Uniform Web Presence Architecture for People, Places, and Things

location, user context, pervasive computing © Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company 2000 The Cooltown vision is that people, places, and things have a web representation and that many useful services can be offered by creating a tighter link between the real world entity and its virtual representation. We defined a h orizontal and uniform software architecture for building a Web presence for people, places and things. This architecture enables the dynamic generation of Web contents based on the user context (location, identity, device capabilities), on his security permission, and on the relationships with other Web presences. Our implementation of this architecture is portable enough to be embedded in the entity that the Web presence describe but also scalable enough to support multiple Web presences hosting. We focused on mak ing the creation of a Web presence easy for non-programmers

"Getting It Right: Creating Partnerships for Change": Developing a Framework for Integrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledges in Australian Social Work Education

This article proposes a theoretical framework for integrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges in Australian social work education as a central focus of the Getting it Right: Creating Partnerships for Change project. This article presents analysis from a literature review to suggest ways Australian schools of social work can adapt their curriculum in order to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and practices occupy central and equally acknowledged positions in the teaching and learning experiences of social work students. The framework incorporates epistemological equality, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-centered social work, cultural responsiveness, and indigenous pedagogy. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC

Social work education in Canada, England and South Africa: A critical comparison of undergraduate programmes

Please cite as follows:Spolander, G., Pullen-Sansfacon, A. Brown, M. & Engelbrecht, L. K. 2011. Social work education in Canada, England and South Africa : a critical comparison of undergraduate programmes, International Social Work, 54(6):816-861, doi:10.1177/0020872810389086.The original publication is available at http://isw.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/01/29/0020872810389086Globalized labour mobility has led to questions regarding the degree to which social work education in one country can be applicable to practice in another. This paper examines social work education programmes and practice contexts in South Africa, England and Canada as examples through which to examine this question.Post-prin