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Social Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 4

April 2020 - 29 articles

Cover Story: Lauren Wroe and Jenny Lloyd critically reflect on the role of surveillance and trusted relationships in social work innovation in response to extra-familial harm (EFH) in England and Wales. Five bodies of research exploring safeguarding responses across a range of public bodies are drawn on to present an analytical framework that outlines elements of safeguarding responses constituting relationships of trust or relationships of surveillance and control. The analytic framework is applied to two case studies that detail recent practice innovations in response to EFH studied by the authors, as part of their work under the Contextual Safeguarding Programme. The application of the framework identifies several critical issues that should be considered in future work to address EFH, to ensure young people’s rights to privacy and participation are upheld. View this paper.
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Articles (29)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,698 Views
11 Pages

24 April 2020

It is easy to understand why Taiwanese students play the part of the name assigned to them in English class, but why do so many of them continue to use this name long after their school years? A survey of young Taiwanese adults, with follow-up interv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,786 Views
19 Pages

23 April 2020

’Insecure’ jobs and alternating between periods of unemployment and periods of employment under fixed-term contracts are increasingly widespread among the youth in Europe. This phenomenon is an important risk factor for young people&rsquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,202 Views
18 Pages

23 April 2020

Although local context is considered a key factor shaping differences in the age at marriage between spouses, spatially explicit investigations of the gender gap in marriage timing were scarce in Europe, especially in more traditional societies. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,303 Views
17 Pages

22 April 2020

Institutionalization of children who are deprived of parental care is a thriving phenomenon in the global South, and has generated considerable concern both nationally and internationally, in the last two decades. In Kenya, the number of children gro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,664 Views
13 Pages

‘Sis Science’ and Fitness Doping: Ethnopharmacology, Gender and Risk

  • Ellen Sverkersson,
  • Jesper Andreasson and
  • Thomas Johansson

21 April 2020

This article is part of a larger investigation looking into recent changes in the demographics of fitness doping and the possible consequences of such changes. Contesting the historical alliance between masculinity and fitness doping, the article foc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,358 Views
19 Pages

Structural Equation Models on the Satisfaction and Motivation for Retirement of Spanish University Professors

  • Rosalía Romero Tena,
  • Cristina Mayor Ruiz,
  • Carmen Yot Domínguez and
  • Manuel Chaves Maza

21 April 2020

Research on the motives behind a university professor’s decision to retire is scarce. In the present work, we have tried to define and delimit the aspects of the university professor’s satisfaction that have an influence on their motivati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,108 Views
20 Pages

17 April 2020

The attributes ‘warm eyes’, ‘breathe warm air’, ‘heart warmth’ and aroha (love) guide our work in child protection. These quotes are from a young person from the Change Factory 2020, a MFAMILY student in 2020 and J...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,705 Views
13 Pages

Big Data in Education: Perception of Training Advisors on Its Use in the Educational System

  • Julio Ruiz-Palmero,
  • Ernesto Colomo-Magaña,
  • José Manuel Ríos-Ariza and
  • Melchor Gómez-García

15 April 2020

Big Data has revolutionized decision making in many fields, including education. The incorporation of information and communication technologies into education enables us to gather information about the teaching and learning process. As Big Data can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,520 Views
9 Pages

Predicting Loneliness from Where and What People Do

  • Kristi J. MacDonald,
  • Gonneke Willemsen,
  • Dorret I. Boomsma and
  • Julie Aitken Schermer

14 April 2020

The many devastating mental health outcomes associated with chronic loneliness is the motivation behind research into examining personal and demographic characteristics of the lonely. The present study sought to examine the connection of where people...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,347 Views
13 Pages

Building a Common Project by Promoting Pedagogical Coordination and Educational Leadership for School Improvement: A Structural Equation Model

  • Inmaculada García-Martínez,
  • Pedro J. Arrifano Tadeu,
  • Miguel Pérez-Ferra and
  • José Luis Ubago-Jiménez

14 April 2020

Leadership and teaching practices are the most important factors that affect student learning. Many studies have pointed out the combination of both of them in a common project as a guarantee to achieve school improvement. The present study sets out...

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