Growing together: expanding roles for social work practice in early childhood settings

In the United States, interest in early childhood development has grown dramatically over the past two decades and continues to expand. Increasing public support for programs and services that address the needs of young children and their families provides numerous opportunities for social work intervention. This article describes three major early childhood systems—early intervention, Early Head Start, and early care and education—and discusses ways that social workers can strengthen programs within these systems and improve outcomes for participating children and families. Social workers' understanding of and commitment to family-centered practice and cultural competence are highlighted. Opportunities for social workers to become involved in advocating for, developing, and leading high-quality early childhood programs and implications for social work education are also discussed.Accepted manuscrip

The experiences of early childhood development home visitors in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa

BACKGROUND This article examines the development of early childhood development (ECD) home-visiting services in South Africa. AIM To examine the factors that could support the success of home-visiting programmes as well as to explore the experiences of bachelor’s-level home visitors rendering such services. SETTING This study was conducted in the Eastern Cape, a highly impoverished area of South Africa. METHODS It begins with a discussion of the emergence of home-visiting as a strategy for the delivery of ECD services in South Africa and a review of the literature on ECD home-visiting, particularly with highly vulnerable, impoverished families. Next a focus group conducted with a small sample of home visitors as part of a multi-faceted community assessment is described. The results are examined within the context of challenges facing this particular part of South Africa and the nation as a whole. RESULTS Four themes emerged as most prominent: (1) encountering the effects of extreme family poverty, (2) identifying high rates and multiple aspects of child maltreatment, (3) encountering scarce resources in high-need areas and (4) finding rewards and maintaining a desire to continue serving challenging populations. CONCLUSION This study provides a unique window on the challenges that ECD home visitors are likely to encounter when working with families living in extreme poverty, the resourcefulness that home visitors often demonstrate and the rewards to be found in this work.Published versio

Manifestasies van die denke van Marx in die moderne kapitalisme: Bedryfs ekonomiese perspektief

The author looks at manifestation of Marxism from the vantage point of business economics, and states that in looking at contemporary economic manifestations of Marxism it is meaningful to start with Marx's magnum opus. He offers a survey of various concepts from Das kapital, starting out with the observation that at present there is great confusion about the concepts capital, capitalist and capitalism. From a study of various definitions of capitalism he comes to certain conclusions, and states that Marx sees the crisis of capitalism in an "inherent fundamental contradicttion" of capitalism itself. He goes on to deal with the ideas of conscience as opposed to ecconomism, and subsequently states that the objective of Communism (modern and classical) is to subject the whole world to its power, in view of the fact that capitalism is seen as a transitory phase in the history of the development of mankind. He warns against the danger in many instances of replacing the words communist or socialist with the words capitalist or Calvinist, because this is symptomatic of the danger that Marxism in contemporary form is not always readily distinguishable as such

READING ZECHARIAH WITH ZECHARIAH 1:1–6 AS THE INTRODUCTION TO THE ENTIRE BOOK. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology, 59. By Heiko Wenzel

Those who preach and teach from this, the longest of the Minor Prophets, will find Wenzel’s study to be invaluable

Cultura libre. Cómo los grandes medios usan la tecnología y la ley para encerrar la cultura y controlar la creatividad. Introducción

The present text published in the REMIX Zone of the Communiars Journal corresponds to the introduction of the famous book Free Culture, by Professor Lawrence Lessig, president of the Creative Commons organization, dedicated to promoting cultural access and exchange. The text “Free Culture. How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity” is a book published in 2004 and focused on presenting another way of organizing culture and knowledge, opening the restrictions of the obsolete paradigm of copyright, and relying on the copyleft model promoted by free software. The introduction presented here translates the open spirit of a key text for the understanding and evolution of current cultural reality.El presente texto publicado en la Zona REMIX de la revista Communiars se corresponde con la introducción del afamado libro Cultura Libre, del profesor Lawrence Lessig, presidente de la organización Creative Commons, dedicada a promover el acceso e intercambio culturales. El texto «Free Culture. How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity» (en español “Cultura Libre. Cómo los grandes medios usan la tecnología y la ley para bloquear la cultura y controlar la creatividad”) es un libro publicado en 2004 y centrado en presentar otra manera de organizar la cultura y el conocimiento, abriendo las restricciones del obsoleto paradigma del copyright, y apoyándose en el modelo copyleft promovido desde el software libre. La introducción que aquí se presenta traduce el espíritu abierto de un texto clave para la comprensión y evolución de la actualidad cultural

Transforming Research Management and Administration to keep up with the changing research and innovation landscape

With the launch of a new academic journal it is timely to reflect on the content and scope of the journal.  JoRMA is the Journal of Research Management and Administration – but what is Research Management and Administration (RMA) and why might it deserve your attention

Criminal Governance in Latin America in Comparative Perspective: Introduction to the Special Issue

Organizers: Benjamin Lessing (UChicago, USA), Joana Monteiro (FGV, Brazil), and Michel Misse (UFRJ, Brazil