1000 CE to c 1500

List Price: 14.00 Pounds Sterling

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Title: 9 of: 58

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Title: Denmark's Policy towards Europe After 1945, 2nd Edition

Sub-title: History, Theory & Options

Edited by: Hans Branner, Morten Kelstrup

ISBN10-13: 8778385415 : 9788778385413

Since 1945 Denmark's policy towards Europe has become one of the most important issues, if not the most important issue, in Danish politics. Why is this? In what way is Denmark a special case with regard to European policy? What are the basic factors in the formation of Danish European policy, and how does the study of this policy contribute to the field of foreign policy analysis? These are some of the questions which this book attempts to answer. The aim is to provide the reader with a better understanding of Danish policy towards Europe, taking into account both historical and theoretical aspects. The contributors to the volume are experienced researchers in political science and history. They approach the main theme of Danish European policy from four different perspectives. A theoretical, a historical and cultural, a perspective focusing on policy determinants and A decision-making perspective. The book forms part of the Copenhagen Research Project on European Integration (CORE).

Pages: 441 Size: 180x260mm

Published: Odense University Press (DK) - January 2003

Format: Paperback

Subjects: Regional studies : International relations : Denmark

List Price: 21.25 Pounds Sterling

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Title: 10 of: 58