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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457246203321

Autore

Glasby Jon

Titolo

Evidence, policy and practice : Critical perspectives in health and social care

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-84742-284-5

1-4473-0225-7

1-283-21262-5

1-84742-943-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 p.)

Disciplina

362

Soggetti

Social service - Government policy

Medical policy

SOCIAL SCIENCE - Human Services

POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare

SOCIAL SCIENCE - Social Work

Policy Making

Public Policy

Electronic resource

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ten steps for creating receptive organisational contexts -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- Index.

Conclusion -- 6 From evidence-based to knowledge-based policy and practice -- Cases for change -- different approaches to 'what works' -- Towards 'knowledge-based practice' -- Putting it into practice -- A typology of evidence for decision making? -- A 'due diligence' approach (aka 'quick and dirty') -- Conclusion -- 7 Receptive contexts and the role of knowledge management in evidence-based practice -- Introduction -- Why focus on context? -- Receptive organisational contexts -- Knowledge management: key concepts -- Knowledge



management: strategies.

Policy transfer -- From transfer to translation -- Individualised budgets: explaining policy migration -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- 4 Policy making through a rhetorical lens -- Different ways of seeing policy making -- The value of rhetorical analysis -- Rhetoric confronts uncertainty and ethical dilemmas in policy making -- Arguments are constructed for particular audiences -- Rhetoric extends our understanding of rationality -- Conclusion -- 5 Implementing policy -- A brief history of policy implementation -- Policy implementation or policy change? -- Making sense of implementation.

List of figures, tables and boxes -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Tensions between policy and evidence -- How does evidence influence policy (if at all)? -- Our aims and approach -- 2 The policy process -- Introduction -- The policy process -- Evaluation and the policy process -- Using evidence -- Evidence-based policy making -- Defining EBPM -- Hierarchies of evidence -- Hierarchies of relevance -- Evidence-informed policy or evidence-legitimised policy? -- Conclusion -- 3 From policy transfer to policy translation: the role of evidence in policy borrowing.

Sommario/riassunto

This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence, policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should influence the policy process.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786781203321

Titolo

Africa and beyond : arts and sustainable development / / edited by Patrick Ebewo, Ingrid Stevens and Mzo Sirayi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-6463-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Disciplina

306.47

Soggetti

Arts, African

Sustainable development - Africa

Cultural industries - Social aspects - Africa

Arts and society - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; PART I: GENERAL; CHAPTER ONE - REPOSITIONING THE ARTS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; CHAPTER TWO - TRANSFORMING THE SOCIAL BODY THROUGH ARTS PRAXIS; CHAPTER THREE - EMPOWERMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOPI TOURISM POLICY; CHAPTER FOUR - SUSTAINING THE THEATRICAL PUBLIC SPHERE; CHAPTER FIVE - THE ARTS AND INTERRACIAL DIALOGUE IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA; PART II: PERFORMING ARTS; CHAPTER SIX - TACKLING SEXUAL HARASSMENT THROUGH ROLE PLAY; CHAPTER SEVEN - PIRATES OF THE CURRICULUM

CHAPTER EIGHT - DRAWING FROM INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS CHAPTER NINE - EXAMINING THE EFFICACY OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION THEORIES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA; PART III: VISUAL ARTS; CHAPTER TEN - WELL-TRAINED ART EDUCATORS; CHAPTER ELEVEN - THE RE-TURN TO ART PRACTICE; CHAPTER TWELVE - TOWARDS APPROPRIATE SENSORY PRODUCTS FOR LEARNERS WITH LEARNING PROBLEMS; CHAPTER THIRTEEN - PHOTOGRAPHIC SPACE AS ""THIRD SPACE""; CHAPTER FOURTEEN - ARTS EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA; CHAPTER FIFTEEN - BETWEEN TWO SHATTERED MIRRORS



CHAPTER SIXTEEN - WHAT MAKES SAM NZIMA'S IMAGE OF HECTOR PIETERSON ICONIC?PART IV: FASHION DESIGN AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - THE IMPACT OF INDIGENOUS CULTURES ON CONTEMPORARY DRESS PATTERNS IN ZIMBABWE; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - OUTCOMES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING AMONG FASHION DESIGN WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS OPERATING WITHIN THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN KENYA; CHAPTER NINETEEN - PROFILE OF PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND BUSINESS ASPECTS OF ENTREPRENEURS IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA

CHAPTER TWENTY - THE PERCEIVED ROLE OF THE ADVERTISED THIN FASHION MODEL ON FULL-FIGURED SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN'S SELF-ESTEEM AND DRESSING STYLES CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF TEXTILES SMMEs IN NAMIBIA; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - THE IMPACT OF TEXTILES AND CLOTHING PROCESSES ON THE ENVIRONMENT; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF CLOTHING; PART V: LITERATURE AND FILM; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - KINSHIP TABOOS AND ROYALTY IN NIGERIA'S VIDEO-FILMS; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - ARTISTIC COMMITMENT AND THE NEW COUNTER-DISCOURSE

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - FILM IN THE SERVICE OF HUMANITYCHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - ARTISTIC INNOVATION THROUGH CULTURAL SYMBOLS; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

""Africa and Beyond: Arts and Sustainable Development is a massive undertaking by thoughtful theorists and practitioners in the creative/cultural industry. The combined effect of the volume is to disabuse the fixed, prevailing conception of the role of culture in society; a view that consigns the arts to the periphery of social life, devoid of any meaningful contribution to the alleviation of poverty and general development. Contrary to this view, the volume presents a more comprehensive, mean...