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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787040703321

Titolo

Children of Afghanistan : the path to peace / / edited by Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-292-75932-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Collana

Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; ; book 36

Classificazione

MS 1960

Disciplina

305.2309581

Soggetti

Children - Afghanistan - Social conditions

Child welfare - Afghanistan

Afghanistan Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction (Jennifer Heath)""; ""PART 1. The Way We Were;  The Way We're Seen""; ""1. Before the Wars: Memories of Childhood in the Pre-Soviet Era (Amina Kator-Mubarez)""; ""2. Narratives of Afghan Childhood: Risk, Resilience, and the Experiences That Shape the Development of Afghanistan as a People and a Nation (Anne E. Brodsky)""; ""3. Jumping Rope in Prison: The Representation of Afghan Children in Film (Teresa Cutler-Broyles)""; ""PART 2. Ties That Bind: The Family in Rebound""; ""4. Love, Fear, and Discipline in Afghan Families (Deborah J. Smith)""

""5. Children Who Live with Their Mothers in Prison (Esther Hyneman)""""6. Little Brides and Bridegrooms: Systemic Failure, Cultural Response (Sharifa Sharif)""; ""PART 3. Survival by Any Means Possible""; ""7. Confronting Child Labor (Amanda Sim)""; ""8. The Parakeet Boys: Performing Education in the Streets of Kabul (Wahid Omar)""; ""9. Child Soldiering in Afghanistan (Delphine Boutin)""; ""10. Legal Protection: Offering Aid and Comfort (Hangama Anwari)""; ""PART 4. To Be Whole in Mind and Body""; ""11. Children's Health: The Challenge of Survival (Steven Solter)""

""12. Food Security and Nutrition for Afghan Children (Fitsum Assefa, Annalies Borrel, and Charlotte Dufour)""""13. Desperately Seeking Harun: Children with Disabilities (Lael Adams Mohib)""; ""14. "Life Feeds



on Hope": Family Mental Health, Culture, and Resilience (Mark Eggerman and Catherine Panter-Brick)""; ""PART 5. Education: Nurturing the Future""; ""15. Education in Transition: A Key Concern for Young Afghan Returnees (Mamiko Saito)""; ""16. Primary and Secondary Education: Exponential Growth and Prospects for the Future (Omar Qargha)""

""17. Music and Literacy: A New Approach to Education (Louise M. Pascale)""""PART 6. Communicating Empowerment""; ""18. "Thanks God for the Twitter and the Facebook! Thanks God for That!" (Lauryn Oates)""; ""19. The New Storytellers of Afghanistan (Joanna Sherman)""; ""20. Six Epiphanies: Testament to Change from Inside an Afghan Orphanage (Ian Pounds)""; ""Epilogue: Imagining the Future (Ashraf Zahedi)""; ""Selected Bibliography and Filmography""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The first comprehensive look at youth living in a country attempting to rebuild itself after three decades of civil conflict, Children of Afghanistan relies on the research and fieldwork of twenty-one experts to cover an incredible range of topics. Focusing on the full scope of childhood, from birth through young adulthood, this edited volume examines a myriad of issues: early childhood socialization in war and peace; education, literacy, vocational training, and apprenticeship; refugee life; mental and physical health, including disabilities and nutrition; children’s songs, folktales, and art; sports and play; orphans; life on the streets; child labor and children as family breadwinners; child soldiers and militarization; sexual exploitation; growing up in prison; marriage; family violence; and other issues vital to understanding, empowerment, and transformation. Children of Afghanistan is the first volume that not only attempts to analyze the range of challenges facing Afghan children across class, gender, and region but also offers solutions to the problems they face. With nearly half of the population under the age of fifteen, the future of the country no doubt lies with its children. Those who seek peace for the region must find solutions to the host of crises that have led the United Nations to call Afghanistan “the worst place on earth to be born.” The authors of Children of Afghanistan provide child-centered solutions to rebuilding the country’s cultural, social, and economic institutions.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910502644903321

Autore

Azari Rahman

Titolo

Research Methods in Building Science and Technology / / edited by Rahman Azari, Hazem Rashed-Ali

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-73692-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 pages)

Disciplina

624.072

Soggetti

Buildings - Design and construction

Building materials

Buildings - Repair and reconstruction

Buildings - Maintenance

System theory

Building Construction and Design

Building Materials

Building Repair and Maintenance

Complex Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Building energy performance research -- Urban energy performance research -- Environmental indoor air quality research -- Environmental life cycle assessment -- Lighting and daylighting research -- Thermal comfort research.

Sommario/riassunto

This book covers the range of methodological approaches, methods and tools currently used in various areas of building science and technology research and addresses the current lack of research-method literature in this field. The book covers the use of measurement-based methods in which data is collected by measuring the properties and their variations in ‘actual’ physical systems, simulation-based methods which work with ‘models’ of systems or processes to describe, examine and analyze their behaviors, performances and operations, and data-driven methodologies in which data is collected via measurement or simulation to identify and



examine the associations and patterns and predict the future in a targeted system. The book presents a survey of key methodologies in various specialized areas of building science and technology research including window systems, building enclosure, energy performance, lighting and daylighting, computational fluid dynamics, indoor and outdoor thermal comfort, and life cycle environmental impacts. Provides advanced insight into the research methods and presents the key methodologies within the field of building science and technology. Reviews simulation-based and experimentation/field-based methods of data collection and analysis in diverse areas of building science and technology, such as energy performance, window and enclosure studies, environmental LCA, daylighting, CFD, and thermal comfort. Provides a range of perspectives from building science faculty and researcher contributors with diverse research interests. Appropriate for use in university courses.